blinking cursor on usb stick

[enry]

Hi all,

 

Just to let people know if you install to a usb stick and get the blinking cursor, this is the post that fixed it for me:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=559111

 

Note that big X here represents the disk number, and Y the partition number. You should be able to figure these out by running the command "mount" with no parameters, and see your USB stick is mounted under /Volume/zzz where zzz is the name you gave the USB stick. If you don't see it, run the "Disk Utility" tool in the iatkos installer and Erase the drive, then create a OSX extended partition. Careful not to wipe your HDD. To be 100% safe, open up your PC and disconnect it.

 

Just note that the second set of code on the post above is missing a "dd" at the beginning. So I will copy it here.

 

in short: boot from install dvd and open terminal, then:

activate the partition using commands

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX
  update [enter]
  f Y [enter]
  "Partition 2 marked active"
  w [enter]
  "Device could not be accessed exclusively.
  A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n]y
  Writing MBR at offset 0."
  q [enter]

 

 

Then to fix the bootloading problem using startupfiletool in EFI package:

dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 [enter]
umount /Volumes/Leopard [enter]
cd /Volumes/123/EFI_pack/pc_efi_v80 [enter]
./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot [enter]
bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setBoot -verbose [enter]