Gusjdt Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 I was able to install and boot OSX 10.5.1 (then upgrade to 10.5.2) on my USB drive using the Kalyway image. I started to quickly run out of space so I bought a 500GB Maxtor internal drive. I was using Carbon Copy Cloner and made sure the allow permissions checkbox at the bottom of the target drive's "get info" window was _unchecked_ as stated here: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html The drive was formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), the same thing I did with my USB drive. It finished after about 9 hours and everything seemed to work. So I restart my PC, turn off my USB drive, and change the harddisk boot priority in BIOS to the OSX drive, F10, then restart. It doesn't do anything... It goes past the BIOS welcome screen, another common screen I always see, and when it tries to get to Darwin, it just has a black screen with a blinking cursor. No disk activity at all. At first I thought it was the permissions, so I booted with my USB and checked the target volume to see if the box was checked and it wasnt. Would anybody know whats wrong? I'd rather check my options before redoing those 9 hours again.. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gusjdt Posted May 12, 2008 Author Share Posted May 12, 2008 Ok, I can't clone my USB drive at all. I've tried all kind of programs. I tried Carbon Copy Cloner, didn't work, I tried Clonetool Hatchery, which didn't work once I found out it doesn't support Leopard Hackintoshes. I also tried "SuperDuper!", which I hoped would work since some people said it supports Hackintosh and Leopard. Nothing, I get the exact same black screen with the blinking cursor every damn time. There is one thing I noticed however... When using SuperDuper, I noticed that these files (tohkernel, vanilla, and mach_kernel.ctfsys) are copied to the target drive. When I restart and see if doesnt boot, I reboot using my USB and find that those files are no longer on the target drive. Are these files important for booting? Are they being deleted on purpose for some reason? I read somewhere that the mach file is important and has something to do with making the target drive able to boot. One final question, do I HAVE to boot from drive A in order to clone drive B to C? In other words, can I clone the drive I am using to boot to a target drive while I am using my primary boot drive? Any help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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