tbukdahl Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 So, I've been reading a lot about PC-EFI lately, and are posting this, just to clarify, that I've understood it right, so feel free to comment/add/rectify (?) me, if I'm mistaken. As I understand it, it would be possible to use an existing Leopard installation, to install PC-EFI and Chameleon bootloader on the first HDD of your system (provided it is SATA), storing all patched KEXTS on the PC-EFI partition (do I, the user, create this partition?), allowing the Snow Leopard to run completely retail on the visible installed partition, making it possible to run Apple Update, in all eternity. True / false? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207122-pc-efi/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 So, I've been reading a lot about PC-EFI lately, and are posting this, just to clarify, that I've understood it right, so feel free to comment/add/rectify (?) me, if I'm mistaken. As I understand it, it would be possible to use an existing Leopard installation, to install PC-EFI and Chameleon bootloader on the first HDD of your system (provided it is SATA), storing all patched KEXTS on the PC-EFI partition (do I, the user, create this partition?), allowing the Snow Leopard to run completely retail on the visible installed partition, making it possible to run Apple Update, in all eternity. True / false? In part yes .. It's either PC_EFI or Chameleon .. Search the forum for an installer for PC_EFI or Chameleon .. If you want to install the bootloader to the EFI (hidden) partition of your drive then the installer should give the option to "install to EFI" - you will need to do some terminal bashing if you want to access the EFI partition to add remove kext from your extra/extentions folder. If you are using AppleIntelCPUpowermanagment disabler kext then you will be able to update just fine. Also without AppleIntelCPUPM disabler kext and DSDT.aml hack for various you will also be fine. D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207122-pc-efi/#findComment-1384391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbukdahl Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 Oh, so it's either PC-EFI or Chameleon - I got that part wrong, then. So, the Chameleon actually does the same, as PC-EFI, besides providing the nice bootloader gui, right !? What do you prefer, PC, or Cham.? As you can see in my sig. I'm currently using the iDeneb provided Darwin loader (I think it's the 1.0.11) that's being used, and it runs vanilla, however, I'm not quite satisfied with running this, since I'd like to go retail on Snow, so... If I were to run the OSInstall.mpkg in my running Leopard, installing on an external USB HDD, then running the Chameleon installer from here and using the Show_hidde_files from here I should be able to manually copy my patched kexts to the Extra/Extension folder, allowing Snow to run retail, but the Chameleon to load the patched kexts, in the background. This would work, right? Because I read in a thread inhere, I would need to use DSDT patcher and plist, as well, but, to the tell the God honest truth, I know there is something calle plist's but I've tried to understand what they do, and if I should use those, or if I shouldn't but, I'm just thick, I guess.. just can't seem to understand how / why, to use that But I think that I've finally understood, that the best way to run retail Snow is the above mentioned solution, right !?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207122-pc-efi/#findComment-1385130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Check out one of the retail install guides - there are many and they'll point you in the right direction http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=189414 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207122-pc-efi/#findComment-1385149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbukdahl Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 Thank you for your help - much appreciated Will check out the guides - just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something Will post back, if/when, successfull Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207122-pc-efi/#findComment-1385211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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