jimi_42 Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Hi Everybody, I am having a bit of trouble with snow leopard, But first i must thank everybody on this forum for helping me successfully run 10.5.x for about a year now, the information in this forum is so great that so far i have not needed to ask for help yet. As i said i have been running 10.5.8 for some time and used the method described on http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/08/how-to-...-pc-hackintosh/ to successfully install snow leopard on an old 40GB IDE hard drive. It boots and runs well and after downgrading to chameleon 1 from 2 i don't get any kp's. The problem is that i would like to be running SL on something larger and faster than my old 40GB drive, I have been using a 1.5TB seagate drive to run leopard so i have backed it up and tried to move my current working install of SL to it. First i tried to use carbon copy cloner to move all the file over then tried to install a bootloader on it but when booting it gives me 'boot0: error'. Secondly i tried to install SL on the drive from within my existing SL install but unfortunately i get the same error. Lastly i tried booting from my trusty ubuntu live CD and used dd to try and clone the drive using the dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb command but then i do not even get the boot0: error it just sits there asking me for a system disk. I do not know if it is useful but here are my system specs: Foxconn 945P7AD Motherboard 2.0Ghz pentium dual core CPU 4GB DDR2 Ram Nvidia 8600GT 1024MB Graphics Card 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive 2x IDE DVD - RW Drives I Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me. James Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182443-successful-install-but/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
groveborn Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I'm no expert at this, but did you remember to mark the drive as active? I know it seems like one of those no brainers, but..well, it happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182443-successful-install-but/#findComment-1239853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimi_42 Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 I'm no expert at this, but did you remember to mark the drive as active? I know it seems like one of those no brainers, but..well, it happens. I did think that may be the problem after the first two attempts but unfortunately not. I thought using the dd command it should do a byte for byte copy of the drive and keep the partition table intact. I am also no expert in this stuff and i'm beginning to think getting SL working the first time was just luck and i will never be able to replicate it. Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182443-successful-install-but/#findComment-1239902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimi_42 Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 Resolved. I used dd from a kalyway leopard install dvd instead of the Linux live disc and it booted. Now running SL on my pain drive perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182443-successful-install-but/#findComment-1240024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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