zedzed Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 When trying to make my drive bootable via the iATKOS install DVD I did the following bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setboot -verbose bless -mount /Volumes/system -setBoot -verbose each time I did this a message came back saying "Dummy Bless Executed!" My boot up still does not work I still get System config file '/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found I also did this Making it boot from the installed Leopard, type the following: fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX (X is where you installed Leopard) update f 1 (there's a space between f & 1) w y (it will ask you a question, just type Y) q (quit) and I still get the blinking cursor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMevan Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Not sure if this helps but the file you talk of in this error is supposed to be in this folder in osx.... osxdrive/library/preferences/system configuration/com.apple.boot.plist so im assuming it might not be there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 I think the path should be /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist It exists on my system ... but the question is - what is a "Dummy Bless"? I have not seen this before and am wondering if it is some error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dense Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Bless has been swapped out with a dummy version (all it does is echo that text and exit). This is because on a hackintosh Bless is useless and has no need to ever been run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Well then why are people still telling people to Bless their drives to boot off them? This is soooooooooooooo confusing! I thought the Apple experience was supposed to be friendly - ha ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dense Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Well then why are people still telling people to Bless their drives to boot off them?This is soooooooooooooo confusing! I thought the Apple experience was supposed to be friendly - ha ha ha Bless only relates to Apple hardware. In the hackintosh world bless has no meaning and is not involved in the boot process. Which is why we replace it and you are seeing dummy bless executed (using a normal bless command would fail and impact the installer). Anyone saying you need to use bless is just misinformed and has not done the appropriate research to understand how hackintosh systems boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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