Snowboarder1982 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Hi, I've been trying to make bootable my PC but it just doesn't work . I'm using tonymacx86 guide to do this but probably somewhere on the middle i'm doing something wrong. I need someone smart to look on my steps and give me a hint. I'll explain the best as i can what do i do: Step 1: Preparing the drive Boot into your existing OS X installation. Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility Select your hard drive in the left column. Click the Partition tab Under Volume Scheme: separate your hard drive into 2 Partitions. You can make them any size you want. Click Options... choose GUID Partition Table, then click OK. Click Untitled 1. Under Name: type Snow Leopard. Under Format: choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Click Untitled 2. Under Name: type Windows 7. Under Format: choose MSDOS (FAT). Click Apply and close Disk Utility. Insert Windows 7 DVD in tray. Unplug all hard drives except this one and reboot. Step 2: Install Windows 7 Nothing fancy . Reformat to NTFS and install operation system. Step 3: Boot from ATI [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] as i have Sapphire Vapor-X 5870 Swap CD with Mac OS X retail Step 4: Installing Snow Leopard After installation reboot and swap CD with ATI [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Complete the OS X setup routine Step 5: Updates + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] I'm updating to 10.6.4 GraphicsUpdate [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] -> DSDT, ATY_Init Uakari, GraphicsEnabler 32 bit = No, Ethernet + Utilities And now i'm trying to put DSDT + Extras to my EFI partition. I think i'm doing something wrong here Step 6: Reformat and mount EFI partition Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal Type: sudo -s Type: newfs_hfs -v EFI /dev/disk0s1 Type: mkdir /Volumes/EFI Type: mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI My EFI partition is on desktop now Step 7: Install Chameleon to EFI partition It says in guide "download any Chameleon binary source" but maybe for my graphics card must be something different??? Anyway i'm using this one: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... try1360125 Type: diskutil list Locate your EFI partition. It will be under IDENTIFIER. Be sure to use the correct one. (For this example: disk0s1) Type: cd Click and drag the Chameleon folder to Terminal, creating a path to it. This is a cool trick that you can use instead of typing the whole path. The command will become: cd /Users/****/Desktop/Chameleon-2.0-RC4-r684-bin Type: cd /i386 Type: sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0 Type: sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 Type: sudo cp boot /Volumes/EFI/ Step 8: Copy files to EFI partition and edit com.apple.boot.plist Open /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist in TextEdit or Property List Editor. Add the DSDT=hd(0,1)/DSDT.aml flag Save com.apple.boot.plist So after it looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>DSDT</key> <string>hd(0,1)/DSDT.aml</string> <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>No</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>arch=i386</string> <key>Legacy Logo</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>1</string> </dict> </plist> Then i'm putting my DSDT.aml and /Extra folder from Snow Leopard to EFI. Than inside EFA i have: boot DSDT.aml /Extra inside /Extra i have: com.apple.Boot.plist DSDT.aml /Extensions Extensions.mkext smbios.plist /Themes Step 9: Set the EFI partition as active Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal Type sudo -s Enter your password. Type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 Type p Type f 1 Type w Type y Close and re-open Terminal Type: sudo -s Enter your password. Type: umount -f /Volumes/EFI Type: rm -rf /Volumes/EFI Type: fsck_hfs /dev/disk0s1 Close Terminal and reboot. Unfortunately after rebooting it's boot Snow Leopard instead showing the screen where i should have choice between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard Please, please can anyone help me. I feel like completely idiot now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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