MacOnVBOX Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Hi everyone, sorry to bother you with this! Expanding on the title of this thread I would like to know if there is a way to create a custom boot disk image or partition, without using a Mac or USB drive. I will use said partition/image to boot from an Oracle VM . I understand that I might be imposing way to many resources limitations, but at the very least I would like to know if it's not possible; currently I don't have access to a Mac nor do I have a 8GB USB at hand. I've read the Chameleon guide but it's not clear how to create a iso image nor if it will work without using a Mac to create the image. I used mkisofs to create some custom images with the necessary patched kernel and boot with them with no success, I really don't know which boot (boot0,boot,cdboot,etc) file should I use to create a bootable image (tried with cd boot but it does not work , I have checked how other more common bootloaders from osx86.net were built but it's the very same image so idk why it does not boot with my self made image). I have also been trying to make a disk partition using the BDU provided in this forum (Using a WinVM ) with no success (I really don't know if there are issues with the kexts file systems or if it's something else) It has been a week since I started with this, so I decided to ask for help, hope you don't mind Thank in advance. Christian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 If you don't have a Mac/Hack and don't have a DVD drive, then you can install OS X in virtual environment (VMware or Virual Box) using an iso image (converted from dmg image). This virtualised OS X would let you do most of the things you could do with physical OS X installation (either Mac or Hackintosh). You can always use a small partition on a HDD to restore OS X installation image to. Same with bootloaders. In fact a HDD can be used instead of an USB key. There are guides how to run OS X in a virtual environment, so have a look at the appropriate section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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