micahfaulkner75

Just wanted everyone to know...

...I'm fully up and running now! 

I have the new wifi card, and that's working, and I have the audio going. Thanks so much, everyone, for all your help!

Micah

Not me. I'm following the guide as close to the letter as I can. I've gone through it about six times and was about to give up and try Mavericks...when I saw this guy's post about two partitions...so I thought, "What the hey?"

So I did it and it worked.

I'll chalk it up to the mysterious "reboot fixes the computer" sort of explanation if necessary...but I'm frankly at a loss. Doesn't seem like it should do anything. 

Okay, so all is well...

Now I'm trying to tinker it up. Is there a way to make the computer boot directly to the Macintosh HD drive?

When it boots up, I see these things:

1) the Dell splash screen (okay, but I'd like to hide this too like a real Mac)

2) black screen with a brief spattering of white text in the top left corner (would like this to just be a pale blue screen if possible like a Mac)

3) gray Bootcampy launch screen with Macintosh HD partition and little arrow beneath it. This is, especially, what I'd like to "fix."  Is there a way to set Chameleon, Dell, or Yosemite preferences to just skip this screen and boot directly into that one partition? I have nowhere else for it to load from anyway.

Thanks!

Micah

As I said in the Installation forum...I succeeded at installing.

Formatted the HDD as 2 partitions, one GUID journaled, the other as GUID Fat32.

The install went normal after ward and then I just resized the partition. So strange.

Okay, I'm doing that.

Out of curiosity...what did that do in Terminal?

Dear Hervé et al,

 

I've gone through the whole setup a second time with the same results. I then downloaded Chameleon 2.3, loaded it to my install drive, and still face the same issues.

Without the USB disk in, I get:

No Boot Device Found. Press any key to reboot the machine.

If I press F12 and select internal HDD, I get:

Selected boot device failed.

 

Press any key to reboot.

I can boot from the USB drive and it will show the E6410Y disk...but will not boot from the Macintosh HD when I select it, but get the old:
 

Can't find /System/Library/Kernels/Kernel

Can't find mach_kernel

Press a key to continue..

I don't see any way to do a manual bootloader entry or prompt. 

I opened up org.chameleon.Boot.plist and it says that the string for the Kernel Flags is /System/Library/Kernels/kernel kext-dev-mode=1...

...but I don't see an entry for Kernel itself...and don't seem to be able to modify the file manually with textedit. 

I opened up com.apple.Boot.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and it says:

<key>Kernel Flags>/key>
<string></string>

I feel so close...like I'm on the verge of doing it right...but am stumped by my ignorance. Can anyone point me towards a detailed guide on how to do these manual bootloader directions?

Thanks in advance!

Micah

Thanks! It's on its way!

I'm a noob, so please bear with me if this question is dumb...

...but my machine came with a non-compatible wifi card in it (the Centrino one). 

Can I just buy this one (http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-DW1520-BCM4322-Wireless-AGN-Half-MINI-PCI-E-Broadcom-BCM943224HMS-WIFI-Card-/250914640818?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6bad93b2) and plop it in to make it work?

Or do wifi cards not work that way?

How do you point a boot loader at a new kernel location? 

I'm working through the patel4prez tutorial and running into a similar problem: the OS seems installed, but when I boot without the flash drive, it gives me:

"No Boot Device Found. Press any key to reboot the machine."

If I boot from the USB, then select Macintosh HD as the drive to load, I get the kernel error described above, but mine goes:

Can't find /System/Library/Kernels/Kernel

Can't find mach_kernel

Press a key to continue...

I can choose to boot from the USB E6410Y and it will load OSX right up.