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Hey guys

 

 

I was just wondering what the best bootloader is for a retail snow leopard disk. (10.6.3) It would have to allow me to add my own kexts, I thought there was a bootloader called boot123 thought when i googled this nothing came out.

 

All help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks, Francis.

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it's Boot-132, not 123.

 

The best bootloader is the one that works with your hardware.

 

All of the pre-packaged bootloaders like Empire EFI or [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] use Chameleon or Netkas' PCI_EFI.

They, in turn are based on dfe's Boot-132: http://tgwbd.org/darwin/boot.html

Which is originally from Cupertino :( : http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/boot/boot-132/

 

Google/forum search for a tutorial on how to make your own Chameleon boot CD.

 

This is probably the craziest Hackintosh bootloader there is:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208807

(and I mean that in the nicest possible way)

 

There is also BootThink from China: http://www.apple163.com/

And there was XPC which looked very promising but seems to have folded: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpcefi-bootload/

And another [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], which I don't know anything about: http://osx86.net/f36/new-duet-based-efi-bootloader-t6383/

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Hey guys

 

 

I was just wondering what the best bootloader is for a retail snow leopard disk. (10.6.3) It would have to allow me to add my own kexts, I thought there was a bootloader called boot123 thought when i googled this nothing came out.

 

All help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks, Francis.

If you happen to have a Gigabyte mb, you may find Cartri's Mac Bios project to be of interest.

http://cartri.net/blog/mac-bios-status-table

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The best bootloader is the one that works with your hardware.

 

I've never had a problem with Chameleon. If the instructions are too hard to follow, the one that comes pre-installed with OSx86 is probably your best bet. If you're dual booting linux, try my guide here

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  • 3 weeks later...

I have the HP Z800, and on Friday I get paid so I was going to buy a 1TB HDD and OS X.

 

Here's the specs of my machine at this time, any upgrades will be based around the current mac pro.

 

CPU: Intel Xeon E5504

Ram: 6GB(going to upgrade to 10 this weekend)

HDD: 1X 1TB. 1X 160GB(this came with the machine)

GPU: ATI FirePro V3700

Motherboard: Server, has 2CPU slots(1336), can support 12-cores(well if theres 2X 1336 based cpus..I unno

 

I recommend if anyone upgrades their machines MAKE sure your using the Mac PRO or any Mac Machine for upgrades, or if your at the highest just wait until 2012 for the next Mac PRO refresh.

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