n0otro Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hello everyone, I have a problem with a 10.5.2 partition that was working almost flawlessly two days ago. Quick system overview: mobo: GA-m55plus-s3g r1 (bios: F6) vidcard: nvidia 7900gs IDE0Master: 80gb (7k2) IDE IDE0Slave: Sony DL DVDRW IDE2: 36gb Raptor (10k) SATA IDE3: 74gb Raptor (10k) SATA IDE4: 300gb (7k2) SATA First of all, I had the system configured with XP on IDE2 & OSX86 on IDE3. Both booted and ran fine if I selected the startup hard drive manually in the bios. I didn't want to manually select everytime so I decided to install a bootloader. All of my driver updates were working rather well and I started getting overconfident installing things. I decided to load the efi-bootloader from the install disk to dual boot the system since I had heard that EFI was good and it was as easy as clicking it. Unfortunately I didn't really understand the process of installing the efi bootloader, and on my next reboot, it froze at the "Verifying DMI.... Update Sucess". Next I tried booting from my XP partition, and I got the NTLDR is missing error message. Okay. I so tried to boot from my XP cd, and fix the MBR, but that didn't work. So I figured I wanted to reinstall windows anyway, i'll just take this as an oppurtunity to do just that. Unfortunately when the XP Install disk asked me to reboot, I kept getting the NTLDR is missing error message. Finally I decided to try installing XP onto IDE0 Master and it installed fine, and I can boot XP no problem now. The problem I'm having is that i've tried reinstalling OSX on IDE3 maybe 6-7 times now and it still freezes at "Verifying DMI..." At first I thought it was because I was formatting the drives with a MBR rather than a GUID partition table, but that didn't seem to work. So I tried formatting it with a GUID partition table and that didn't work either. I tried doing a full format of the drve from my XP partition and then reformat it from the OSX install DVD and reinstall, but still nothing! I'm frustrated right now because I had it working perfectly! now I can't even get it to boot! How should I format my disk? Mac OSX Journaled w/ MBR? or with GUID partition table? Is there anything that i'm overlooking? thanks for any advice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95497-1052-stopped-booting-for-me/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
n0otro Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 problem solved. I zero'd out the drive and then reinstalled HFS+ with mbr and it went flawlessly. Boots in 43 seconds from the time I hit enter at the boot options menu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95497-1052-stopped-booting-for-me/#findComment-681706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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