leonc Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I have a Hackintosh I've been using for about six months and it worked flawlessly. It was a Snow Leopard install that self updated at least to 10.6.5, and may have gotten to 10.6.6 -- I'm not 100% sure. Sleeping, rebooting, everything worked great. The guide I used for my hardware purchase and install was this Life Hacker guide http://lifehacker.com/#!348653/install...acking-required and http://lifehacker.com/#!321913/build-a...c-for-under-800 I followed it to the letter. Two days ago my 8 year old did a power button reboot on the machine. I wasn't here, so I can't be entirely sure what happened. But what I can be sure of is that when the machine tries to boot I get the dreaded boot0: GPT boot0: testing boot0: testing boot0: error problem. I can't get it to boot from the hard drive, and I can't even get it to boot from the install disk. I am using the BIOS interrupt to boot from the DVD player with the retail install disk of Snow Leopard and I get the same error. I went so far as to unplug the hard disk from power and from the controller and attempted to boot from the install disk and got the same error. I don't _think_ it is a hardware problem as I can boot from an Ubuntu install disk just fine. Any pointers or pointed questions would be very appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 You can't boot a "Hackintosh" straight from an OS X install disk. You need a bootloader eg chameleon based boot disc. try '[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]". If you can boot into the hard drive with a bootCD ([url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]), then reinstall "Chameleon" to the hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonc Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 You can't boot a "Hackintosh" straight from an OS X install disk. You need a bootloader eg chameleon based boot disc. try '[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]". If you can boot into the hard drive with a bootCD ([url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]), then reinstall "Chameleon" to the hard drive. Good point, and thanks for the tip. I downloaded [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], burned it to a DVD, and tried to boot from it. Same error: boot0: GPT boot0: testing boot0: testing boot0: error What should I try next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Try different boot cd's I guess. nawcom comes to mind. Did you not have a boot disc for the original install! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonc Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 Try different boot cd's I guess. nawcom comes to mind. Did you not have a boot disc for the original install! Well, I'm a dork. I actually used this guide for a retail install, and no, I didn't keep the USB stick I booted from. I'm attempting to recreate now, but I'm also wondering if I could/should use an enclosure and put chameleon on the drive that is failing to see if that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstansfield Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Chameleon should work just fine for you. However if you're getting the same error when trying to boot from a boot cd like [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], Chameleon may give you the same error. I would recreate the usb stick that worked for you on install to get the system booted again and then install/reinstall Chameleon once it's started and hopefully that will fix your problem. Did you ever have a boot loader like Chameleon installed or did you just install with the USB stick and then never shut it off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonc Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 Chameleon should work just fine for you. However if you're getting the same error when trying to boot from a boot cd like [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], Chameleon may give you the same error. I would recreate the usb stick that worked for you on install to get the system booted again and then install/reinstall Chameleon once it's started and hopefully that will fix your problem. Did you ever have a boot loader like Chameleon installed or did you just install with the USB stick and then never shut it off? I used _this_ guide to recreate a USB boot/install image and I was able to boot it up. http://lifehacker.com/#!5360150/instal...acking-required I then used the dmg that installs Chameleon to reinstall it on the HD on the hackintosh and it works. So, a long cycle to get to "reinstall chameleon", which worked. Thanks to all who helped. And I'll be keeping that USB drive around for future needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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