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youngstacks74
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Ok i have my hack running perfectly got a bunch of apps installed and everything....

but i am currently booting from a boot cd

i would like to know if there is a way to make my comp boot from the hd

but with all the files that are on the boot cd because it boots my system fine

and its made for my gene II motherboard in my asus so everything is running fine

and i didnt want to use chamleon because of all the extra kext and things it includes...

 

so basically i wanna boot my system from the hard drive

but with the same files that are on my boot cd

 

heres a link to the boot cd i have

 

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The reason the machine boots from the CD is because the CD contains a bootloader (possibly Chameleon) and a number of kexts which you are reluctant to load on your HD. Install Chameleon and your necessary kexts on the HD and you won't have to use the CD. There is nothing magical about the boot CD.

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Freaky Chokra
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when i try to install chameleon it fails

Hi youngstacks74.

Coz you are using a Hackintosh OS X, you will have to do certain things that are necessary to get things working almost like native.

 

For the bootloader, try this one: AnVAL Loader

Scroll to the section reading:

Update: 05-14-2010 boot.zip ( 100.84K ) Number of downloads: 323

Download that file.

 

Then extract the contents of i386 to:

/Volumes/your-snow-leopard-volume-name/

It should look like this:

Hack-iMac:/ FreakyChokra$ ls -al | grep i386

drwxr-xr-x 11 FreakyChokra admin 374 2 May 09:52 i386

Hack-iMac:/ FreakyChokra$

Hack-iMac:i386 FreakyChokra$ pwd

/Volumes/Snow/i386

Hack-iMac:i386 FreakyChokra$

Then run these commands in Terminal to install the boot loader:

diskutil list

 

it will give you an output of the all disk in your system. Note the disk Id of your Snow Leo from the output that looks like this:

Hack-iMac:/ FreakyChokra$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: Windows_NTFS System Reserved 104.9 MB disk0s1

2: Windows_NTFS Win7 21.4 GB disk0s2

3: Windows_NTFS Setups 557.7 GB disk0s5

4: Windows_NTFS My_DoX 190.3 GB disk0s6

5: Windows_NTFS T-Bag 230.7 GB disk0s7

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Snow 42.9 GB disk1s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data Entertainment 456.8 GB disk1s3

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk2

1: Apple_HFS Leo 12.9 GB disk2s1

2: Windows_NTFS SXP64 8.6 GB disk2s2

3: Windows_NTFS HomeTheatre 728.7 GB disk2s5

Hack-iMac:/ FreakyChokra$

Note the text marked in Red color. Snow is my Voume name. Yours could be SnowLeo or MacOX or Mac orwhatever. Name is nto important, but the disk1s2 type text is necessary.

Next, note those codes and replace in the commands mentioned below, and run them in the Terminal:

Suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk1s2

 

- Install boot0 to the MBR:

command = sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk1

 

- Install boot1h to the partition's bootsector:

command = sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s2

 

- Install boot to the partition's root directory:

command = sudo cp boot /

This will help you install the bootloader to your hard disk, where Snow Leopard is installed.

Quit TERMINAL

Next, Make an /Extra/Extensions Folder in /Volumes/Snow

Copy all the KEXTs on your Bootable CD to here.

Next, reboot using -f -v

once on the desktop, wait a few seconds till the kextcache is rebuilt. Probably 5-10 seconds.

Reboot. And, YOU ARE DONE!

 

Regards,

Freaky Chokra :angry2:

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this is the screen i get

Ok, get this Extra.zip

extracted from your image and edited boot.plist for your convenience

unpack it on the root of your hard drive

get the one boot file from Chokra's post above and copy it on the root also

open up a terminal and type these commands

sudo -s (then type your password correctly, it won't show asterisks)
chown -R 0:0 /Extra
chmod -R 755 /Extra
chown 0:0 /boot
chmod 644 /boot
reboot

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thanks i have everything working only thing im kind of skeptical about is the bus speed

 

heres a pic

What should that be / or how is it showing on windows/cpu-z or whatever ?

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Hi Chokra,

 

Can you help me please, I will like to know how to place the file I downloaded unto my SL installed Hard drive.

 

I have downloaded and unzip the files unto my C:\ Win 7 hard drive. I booted my system with the SL install DVD and open terminal. I typed diskutil list and I see the Win 7 drive as Disk1s2 and the SL drive as Disk0s2.

 

The files or on the C:\ of the Win 7 drive how do I copy them to the SL drive so I can get that drive to boot.

 

Thanks

 

Node

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1333MHz

 

this is the pc i have

 

my pc

Ok, I edited your smbios.plist file (added "SMexternalclock" meant to show the bus speed, as it didn't exist).

Get it heresmbios.plist.zip

unpack, replace the one in /Extra with this one

open a terminal, and type

sudo -s
chown 0:0 /Extra/smbios.plist
chmod 644 /Extra/smbios.plist
reboot

Greetz,

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Hi Chokra,

 

Can you help me please, I will like to know how to place the file I downloaded unto my SL installed Hard drive.

 

I have downloaded and unzip the files unto my C:\ Win 7 hard drive. I booted my system with the SL install DVD and open terminal. I typed diskutil list and I see the Win 7 drive as Disk1s2 and the SL drive as Disk0s2.

 

The files or on the C:\ of the Win 7 drive how do I copy them to the SL drive so I can get that drive to boot.

 

Thanks

 

Node

Hi node.

I'm away from my Desk. (Out that is.)

Will post you a reply with step-by-step instructions.

However, just DO NOT DO it from Windows, or by booting from SL DVD.

Simply boot using your boot CD, into your desktop.

And, from there you can run those commands.

 

This is the short of it.

If you run into different figures that were mentioned in RED, then replace accordingly.

 

For more, just wait a bit or post again.

 

Regards,

Freaky Chokra :superman:

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Ok, I edited your smbios.plist file (added "SMexternalclock" meant to show the bus speed, as it didn't exist).

Get it heresmbios.plist.zip

unpack, replace the one in /Extra with this one

open a terminal, and type

sudo -s
chown 0:0 /Extra/smbios.plist
chmod 644 /Extra/smbios.plist
reboot

Greetz,

 

 

thanks for all your help

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Hi node.

I'm away from my Desk. (Out that is.)

Will post you a reply with step-by-step instructions.

However, just DO NOT DO it from Windows, or by booting from SL DVD.

Simply boot using your boot CD, into your desktop.

And, from there you can run those commands.

 

This is the short of it.

If you run into different figures that were mentioned in RED, then replace accordingly.

 

For more, just wait a bit or post again.

 

Regards,

Freaky Chokra :censored2:

 

 

Okay Here is my system:

 

Mother Board ======= D945GCPE

CPU ============== Intel 4 3.40Ghz Socket 775LGA

Memory ============ 3Mb Dual Channel DDR2

Video Chipset ======== 82945G Express

Audio ============== Realtek ALC 662

Wireless Network Adapter = D-Link DWL-G520

Ethernet Network adapter = RTL 8101E

Serial ATA ============= Connected to two SATA Hard drives

 

My BIOS Settings.

 

Serial ATA==== == Enable.

ATA/IED ======= Native

 

I notice there is no opton to set AHCI in my BIOS.

 

My Setup.

 

One Hard Drive has Win 7 working on it, with EasyBCD on it as well. The other Hard Drive is Formatted with Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

 

Now When I boot the system I get the screen that ask me to

"Choose an Operating System to start"

When I select the MAC OS X Hard drive with Snow Leopard loaded on it. I get:

 

Heading is "Windows Boot Manager"

 

"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem"

 

1: Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.

2: Choose your language settings and then click "NEXT"

3: Click "Repair your computer"

 

If you do not have this disc, contact you system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.

 

File: \NST\nst_mac.mbr

 

Status: 0xc000000f

 

Info : the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupted.

 

If I shutdown the computer and disconnect the window 7 drive, the system says "No boot disk found, Please put in Bootable Disk and hit any key.

 

I have loaded Snow Leopard many times unto this Hard drive and choose different settings under customized option when loading it and after restart I get the same error. I have loaded SL with the Windows 7 hard drive disconnected and with it connected, same results.

 

How can I get this working please? Can you walk me through it. Thanks.

 

I am using this ISO:

MAC OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 [sSE2-SSE3] FOR INTEL-AMD

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