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Hello!
Forgive me if the answer to this should be obvious, but while I've used Macs for decades, i'm quite new at the Hackintosh scene. I have a hackintosh running 10.9.1, specs below. It's basically based on one of the 2013 Ivy Bridge golden builds, and was installed using the Unibeast+Multibeast tutorial here on this TonyMacx86.
Just before running the 10.9.2 update, I made a full drive clone to a USB drive using SuperDuper!. This is fortunate, as the update froze while 'installing software update' and the OS could never again boot - basically it'd freeze up at the spinning gear logo screen.
I could get to the chimera boot screen when trying to boot to the internal hard drive, and could boot the USB clone without any issues. What I eventually did from here was restore the USB clone of 10.9.1 back to my internal hard drive again using SuperDuper, using the erase and restore mode.
*Note that I erased the internal drive using super duper to restore, while booted from the USB drive. I'm sure this is what broke chimera ultimately
Unfortunately, when the hackintosh attempts to boot, it shows the initial blinking prompt from Chimera, then immediately boots to the second hard drive (running Windows 8). There is no Chimera menu, it just immediately boots the second drive as if no bootloader can be found. Likewise, if I boot to the USB drive, when the chimera screen appears the only options are for my external USB drive and the Windows 8 disk.
Short of reinstalling OS X from scratch, is there a way to recover or reinstall Chimera? Note OS X will boot off an external drive and it should still exist on the internal drive.
Thanks for your help!
-Dan
Specs:
-OS X 10.9.1, standard unibeast + multibeast install (I'm not sure the exact version numbers - install was done in August 2013)
-Intel i5-3570k, Gigabyte H77a-wifi, 16GB Corsair Dominator memory
-Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost (Using an older iMac as Monitor via target display(port) mode )
-1 TB WD Caviar Black (OS X), 1 TB WD RED (Win 8)
-Cooler Master 120 mini-ITX case
Forgive me if the answer to this should be obvious, but while I've used Macs for decades, i'm quite new at the Hackintosh scene. I have a hackintosh running 10.9.1, specs below. It's basically based on one of the 2013 Ivy Bridge golden builds, and was installed using the Unibeast+Multibeast tutorial here on this TonyMacx86.
Just before running the 10.9.2 update, I made a full drive clone to a USB drive using SuperDuper!. This is fortunate, as the update froze while 'installing software update' and the OS could never again boot - basically it'd freeze up at the spinning gear logo screen.
I could get to the chimera boot screen when trying to boot to the internal hard drive, and could boot the USB clone without any issues. What I eventually did from here was restore the USB clone of 10.9.1 back to my internal hard drive again using SuperDuper, using the erase and restore mode.
*Note that I erased the internal drive using super duper to restore, while booted from the USB drive. I'm sure this is what broke chimera ultimately
Unfortunately, when the hackintosh attempts to boot, it shows the initial blinking prompt from Chimera, then immediately boots to the second hard drive (running Windows 8). There is no Chimera menu, it just immediately boots the second drive as if no bootloader can be found. Likewise, if I boot to the USB drive, when the chimera screen appears the only options are for my external USB drive and the Windows 8 disk.
Short of reinstalling OS X from scratch, is there a way to recover or reinstall Chimera? Note OS X will boot off an external drive and it should still exist on the internal drive.
Thanks for your help!
-Dan
Specs:
-OS X 10.9.1, standard unibeast + multibeast install (I'm not sure the exact version numbers - install was done in August 2013)
-Intel i5-3570k, Gigabyte H77a-wifi, 16GB Corsair Dominator memory
-Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boost (Using an older iMac as Monitor via target display(port) mode )
-1 TB WD Caviar Black (OS X), 1 TB WD RED (Win 8)
-Cooler Master 120 mini-ITX case