Bootloaders and SB700

[lmicra]

Hi,

 

I've tried to create a hdd partition with the contents of a osx86 distro, but I failed to boot from it.

 

My steps were:

 

Ubuntu (!) on 1st partition and grub on mbr (which allows me to fdisk and dd whenever I need).

I've created a MBR bootable USB pen with Chameleon 2 rc4 (boot0 boot1h) and PC EFI v10.5 (boot), formated in HFS+.

I copied the contents of the iDeneb v1.6 10.5.8 Lite distro, to the second partition of the hdd (also HFS+ not journaled), and made it active.

I then run blkid to get the UUID of the 2nd partition. And proceed to install it with the USB pen using ' rd=uuid boot-uuid=<partition-uuid> '

It loaded AppleATIATA and failed to ' still waiting for root device '

 

I can only boot to this partition when I use SATA in AHCI mode, iPC 10.5.6 DVD which correctly loads AppleVIAATADrivers - VIA 8237 ATA, and the rd=uuid method from above.

 

I had no success in placing the Extensions.mkext from the iPC DVD to the pen /Extras folder. Or using any of the SB700 extensions found through this forum.

 

 

 

So my noob question is: is it possible to create a bootble pen that loads the same drivers as the iPC DVD using the latest chameleon and efi?

 

 

 

To summarize it:

--- ide hdd ---

sda grub

sda1 ubuntu

sda2 hfs+ with ideneb install

 

--- udb flash drive / pen / you name it ---

sdb chameleon boot0

sdb1 boot1h + efi 10.5 boot

 

 

 

My MB is an ECS A780GM-A Black Edition with AMD 780 G / ATI SB700 / AMD K10.

And the drive is IDE.

 

PS: I'm really new to this hackintosh scene so please be patient.