mac-fish Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 Hello, so i recently got a netbook (Asus 1201HA) and for the lulz i wanted to try OSx86 on it... i'm aware of it being practically useless, i just want to try it, as it's been a while since i had to do with osx86 and i actually don't want to get it installed on my desktop which is just as incompatible... So i don't have an external DVD drive which kind of made the whole thing harder... i tried getting grub2 to boot the isofile from loopback, and a whole bunch of other stuff (dd from iso file, dd from loopback device) none of which worked though. at the moment i am trying to get it booted from an SD Card which seems like a good idea to me... i can create a HFS+ filesystem using mkfs.hfsplus on ubuntu, mount it, copy stuff over from the .iso after mounting it using mount -t hfsplus -o loop SnowLeoDVD.iso /mnt mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb1 /mnt2 cd /mnt2 && cp -Rpv /mnt/* . and i tried installing the bootloader using: umount /mnt2 cd /mnt/usr/standalone/i386/chameleon dd if=boot0 of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 dd if=boot1h of=/dev/sdb1 all seems to be going fine until here... at this point it got complicated however... i used a version of startupfiletool for linux to get cdboot / boot installed, which worked later on as well, with that little "invalid argument" error on the end of the command... i can't really tell if its bad or what it means, but i know that if i try rebooting and booting from the SD card it says: boot0: MBR boot0: done boot1: startupfile this is where the output ends and the bootloader seems to hang... so i guess the problem is the startupfiletool? how am i gonna fix that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226247-boot1-startupfile-hanging-on-mkfshfsplus-created-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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