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Please me to boot from Harddrive

the pc boots only from DVD and not from my Hardrive. I read the forum up and down and didn't find the right answer for my problem. Here's my Hardware: K8N Neo4 Series MS-7125 (v1.x) ATX Mainboard CPU Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64 FX…

Primary Author
@aljonama Published 2008-02-25
Collection
Leopard 10.5
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2,540 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 9 dispatches) · 2008-02-25 – 2008-02-26
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@aljonama (5)@Puttabong (2)@cgsheen@WinLinMac01

the pc boots only from DVD and not from my Hardrive.

I read the forum up and down and didn't find the right answer for my problem.

Here's my Hardware:

K8N Neo4 Series MS-7125 (v1.x) ATX Mainboard CPU Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64 FX Processor 3800+ 2 GB RAM CipSet nForce Ultra/Standard Serial-ATA-Bus:

SAMSUNG SP2504C:

Kapazität: 232,89 GB Modell: SAMSUNG SP2504C Version: VT100-33 Seriennummer: S09QJ10YC22791 Wechselmedien: Nein Absteckbares Laufwerk: Nein BSD-Name: disk0 Protokoll: ata Einheiten-Nummer: 0 Socket-Typ: Serial-ATA Treiber für Mac OS 9: Nein Partitionstabellentyp: MBR (Master Boot Record) S.M.A.R.T.-Status: Überprüft Volumes: Leopard:…

Please see also the Partion Scheme

Thanks Zep for this woderfull Release

Thanks Alonama

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @aljonama

Author Update #1 @aljonama 2008-02-25

Yes I do.

1. I open a Terminal
2. Su Root (Password)
3. i
4. I make fdisk -e /dev/Rdisk0
5. u
6. f 1
7. w
8. q

and then I reboot and i see the theme problem. The PC bootet allways if i have the DVD in my drive.

by the way, soory my english

Aljonama

Author Update #2 @aljonama 2008-02-25

OK,

I take the MBR (see the info.txt
I download the Leopard-10-5.2-AMD.ISO via torrent fom PiratesBay and install this
and by the Partition doing i name the Partion Leopard

Please look.

Last login: Sun Feb 24 15:06:33 on ttys000
xdsl-87-78-155-187:~ aw$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *232.9 Gi disk0
1: Apple_HFS Leopard 232.9 Gi disk0s1
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *4.4 Gi disk1
1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI 4.4 Gi disk1s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *153.4 Gi disk2
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Leopard USB 153.1 Gi disk2s2

sh-3.2# fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> p
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: AF 0 1 1 - 1023 254 63 [ 63 - 488397105] HFS+
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
fdisk: 1>

Author Update #3 @aljonama 2008-02-26

i have make all this, it will not funtion. Only with DVD

Author Update #4 @aljonama 2008-02-26

i make this

…

…

mount -t hfs /dev/diskXsX /Volumes

or must be do
mount -t hfs /dev/diskXsX /Volumes/leopard

Synthesized Community Field Notes

3 technical responses curated from 9 original dispatches

Field Note #2 @WinLinMac01 2008-02-25

What type of partition are you running on, GUID or MBR? What version of Zephyroth's release are you trying to install? What is the name of the volume/partition you installed your copy of the O/S? Answer these, and there may be some solution available for you. =)

Field Note #3 @Puttabong 2008-02-26

If you installed with MBR and without EFI, then this is the right way:

// Hit enter after each terminal line to execute the command. //

1 -> Launch with DVD
2 -> At boot prompt, type

-s

(single user mode)

3 -> Type:

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX
update
f 1
w (yes)
q

4 ->

cd /usr/standalone/i386

./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisXsX ./boot

5 ->

mount -uw /
mount -t hfs /dev/diskXsX /Volumes

6 ->

bless -device /dev/diskXsX -setBoot -verbose

7 -> Reboot, hopefully without any dvd inserted.

Corroborated & Participated: @Puttabong
Sources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #504)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@aljonamaPrimary Author52008-02-25 → 2008-02-26
@PuttabongContributor22008-02-26
@cgsheenContributor12008-02-25
@WinLinMac01Contributor12008-02-25