renjithis Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Hi, I am trying to create a mountain lion (10.8.3 or 10.8.0) hackintosh USB. These are the steps that I followed : created 2 partitions : 200mb and rest of the pendrive (15GB) marked 200mb partition as bootable formated both as hfs+ dd if=boot0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=440 count=1 dd if=boot1h of=/dev/disk1s1 mounted 200mb partition and copied boot mounted 15GB partition mounted BaseSystem.dmg anc copied its contents into 15GB partition using rsync -Pah removed System/Installation/Packages copied Packages from mounted InstallESD.dmg to System/Installation (again using rsync -Pah) copied mach_kernel from InstallESD.dmg to 15gb partition I tried using cp -a instead of rsync, but no success. The chameleon/chimera starts successfully, but would kernel panic just after the installer boot process creates RAM Disks. please see the attached image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 hello something wrong there... why don't u use pandora ? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/11-pandoraapp/ good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renjithis Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 hello something wrong there... why don't u use pandora ? http://www.insanelym.../11-pandoraapp/ good hack I would like to learn to do it manually. I have used utilities like #####, myHack, etc, but want to know how these applications do it. Can you tell me what is wrong and how I can correct it? PS : Where can I get the source code for Pandora.app ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 hello pandora is not open source... u can see how to make the boot installer here.. is for lion .. ML some thing http://olarila.com/f....php?f=28&t=134 good hack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renjithis Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Thanks... After reading http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/ , I thought OSx86 supported Pandora app because it was OSS. Sorry for the misunderstanding The major difference I can see from the Olarila post method and the one I used seems to be copying the contents of BaseSystem.dmg. While I was copying the contents after mounting, they recomend restoring the DMG to the destination partition. I will check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 you can follow this guide it is the same for ML, I tried and It work great. http://www.insanelym...thout-usbvideo/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renjithis Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 Thank you for the answers, I was able to create the USB manually. As described in the linked posts, the USB boots properly when BaseSystem.dmg is restored to the drive, instead of rsync ing it like I was doing. Does this mean that BaseSystem.dmg has some non-file data (like boot sector data, etc) that won't get copied to USB when using rsync? When I tried to extract the BaseSystem.dmg using pk7zip (in Linux), I got a few files in a directory named '[]' with the filenames containing Inode-<somenumber> these files and the directory '[]' are not exactly files that are seen when BaseSystem.dmg is mounted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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