iDeneb 1.4, software RAID

[Achromatic]

So my setup is this:

 

1 x 150GB SATA

2 x 1TB SATA

 

Ideally, I'd like to use the 150GB as a Scratch drive, and RAID0 the 2 1TB drives. I have an ICH9 chipset.

 

First time I installed the System to the 150GB drive, built the RAID, and SuperDuper'ed it across, referring to two posts - but then I ran into some trouble.

 

fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk2 (then hit return)

then type:

fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk3 (then hit return)

then type:

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk2s3 (then hit return)

then type:

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk3s3 (then hit return)

 

Obviously with disknames substituted as appropriate. But I cannot find a boot0 or boot1h file anywhere on my system to write. Where would these come from?

 

I know iDeneb comes with Chameleon EFI, so I carried on, optimistically (haha) and edited the com.apple.Boot.plists to refer to the RAID disks UUID, rebooted, no boot. (At this point the 150GB was the boot device, and set MBR, while the RAID disks were GUID so not entirely surprising).

 

I prompted to do a re-install as I'm still getting familiar with things and playing around until I'm ready for my 'final' install. I trashed the partition table on the 150, noticed the RAID device was still around and alive, so I opted to do an install to that, and set the first disk in the RAID set as my boot device. Restarted, no valid boot device.

 

Anyone able to offer assistance? I know I'm close...

[peach-os]

there are two very important thing you missed before using this script.

download the chameleon files from here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=76404

 

copy them to root, go to terminal and type

 

cd /volumes/yourMacHD/chameleon

 

now you can use the script

[Achromatic]

there are two very important thing you missed before using this script.

download the chameleon files from here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=76404

 

copy them to root, go to terminal and type

 

cd /volumes/yourMacHD/chameleon

 

now you can use the script

 

Thanks, that helped, also found them on my iDeneb DVD of course, but you got me in the right direction of 'they're pre-existing files'.

 

Of course, I'd not updated the Boot.plist on the s3 slices of each disk, so it panic'ed, but I think this time round will be it.

 

The first time I looked at OSx86 was way back in the day, and things were a horrible mess - this reminds me now of Linux a few years ago... you still need to know what you're doing, but almost there! My OSX box runs fast, smooth, looks great, think I'm ready to ditch Vista after 24 hours.

[Achromatic]

Of course, I'd not updated the Boot.plist on the s3 slices of each disk, so it panic'ed, but I think this time round will be it.

 

Not quite. When I reboot, I get the boot option of hd(0,3) "Boot OS X" (the little RAID partition at the end).

 

Selecting this gives me a kernel panic - "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.9.59/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1407

 

Do I need to install a kext? I didn't need to install any ACPI kexts when I was in single boot drive mode, the panic only happens now that I'm trying to boot from Soft RAID.