A while ago my Mac went kaput after a completely normal shutdown, I couldn't boot to OS X or my OS X disc (also tried a friend's to check that it wasn't the disc's fault).
Luckily I had ubuntu installed using bootcamp and I could still boot to that.
After trying every troubleshooting guide on the internet (that I can find) nothing has worked.
Thinking it may have been a corruption with OS X itself I reformatted my mac partition. (I did not touch the EFI)
In a moment of weakness I installed Ubuntu 10.4 on the partition where my OS X used to live.
Now it will not boot to anything apart from my Ubuntu live CD.
I still have not removed the EFI & if I hold option on boot it displays the mouse but no bootable drives (except the live disc/OS X disc when it's in)
So cut the long story short after a few months of no OS X and living with a temporary solution I'm tired and just want this fixed.
It is with this in mind that I'm considering my final option, wiping my hard-drive completely and trying to boot from my OS X disc.
Can anyone think of any reason why this wouldn't work? I have been able to run a hardware check off the OS X disc which threw up no problems.
Any help would be very much appreciated, I'm just tired and would love a solution to this problem.
Thanks in advance
Luckily I had ubuntu installed using bootcamp and I could still boot to that.
After trying every troubleshooting guide on the internet (that I can find) nothing has worked.
Thinking it may have been a corruption with OS X itself I reformatted my mac partition. (I did not touch the EFI)
In a moment of weakness I installed Ubuntu 10.4 on the partition where my OS X used to live.
Now it will not boot to anything apart from my Ubuntu live CD.
I still have not removed the EFI & if I hold option on boot it displays the mouse but no bootable drives (except the live disc/OS X disc when it's in)
So cut the long story short after a few months of no OS X and living with a temporary solution I'm tired and just want this fixed.
It is with this in mind that I'm considering my final option, wiping my hard-drive completely and trying to boot from my OS X disc.
Can anyone think of any reason why this wouldn't work? I have been able to run a hardware check off the OS X disc which threw up no problems.
Any help would be very much appreciated, I'm just tired and would love a solution to this problem.
Thanks in advance