external usb success

[markymoooo]

I wanted to run osx86 off my external usb drive and went through all the motions and it wouldnt boot now it DOES!

 

Using chain0 in winxp boot.ini

 

THIS WORKS dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

 

This puts the image on very fast too.

 

 

THIS DOES NOT WORK dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 bs=512 skip=63 --progress

 

I got chain booting error and HFS+ Partition error when i tried that.

 

It seems using skip=63 skips the booting sectors. I dont understand why this is needed on many guides. I guess thats needed when your using Linux.

 

There are lots of incorrect guides on web that are too brief.

[frogman546]

so where did you type that ?

thanks

[Elv13]

in a linux live-cd like ubuntu, you also need osx image like deadmoo 10.4.1 or your own made in vmware with one single .img file instead of normal vmware files

 

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[BuXb]

so where did you type that ?

thanks

right, I need to know that, too. Would you please reply, markymoooo?

 

My boot.ini looks like this right now: C:\chain0="Mac OS x86" - that boots Mac OS x86 from the second partition of my SATA HD.

 

Do I have to add a second line C:\chain0="dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress", and before that copy deadmoo's tiger-x86-flat.img onto the root of my external USB drive? I didn't even know that the Darwin bootloader allows mounting of and booting from an image - I thought that is only possible with a Virtual Machine.

 

Hmm ?