bootloader malfunction?

[arcticsheep]

I just installed time machine to a local harddrive and it worked without any problems (in the beginning). So anyway, I restarted eventually and instead of getting Darwin bootloader I got a flashing underscore! I reinstalled and tried all kinds of fdisks commands ! Help!

Thanks,
peter

[Puttabong]

MBR or GUID & with EFI or without?

[naquaada]

Seems like GUID

[arcticsheep]

I have no idea what guid and efi are. How do i check?

Would it be possible to simply overwrite the entire disk with 0s? I heard about this dd command somewhere...

Thanks !

[arcticsheep]

My time machine backup was on the same hdd ! And also its the bootloader that isn't working..

Anyways I found out that my drive was guid.. How do i change it back to mbr?
I have yet to find out what EDI is...

[DoiX]

hmm you have 2 solution 1: install using MBR partition 2: http://osx.kbot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=71&page=1#Item_26 fix the guid partition

[arcticsheep]

okay I just installed using mbr and it does exactly the same thing ( blinking cursor ) !

Somebody please help

[roisoft]

Reinstall the efi bootloader