dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Followed the instructions to the letter and when attempting to boot to the USB stick, I get a black screen with blinking cursor. Nothing happens. Tried two different USB sticks, two different OS X discs (both 10.6.0 retail), and even a different D430. What I did was basically this: 1. format & partition USB stick, GUID partition (also tried MBR just to be certain) 2. restore SL DVD onto USB stick 3. install Chameleon onto USB stick 4. extract Extra.zip onto root of USB stick The D430 has the A09 BIOS, if that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 Just to verify if the usb pen is actually able to be booted from.. (yes, those really do exists) Take the pen, and use unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to put a linux livecd on it, and then try and boot he computer from.. Please test that and get back to this thread... ohh ya.. do have an external dvd drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 I have used this exact drive to install Ubuntu and Windows 7. And yes, I do have an external DVD drive if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 what version chameleon? try 665 with installer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 I used the installer for 665 that was on the home page: http://www.osxlatitude.com/groups/d4xosx/wiki/a5841/Creating_a_USB_Installation_pen_with_OSX_for_Dell_Latitudes.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 have you marked the disk partition as active for thumb drive? I think you can use gparted in ubuntu cd.. i did it in windows vista or win 7 using CMD.exe diskpart command Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Don't see that in Gparted. The EFI partition on the USB drive has the "boot" flag on it already. You can only mark a partition as active on fixed MBR disks, according to diskpart. The guide says you must format as GUID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 well is there a extra folder in your efi partition that can be an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Howso? Like I said, I followed the guide. Sounds like the guide is wrong, incomplete, or something else... How did everyone else do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 Hey, The guide is working fine, it have worked fine for atleast 200 other people btw.. did you remember to create a new partition on the usb and set it as GUID instead of MBA ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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