frozerlaxegon Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 recently, I screwed up my hdd, now it boots with boot0:error and osx is the only partition I have now. Previously, I had windows in it, so I used the Chameleon Windows Installer : http://www.insanelym...howtopic=170079 The problem is, it only installs to the hdd, and not other locations as the OSX chameleon which have the "Install in other locations" so I can install in USB. So ya, currently, I dont have a : -working osx -bootable pendrive that doesnt requires Chameleon. -working windows copy, because I screwed that up, too(Windows wont install in GPT) I need a chameleon installer which I can access from Windows which is also able to install chameleon on USB. Specs : Acer Aspire One ZG5 Doesnt quite fit in the netbook subforum since this is a really general problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 For snow leopard, why not just use a boot CD like bootEFI, rboot, or if you have a distro like iAtkos just use it's boot loader, and instead pick you hard drive to boot at the chameleon menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozerlaxegon Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 For snow leopard, why not just use a boot CD like bootEFI, rboot, or if you have a distro like iAtkos just use it's boot loader, and instead pick you hard drive to boot at the chameleon menu somehow, Acer Aspire One requires Chameleon to boot with, u can't boot directly from the usb with the osx installer. Also, I've downloaded this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201850 And installed it into another drive via VirtualBox. So currently I'm trying to boot via Pendrive A(With Chameleon), so I can choose Pendrive B(With OSX Installer) But when I boot into Pendrive A(which is a success, somehow), I select Pendrive B with iAtkos S3, it says mach_kernel not found, there's somebody with a solution in the topic but it doesn't work. Am I screwed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt35 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 You can install GRUB, it works with OS X ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 All those i mentioned are chameleon based bootloaders, none the less, make sure mach_kernel is present on root of of what you are booting, if it's still an iso disk image on a usb, it will not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sieger007 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I am getting stuck - like being in the middle of a desert. I am trying to install snow leopard on Acer Aspire Zg5. I have an iAtakos v2 s3 .iso image ( or something like that ). I followed this guide http://computersoftwareisyourfriend.blogspot.com/2011/09/preparing-your-installers-for-mac-os-x.html what it says is you use 2 USB drives . 1 For the initial Boot and other one for installing ( w/ iso file extracted) . But it LEAVES at a pt where you are dependent on the USB stick to boot. You cannot boot off the hard drive. HOW do you -- install Snow Leopard with itakos image as above -- without a pre-existing macbook -- without a DVD drive ( purely USB based ) -- Multiboot with XP (not vista or 7 that use the vista bootloader) -- succeed in installed Mac Bootloader on the partitioned hard drive Linux and XP have pre-existed on this laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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