noob766 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Generic Retail Install Guide Vanilla Only this is just a quick generic guide, you might need additional kexts that are hardware specific, but if you find anything let me know and i'll add it to this guide One of these days i'll get this to look "pretty" lol Needed Files GUID Partition Map Chameleon_2.0_RC2_r640.pkg.zip boot.zip kexts.zip A Snow Leopard Distribution Any Other System Specific Drivers Guide Making the Install DVD Mount Snow Leopard Distribution Open up Disk Utility. Click the partition or DVD to be the Installer Click restore Drag Mac OS X Install DVD to source Drag Empty Partition or DVD to Destination Check Erase Destination Hidden EFI Partition Method This method should work for any boot-132 method as well just change the options when installing chameleon and you don't need any of the terminal commands since you don't have to mount the EFI partition. Just replace the boot file and add the kexts and you should be good. Run the Chameleon-2.0-RC2-r640.pkg Click Customize Check Chameleon EFI HFS option Uncheck Extras Click Install Making Changes to the EFI Partition Open Terminal sudo -s mkdir /Volumes/EFI mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI (This depends how your computer is set up, open up disk utility and click information on your guid partitioned drive, replace X with your drive's number.) killall Finder (EFI Partition should appear on your desktop) -Replace the boot file in /Volumes/EFI/ with the one you downloaded boot.zip -Add the downloaded kexts to /Volumes/EFI/extra/extensions/ kexts.zip (DON'T ADD Appledecrypt.kext or dsmos.kext or it will fail to load) add any other drivers you need (make sure they are snow leopard Compatible) Drivers reopen terminal (VERY IMPORTANT YOU DO THIS otherwise drive won't mount correctly) sudo -s umount -f /Volumes/EFI rm -rf /Volumes/EFI killall Finder Restart and Boot DVD Retail DVD should boot now, ENJOY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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