gpnet Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Hi to all Guys, I am new here. I have read a lot all the postings just to have an idea of what problems one can face installing osx. I also want to thank all of you for your great work. Now it's my turn. I have installed succesfully an hackintosh iDeneb 10.5.7 on virtualbox 3.2.6 as guest, thinking of it as my base system for all I want to do with mac. well , now I want to install a retail DMG image "snowleopard_10a432_userdvd.dmg" on an eternal USB HD using the hardware I have ( CPU, WIFI, VIDEO ...) . I just DO NOT want to use my internal HD. First question is : Can I do That.? I thought yes ( but I am a NB) , so I restore the dmg image on a 8GB pen drive and the install the image from pen drive to the USB HD included chameleon V2RC4. I have made no custom kext install , just the essential system. When start the notebook and I launch the osx with chameleon the system crash. I tried to change to verbose with -v -x but I don't see any function or command in bootloader to do that. can any one help me to do this kind of installation , if it possible. ? Thank you all, Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228005-install-osx-on-external-usb-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpnet Posted August 10, 2010 Author Share Posted August 10, 2010 Hi Guys , Non one can help me ? Do I have to give you more info to get help ? help me , please! gpnet Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228005-install-osx-on-external-usb-hd/#findComment-1528227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpnet Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 Hi, to all I did something wrong? I said something wrong ? I would like to know. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228005-install-osx-on-external-usb-hd/#findComment-1529373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enochpc Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Could use a little more info, do you see the chameleon boot screen on startup? Should see a graphic with either a progress bar or just a graphic to select. If you see a progress bar press any key and then type the commands, otherwise type the commands before you press enter to boot OSX. If you don't see chameleon at all, then you need to reinstall chameleon. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228005-install-osx-on-external-usb-hd/#findComment-1529540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpnet Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 Thank you for replay. No , I don't see chameleon , just a black screen with a cursor on top-left. I tried to go one step ahead getting a iATKOS S3_V2 and tried to install that one on my USB-HD. First I tried to install a retail dmg. and manually installed Chameleon V2.RC4. In either cases the result is the same : Black screen a cursor on top-left. P.S Sorry I created a new post in witch i explain the custom OSX I set-up and my actual config. When installing iATKOS S3_V2, the installer automatically install asereBLN 1.1.9. I don't think it could be wrong... Colud it be something with the partition type. I have formatted the USB-HD with two partition : the first GUI part.table and the other FAT. I have to check some flags to say the drive is bootable ?. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228005-install-osx-on-external-usb-hd/#findComment-1529568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enochpc Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 It's possible you may need to set the Mac partition as active, Gparted could help with that. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228005-install-osx-on-external-usb-hd/#findComment-1531707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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