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restored new hard drive won't mount #361

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. use Disk Utility to make (compressed) Disk Image of entire working drive (to 
third external drive)
2. replace internal drive with a new Sata 320GB Samsung.
3. use Disk Utility to restore Disk Image to the new drive.

What netbook are you using this on?

Dell 10v

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expected the new drive to just work, having been restored as an exact copy of 
the old one. Instead I get the BIOS error below. If I swap back to the original 
drive it boots with no problem.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

OS X 10.6.4, NBI 0.8.4 RC1

Please provide any additional information below.

Hi there,
I had the 10v working a treat on 10.6.4, but was worried about the mechanical 
health of the hard drive (i used an older spare to test OS X). So I got a new 
drive, created a disk image to an external drive, then slotted in the new drive 
and restored to it, repaired permissions, and it won't boot. 

I tried going back to the USB key and re-running the bootloader, to no avail.

What I get is a BIOS report that it stops on:

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
Operating System not found

The drive, as far as I can see, has restored correctly, so no idea why it won't 
boot. if i replace the original drive it starts with no complaint. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Tobias

Original issue reported on code.google.com by feltusfe...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2011 at 10:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Further update:

If I hit F12, select USB as the boot drive, then it gives me the OSX screen to 
select the boot drive. From here it will boot to the new drive, however booting 
normally still gives me the PXE error. I cannot figure out how to bypass this 
in the BIOS settings. 

Any ideas?

Original comment by feltusfe...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2011 at 1:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
SOLVED

I found that if I hit F12, select USB, then i could boot from the new drive. 
then from there run the NBI, and then the drive became bootable. No idea why 
this workaround was needed. 

Now running 10.6.4

Original comment by feltusfe...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2011 at 4:02