kasperbs Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I followed this brilliant tutorial on how to set up MAC Leopard and it worked pretty well. Unfortunately I forgot to make a boot drive before deleting Windows, I only have myUSB dongle to boot from. If you see under point 11 (called Optional) in the post, you will see that the author describes a way to make your first FAT32 drive bootable so that I don't have to boot from the USB all the time. Only problem; those instruction are for Windows users and I no longer have windows installed. Ho can I make the first partition (FAT32) on my harddisk bootable from within MAC? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Install Chameleon from you usb stick. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1110035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&p=567853 That's a link for the way to make a partition bootable from Terminal in OS X. OSx86Tools from PCWiz is an easy way to make drives bootable from Mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1110046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasperbs Posted March 18, 2009 Author Share Posted March 18, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&p=567853 That's a link for the way to make a partition bootable from Terminal in OS X. OSx86Tools from PCWiz is an easy way to make drives bootable from Mac. I have downloaded OSX86Tools but it is not clear to me how I make a drive bootable? Also the description in the thread you linked to, that only flags a drive bootable right? It doesn't actually install a bootloader? Install Chameleon from you usb stick. That sounds like a good idea, how do I do that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1110272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I have downloaded OSX86Tools but it is not clear to me how I make a drive bootable? Also the description in the thread you linked to, that only flags a drive bootable right? It doesn't actually install a bootloader? That sounds like a good idea, how do I do that? Download and install, it's that easy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1110333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasperbs Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Download and install, it's that easy. Install Chameleon from you usb stick. I'm afraid I'm not really following you. How do I download it 'FROM my USB stick' and what files am i supposed to install on my FAT32 and how exactly? If you know? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1110616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasperbs Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Managed to download and install chameleon. First I reformatted the drive with FAT32 and flagged it 'boot' from GParted. Then installed Chameleon rebooted and simply got an error saying something like MBR 0, Error 0 and nothing more? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1111522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasperbs Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 If anyone has the slightest idea of how to make a FAT32 drive bootable as described in the thread, I would be very thankful if they would share the info. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158082-make-my-fat32-drive-bootable-from-within-mac-leopard/#findComment-1117067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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