"no bootable HFS partition" displays at startup

A couple days ago, I repartitioned my secondary HD--not doing anything with the primary boot partition. I then ran a Retrospect duplicate, cloning the primary boot partition to a corresponding partition on the secondary drive (within the first 8GB, of course). The next day (following a shutdown after an automated backup operation), when I tried to boot, I got a white (not gray) screen that repeatedly displayed "no bootable HFS partition", and then went to a gray screen with the flashing question mark disk icon.
I was able to option-boot and get it to start up under an OS 9.2.2 partition, but keep getting the "no bootable HFS partition" message every time I try to boot from an OS X (10.2.8) partition. I tried repairing disk permissions and verifying the boot partition (using Disk Utility while booted from the Jag install disk)--doesn't help. Cmd-S or Cmd-V booting doesn't work; the message kicks in before the cmd-S or cmd-V is recognized.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Pete

Allan,
I think that's probably it (see my previous post from earlier today). After reinstalling Jag on the secondary boot partition, things are working as they should--even after another Retrospect duplicate to that partition.
What's still a mystery is why the reinitialization of the secondary boot partition also caused the (untouched) primary boot partition to stop working. I can only speculate that it might have something to do with my primary drive being jumpered as slave (was the only way I could get the G3 to see both drives). If the G3 is initially going after boot blocks on the master drive (whether that drive contains the designated startup partition or not), that could explain it.
Oh well, I'll have to see whether Dantz has published a Retrospect fix for this problem (or whether they are otherwise aware of it). If I find out anything, I'll post back to this thread.
Pete

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