balchy Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Hi all Had decided to re-install SL on my D420 (duo) - first time using the myHack app - excellent! I removed the bios (system) password during install, just for convenience. Once installed and EDP set up, and after a number of successful reboots, I move to enabling sleep. However, I incorrectly set an HDD password, not the system one. Now my system does not boot up. If I run boot using -v I get rooting via boot-uuid from chosen: [long sequence of characters] From path: "uuid", Waiting on [blah] "still waiting for root device" I assume because setting an HDD password somehow changes the way the HDD appears to the boot loader. Obviously I can reinstall, but I wondered if there is a way to configure it to use the "new" HDD? Thanks for any help. I can take a photo of the screen if the text is relevant. I was thinking if I can determine the correct device ID I can tell this to the bootloader.. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipart Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Is that a HDD password in the BIOS? Might be a stupid question - but removing the HDD password in the BIOS does not rectify the situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balchy Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 On 8/8/2012 at 12:41 PM, sipart said: Is that a HDD password in the BIOS? Might be a stupid question - but removing the HDD password in the BIOS does not rectify the situation? Ha! Good questions. Yes - HDD password in the BIOS. Tried removing it, and still no boot. It's my guess that the password caused it; I noticed I got a "please wait" when I set the password for the first time, making me suspect something is written to disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 8, 2012 set bios to defaults and save then reboot and readd your tweaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balchy Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 On 8/8/2012 at 7:14 PM, Bronxteck said: set bios to defaults and save then reboot and readd your tweaks Hi - thanks, I should have tried that already - however, it did not work. Obviously, I can re-install. I was just hoping there was some kind of way I could change the "ID" of the disk the bootloader is looking for. I see this is possible in the help that comes up in the bootloader, but I don't know how to determine if that's the fault or how to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted August 12, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 12, 2012 Dear balchy, You can set the uuid of new partition to boot by reinstalling chameleon. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balchy Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 On 8/12/2012 at 4:57 AM, Syonagar said: Dear balchy, You can set the uuid of new partition to boot by reinstalling chameleon. Cheers! Thanks - that makes sense. Any pointers for how this can be done with a non-booting system (USB key, alternative OS)? I did a quick google, but was only able to find directions once in OSX. incidentally, I have managed to suffer from this problem without any BIOS changes ... but I can't reproduce it easily - I have just updated my mainboard to a D430 and am waiting on correct memory so I can install OSX Lion. I have reverted to the old process, so wrote my SL DVD to a USB key, installed, then installed Chameleon + EDP 1.9.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balchy Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 On 8/13/2012 at 5:29 PM, balchy said: Thanks - that makes sense. Any pointers for how this can be done with a non-booting system (USB key, alternative OS)? I did a quick google, but was only able to find directions once in OSX. OK, thought about this a bit more - obvious: run Chameleon from USB key I made for the install, F8, select the OSX partition on my HDD. Once in OSX, install chameleon onto the HDD partition again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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