BuXb Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 http://micromat.com This is first official live disk which boots Mac OS x86 (apart from Apple's Mac OS x86 install DVDs and mobdin's 10.4.1 modified/ extended OS x86 install DVD) - Micromat did it. For booting our hackintoshes most likely just the known files will have to be replaced (kernel etc.), and we will then finally have a current working live boot disk. So those of you who have a valid 4.x Serial number, go for it: the TechTool Pro 4.5.1 Upgrade Boot DVD just costs $ 25 ! I would even be willing to do some sponsoring here. I am just not going to pay a hundred bucks for the full version .. BTW, you can still download the Beta 2 of TTP 4.5.1 UniBin for testing and for free (just the app itself, NOT the bootable DVD image). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Will run on our Hackintoshes? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-148677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 Will run on our Hackintoshes?dunno yet - I bet the kernel on the DVD + some other decrypted files will have to be replaced, but that shouldn't be a biggy for us. But still, for it to run on YOUR hackintosh you most likely will have to take off that mask off your face, 'cause the prog will crash once it sees it .. Anyway, to keep things a bit apart here, for hackintosh discussion this thread should be used .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-148678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Is not a mask, is Hackintosh (Alien larva) that takes out all my mind. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-148713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Hey BugsBunny, I think you need to consolidate your threads. You've posted basically the same info in three forums . Maybe consider moving this stuff to Live DVD Dev Forum? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 Just wanted to pass that information on to anybody interested in this forum which has grown huge. Eventually it's about an App, so Mash has closed the other thread I opened anyway, which is fine after that posting could inform over 100 people Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Heh, well we still gotta get our hands on a copy of that dvd. Any resident "pirates" willing to help ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedY Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 There's a torrent on the 'bay titled 'TechToolDeluxe for INTEL Mac - Bootable CD image' but haven't tried it yet. Someone can and let us know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 cool, thanks for the hint, LedY . This is not the TechTool Pro 4.5.1 (UniBin) Dual Boot DVD but the TechTool Deluxe 3.1.1 UniBin version on an Intel-only Boot-CD - actually even better for our purpose (for comparison betw. Pro/ Deluxe see here). Micromat has not even mentioned yet on their Homepage that there is such a separate Intel boot CD now, and that TTD is UniBin now, too .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 I need to correct myself - TechTool Deluxe 3.1.1 is UniBin and not PPC !! The dmg is (what else to expect) read only. In Disk Utilities/ Info it correctly says 'bootable'. I converted the dmg with apple's DU to a read/write dmg and replaced our candidates (mach_kernel + the necessary files from Semjaza's most recent decrypts - Finder is not in there, BTW, but I copied it in there). But now DU does not state this image as bootable anymore. What do I need to do differently? In the meantime I will burn the original dmg to CD-RW and make an image of it with Transmac, then edit the HFS part of that image with Transmac (copy our canditates into that image), then burn that image. But all of that will also be feasable within Mac OS X I bet .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 Update: the CD does not even boot a millimeter on my hackintosh (Toshiba Notebook). All other hacked install DVDs would at least start to boot. I checked the CD with MacDrive - in contrast to our hacked DVDs from Apple this CD does not contain a DOS/ISO boot partition but only the HFS partition to boot from. I do not have any time left to get deeper into this CD. Hopefully I have supplied some helpful information to carry the project on from here. Greetz, Bugs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 If it only has a mac file system, it probably requires openfirmware or EFI to boot, we need to replace it by an "old school" boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 the application works great. i booted into secondary osX installation on second hard drive and optimized and defragged my main osX boot partition with no problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-149995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 < krazubu: If it only has a mac file system, it probably requires openfirmware or EFI to boot, we need to replace it by an "old school" boot you mean the way our install DVDs are setup up, I guess, with two partitions, one DOS/ISO boot + the HFS partition with the CD itself < quixos: the application works great. i booted into secondary osX installation on second hard drive and optimized and defragged my main osX boot partition with no problem. Glad to hear that. But still, that is only the App and not the boot CD itself .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-150003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 It is the same problem with the orgininal OSX DVD, you can't boot it on a PC because it is designed for EFI. So we can use the boot layer from beta releases from 10.4.1 or 10.4.3 which were designed for the Dev machine and thus had a "classic PC" boot method Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-150120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 Yep, thanks for the confirmation, I had kind of guessed that that's the way our boot DVDs have been "manufactured" .. . That started before I got in touch with hackintosh (which was at the state of 10.4.4/5). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-150251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omek Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Anyone find a Pro 4.5 torrent download yet? I still haven't seen one anywhere... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-151797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Just wanted to pass that information on to anybody interested in this forum which has grown huge. Eventually it's about an App, so Mash has closed the other thread I opened anyway, which is fine after that posting could inform over 100 people That is a well meant idea, but if everybody would do that on every thread... Cross posting or submitting multiple posts to the same question can be annoying, for 2 reasons: 1. Which post does one answer? And linking the 2 posts. 2. When people do a search and stumble onto the "unanswered" posts, they may not look further into the next post to actually read the answer.. Which is why I will place a link to the 2nd post. Thanks anyway for the head up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-151805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedY Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 FYI, TechTool Pro 4.5.1 UB DVD image posted on the demons Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-157265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Thanks for the hint, LedY, had to search with option "no seeds" (which is true, onyl peers, no complete seeds). We'll see .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-157369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Anybody who wants to download the TechTool Deluxe BootCD (PPC or Intel), download it right from Apple. Choose your language at the bottom of the page, then you need to enter a serialnumber which I may not post in here .. then you can choose if you want to dowload the PPC or the Intel Bootimage (or both.. ). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-157379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Anybody who wants to download the TechTool Deluxe BootCD (PPC or Intel), download it right from Apple. Choose your language at the bottom of the page, then you need to enter a serialnumber which I may not post in here .. then you can choose if you want to dowload the PPC or the Intel Bootimage (or both.. ). Do you have a link? The boardsoft seems to have simpyfied your link, so it does not work. You can use tinyurl.com for that. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-160453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmoscow Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 The link is very simple: https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-160479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 The link in my posting is working now again, too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-160510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 thanks guys, I am really not good in finding things :thumbsup: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22449-techtool-pro-45-unibin-intelppc-dual-boot-dvd-released/#findComment-160621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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