xxd0Ma Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Greetings, everyone. In my first post, let me thank all of you for contributing to and maintaining this useful forum and wiki. I'm about to try my first hackintosh install. About the USB stick.. I've searched the forum (and web overall) for guides on this but all of them either require Windows or OS X. Finally, I stumbled upon this post (thanks, Memorial):] 1. Make on USB Drive (the non OS X install usb drive) a Linux live USB (a new one, you need the latest version of Gparted).2. Boot off the linux, plug in your other USB drive, format it HFS+ using Gparted and make the partition bootable. 3. copy the contents of the install iso (you can access you HD from Linux) into that partition 4. Install chameleon on the install USB drive using the instruction from their site. 5. Use the UBS drive to install OS X Is this (still) accurate? Even so, this is a bit too ambiguous for me. Which (if any) kind of partition table should I use? Needs hybrid, MBR's good enough, or skip it altogether and go superfloppy? How much empty space should I leave for Chameleon before the partition? Can I use grub 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Boy Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I think it is possible. Create a 5GB HFS+ formatted partition on a USB drive with GPT not MBR. Then you need to extract the needed files from the compressed InstallESD.dmg via 7z (this is the complicated part -- especially for Lion). Finally you need to install Chameleon to the USB so you don't need any empty space or GRUB. It is more complicated to set up the USB drive from linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxd0Ma Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 I think it is possible. Create a 5GB HFS+ formatted partition on a USB drive with GPT not MBR. Then you need to extract the needed files from the compressed InstallESD.dmg via 7z (this is the complicated part -- especially for Lion). Finally you need to install Chameleon to the USB so you don't need any empty space or GRUB. It is more complicated to set up the USB drive from linux. Hi, thanks for the reply and sorry for coming back here after such a long delay. can you (or someone else reading this) elaborate on "installing Chameleon"? I downloaded Chameleon binaries from <removed>, but those seem to be Apple binaries: michal@esprimo:/tmp/Chameleon-2.0-RC4-r684-bin/i386$ file fdisk fdisk: Mach-O executable i386 I don't think that fdisk is the same as the one shipped with linux, as that one makes it clear it doesn't support GPT (it shows the partition, but displays a quite stern warning). I'm basically at this point: Disk partitioned...(parted) u s (parted) print free Model: JetFlash Transcend 8GB (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 15826944s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 34s 15826910s 15826877s hfs+ mac_install ...and formattedroot@esprimo:~# mkfs.hfsplus /dev/sdc1 Initialized /dev/sdc1 as a 7728 MB HFS Plus volume .dmg file extracted:7z x <redacted>/Install\ Mac\ OS\ X\ Lion.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg .... Extracting Distribution Extracting [TOC].xml Everything is Ok Folders: 24 Files: 51 Size: 3743680906 Compressed: 3743009943 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Boy Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 michal, here's my script tested in ubuntu. You still may need some kexts (fakesmc.kext) and perhaps a DSDT.aml in order to boot, though. I just copy the working ones from /Extra in my Snow installation. You don't need to run fdisk from the chameleon archive, the only 3 files you need are: boot1h, boot0, and boot. #!/usr/bin/env bash APP_PATH='/media/MacHD/Users/YOURNAME/Desktop/Install Mac OS X Lion.app' ESD_PATH='Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg' CHM_PATH='/media/MacHD/Users/YOURNAME/build/chameleon/chameleon/sym/i386' USB_DEV=/dev/sdf mkdir A B C time 7z e "${APP_PATH}/${ESD_PATH}" InstallMacOSX.pkg/InstallESD.dmg time 7z e InstallESD.dmg 5.hfs rm InstallESD.dmg mv 5.hfs a.hfs sudo mount -o loop,ro a.hfs A time 7z e A/BaseSystem.dmg 5.hfs mv 5.hfs b.hfs sudo mount -o loop,ro b.hfs B sudo umount ${USB_DEV}1 2> /dev/null sudo parted -s ${USB_DEV} mktable gpt sudo parted ${USB_DEV} mkpart primary hfs 1 4700 sudo mkfs.hfsplus -v LionInstall ${USB_DEV}1 sudo mount ${USB_DEV}1 C time sudo rsync -Pah B/. C sudo rm -rf C/System/Installation/Packages time sudo rsync -Pah A/Packages C/System/Installation/Packages sudo cp -a A/mach_kernel C sudo cp -a ${CHM_PATH}/boot C sudo dd if=${CHM_PATH}/boot0 of=${USB_DEV} bs=440 count=1 sudo dd if=${CHM_PATH}/boot1h of=${USB_DEV}1 printf '\x80' | sudo dd of=${USB_DEV} bs=1 seek=446 sudo umount A B C rmdir A B C rm a.hfs b.hfs exit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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