justroach Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I am trying to install 10.9 onto a RAID-1. I have created a bootable thumbdrive that has worked for several installs already. I boot from this, open Disk Utility, create the array and then go back and install onto the array. Everything goes smoothly until I reboot. I cannot get a bootloader (latest Chameleon and some older 2.2s or Ch**era) to recognize the volume. Has anyone been able to do this? I have followed multiple posts to write MBRs, etc. to both drives with no luck. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
envoy510 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I'm having the same issue. Did you solve the problem? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
envoy510 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 To be more specific, I used Diskutil to make the array and install Mavericks on it. When I reboot into the new OS I get "can't find /mach_kernel".The BIOS has the two SSDs at the top of the boot order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
envoy510 Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Solved: Get a Terminal in either the installer or regular boot, doesn't matter. Just make sure, with "diskutil list" that disk0 and disk1 are the elements of the RAID 1 array. # newfs_hfs -v EFI /dev/disk0s1 # newfs_hfs -v EFI /dev/disk1s1 # mkdir /Volumes/EFI # mkdir /Volumes/EFI2 # mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI # mount_hfs /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/EFI2 # cd /Volumes/USB/usr/standalone/i386 # fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0 # fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk1 # dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 # dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s1 # cp boot /Volumes/EFI/ # cp boot /Volumes/EFI2/ # umount /Volumes/EFI/ # umount /Volumes/EFI2/ # fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 <<EOF p f 1 w y quit EOF # fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 <<EOF p f 1 w y quit EOF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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