Espionage724 Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Lets say I have 1 Hard drive in my laptop. Now lets say I make 2 partitions. 1 Partition being for a retail Leopard disc (4GB or 7GB depending on if I use just the retail disc or make it a SL image), and the other being for the leopard install. Is it possible for me to: 1. Download a retail Leopard DVD 2. Make it into a bootable hackintosh DVD (using a guide on the forums) 3. Restore it onto the leopard dvd partiton on my HDD 4. Install a bootloader (if thats not included in step 2) onto my HDD 5. Make that bootloader boot the installer partition 6. Continue from there with the installer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143885-can-i-make-a-partition-on-a-hdd-a-bootable-retail-leopard-disc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143885-can-i-make-a-partition-on-a-hdd-a-bootable-retail-leopard-disc/#findComment-1021925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Yeah, probably, but why make it a hackintosh disk? Boot132 is your friend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143885-can-i-make-a-partition-on-a-hdd-a-bootable-retail-leopard-disc/#findComment-1022003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Yea I was just reading into BOOT-132... From what I just read you need a CD with that loader and the retail disc http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113288 So if this is right, could I just burn that image to a CD-R and just tell it to boot from that partition? Also about "why make it a hackintosh disc", I meant make it bootable and useable for a non-apple machine. EDIT: Its done, now restoring it to the partition... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143885-can-i-make-a-partition-on-a-hdd-a-bootable-retail-leopard-disc/#findComment-1022018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Well that sucked. Somehow after messing with fdisk I managed to turn my GPT drive into a MBR one and it killed my partition scheme. Is fdisk just for MBR drives or did I do something wrong there? Also I 1st tried the Chamelon Hard drive DFE tool thing, i told it to install to my Leopard install partition, when I rebooted it gave me some HFS+ error which made me assume the bootloader was broken so thats why I went into fdisk. So now I guess ill go redownload my 7GB image.......... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143885-can-i-make-a-partition-on-a-hdd-a-bootable-retail-leopard-disc/#findComment-1022062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Ok here is as far as I got - I have 2 partitions, 1 is my iATKOS 4i install, other is my retail leopard disc - I installed PCEFI v9 and it sees both partitions and I can boot from both - The install partition boots but after it loads something with my wifi card, I see a spinning beach ball in the corner while there is still verbose text on the screen. I should probably go replace some kext files? So the only thing I need to do now is make it fully boot... EDIT: New Status - I installed OS X onto another partition and its bootable. Only thing is, graphics are messed up and I don't know how to fix it even (just get the blue screen on login) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143885-can-i-make-a-partition-on-a-hdd-a-bootable-retail-leopard-disc/#findComment-1022334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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