Got more hdd space, but can't do a 'clean boot'...

[knux]

Because the OS X install from PearPC on top of a Darwin install wasn't very stable for me I went about finding a way to have deadmoo's image use more space.

 

So far I've had deadmoo's image running in vmware, added a new physical 10Gb drive (ironically it's originally from my Xbox), made a single bootable hfs+ partition with fdisk and then used ditto to copy over the deadmoo filesystem to the new disk giving me a 10Gb partition with deamdoo's filesystem to play with. Does all that make sense?

 

The problem I get it that when I boot that new 10Gb disk I get the following message "This hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin/x86. (3)"

 

So I used a bootable darwin x86 cd to boot, and get it to boot my hdd for me with the following parameter:

 

hd(0,0)mach_kernel rd=disk0s1

 

And it boots and runs with the extra space ok

 

My question is how can I get rid of using the darwin cd, why does the deadmoo image boot if I dd it to a disk but not if I copy the filesystem to a new bootable partition? I've patched everything up but I'm using a non SSE3 AMD64. Did deadmoo patch the MBR on the vmware image or something? :S

 

EDIT: No matter I found some other thread where people had done it similar but they installed darwin first, this worked and I guess darwin installs a boot loader

[frixion]

EDIT: No matter I found some other thread where people had done it similar but they installed darwin first, this worked and I guess darwin installs a boot loader

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Mind sharing the link to the other thread? I've had it running perfectly on my system for 3 days now EXCEPT for the 6GB volume limit - it's making me crazy!!

 

Thanks!