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