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Chameleon => General Discussion => Topic started by: fabbio on December 08, 2012, 11:40:54 PM

Title: Help to get Chameleon boot ML from a RAID 5 volume on a real MAC
Post by: fabbio on December 08, 2012, 11:40:54 PM

Hi everyone,
I'm one of those guys from the 'real-Mac' dimension who wants to install ML on a dated Mac Pro (MP 1,1 - 2006).
So I've followed the famous Jabbawok's instructions http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 (http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47) and I reached to install 10.8 on an hardware RAID 5 partition (made with 4x SATA disks via a RocketRaid PCI-E board).

Troubles started at the first reboot because Chameleon seems to ignore my RAID partition and doesn't show it on the bootable sources menu either.


My assets:

• Drive "0" where I have three partitions as per instructions ( the "boot" partition with Chameleon, the "installer" with ML home made installer "DVD", and a spare one HFS+ not involved on this process)
• RAID 5 partition (with a PCI-E card, 4xSATA drives)
• an external SATA drive with a "rescue" Lion install where I'm writing from

or...



/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS BOOT                    1.1 GB     disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Installer               16.1 GB    disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Free500                 482.9 GB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                  Apple_HFS EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS PantaRaid               3.0 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot                         650.0 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data BACKUP2                 987.7 GB   disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS eDrive                  12.0 GB    disk2s3




So far I've tried:

• I've made an Extra/Extension folder with ALL the kext I've found on (my RAID ML drive)\System\Library\Extensions
• Built extensions.mkext on /BOOT/Extra
• I have also tried to install "boot0md" on MBR of my boot drive and I upgraded the Chameleon package at the latest one, but, once again, no success so far
• copied boot1h either to disk1s1 and disk2s2
• UserKernelCache makes no difference

And this is my org.chameleon.Boot.plist

<key>Default Partition</key>
   <string>hd(2,2)</string>
   <key>GUI</key>
   <string>No</string>
   <key>Graphics Mode</key>
   <string>1920x1200x32</string>
   <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>ShowInfo</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>Instant Menu</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>Kernel</key>
   <string>mach_kernel</string>
   <key>UseKernelCache</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string>-v rd=uuid boot-uuid=A97C9EAF-E18F-3BE3-80CD-8A8C6FB6E8E7 -force64</string>
   <key>Timeout</key>
   <string>3</string>



Any ideas to make Chameleon see and boot my RAID partition ??
I'm almost hopeless now ....  :'(   :'(

Thanks in advance, Fabbio

Title: Re: Help to get Chameleon boot ML from a RAID 5 volume on a real MAC
Post by: fabbio on December 09, 2012, 10:18:30 AM

Just an update:

Randomly (and I do mean 'randomly'!) Chameleon booted my RAID partition with ML, even if in SAFE mode (and I didn't used -x flag). Problem is, apart from being in safe mode, the raid partition doesn't show yet on the boot menu and its booting was merely a chance.

Please help ... I'm going crazy !!