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How do you set OSX to boot to OSX?

#1 Post by mybellyisempty » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:17 pm

I can get it to run if I leave the DVD in there, but I can't get it to boot into OS X without it.

It's bad enough that I'll likely have to buy an Atheros ABG when I JUST BOUGHT the Intel ABG...but if I can't get this working, I'm not buying anything.
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#2 Post by Kyocera » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:41 pm

I have done a dual boot OSX and XP and just a plain OSX install. This never happened with mine so it kind of sounds like you have a bad install, you might try starting over. Format your drive in OSX to journaled when you start the install. HTH.

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#3 Post by briatx » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:21 am

I'm using boot magic. Triple booting xp, freebsd and macos.

Tried to get linux on there too, but ran out of primary partitions. :(

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#4 Post by Ashiaveli » Tue May 02, 2006 10:35 am

I had the same problem, it's not a bad install because I've got it working. just use acronis os selector. get dual boot :)

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#5 Post by MaloventEvil » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:53 am

when the dvd says "hit any key to boot" press f8. it will then prompt you for boot flags and will look like this: "boot: ". enter -s for single user mode and hit enter; this will take you to a command prompt. After it boots, type "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0". Ignore any messages it says. Next, type "print" and it will list all the partitions on the disk; identify the partition number that you want to make active and then type: "flag #" where # is the partition you decided should be active (bootable). Type "write" to save the changes, and then type "quit" and "reboot".

Congrats, you're done!

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#6 Post by kulivontot » Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:41 am

I had to set the os x partition to be set as active. I believe I used fdisk from within windows or possibly from the xp recovery console.

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