pnkt Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Hello, I've been messing around with Kalyway 1.5.2 and have had most stuff working (including SATA) when installing on USB and IDE drives, now I'd like to get an installation running on my SATA drive - eventually dualbooting with vista from the same drive, but for now I just want to get OS X up. My problem is that my SATA controller isn't recognized by the standard Kalyway install, I can get it working later by editing AppleVIAATA.kext and adding vendor ID's but that won't help me much during install from the DVD. What's the easiest way to get an installation going on my SATA drive? Thanks in advance. My specs: Kalyway 1.5.2 Intel_AMD DVD on ASrock 939Dual-Sata2 AMD Opteron 165 3GB Ram IDE DVD Drive SATA Harddrives USB harddrive I also have access to an intel macbook with 1.5.3 if that's any use I have VMWare workstation 6 too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112445-migrating-from-usbide-install-to-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 If you have it running succesfully on a USB external drive, AND you have your internal SATA drives supported with that install, just "move" it from the external to the internal... Make a disk image of your OS partition using the Disk Utility and then restore it to your internal drive. Probably easiest to boot from your install DVD and use Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Installer... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112445-migrating-from-usbide-install-to-sata/#findComment-795853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnkt Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 If you have it running succesfully on a USB external drive, AND you have your internal SATA drives supported with that install, just "move" it from the external to the internal... Make a disk image of your OS partition using the Disk Utility and then restore it to your internal drive. Probably easiest to boot from your install DVD and use Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Installer... Thanks for your reply. I remember trying using Disk Utility, but I couldn't make an image while booted from the USB disk, because the source was busy. And I can't write it to the internal drive from the DVD installer as it won't see my internal drive. So I guess I have to make an image from the installer to the ide drive, and then boot on the USB install that sees my sata drive and install the image from there. Also will a disk image include the bootloader and won't it try to boot from a USB drive if cloned from one? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112445-migrating-from-usbide-install-to-sata/#findComment-795856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnkt Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 OK, I was unable to make an image of the entire drive, but tried to clone the partition volume from my USB install to the SATA drive. As I expected once I booted up nothing happened, so using a bootloader script I found, I installed a darwin bootloader on my SATA drive, but now wheen i boot it I get: "Unable to find driver for this platform "ACPI" .. /Volumes/Disk1s2/ The SATA Partition I cloned to is Disk0s1. Help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112445-migrating-from-usbide-install-to-sata/#findComment-795978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnkt Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 SOLVED! I had to install an EFI bootloader and use GUID not MBR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112445-migrating-from-usbide-install-to-sata/#findComment-796100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistkill Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 hey pnkt! can do a tutorial on this? i am in a situation like yours, i have a laptop with nforce+sata+amd combo and its really the worst combo ever for osx86 installation. I have an external usb connector for the sata drive, and i can install ideneb on that, but how do i put that install back into my laptop and have a dual boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112445-migrating-from-usbide-install-to-sata/#findComment-946408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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