shanebohannan Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 I will admit im a noob at this so any help is greatly needed and appreciated. I used OSXlatitude's guide to installing snow leopard from a usb drive, the install works greate and i have no problem with the install and no problems booting as long as i keep my usb drive pluged into the usb port of the computer. With that all being said i have downloaded chameleon-v2.0-RC5-r665.pkg and installed on the hard drive in the same way that i installed on the usb drive. OSX starts to load and sits for about 30 seconds or so then tells me i need to restart and never goes any farther on boot. i am in the process of installing snow again and would love to have it boot from the hard drive so i can not walk around with the thumb drive to start the computer. Shane Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Visit the voodooprojects forum and read the Chameleon documentation. 2.0 RC5 is obsolete now, RC is short for "Release Candidate", which means that it is older than the final release of Chameleon 2.0. And Chameleon is at 2.1 now. Chameleon by itself is not enough to boot OS X on a PC. You need to have at least fakesmc.kext in /Extra/Extensions and most PCs require more than that. Check smbios.plist, com.apple.Boot.plist and whatever else is on your USB drive. Because you followed a general guide there might even be stuff on your USB drive that you don't need. Experiment with various settings and files, until it works you will still be able to boot with your USB drive. I took the liberty of editing your topic title so that it matches with the contents. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/#findComment-1765261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanebohannan Posted October 27, 2011 Author Share Posted October 27, 2011 Thank you for editing my topic as well. ok i will keep trying to find the what works but my i guess what my question is, how to i boot after installing a boot loader? example of one installed http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=203728 yes i know this is a dell walk through and im trying to get an ibm thinkpad working but the OS is working as it should and boots as long as i have my external drive in. once i install a boot loader the apple logo appears for about 30 seconds and then i get a "you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button untill it turns off, then press the pwer button again. up to now i have just been reinstalling sl to get the machine to boot again, is there any way around this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/#findComment-1765273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 It's like I said, you need to add certain kernel extensions and configuration settings as well, the boot loader by itself is not enough. Except for fakesmc.kext, what you need depends on your hardware. For example; With Chameleon, I can boot 10.6.8 with only fakesmc.kext in /Extra/Extensions if I add npci=0x2000 to kernel flags in /Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist (that would be com.apple.Boot.plist to you because you are using RC5) but then I don't have working graphics acceleration, sound, ethernet, sleep or CPU power management. This is on a P45 Express/ICH10R motherboard with a Core 2 Duo CPU. Still one of the most compatible platforms for a reliable Hackintosh, it was handpicked for this purpose after successfully installing OS X on several less-compatible motherboards and lots of reading. Because I am not familiar with it, I can't tell you exactly what you need to do to get your hardware to work. up to now i have just been reinstalling sl to get the machine to boot again, is there any way around this? That's odd, you should still be able to boot with your USB flash drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/#findComment-1765299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanebohannan Posted October 27, 2011 Author Share Posted October 27, 2011 from everything that i have read that is what i was thinking was it was odd that it will not boot even from the usb drive. if i remember right, this was about 10 installs ago, when trying to boot from the hard disk and i get an error, powering off putting in the usb drive, the only thing i see is the apple log with the spinning pen wheel at the bottom. Also from what i see on the post that i used to create the usb drive, it has a boot loader and an extras folder, if i install the boot loader and the extras folder to the root of the hard drive it should act just as the usb drive does. if that is so if i go to my hard disk (label OS X) and drop the extra folder there is that the root of the drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/#findComment-1765322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 when trying to boot from the hard disk and i get an error, powering off putting in the usb drive, the only thing i see is the apple log with the spinning pen wheel at the bottom. Boot with -v (verbose mode) to see error messages. Also from what i see on the post that i used to create the usb drive, it has a boot loader and an extras folder, if i install the boot loader and the extras folder to the root of the hard drive it should act just as the usb drive does. Yes, if the configuration is the same it should work the same, unless you are doing something wrong like not installing the boot loader correctly, or your hard drive is a 4k sector drive. Chameleon has issues with those. if that is so if i go to my hard disk (label OS X) and drop the extra folder there is that the root of the drive? This type of terminology question is the easiest kind to find answers for by a quick google search. Much quicker than posting in a forum and waiting for someone to answer. I'll save you some time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_directory http://www.linfo.org/root_directory.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/#findComment-1765344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanebohannan Posted October 28, 2011 Author Share Posted October 28, 2011 Gringo Vermelho, Thank you for your help on my boot problem, sometimes as a network admin/computer tech you just have to talk things out loud to be able to understand what the problem is. To correct my problem i installed the bootloader and the extra folder from the install instructions to the local hard disk, once that was done i compaired the extra folder looking to see if there was any difference, i found there was 2 files missing on the hard drive that was causing the problem, one was the com.apple.Boot.plist file, once the machine was restarted it boots as it should. Thank you so much for the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/271145-snow-leopard-booting-from-hard-drive/#findComment-1765579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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