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Old 01-30-2008, 07:14 PM
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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!

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Old 01-30-2008, 07:14 PM
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MBR or GUID & with EFI or without?
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Old 01-30-2008, 07:31 PM
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Seems like GUID

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Old 01-31-2008, 03:58 AM
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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 !
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Old 01-31-2008, 04:15 AM
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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...
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Old 01-31-2008, 04:22 AM
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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
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Old 01-31-2008, 05:07 AM
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okay I just installed using mbr and it does exactly the same thing ( blinking cursor ) !

Somebody please help
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Old 01-31-2008, 05:20 AM
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Reinstall the efi bootloader
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