New HFS+ boot volume

[ajr]

Hi there, I'm having problems with my Hackintosh,

 

Anyone know how how to install the Darwin Bootloader onto a disk? I installed JaS 10.4.8 on my AMD (nForce 4) using a PATA drive I had lying around, and now I want to swap to my larger, faster SATA one...

 

This is what I've done:

• Installed JaS 10.4.8 (WOOT!)
  
• Added the nForce4SATA kexts from here (worked like a charm, thanks bikedude!)
  
• Partitioned the SATA drive in Disk Utility, (boot: 65Gb, data: 400Gb, all HFS+), all mount no problem
  
• Duplicate my old PATA -> new SATA HDD using SuperDuper! (also tried CCC)
  
• Boot using Hiren's Boot CD 8.9 (from tpb ), marked partition as 'active'
  
• Reboot, selected SATA disk in BIOS to boot from: system freezes, no Darwin Bootloader
  
• Reboot, tried booting from PATA, but entering new drive as root volume (rd=disk0s1) at the prompt - WORKS!
  

So I've got a new SATA drive with no Darwin Bootloader on it

 

I've tried using 'fdisk -u /dev/disk0s1', and even creating an old style 8Mb 'boothfs' partition in front but no joy (this gave me a 'HFS+ Partition Error').

 

Anyone have any ideas!??

[Robbeke]

No an idea how to do it but I would just reinstalll 10.4.8 on the bigger disk, boot in it and use Disk Utility to restore the SuperDuper .dmg of the old disk so it will restore the OS and since you will have a working bootloader.... it should work

[ajr]

Hi,

 

I initially installed to the PATA drive as I was having no luck at all with installing to the SATA, no drivers on the DVD for nForce4 chipsets and SATA drives

 

I *could* patch my JaS install DVD to include the drivers and reinstall that way...

 

 

...but I'd like this way to work then I have a backup to break with a 10.4.9 update!