Vitoid Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Hi everyone, I've got a problem. installed Kalyway 10.5.1 then the two updates for 10.5.2. Everything went fine! So I decided to do a Superduper parsed backup image, which it said was bootable. Placed the LEO.dmg image on a separate HD. I booted off the kaly CD, went into Disk Utility and tried a restore of the image back to where my primary install was. Erased the HFS+ partition and restored. Upon reboot, I get a chain0 error. I can boot into my Primary LEO partition if the install CD is in the drive, but not otherwise. I am a noob, but, I think the problem might be that the Darwin/EFI bootloader is missing on the Primary LEO partion now. How do I restore the bootloader so as to not have to use the install CD to boot into the LEO partition? Any help is greatly appreciated!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwantsound44 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 use gparted live cd to select the new operating system as bootable Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-624834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitoid Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 Hi. I tried booting with Gparted and it shows that the partition is already bootable. I imagine the actual bootsector got wiped out??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-624874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainLoknar Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 I've had the exact same effect except I have 1 partition Tiger, and I installed Leo on my other partition. Now Leo is detected as not bootable in Startup Disk. Even though Tiger is bootable, I need the Leo install disk inside, I do not "press a key to boot from the cd" in order to boot from my good old Tiger parition. Indeed seems like the bootloader was broken. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-624882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwantsound44 Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 then just keep installing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-624897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitoid Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 I'm still trying. Dug this up, trying #5 with efi v8: http://www.jasonmadigan.com/category/osx86/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-624927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitoid Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 no luck, I'm stumped, reinstall AGAIN lol. All I want to do is make a backup image that will boot PROPERLY. Oh well, google-ing some more. Its fun tho and a great learning experience. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-624984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 why don't you reinstall efi? I am pretty sure that would fix it, assuming you had efi in the first place. If you didn't, then just re-do whatever you did in the beginning to make it bootable. good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87726-darwin-bootloader-problem/#findComment-626121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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