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magnet November 5th, 2008

Problem

I installed kalyway 10.5.2 and it installed, and went through the setup process with no problem.

Upon  reboot, got the error “no bootable device – insert boot disk” message.

Solution

Boot up the Kalyway install DVD again

• Under the “Utilities” menu, open “Terminal”.
• Issue “diskutil list”. My hard disk showed up as /dev/disk0, and my install partition is /dev/disk0s2
• Issue “diskutil unmount /dev/disk0”
• Issue “fdisk –e /dev/disk0”
• Issue “f2”, where 2 comes from “/dev/disk0s2”. The response back is “Partition 2 marked active”.
• Issue “write”. The response back is “Writing MBR at offset 0.”
• Issue “quit”. Fdisk exits.

Quit the Terminal program and Quit the installer.

Reboot your machine

Enjoy.

Thank You,

System Team

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