How do I make my hard drive bootable?

[rsmith2904]

I also posted this on the AMD page before I realized there wasn't much traffic there.  If it's necessary to delete one or the other, please advise and I will do so.

 

My rig:

 

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Mobo

AMD FX Vischera CPU @ 3.9ghz

16gb of DDR3 1333 Ram

WD Red 1TB HD (Partitioned into 2 partitions with Mac Extended Journaled)

 

Finally, the installation of Snow Leopard has been completed.

 

I had to use one of the forbidden to name bootloaders to get it to install, but now, it won't boot from the hard drive.  I know there's software that will make the drive bootable (Which I thought it already was).  

 

 Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[mnfesq]

Have you installed a bootloader, such as Clover or Chameleon?  That usually helps.

[rsmith2904]

I used one of the unmentionable bootloaders because Nawcom mod-cd wouldn't work.  The installation completed, but upon reboot, nothing happens.  I have a couple of Chameleon disk's, no Clover.  Isn't the bootloader supposed to load on the hard drive at the time of installation?  The only thing I can tell you about what I installed with is that it starts with the letter i_ _ _t.

 

Now, none of the bootloader disks I have will open on re-boot, so I don't have a way (that I can think of) to load another bootloader.

 

Any suggestions?

[Gringo Vermelho]

If you used a boot CD to boot into the installer and you were able to successfully install OS X then that same boot CD should be able to boot your new install.

 

The boot loader does not "load on the hard drive at the time of installation" because the boot loader is not part of a standard OS X installation. The Snow Leopard installer does not know what Chameleon is. When doing a retail installation using CD or USB boot, the boot loader must be installed separately, after installing the OS.

 

My suggestion is read the rules before posting. You're asking for help with tools that aren't supported here, it's against the rules.

 

Please register and post over on their forum.

[rsmith2904]

Sorry I didn't know that rule.  I'm a newbie here and just trying to get some help.  They don't like me either 'cause I'm an AMD user.  I couldn't get mod-cd to work and after that, I just started looking for something that would work.  

[sacohen]

I have a similar situation...

I got iAtkos S3 V2 installed on my HP Dc7600 Minit tower.

Got it updated to 10.6.7 (I always had problems with 10.6.8).

Got all the kexts installed and had working Audio, Video and Ethernet.

 

I connected a second drive and tried to use Carbon Copy Clone to make a bootable clone of the drive in case anything happened.

 

After the clone was made I tried to boot from it and what happens now is it gets to the grey Apple screen and hangs there. 

 

I also tried to boot off the iAtkos DVD (my version of the DVD is bootable and I don't need [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]) and it bypasses the DVD drive and gets to the chameleon boot screen then ejects the DVD and tries to reboot. 

 

Any idea?

[SpaceMonkey:)]

Hi,

I`m new to mac world and still I have some (many) problems with the installation process of a Mac OS X 10.6 x86 on a Lenovo G570 laptop. 

Finally darwin started, but after the first screen appeared the apple logo and after I see a screen with a massage "You need to restart your computer holding the power button or restart button" and the same on different languages. The installation process do not start. I make a partition on HFS+ file system but the install do not start.

Why?