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I have a workhorse hackintosh desktop which runs 10.5.4 beautifully on an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53 GHz, 8 GB RAM, etc.

Now I want to move this system to a new SSD on the same machine.

I used SuperDuper 2.7.1 to copy everything from the HDD to the SSD (120GB Chronos SATA III 2.5"). (The old HDD I want to keep in the machine.)

All copied well but SuperDuper could no set this disk as the startup disk.

Anyway, I opened the BIOS and set the order of the start-up disk to the SSD but when I reboot I get only the blinking underline.

My bootloader is Darwin/x86 boot v.5.0.132. I sort of figured out that I need to install it again but I don't know how to do it. I did not install this system but a friend did and he is not available anymore so I am asking for help here.

As I mentioned before, the system runs without any problems for 6 years and I still can do all my work with it so I don't want to install an new system. I just want to get it running on the SSD to speed up things a bit.

 

What else am I missing?

Thank you for your help!

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Try the new Chameleon boot loader on here. When you run the installer choose the new SSD as the install location you will most likely need to use the Customize option to change the target for install, not positive been a while since I have installed on new drive. There is possibility you will need to alter the options in the ????.????.Boot.plist however it is named in your old boot directory you should have now, they have changed names inside the file and name of file itself a few times in this period you have had it installed. Now I am thinking again on this you will need to make sure the new loader supports 10.5 some only go 10.6 or better I believe basically you need to find loader that still supports 10.5 to install on new drive. Ah Org.chameleon.Boot.plist is the new name used in the newer versions. One more thing have you tried leaving old drive as first in boot order then if it gives you option to boot new drive choose that to see if it will load up for your new drive that way?

 

Edit: Link to older version here.

 

http://www.hackintoshosx.com/files/file/2214-chameleon-2-0-rc5-r1183/

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Thank you for your reply.

I cloned the old HDD again this time with CCC 3.4.7 and there were a couple of more files visible in the new SSD. But when I run the installer of the bootloader on this diks I get the error: "Unable to install. The installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install."

 

I don't see ????.????.Boot.plist in my installation, also not in Terminal.

 

I also had a look at how to upgrade to Chameleon 2.0 on this site but I am afraid that I brick my running installation if I followed this.

 

Is it normal that this is so complicated?

 

Any more tips?

 

Thank you!

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Thank you for your reply.

I cloned the old HDD again this time with CCC 3.4.7 and there were a couple of more files visible in the new SSD. But when I run the installer of the bootloader on this diks I get the error: "Unable to install. The installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install."

 

I don't see ????.????.Boot.plist in my installation, also not in Terminal.

 

I also had a look at how to upgrade to Chameleon 2.0 on this site but I am afraid that I brick my running installation if I followed this.

 

Is it normal that this is so complicated?

 

Any more tips?

 

Thank you!

 

Can be complicated especially with such an old install but there is more than one way to skin a cat as they say. The ??? part of that was in your /Extra directory there should be at that time if my memory serves me a com.apple.Boot.plist containing the options to be used by chameleon when booting. Now I mentioned this if you were using new version of that Chameleon installer then that name would need to be changed along with possibly some option names in the file itself. Since we are going to use old version this should not be necessary. I downloaded that installer I linked to and it appears using Pacifist that everything is in there that is needed so it should be just a matter of you running it and choosing your new install as Destination for install. As you say it did not work then here is the procedure to use in that case.

 

1. Open Terminal (in the Applicatons -> Utliitites folder) then diskutil list typed in then enter key should how similar to this.

MacUser2525:~$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_RAID                         119.7 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *640.1 GB   disk1

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Sea_To_Do               450.0 GB   disk1s2

   3:                  Apple_HFS Mavericks_TM            189.7 GB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS TV                      4.0 TB     disk2s2

/dev/disk3

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk3

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS Mavericks_SSD           118.6 GB   disk3s2

   3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             939.5 MB   disk3s3

/dev/disk4

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk4

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS WD_4                    4.0 TB     disk4s2

/dev/disk5

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *120.0 GB   disk5

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1

   2:                 Apple_RAID                         119.7 GB   disk5s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk5s3

/dev/disk6

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS Mavericks_RAID         *239.4 GB   disk6



As I can see perhaps not you as you may not know how to read this output I have two installs Mavericks_RAID contained on two disks RAID0 and backup install named Mavericks_SSD. The important part of this output pertaining to you is the _SSD install as it shows here on disk3s2. For what we are about to do you need to find this numbering for your install with that command.

 

2. Take the files I have extracted and attached to this post download them then extract on your machine.

 

3. In Terminal type cd then space key in finder drag and drop the folder containing the extracted files to it and hit enter key to change to that directory to run the following commands.

 

4. sudo ./fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk3    --- This would be for my disk you change the 3 to your output listed for new drive.

 

5. sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk3s2    --- This would be for my disk you change the 3s2 to your output listed for new drive.

 

6. sudo cp boot /Volumes/Mavericks_SSD/  

 

You change the Mavericks_SSD to the name you see for your new install reboot choosing the new drive hopefully it worked.

 

Edit: Both the cloners are not necessary with 10.5 in the Applications -> Utilities folder is Disk Utility you can open this app and choose the Restore function with drag and drop your original drive/partition as Source new drive/partition as Destination clicking on Restore button will copy everything on the source to new partition this is not possible since 10.7 again if my memory serves me well.

 

Edit2: When copying the boot file make sure that your installs are named differently so you do not overwrite the original drive's one. You do this by either Disk Utility, clicking on name in desktop to rename or right click in finder I do believe gives you the option as well. Oh and if there is space in name then the command would be sudo cp boot /Volumes/Mavericks\ SSD/ using mine as an example you need the \ escape character for the space for the command to succeed.

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