savestheday Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Hi all, Been a frequent reader of the forums but I wanted to post here to get some clarification on what I need to do to switch from an EFI-X chip to a Boot-132/Grub-DFE solution. I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R board. I've gotten all the kexts for this board and successfully installed OS X on it last night using a boot-132 CD I found on these forums that was made specifically for this this board. I then installed Chameleon and all is working (except sleep - that's not working right - it wakes up with no video signal). I've been doing some reading and I essentially think it'd be wise for me to boot from a USB stick and keep all my kexts on there. I've read some threads and made a bootable boot-132 stick that sort of worked (before chameleon), however, I've been reading that grub-dfe is better for these boards. So what I want to know is, how can I make a grub-dfe USB boot stick with all of my kext's (or mkext - still trying to figure out the difference between mkext and kext but I think mkext is a kext that holds multiple kexts)? I want this stick to come up with a menu to pick between booting Windows 7 (separate drive) and have OS X as the default OS. Also, being able to boot from DVD would be nice but not required. I've got some knowledge of syslinux, I just really am worried about what drivers I need on that stick to get everything up and running. Also, I have an ATI 4850HD ready to go into the system with the drivers from the ATI forum. I'm currently using a 9800GTX but the drivers I got from aquamac don't seem fully mature. The dashboard performance is a little weird (not that I use it all that much). It also does not show up as a 9800GTX in the System Profiler (it does in aquamac's screenshots). Any help that any of you can provide me would be amazing, thank you in advance!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/155970-looking-to-switch-from-efi-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 I don't know much about Boot-132, but I thought the best method around was to put all your kexts on a hidden partition of your Disk. This is Munky's method. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127330 Hope you get your sleep fixed! Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/155970-looking-to-switch-from-efi-x/#findComment-1097390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
savestheday Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 Thanks for the reply - I've been reading that post....very useful. I'd love to put that on a USB stick too so I don't have to worry about it as much. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/155970-looking-to-switch-from-efi-x/#findComment-1097464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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