alibabzo Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Another black screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaneee Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Try removing your Graphics card to see if it is the cause of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibabzo Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 It's a laptop with no onboard graphics... I could, but then I wouldn't be able to see the screen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaneee Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 It's a laptop with no onboard graphics... I could, but then I wouldn't be able to see the screen... You may need to get another card that is compatible with Snow Leopard. From what I found your card working in Leopard. You can try this boot file. I added a device property for your card but I can't promise it will work. org.chameleon.Boot.plist.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibabzo Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 No, that doesn't seem to work either. It's time to splash the cash then... sigh. Before, I booted just after I'd restored to the USB drive and it loaded the installer fully, GUI and everything, without finding the hard drive... was that a complete fluke? Just wanting to make sure if I am going to have to buy a whole new graphics card in order to make this work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaneee Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Restored the install image with just bootloader and kernel on? If it worked like that then add the modules folder I sent you to Extra and boot again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibabzo Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 Okay... will try now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibabzo Posted December 22, 2012 Author Share Posted December 22, 2012 I've tried the Chameleon .pkg installer 3 times now and it seems to think I have a Windows partition on the disk, even though the disk has only one partition formatted HFS+. Is there a reason / workaround for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaneee Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Try to reformat it with the setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibabzo Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 I formatted the USB drive NTFS, then restored the disk image. This converted it into an HFS+ filesystem I think. Next, I ran the Chameleon 2.1 r2064 .pkg installer, and this is what I get in the installer log: Chameleon installer log - Sun Dec 23 14:36:20 GMT 2012 Installer version: 2.1svn 2064 ====================================================== /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *161.1 GB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh 160.2 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: iATKOS S3 version 2 *8.0 GB disk1 ====================================================== Backing up Chameleon files Backing up /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1/Extra folder to /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1/Chameleon.Backups/2012-12-23-14h36/Extra ====================================================== Renaming existing com.apple.Boot.plist to org.chameleon.Boot.plist Clearing options... ====================================================== Running Standard postinstall script Target volume = /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1 on /dev/disk1 NOTE: Target has existing unrecognised bootcode in the MBR. Leaving as is. Detected a Windows installation on this volume. ====================================================== Stage 0 loader not written to /dev/di. Written boot1h to /dev/rdisk1. Written boot to /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1 on /dev/disk1. ====================================================== Preparing to check target disk for previous installations. Going to check the EFI system partition also. Checking di. Nothing found that could cause any problems. ====================================================== Windows is installed so that can remain the active partition ====================================================== Standard script complete ====================================================== ====================================================== Running Post postinstall script Target volume = /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1 =============================================== Unmount all volumes named EFI ====================================================== Post postinstall script complete I completely wiped it of everything... how come it thinks I have a Windows install? This worked correctly straight away last time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.O.S Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 try change from bios ati to achi or achi to ati meybe will ok ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibabzo Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 I have an IDE drive. My BIOS doesn't have any option to do with SATA controllers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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