dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Yes. I partitioned the drive with 1 partition, GUID. Did NOT do MBR. Did this all from an old PowerPC iMac we have sitting around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Perhaps this is the problem: 4. Extra the extra.zip that i have attached to later down to the / of the USB drive I extracted the Extra.zip to the root of the MacOS Install USB partition (which adds the files into the pre-existing Extra folder). Does it need to go to the EFI partition instead? Honestly there's something really simple that I'm missing here. I did OSx86 on my old HP Mini 311 netbook and it worked just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 No, it needs to go on the main partition.. i wonder.. if it can be a problem that you have made in on a powermac.. what OS is it running ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 10.5.x. I actually tried it on a Tiger Mac and the Chameleon installer said "needs Leopard or better". I'll go try it on an Intel Mac we have too. *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 life aint easy .. but its worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Started from scratch with an INTEL Mac and it booted the USB drive correctly. Someone should edit the guide to say you must perform it on an Intel Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 i'll edit it a bit later .. enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Many thanks for the suggestions, all. Psyched for the install to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dparm Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Well this is good, the install completed and I rebooted...now I get the same blinking cursor garbage when trying to boot from the HD. What did I miss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted January 25, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 25, 2011 boot from the usb pen, and select the harddrive.. then when you come in, install boot loader to HD, install EDP 1.5rc5 and update via the menu.. and first THEN you can reboot.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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