I finally got it up and running again! I did a time machine restore again, but this time, I formatted the drive under disk utilities instead of just using the reformat that time machine does, restarted the computer, and restored the time machine backup. Booted right up! Thanks for the help.
I know that Ubuntu is on the external and that OS X is still on the internal disk. It does show my internal disk under the disk utility when I boot from the system disc. And has it listed as Macintosh HDD 10.5.8. If Ubuntu did install a boot-loader, wouldn't that have been erased when I did the...
I recently tried using my MacBook Pro to insall ubuntu onto an external drive. After restarting, and trying to boot from my mac hard drive, which wasn't touched, it doesn't realize that it is there. All it does is come up with the blinking folder with a question mark icon. When I try holding...