~pcwiz Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Here is the official description for Bootable Utilities for Mac OS X.  Many operations require you to "unmount" your hard drive or partition such as: Fixing, Optimizing, Defragmenting, Partitioning, Cloning and Data Recovery. There are many great tools to do these functions, but to use them you either need a second operating system installed or a bunch of bootable discs. To make your life easier I have compiled a bootable image which contains as many of these tools as possible. This image can be burnt to a DVD or cloned to a iPod/flash USB stick/hard drive/partition; the resulting product will then be bootable. Bootable Utilities Image(BUI) is entirely universal--meaning it will work with intel and PPC macintosh computers--it is also entirely Leopard compatible. Note that the image itself now runs Leopard (10.5.3).  Basically, its an extremely minimal system of Leopard 10.5.3 for system diagnostics, repair, etc. Search around and you can find the download, it comes in 7 93MB parts. Here is how you mod this to work on a hackintosh:  Requirements  * 2GB or larger USB flash drive * Intel Core 2 Series Processor * Working installation of OS X Tiger or Leopard * Motherboard with BIOS that supports booting from USB devices  How To  * First, download all the parts and combine them together with Split&Concat * Plug in your USB flash drive and open Disk Utility. Partition & Format the USB flash drive with the Volume Scheme set to 1 volume, format set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and partition map set to Master Boot Record * Mount the disk image and within that disk image is ANOTHER disk image. Copy this second disk image that is within the first one the desktop * Open Disk Utility and drag the Bootable Utilities DMG to the left panel * Click on the DMG and go to the Restore tab * Drag the Bootable Utilities DMG into the Source field in the Restore tab * Drab your USB drive volume to the Destination field and click the Restore button, accept all warnings * This process may take a while depending on the speed of your flash drive * Once it is done, make sure the USB drive is mounted * In the USB drive, navigate to System/Library/Extensions and delete "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext" * Using OSX86Tools' Kext installer function, install dsmos.kext onto the USB drive * Again using OSX86Tools, use the Install EFI/Run FDISK function to install the Chameleon (fake EFI implementation) loader onto the USB drive * Copy any Applications that you want onto the USB drive's Applications Folder * You are done! Restart and boot to the USB drive and it should boot into the Quick Picker interface where you can choose an application to load * If it does not boot, tap F8 to get into the boot prompt, type in -v to get into verbose mode and boot the drive to see where it panics/stalls.  (You will not have to replace the kernel assuming that your computer boots from vanilla kernels)  Known Issues  * Sometimes stalls at "BSD root" or "ERROR: unable to determine FireWire security-mode". The fix for this is to boot with -v -x at the F8 boot prompt. * No video/audio/LAN support unless it works out of the box with your system. Just install the necessary kexts into the Extensions folder of the USB drive to fix this * AppleScript and AppleScript Studio apps do not seem to run properly. There seems to be some sort of missing framework or something. I got my OSX86Tools AppleScript Studio app to at least load by copying over the Frameworks, PrivateFrameworks, and CoreServices folders from my current install, but none of the buttons work * None of the Apple menu items (Shutdown, restart, etc.) work when booted in. I'm pretty sure that this is due to the lack of a loginwindow.app. I copied over loginwindow.app but it still doesn't work, I guess this is because loginwindow.app is not set to initialize at startup.  I will be posting a more elaborate how to with screens, etc. on my site later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Thanks. Â I thought that this could be done weeks ago, and planned to make some tests myself, glad to know that you did it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderman1369 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 FYI...While reading the comments for this "item", the other Crusty Sea Going Leechers at the "Bay" are complaining that all the utilitites are asking for key files, activation info, etc. Â I can't say for sure, but that's what I've been reading. D/L is 569.53 MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 Oh by the way, the newest Bootable Utilities is version 2.0 (Leopard 10.5.3). The version 1.2 found on some torrent sites is old and I haven't tested it. Its true though, most of the "illegal" utilties actually just seem to be demos or trials, so there's nothing really illegal about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderman1369 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Oh by the way, the newest Bootable Utilities is version 2.0 (Leopard 10.5.3). The version 1.2 found on some torrent sites is old and I haven't tested it. Its true though, most of the "illegal" utilties actually just seem to be demos or trials, so there's nothing really illegal about them. Â You're right PCwiz...I stand corrected. The reviews I was reading were for v1.2. I should've mentioned that before. Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 I cant boot following your method step by step...either if i burn the image to a DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 What is the problem you get with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 No problems at all... Â But it doesnt boot!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eps Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 No problems at all... But it doesnt boot!!!  Maybe you can use another disk utility make your USB drive active to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Make sure: Â a) Your mobo supports USB devices You have PROPERLY installed Chameleon onto the drive (entered the right disk/partition numbers and stuff) c) The drive is set to the Master Boot Record partition map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 a) My mobo support USB boot b.) i have properly installed Chameleon onto the drive (right disk and partition) c) the drive was set up as MBR... Â I dont know whats the problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 So basically your BIOS won't boot from it, it just skips and boots from your internal HD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 From where to download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 perfect its like a live usb  im gonna try this thanks.  glad to know you got it to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 So basically your BIOS won't boot from it, it just skips and boots from your internal HD? Â Yes, thats what happend exactly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 MacNutty,  True, it is very hard to find the latest version 2.0, if its even possible at all. I'll send you a quick PM However, if your apps don't require Leopard then the old version 1.2b found on many sites is fine.  amantheboy08,  Yeah that's pretty much what it is  Schweppes,  It seems to me that Chameleon is not installed properly. Could you reinstall Chameleon onto the drive and post up the entire Terminal log on here? Just cut and paste the text from Terminal here and I should be able to find out what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 There is no errors installing Chameleon EFI on the pendrive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 I know, but can you provide me with the text from the Terminal session anyway? It might be doing something it isn't supposed to. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parachute Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Thanks a lot. Working flawlessly, except it doesn't support my PS2 mouse and keyboard. Then I attached a USB mouse and it worked. I'm sure adding the necessary kexts (I don't know which) that supports PS2 will fix it. Â I launched a few apps to test and everything seemed OK. Â For those who don't know where to find dsmos.kext, it's in your /System/Library/Extensions folder. Â Oh, I got the latest version of Bootable Utilities from BS. How do I type quotes mark on a PS2 keyboard BTW? The key types < and > with Shift. Â Edit: I used a 4GB Kingston DataTraveler and planning to fill this with a few more tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 21, 2008 Author Share Posted June 21, 2008 I use the 4GB DataTraveler too Yeah, didn't support my PS/2 devices either. I installed ACPIPS2Nub but still no PS/2 Yeah a new version of Bootable Utilities was released a couple days ago. I have version 2.0, which one did you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Shouldn't this be in the Genius Bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 21, 2008 Author Share Posted June 21, 2008 I dunno, its a news - genius bar cross breed topic It was sorta news that BUI was working on hackintosh...and at the same time it was a tutorial on how to do it, so I just put it in the place that attracted the most attention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 all I need to have is a usb pen drive with 4+ gigs right now this looks nicely done and I want o test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 21, 2008 Author Share Posted June 21, 2008 I grabbed a Kingston 4GB DataTraveler on sale for $19.99. They're pretty cheap now, and very useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Trying it later today. Too lazy to get the pendrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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