Tonza Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Hi There ... sure this's been covered here before, but ... I've installed Sno Leo (10.6) on my PC Asus P5Q + Intel Core 2 DUO 4GB RAM HDD : Maxtor IDE 40 GB on a IDE to SATA Converter . Display Adapter : nVIDIA 8400 GS (Motherboard Integrated) The OS works just fine except, that the only way I can boot in to the OS is to boot from the EFi-Boot CD-Rom . And strangely there are MS Windows partitions visible, although I have no Windows installed . And how about setting up multiple displays ? Please, show me the trick outta this . Yours, toni S Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednous Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 You need a SATA harddisk connected to SATA port, IDE to SATA connector wont work with OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonza Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 You need a SATA harddisk connected to SATA port, IDE to SATA connector wont work with OS X. Hi ... then how come I was able to install Snow Leopard using the IDE <-> SATA - adapter . Without this adapter Snow Leo install did not even recognize my hdd . The question being just how to make the hdd - boot ready ? EasyBCD ... ??? Regards, Zergei (: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Install the Chameleon bootloader to your hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonza Posted July 30, 2010 Author Share Posted July 30, 2010 Install the Chameleon bootloader to your hard drive. Chameleon Bootloader installed Software update installed Boot from HDD halts : "Unable to determine ESP FS type. press any key to continue." followed by a blinking cursor and nothing else . what's wrong ??? Regards, toni S Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Don't know, I've never seen that. FS probably means file system? Run terminal.app, type diskutil list and post the output here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonza Posted July 30, 2010 Author Share Posted July 30, 2010 Don't know, I've never seen that. FS probably means file system? Run terminal.app, type diskutil list and post the output here. The Output from Terminal.app /diskutil list Last login: Fri Jul 30 21:11:23 on console xdsl-83-148-246-201:~ STUDIO$ diskutil list 2010-07-30 22:19:50.215 diskutil[365:903] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *41.1 GB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Mac OS X 40.8 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: CD_partition_scheme *9.1 MB disk1 1: Apple_partition_scheme 7.9 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk1s1s1 3: Apple_HFS RebelEFI 7.9 MB disk1s1s2 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *999.6 GB disk2 1: Windows_NTFS Puffeli 999.6 GB disk2s1 /dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: CD_partition_scheme *784.9 MB disk3 1: CD_ROM_Mode_1 Utility_HD-CXU2 683.4 MB disk3s0 xdsl-83-148-246-201:~ STUDIO$ Any Solutions ??? Regards, toni S. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 31, 2010 Share Posted July 31, 2010 Which partition did you install Chameleon to? _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 It's important for compatibility reasons that you fix that error. Set EthernetBuiltIn to yes in /extra/com.apple.Boot.plist and see if that helps to begin with. Use the forum search or Google "unable to determine UUID for host" (with quotation marks) for more information. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226914-cant-boot-without-efi-cd-rom/#findComment-1521988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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