Tommy Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I haven't come up with any theory on how to dual boot Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server. Anyone has any thought? (using Chameleon of course ) EDIT: here is my current disks configuration disk/partition Type Mount Point disk0s1 HFS+ EFI (no automount) disk0s2 HFS+ SnowLeo disk1s1 EFI disk1s2 HFS+ SLServer Here is how it is done: - From my working SnowLeo, open the OSInstall.mpkg from the SL Server's installation media - select your packages and choose SLServer as your destination - once installation is completed, copy smbios.plist, PlatformUUID.kext and VoodooHDA.kext from my EFI partition to /Volumes/SLServer/System/Library/Extensions/ - get the UUID of your SLServer partition and update your smbios.plist and PlatformUUID.kext/Contents/Info.plist that you copied to /Volumes/SLServer/System/Library/Extensions/ - open Terminal and run the following: # kextcache -v -l -t -m /Volumes/SLServer/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /Volumes/SLServer/System/Library/Extensions/ - reboot - select SLServer from your Chameleon (all options that i put in /Volumes/EFI/Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist is global settings) - fill in all the information and select your service options like every server's firstboot setup - once login at the desktop, run repair permissions either from Disk Utility or from command line: # sudo -s # diskutility repairPermissions / - reboot again and now having a fully dual bootable Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server Tommy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
luxus Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 i love to test it... at the moment i am unable to boot up my hackintosh.. with snow leopard server no kp .. its just stoping ... but i just follow a normal snow leopard guide.. perhaps there are some differents with the server version... is there any guide for setting up snow leopard server? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1260309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumz Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I'm stuck at the serial number stage. I used the Hotiso build and its not letting me use any serial that I can find :-(. What did you use for a serial? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1264107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted September 20, 2009 Author Share Posted September 20, 2009 I'm stuck at the serial number stage. I used the Hotiso build and its not letting me use any serial that I can find :-(. What did you use for a serial? Found the image in green demon, don't remember which but definitely not hotiso. Tommy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1273575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumz Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Found the image in green demon, don't remember which but definitely not hotiso. Tommy My membership is linked to an email that I no longer have. I emailed them and they never responded, they probably think that I'm lying... Do they ever open up membership anymore? It used to be open frequently a couple years ago. I just found a dl on that site with a ship. It may be worth checking out if you only have one of those december 31st serials. It says its legit, I'll report back when I install. prolly this weekend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1285040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger77 Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I saw another post with somebody saying they ran the 10.6 vanilla Snow instructions to run the server. Is this right - Is installing the server exactly the same as Client using same files in the EFI etc. Basically I am ready to hit the BUY button on a GA-EP45-UD3P and all the kit but really want to know if server runs on the same setup. My plan is to create a Snow build using the instructions and installer on one drive. Then I am going to use another drive and do exactly the same with the same files except put the Snow Server image on. I'll then maybe do a windows 7 disk once that comes out. I own originals of 10.5 server, 10.6 and clients. I might also want to do a 10.5 server build on anopther disk. Anyone had success with the server versions. Since server works on any mac pretty much I thought just getting the EFI and files sorted on a PC will allow server or client. Any thoughts ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1293541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengstapo Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Hmm here the situation, Ive Leopard running at 1st partition(Chameleon 2.0 RC1 & EFI 10.1) Ive partition within same disk for Snow Leopard. How do I do this? I cant figure how to do the setup. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1306028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edkroket Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I saw another post with somebody saying they ran the 10.6 vanilla Snow instructions to run the server. Is this right - Is installing the server exactly the same as Client using same files in the EFI etc. Basically I am ready to hit the BUY button on a GA-EP45-UD3P and all the kit but really want to know if server runs on the same setup. My plan is to create a Snow build using the instructions and installer on one drive. Then I am going to use another drive and do exactly the same with the same files except put the Snow Server image on. I'll then maybe do a windows 7 disk once that comes out. I own originals of 10.5 server, 10.6 and clients. I might also want to do a 10.5 server build on anopther disk. Anyone had success with the server versions. Since server works on any mac pretty much I thought just getting the EFI and files sorted on a PC will allow server or client. Any thoughts ?? I just installed SL Server on a GA-EP45-UD3R with a copy of the SL Server install DVD on a USB-stick together with PCI 10.1 on it. And of course tools like Chameleon RC3 and DSDT on the same stick. Booted of from the USB stick at a totaly empty system. After install boot from USB stick again and choose the fresh installed SL Server disk. filled in a the required info and finally at login do some work like installling Chameleon RC3, created DSDT-file put a few kext in /Extra folder, set up the system to allow Remote Desktop, create EFI-string for Video but be aware that in my case I ended up with a blue screen after reboot. So I pulled of the video cable and booted without a screen and took control from another machine running ARD. I could not get my Nvidia Geforce 7900 GT 256 working. All services running fine! The only thing is that kernel_task is using half of the CPU for I don't know what reason. I have Server 10.5.8 running on a old G4 and that one doesn't have this issue. My guess is that I have to run Snow L Server in 64-bit maybe. I'll try that aftr this weekend. Only in save mode system booted up with right resolution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182740-success-dual-boot-snow-leopard-and-snow-leopard-server/#findComment-1315277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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