Invader J Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Hey all, So for three days now I've been trying to jam 10.4.4 onto my laptop. Before tonight, I could get to the point where 10.4.4 was installed on a third (even fourth) partition, but the machine would fail to boot - looked like the partition map itself got screwed up after the 10.4.4 install. Right now, my first partition is XP, second is blank for 10.4.4, and the third has the working 10.4.1 on it. Now, when I go to format that second partition, it screws up the third partition. I've tried using Ubuntu Live to make it an AF partition then using fdisk in 10.4.1 to actually format it - when fdisk asks me to reboot, I do, but upon restart as soon as I choose "Mac OS X" from my boot.ini boot list, I get an EBIOS READ ERROR. Any ideas on this one? I'm so damn close! =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9545-ebios-read-error-new-kind/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 Whelp, made headway and maybe solved my own problem - same partition situation, but now when I reboot after fdisk-ing the potential 10.4.4 partition and choose Mac OS X from boot.ini's menu I get something about how "There is no operating system installed." So I looked into installing a separate bootloader, when I realized that it's porbably just that chain0 sees two HFS partitions (ignoring anything else about them) and finds no OS. So once I get my restore image back onto the drive, I'm going to play with boot.ini's paths and such... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9545-ebios-read-error-new-kind/#findComment-59502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 Scratch that, no dice - I've never really played with boot.ini in XP so I was expecting maybe some more options I could try, but it's late and I'm forgetting that the chain0 file was already on C:, etc... Oy. So basically as soon as I try to make that middle partition type AF and everything under 10.4.1's fdisk, it screws up my ability to boot OS X. Argh! Oooo... wow, so sorry for posting over and over in my own thread, but maybe someone will find this useful... As I was always able to get back into XP, I just used diskpart to set the 10.4.1 partition as active, and bam, into 10.4.1. Hopefully if my 10.4.4 install is successful I'll just be able to set that as the startup disk from 10.4.1... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9545-ebios-read-error-new-kind/#findComment-59505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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