Guest Bury Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 I re-started choosing MBR instead of Guid as partition table of my USB stick, now it is recognised and chameleon starts. Next problem: This white-pixeled screen is what i get instead of the main window. Note that there's no kernel panic (i'm booting with cpus=1 busratio=20 -v -x, already tried with GraphicsEnabler=Yes / No PCIroot=0 / 1 ) it also gradually changes colour and the fan start to push quite hard edit: solved deleting all of the AppleIntelHD* AppleIntelSNB* ATI* GeForce* NVDA* kexts (might this be helpful to anybody) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 That makes sense, it's an airport card. It will not work with wireless cards that aren't recognized as "Airport". Sorry, I was a little too fast on the trigger there. Hi, about the problem iCloud, AppStore etc., it is clear that the Ethernet driver must be loading. We users with HP laptops, we usually have another problem: we need a modified mach_kernel to fix Lapic issue, and we noticed that the first time, for access on Apple Services, we have to use the original kernel (using cpus=1 flag), and then, when everything is working, then...changing the kernel! I'm going to create installers for DV6-7 6000 and 7000 series (Ivy + Sandy), and I thought about doing this in PackageMaker: Hidden choise for Ethernet kext: - Choise for installing Ln2Mac s RealtekRTL81xx' kext - running a postinstall script to delete com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and networkinterfaces.plist and com.apple.boot.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration. .......all this having already replaced the modified kernel with the installer. ...hope all be fully functional after the first reboot! Do you think this is enough, or know more tricks about kernel issue for Apple online Services? Thanks in advance Micky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 I tried to start over from scratch and the problem I am having is when I have a usb drive and partition it in OSX it comes up Please power off machine and turn back on about half way through. Is there a way to format / partition it as guild/Mac OSX Journaled etc in windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 @xxnonamexx try MacDrive: http://www.mediafour...oducts/macdrive free for 5 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Thanks I will give that a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 It won't partition even though it says it will but it will format it for a MAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 It won't partition even though it says it will but it will format it for a MAC Sorry, maybe I misunderstood .... you want to turn your MBR disk to GUID partition table, booting from Windows, which is inside the same disk? You can transform easy other disk, but you have to format the entire disk before! correct me if I'm wrong. It is easier if you use your OSX Installation disk or (USB stick, if have) using Disk Utility? Or simply, you can patch the installation, to install on MBR (google),...no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxnonamexx Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Well here is the dilema In my MacOSX disk utility when I try to partition during the process I get a power down machine message and it never completes the partition which is why I thought if I partition it using Windows for the specs in this guide I can have that part done correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 It may not matter too much, both are bootable and your USB will get reformatted again during the dmg restore anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feraldeus Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Hello. I've tried several different ways of setting up my USB stick, but every time I boot into it I get a black screen that says "Operating System not found" I set the stick up following this guide, and I'm confused as to how this could of happened. Do you know how I could fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Hello. I've tried several different ways of setting up my USB stick, but every time I boot into it I get a black screen that says "Operating System not found" I set the stick up following this guide, and I'm confused as to how this could of happened. Do you know how I could fix this? This is a bios message from your PC!!! Not OSx warning! you have set your bios to find the usb stick? ... no bootloader installed into it? Write your Hardware in signature, please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feraldeus Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Hey, thanks for the reply. I've added my info to my signature, I do have my bios set up to run from the usb stick. I've followed the guide, so I don't know how I wouldn't have a bootloader on there. Like I said, I'm lost haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Hey, thanks for the reply. I've added my info to my signature, I do have my bios set up to run from the usb stick. I've followed the guide, so I don't know how I wouldn't have a bootloader on there. Like I said, I'm lost haha Chameleon bootloader is not included in OSX! Chameleon-2.1svn-r2064.pkg.zip You need to install him, pointing to your USB stick ........assuming that the rest is ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feraldeus Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 That's true, but it is one of the steps in the guide I think. I'll try it. Hopefully it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 How is partitioned your USB Stick? there are Osx files inside? You can check this, in Windows installing MacDrive (free for 5 days, google) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feraldeus Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 there is only one Partition on the USB stick. My VM says that the ML install files are on the USB stick, but windows won't even recognize that the stick is plugged in (when VM is off) I've even tried using MacDrive to find it, but the stick doesn't appear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky1979 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 OK, ..........you must erase it, and repeat the procedure!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 Try opening Computer management in windows, navigate to disk management and see if the drive is present. Explorer won't recognise it since its OS X formatted. If windows can't see it at all then start again, at the formatting part ensure your formatting the whole drive not just erasing a partition and this time use MBR instead of guid. If you've installed chameleon to the USB (make sure you select your USB as the destination when installing it) you shouldn't see the OS not found error unless your BIOS has decided it doesn't like the usb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feraldeus Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Oh, okay. Thanks. I'll try remaking it as an MBA. When I format the drive, I just select the drive, click Format and then 1 partition. That does the whole USB stick right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinron_1 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Select the drive, click the "partition" tab then select 1 partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolMarquis97 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 If i have Mountain Lion on the same flash drive as the MAC OSX installer and all that, will that become a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Do you mean you want to install Mountain Lion onto the same disk that the installer is on? If so, you can make 2 partitions, one for the installer, and the second one to install osx onto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 If you want you can replace the thumb drive and create two partitions on your hard drive instead. Just make a partition the same size as the recommended size for the thumbdrive in this guide and one more for your ML install. Then just follow this guide and you're good to go. The benefit of this is you will always have the "thumb drive" partition present if things go wrong and you need to re install. You can even create a folder on the "thumb drive" partition for your special kexts and apps (like kext utility etc etc) you need for your personal hardware. If things go wrong and you did it like this you can be up running in no time again since installing from an internal hard drive beats installing from USB thumbdrive big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miki2o Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 When i follow the point 3.A.2 the installer don't start and it blocks on loading with the apple...i tried verbose boot and the last string is about bluetooth and say that the test IOBluetooth was completed... Any solutions please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tepaks Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Hi, I've tried this method but without success. In verbose mode last thing I see is "Legacy USB Off done" the screen goes black and computer resets. Same computer runs 10.7.5 in full 64 bit mode without a glitch. Different boot flags make no difference. I've copied DSDT and SMBIOS from this working machine. [ EDITED ] Iv'e found the solution. More details here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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