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[IwantoHackintosh]

Just the routine...you need to turn the power down and restart.......

Going to try one more time....I don't see any com.apple.boot plist under /extra. And there is a red circle icon on the extensions folder.....lost permission to the folder too. Going to fix the permission now

[PookyMacMan]

<p style="text-align: left; ">com.apple.boot.plist was deprecated in that version of Chameleon. Instead you can add org.chameleon.boot.plist later. </p>

[IwantoHackintosh]

<p style="text-align: left; ">com.apple.boot.plist was deprecated in that version of Chameleon. Instead you can add org.chameleon.boot.plist later. </p>

I don't understand what this means..should I just remove/delete the /extra folder and start over again?

Lost Ethernet after the standard INSTALL and KP, need to fix that first....typing from my iPad.

[PookyMacMan]

Yi! The formatting is all weird! :S

Basically com.apple.boot.plist was removed in the version of Chameleon I gave you. But, you may want to delete /Extra, yeah. Just save the Extensions folder inside. Then run the package again, select whatever you like, put the Extensions folder back when it's done, and see how that goes.

[IwantoHackintosh]

Going back to m u l ti I b e a s t for the standard boot install.....at least It can still boot from HDD. If I need windows data drive, just boot from cd. Thanks for your help.

[dawilliams660]

i installed it but i'm getting this error message: boot0: GPT, boot0: test, Boot0: test, Boot0: error

[PookyMacMan]

Did you use chameleon Wizard or the package I gave the other dude?

Whichever one you used, use the other one.

[IwantoHackintosh]

I gave up Snow Leopard and here comes Lion....... I am moving on to Lion now.
Much easier for my system setup and components. Very easy to install using iAtkos L2 which I burned it to a bootable DVD using disk utility from SL.
First try ended up with a static gray boot screen because it was very late at night...actually early morning and I was not paying attention to what I did...I just hit the install button and did not realized I need to customized the install for my system. Went to bed. this morning I re-read the install instructions and the second try with customized install worked right away with only ethernet not working......sound and video seemed even better than SL 10.6. All my drives showed up of which was booted right off the hard drive. No DVD nor CD is not need like my SL install. Not trying the sleep yet but shut down and reset worked. Typing with my Lion now....heading to the Lion posts to see what is there.

[PookyMacMan]

Great.

[dawilliams660]

I use the one you gave the other person chameleon.....no configurations.....do you think with the laptop I have would it just be easer to just do Lion? or keep on trying to SL working

[PookyMacMan]

Iwanttohackintosh did an unrecommended installation with a distro, which are always self-explanatory. You will want to do a retail installation (far more stable), which, as long as you are running 10.6.7 like it says in your signature, then it should be simple.

[dawilliams660]

I have the USB of Lion retail....would like to go from SL to Lion maybe things will work better just need to get my USB in SL to work so i can upgrade........what do you think?

Ok...I used ###### to get my USB to work....it also fixed my network card too.....will try to upgrade to 10.6.8

[PookyMacMan]

Yup, go ahead and upgrade to Lion.

[dawilliams660]

is there a guide to upgrade from SL to Lion?

[PookyMacMan]

It's simple enough.

1. Download Lion from the Mac App Store.
2. Once it's downloaded, open Disk Utility.
3. In Disk Utility, select your hard drive (not the hard drive partition, the HDD itself) and click the Partition tab.
4. Below the partitions, click the "+" button, select the new partition that appears, and enter 8.0 GB in the size box. Click Apply.
5. Once that's done, go to the Applications folder, right-click Install Mac OS X Lion, and choose Show Package Contents. Inside the Lion app, navigate to Contents > SharedSupport.
6. Double-click InstallESD.dmg inside SharedSupport. It will mount a volume called Mac OS Install ESD
7. Enable hidden files (if you don't know how, download TinkerTool).
6. In Disk Utility, select your new partition you created and click the Restore tab.
7. Drag BaseSystem.dmg from Mac OS Install ESD into the Source box in Disk Utility.
8. Drag your new partition into the Destination box and click Restore.
9. Once it's done, go back inside Mac OS Install ESD and drag the file kernelcache onto the new partition.
10. Go to /System/Installation on Mac OS Install ESD and drag the Packages folder into /System/Installation on the new partition. After you copy it, if there is a Packages alias (it'll be a document icon with a little arrow in a corner) still present in /System/Installation on your new partition, delete the alias.
11. Boot from the new partition and install Lion on your existing Snow Leopard partition.

[dawilliams660]

Do I need to upgrade SL to get to Lion...10.6.8?

[PookyMacMan]

Nah, 10.6.6 or higher is just fine.

[dawilliams660]

need to find me a usb kexts or pkg

[poadb]

@PookyMacMan, do you know if this will work for me and my Acer Aspire M5811 Intel i5 650, 6GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 5570???
I've searched the forum and there are a couple of other M5811 owners that have asked for Hackintosh help, but with no responses. So I'm curious if it can be done or not? A friend of mine tried and failed, but that was his method - not yours.

Please advise.

[PookyMacMan]

poadb, go right ahead. I'll be happy to help with any issues.

dawilliams, I would look up the boot loader you need if you can't boot from the HDD yet.