cubswinfllclssic Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Allow me to paint you a picture: I get off work early on Friday the 28th for a company party, then have an obligatory drink with my bosses-- but what I'm really excited about is picking up my copy of Snow Leopard and installing it on my Hackintosh. So I skip on over to Fry's to pick up my new OS, and decide to splurge on a 1.5TB hard drive. I figure, new OS, new HDD-- what a day! 1.5 full terabytes of hard disk space and the world's most advanced operating system-- finely tuned. Nerdy, I know. Anyway, after a full Friday night, a full Saturday night, a full Sunday (I have friends, I promise-- I just told them I was busy), I still can't install the damn thing. I followed every guide that people with my motherboard (GA-P35-DS3L) claimed was successful; I read post after post about how awesome the guide was and how happy everybody is with their new little snow kitty. I try everything: removing all my hardware but the bare minimum, removing 4GB of my 8GB of RAM, changing up my graphics card, even adding random kexts. We've all been there. Finally, I broke down and figured it must be the hard drive. Installed to an old 80GB hdd, and voila. I saw those magic words that I didn't see during any of my boots the last 3 days: DSMOS has arrived. More random stuff. Welcome screen! So, there you have it. A nerdy anecdote and a happy ending with a great moral: Don't use a Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 7200RPM 32MB Cache 1.5TB hard drive. Not for Snow Leopard, anyway. Also, if anyone is interested in discussing a fix, I'm open to suggestions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wziard Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Here is your fix: the partition 10.6 is installed on must be less than a terabyte. Reformat and partition the drive in two parts and try the install again. I bet it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 how come snow leopard can't boot on a 1.5 tb ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 It sound like the Snow Leopard installation didn't finish successfully. Did it? But why else would you remove 4GB of RAM and change the graphics card? It might as well be the boot loader, but there's no mention whatsoever about Chameleon/PC EFI version info. n.b. Looking at the Apple docs; they don't mention any drive limitations! I myself had troubles getting a working boot file for Chameleon v1.0.12, one that loads /dsdt.aml and kext files from /Extra/Extensions/* but still have an occasional kernel panic. And one without a single clue as to what is causing it (might even be caused by the boot loader). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00d Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Also, if anyone is interested in discussing a fix, I'm open to suggestions It's not a problem with the OS, as it's possible to successfully install L or SL on Apple hardware.The bootloader is the problem, see http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,606.0.html. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubswinfllclssic Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 Hey all, thanks for the suggestions. To clarify-- 1. I partitioned the drive into two partitions (I planned to clone one to the other for backup purposes). I originally had partitioned it into three partitions-- one 1GB partition for Chameleon, and the other two (about 700GB each, formatted) for Snow Leopard installs. 2. As d00d mentioned, the Chameleon bootloader (or EFI 10 for that matter, I think) has trouble with 1.5TB drives-- but according to my research, Chameleon only has trouble booting more than 3 partitions on a 1.5TB drive. In fact, Chameleon would not even boot when I had 3 partitions. But once I got it down to 2 partitions, I was able to boot Chameleon and start booting Snow Leopard. That's where all the frustration started! So, friends, keep the discussion going. I wonder if we can find a fix. Either way, at least this is documented so that some poor nerd doesn't waste is weekend attempting the impossible like I did! I mean geez, I just wanted to see the darn OS boot. I would have done it on a 20GB hard drive if I knew it would work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rest assured son Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,606.0.html Found the temporary solution and permanent solution here. temporary solution- Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist file with this <key>Scan Single Drive</key> <string>Yes</string> Permanent Solution- Chameleon RC3 will fix this according to Kabyl (Chameleon Dev) Or use <1.5GB drive as other people say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00d Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,606.0.html Found the temporary solution and permanent solution here. temporary solution- Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist file with this <key>Scan Single Drive</key> <string>Yes</string> Permanent Solution- Chameleon RC3 will fix this according to Kabyl (Chameleon Dev) Or use <1.5GB drive as other people say. There are two issues here.The temporary solution is to allow booting from the OS that is on a non 1.5TB drive, while there is also a 1.5TB drive attached. I read Kabyl's comment to mean that there will be no EBIOS error and hang with RC3 and a non OS 1.5TB drive attached. Kabyl hasn't specifically written that RC3 will solve the problem with booting on the 1.5TB drive itself, although I hope that is true as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rest assured son Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 2. As d00d mentioned, the Chameleon bootloader (or EFI 10 for that matter, I think) has trouble with 1.5TB drives-- but according to my research, Chameleon only has trouble booting more than 3 partitions on a 1.5TB drive. In fact, Chameleon would not even boot when I had 3 partitions. But once I got it down to 2 partitions, I was able to boot Chameleon and start booting Snow Leopard. That's where all the frustration started! d00d, does the 3 partition rule apply to EFI too. I have 2 partitions and a EFI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfonzotan Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,606.0.html Found the temporary solution and permanent solution here. temporary solution- Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist file with this <key>Scan Single Drive</key> <string>Yes</string> Permanent Solution- Chameleon RC3 will fix this according to Kabyl (Chameleon Dev) Or use <1.5GB drive as other people say. RAS, so you are getting a bootable 1.5TB drive with that fix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00d Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 d00d, does the 3 partition rule apply to EFI too. I have 2 partitions and a EFIDon't know about EFI, I'm using Chameleon 2 RC2.I was unable to boot on the second of two partitions of a 2x1.5TB RAID 1. The only partition that starts above 1TB is the second partition's `Apple_Boot Boot OSX' device. This is where boot1h and Extra is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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