If you are getting "boot0: error" when you try to boot your install but it boots fine with the DVD in the drive, then a bootloader needs to be reinstalled onto the drive. If you already have a working OS X install then you can grab the installer from chameleon.osx86.hu and install it to the partition. If you are on Windows then you can use EasyBCD 2.0 to install PC_EFI v9 to the drive.

Another thing that may cure this is partitioning your hard drive using GUID and not MBR

I didn't understood how to make that work.

What part are you having trouble with?

[Noob]So, I formatted my PC with iPC and I got this error:



I dont have a mac! The iPC thing doesnt work at all for me! The only way for me to use EasyBCD is to access a second PC with Windows. How I can use EasyBCD to fix my PC?[/Noob]

Temporarily install Windows and try it

So, I formatted my PC to Windows again, I downloaded the application and installed it.

I added an entry for MAC OS X on my boot, I formatted my PC and still nothing.

Is there any tutorial on the web that explains how to fix that bug with EasyBCD?

I have tried all options on the latest distro with patched PPF5 and still cannot get my "sucessful installation" to boot - I also have another problem that it doesn't appear that the onboard Intel915 graphics is being installed. The net result is that I can't boot up onto the installed drive at all. I don't want a dual boot config as only OSX should be installed on the drive. I've tried partitioning with either MBR and GUID boot options and still no luck. The Toshiba laptop is old, supporting a Celeron M370 processor (SSE2 only), and I've had to install the Intel ICHx SATA driver to avoid hanging, but I still can't get around the boot record issue. I'm not even sure a boot0 file exists on my distro for MBR purposes - I can't find it in the usual places. Either something really strange is up with my copy, despite all validation, or something has been missed and not tested thoroughly enough. The Intel915 .pkg exists on the distro, but somehow it doesn't appear in the /System/Library/Extensions folder - AppleIntel950... and AppleIntelX3100... kexts appear, but nothing that resembles the 915GM onboard graphics.

If I can solve one of these issues I can sort out my problems but I seem to be stuck right now with the "boot1: error" issue. I've tried using /sbin/fdisk to rewrite the MBR (appropriately partioned) but there doesn't appear to be a boot0 file anywhere on the DVD.

Hope anyone can help or troubleshoot.

Thanks in advance.

Everyone try using GUID partition map instead of MBR, it solves this problem in many cases

GUID has the same outcome for me. Boot0 is fine, followed by the same "boot1: error" message. I've tried IATKOS_5i too and this fails in the same way. The GMA915 based Toshiba laptop is 5 years old, and is therefore likely to be a difficult one. Is there any other way to troubleshoot this error?

I presume the boot0 message means that an initial boot loader record was found and any validation at that stage went OK, passing on to the second stage (i.e. boot1). Either the "boot1" loader doesn't exist in it's desired location or it's corrupt in some way. Is there any tool to validate/correct this relationship and to finally get past this very difficult error.

Alternatively, when I can only boot from the distro DVD (F8 and -s doesn't work on the new installation yet!), is there a way I can mount the new installation (e.g. disk0s1) from the DVD boot in single user mode, and make it available in Read/Write mode, navigating/copying and using useful utilities like fdisk (or others?) to fix the boot problem?

Any help would be appreciated!

wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Tip...ith_the_boot_options

It looks like I can use F8 on the DVD distro boot and select the faulty installation partition on the hard drive to boot in single-user mode:

-v -s rd=diskXsY

where X is the disk drive number;
and Y is the partition where you installed OSX86;

So, I can now boot the drive in single user mode and finally use fsck to check the filesystem integrity and "mount -uw /" to allow read and write, allowing the addition/alteration of .kext and .plist files and other useful things. Can I extract .pkg files from the distro DVD and copy the appropriate contents to the /System/Library/Extensions folder of my installation drive to resolve driver issues? If so, how could this be done from this single-user boot mode?

I still need to resolve the "boot1: error" issue however and despite reflagging the partition as active with an assortment of fdisk like tools and after numerous reformat/install processes, I still have the problem. I can now check my "system.log" in /var/log on the installation partition and check it for errors, although I'd like access to unix commands like "MORE" and some "MAN" or "INFO" pages to be able to help me out with some of the intricacies of the command shell and its useful weapons like "MOUNT", "FDISK" and others - might this be included in the soon-to-be-released "Live-DVD"?

Sorry to have so many questions but I'm trying to resolve issues and report on them so others might be suitably informed as well.

At last a solution!

Finally after sorting out my installation preferences - a slow and painful process, settling on the Intel GMA900 driver instead of the GMA915 driver, which had more issues - despite the graphics chip listed as a 915! I managed to boot from a USB drive very successfully - which incidentally works like a "key" to a non-booting installation - maybe it will become a 'feature' in future releases! In any case the easiest solution is found in the Chameleon package Readme.txt

If you've already booted successfully (via USB or CD/DVD boot loader) into your installation drive - in my case with GUID holding the initial boot0 and efi stuff (my old system & bios isn't EFI friendly) on disk0s1, with my OSX partition being disk0s2, in a Terminal session, I entered the following commands, which transferred the second part of the Darwin bootloader to the appropriate location - For some reason, possibly similar to the way the "Install EFI/FDISK" process seems to fail as it does in the original DVD install...

sudo -s
cd /usr/standalone/i386
dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2
cp boot /

These commands will copy the boot1h file, responsible for the "boot1 error and the boot file to the drive and it works!

i'm having the same problem here, i try to instal OSX using iDENEB but can't go inside the installation at all,

try all this:
-v -x cpus=1 cpus=2 rd=disk2s1

no luck,
than after that i boot my laptop to go inside my vista64bit i'm getting boot0:error messages, i can't go inside my windows.

than i reformat my laptop using DVD Recovery, i can get back to my vista64bit, but now every time i turn on my laptop or restart it before windows show up i always getting boot0:done message, how to get rid of this error messages??

i don't have any win vista DVD only recovery DVD, no OSX in my hard disk also, i just need to get rid of the messages any idea?

So well, I'm installing iPC and have this problem. When booting I get boot 0 error. Two things that came to my mind were, when selecting drivers, I selected none since I am not sure there was a driver for my chipset Intel 82845G, didn't bother selecting the sound driver even though it was there and well was too excited to get this running than to try others out. Could this cause a problem?
I'm trying to install this on my old P4 comp running windows XP, windows 98, Ubuntu using wubi (so no partition).

Another thing, looking at the solution you gace, what if I do a fresh install, could this problem be solved? I searched on this as much as I could, but hard luck.... After years of trying to emulate Mac operating system on my PC, I finally decided to have a go at hackintosh. Hope you can help!

Thanks