Installing SL.. help on Chameleon 2 rc3

[audioboi]

I am trying to install SL to my external HD. I found guides about it. Basically, here's what I did: (trying to install Chameleon) (i dont have access to a Mac and an external dvd drive)

 

1. "Restored" the SL dmg file to my external HD.

 

-------- manual chameleon installation starts here --------------

2. dd if=boot0 of=/dev/sdf bs=440 count=1 (in linux)

3. dd if=boot1h of=/dev/sdf3 (in linux)

4. copied boot to /

5. added kexts

 

No luck. It won't boot. In the Disk Utility in Ubuntu 9.10, my external hdd showed many partitions. One of them is the Installation partition which is found in /dev/sdf3 (hence i used that in step 3). Did I do something wrong?

[bmttinman]

I have had the best luck using Lifehacker method

 

http://lifehacker.com/5351485/how-to-build...start-to-finish

 

Use it with only the drive you need to start with It will find the others once they are plugged in again

 

2. use Dr Hurt installer

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184766

 

3. Stella's installer

 

http://stellarola.tumblr.com/page/3

[wmarsh]

I am trying to install SL to my external HD. I found guides about it. Basically, here's what I did: (trying to install Chameleon) (i dont have access to a Mac and an external dvd drive)

 

1. "Restored" the SL dmg file to my external HD.

 

-------- manual chameleon installation starts here --------------

2. dd if=boot0 of=/dev/sdf bs=440 count=1 (in linux)

3. dd if=boot1h of=/dev/sdf3 (in linux)

4. copied boot to /

5. added kexts

 

No luck. It won't boot. In the Disk Utility in Ubuntu 9.10, my external hdd showed many partitions. One of them is the Installation partition which is found in /dev/sdf3 (hence i used that in step 3). Did I do something wrong?

It sounds like you did everything right.

 

However, there is a bug in Chameleon V2 that prevents boot1h from working with certain BIOS.

You can read about it with a fix here

http://blog.thestevo.com/2009_10_01_archive.html

 

An alternative way is to load boot from grub, bypassing boot1h

 

In Linux, copy boot to /boot

(Either boot from Chameleon V2 or PC_EFI 10.5 from netkas -- it has graphics enabler)

 

Add the following entry to your grub menu.lst

 

Title Snow Leopard 10.6.2

rootnoverify(hdv,w)

kernel(hdx,y) /boot/boot_ch2rc3 biosdev=80

boot

 

(hdv,w) points to where you installed Snow Leopard or Leopard. Do not put it on sata5 or sata6 as those don't work past 10.5.5 In my case it is (hd0,1) -- the 2nd partition on 1st hdd.

 

(hdx,y) points to your Linux boot partition. That can be anywhere.

 

biosdev=80 tells Chameleon to look for hdfs+ on 1st HDD. Use 81 for 2nd HDD, etc.