jerryn Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 I did that successfully with my 160gb hd attached to my black widow usb drive. I bought a larger drive, I ran carbon copy, I ran the Myhack installer.. just as I did with my smaller emerrgency boot drive. I rebooted off the larger usb drive and I hang at boot1:/boot I rebooted and ran the chameleon boot loader installer and used the backup usb drive as a target, same issue. I ran pfix on the drive and rebooted, same thing. I booted off the Empire EFi cdroml selected the usb drive.. everything booted.. I ran the boothack installer. same issue.. hangs at the same place. Does anyone have any idea of what's going on ? I followed the exact same steps as I ded with my smaller drive. The larger drive is a Western Digital 500GB drive. My source drive is a Hitachi 1TB.. but it's only got 250GB of data right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213446-booting-from-usb-carbon-copy-backup-after-myhack-was-applied-hangs-after-boot1boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryn Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 Is there an issue booting off the 4th drive ? I have an external SATA drive in a Black Widow external box. I'm connected via USB until I find an external SATA to internal SATA cable. The backup drive is disk3. I reinstalled the bootloader, still no luck. This is what I did: Step 1. Gain Root priveledges and navigate to Chameleon Directory sudo -s cd Desktop/Chameleon-2.0-RC4-r684-bin/i386 Step 2. Install boot0 to the MBR: sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk3 Step 3. Install boot1h to the partition’s bootsector: sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk3s1 Step 4. Install boot to the partition’s root directory: sudo cp boot "/Volume/Hackintosh Backup" Does anyone have any ideas ? The backup drive is a WD 500GB SATA drive I did the original install to a 160GB SATA in the same Black Widow usb/SATA port. after I had it working I carbon copied the 160 to my 1TB WD and then ran the MyHack utility First attempt and I had a working system. I got a 5500GB drive to clone to for now put it in the same slot as I did the install to the 160GB drive. I carbon copied the data from the 1TB drive (300gb right now) , ran the myhack and install it on "/Volumes/Hackintosh Backup".. and no go.. I didn't get passed boot 1:/boot So I did the Chameleon install by hand as stated above, still the same error Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213446-booting-from-usb-carbon-copy-backup-after-myhack-was-applied-hangs-after-boot1boot/#findComment-1433191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryn Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 I figured it out! I used a hexeditor and looked at the drive! It was configured correctly! So I figured that there must be limitations with my Black Widow or my HP Pavilion m9040n when booting off of USB. So I dug around the basement and found an ESATA edge connector and cable. installed the edge connector and used my 5th SATA slot (the motherboard has 6 SATA connectors) and connected the BlackWidow. I was able to boot off my 500GB bakup drive in the dock! So there are no issues with the workflow, only limitations when booting off of USB 2.0 for some people. When I created the original image I used my 160GB SATA drive and I could boot off of it via usb fine. So here's the workflow for you newbies When making a disaster recovery image. Use Carbon Copy cloner after the backup is complete install Chameleon or the Empire EFI Myhack to your freshly cloned drive. If you are cloning to a drive that's smaller than 500GB USB would be fine.. it the drive is larger and you run into issues then connect it via ESATA. The Black Widow ESATA/USB drive dock works well for me. If you have supported SATA ports on your motherboard use that first.. if not buy a compatable SATA card! I can not friggen believe how fast iMovie renders my 720p home family videos! DAMN! I did that successfully with my 160gb hd attached to my black widow usb drive. I bought a larger drive, I ran carbon copy, I ran the Myhack installer.. just as I did with my smaller emerrgency boot drive. I rebooted off the larger usb drive and I hang at boot1:/boot I rebooted and ran the chameleon boot loader installer and used the backup usb drive as a target, same issue. I ran pfix on the drive and rebooted, same thing. I booted off the Empire EFi cdroml selected the usb drive.. everything booted.. I ran the boothack installer. same issue.. hangs at the same place. Does anyone have any idea of what's going on ? I followed the exact same steps as I ded with my smaller drive. The larger drive is a Western Digital 500GB drive. My source drive is a Hitachi 1TB.. but it's only got 250GB of data right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213446-booting-from-usb-carbon-copy-backup-after-myhack-was-applied-hangs-after-boot1boot/#findComment-1433413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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