[Guide] Installing Snow Leopard without GUID tab

[chessperso]

Hi everybody,

 

Excuse my poor English , 'cause I'm French.

 

I don't know where I'm supposed to post this topic, so I'm posting it in both OsX86 Snow Leopard Installation and Tutorials forums.

 

This is not a real Guide, since what follows may be trivial for many of you.

This is more like a testimony for those who thought a GUID partition was necessary to install SL.

 

A lot of people is having trouble installing snow leopard on a hard drive which is already formatted MBR, and with a Windows tab on it.

 

The most evident solution consist in cloning/saving the Windows tab, reformatting the hard drive with GUID, install Snow Leopard, and restore the Windows tab.

 

I think this solution is a bit heavy.

 

This is what I did, after long hours and many fruitless attempts (you will need a blank USB drive) :

 

It seems that Snow Leopard won't install on a MBR formated drive, but it can boot on it if it is already installed.

I even installed updates (10.6.2) and it worked.

 

- In Windows or somewhere else make a big enough partition to install Snow Leopard on it.

 

- Boot your PC on Snow Leopard Installation (the way you want)

 

- Format HFS+ the partition that will contain Snow Leopard. (you can do this later if you prefer)

 

- Plug-in your USB blank drive and format it HFS+ GUID (using the options menu) in Disk Utility

 

- Install Snow Leopard on the USB GUID drive.

 

- When it's done, reboot Snow Leopard Installation drive

 

- In Disk Utility, click on restore, right-click on your USB drive and select chose as source, right-click on your new formatted tab and select chose as destination.

 

- Click on restore.

 

- Reboot with a chameleon/EFI/whatever you want OSX compatible bootloader USB key (you can install it later on the hard drive) and select your new Snow Leopard MBR drive.

 

- It should work...

 

It may be evident for some of you, but I've ben spending a long time looking for a way to install Snow Leopard on my Windows drive without having to reformat it.

[FreeHack]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!

 

It worked!

 

I used CarbonCopyCloner and copied the drive.

 

If you have a vostro or need help figuring anything out let me know!

 

P.S. You rock, thanks for the persistency!

[ricky86]

Fantastic!!!

 

It works!!

 

Here what I have done:

 

-> [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to boot Snow Leopard Retail DVD

 

->prepare USB drive (the installation requires 8,08 GB at least.. so I create a RAID with 2 USB.. =D it works perfectly). Anywhere, you have to format your usb drive with HFS+ (Mac osx journaled)

 

-> install Snow Leopard in a USB drive --ATTENTION: It takes few HOURS (three hour for me.. )--

 

->When the installation ends with "Installation failed", reboot.

 

->[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and SnowLeopard Retail DVD again.

 

->Disk Utility, click on Restore, and select your USB as source, your HDD (MBR) partition as destination. (Drag and drop devices to select them) --this is faster than the installation--

 

-> Reboot with your external bootloader (for me [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] again)

 

-> delete Installation File in /

 

->Install 10.6.3 update and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (tonymacosx blog) to install Chameleon and other features..

 

-> If keyboard and trackpad don't work, put the voodoops2controller.kext in /extra/extension and remake /extra/Extension.mkext with MKextTool

 

->install your personal kext for drivers..

 

->Work hardware in my signature

 

Thanks a lot, chessperso!!!!

 

Ricky

[crj123082]

Hello,

 

I used the guide at:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/09/install...-pc-hackintosh/

 

to successfully install SL on a 16GB USB drive; however, I cannot get it to work on my hard drive. I have an MBR formatted drive with the following 4 partitions:

 

1: 100MB System Partition for Windows

2: 25GB NTFS (Windows 7 x64)

3: 25GB Mac OS Extended, Journaled (Leopard)

4: 25GB Mac OS Extended, Journaled (Snow Leopard)

 

I got SL up and running on the USB drive, then booted into leopard and restored the USB partition onto partition 4 of my hard drive. But now every time I try booting into the Snow Leopard partition, I get a kernel panic. I even tried redoing the following parts of the guide above after copying the partition:

 

-install chameleon

-copy "boot" and "mach_kernel" files

-DSDT Patcher

-copy and process kexts

-copy UUID into SMBios.plist and PlatformUUID.kext

 

I'm guessing the problem is with my chipset or SATA controller (chipset is AMD M690T, controller is SB600) - can anyone give me the kexts or advice I need to get this running?

 

Attached is a picture of the kernel panic - any help would be greatly appreciated!