We've already shown you how to use Virtualbox to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Lion on virtual machines in Windows, since it's great practice for. FlashBoot is a tool to make USB thumbdrives bootable: install fully-functional Windows 8 to USB, convert Windows installation DVD to USB and many more. It focuses on how to get up and running with OS X quickly and easily utilizing the my. Hack application. For questions not covered in this document, please join us in the Forum or on IRC.
Generic -Multi-Card USB Device last downloaded: 15.5.2017 - 2017 version. Download driver: Generic -Multi-Card USB Device - driver.The fine folks at VisionTek have supplied us with their brand-spanking new GeForce3 card today. The GeForce3 really needs no introduction, as I'm sure by now most of. Unibeast: Unibeast is a free Mac program that modifies the official OS X El Capitan installer, and writes it onto a USB drive. You can then use this Unibeast USB. IHackintosh guide to install OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 in a virtual machine with VMware, Windows 7 host. After spending hundred’s of man hour poking around the. Basic Requirements: For Mavericks you will need the Install OS X Mavericks. Install. ESD. dmg from it. For Mountain Lion you will need the Install OS X Mountain Lion. Install. ESD. dmg from it. For Lion you will need the Install OS X Lion. Install. ESD. dmg from it. For Snow Leopard you will need a Snow Leopard Retail DVD or a DMG of it. An External Hard Drive or Flash Drive w/ at least 8. GB of space. You will also need access to an x. PPC is not supported) that is currently running OS X 1. OS X virtual machine). Note: An internal drive can be used as well but keep in mind any drive you use will have the chameleon bootloader installed on it – it is best to use a drive which is physically independent of your actual OS X installation. In the event that something goes horribly wrong with your actual OS X installation the my. Hack OS X install disk you have prepared will prove to be an invaluable tool with which you can repair your OS X installation and get it working again. Hardware Requirements: A system capable of running a “vanilla” OS X kernel. Core i. 3 processors are only supported by the vanilla kernel on OS X 1. LGA2. 01. 1 chipsets with “Sandy Bridge- E” processors are only supported by the vanilla kernel on OS X 1. The 5xx and 6xx series has only begun to really work properly with in OS X 1. Mountain Lion. 6xx and 7xx work the best in OS X 1. Mavericks, no Graphics. Enabler is required and you will benefit from the OGL improvements apple has made to Mavericks. The further back you go in OS X versions, the fewer of the cards I listed will work.*. The 6. 9xx series ATI graphics cards appear to be working on ML, but they did not work on Snow Leopard or Lion. Mavericks.*. Note: HD4. OS X 1. 0. 8+ and HD3. OS X 1. 0. 7+. If your graphics does NOT work out of the box or with chameleon’s Graphics. Enabler one of the best resources for more information on graphics card support for OS X is netkas’ blog. Also feel free to ask on the Forum or IRC.*. Even brand new 2. You can usually get ps. HID’s working by using Apple. ACPIPS2. Nub. kext+Apple. PS2. Controller. kext (these are now included in the Generic Extra supplied with my. Hack 3+). Some other users are not so lucky and will need to resort to other solutions. Section 1: Installation. Step 1 – Create OS X 1. Installer. Make sure that the internal/external stick/drive that you will be creating the OS X installer on is mounted and it has an empty HFS+ formatted partition of at least 8. GB in size on it. You can partition and format it using Disk Utility, under Applications/Utilities. The partition scheme may be either “GUID Partition Table” (GPT) or “Master Boot Record” (MBR). If you are creating a Snow Leopard installer make sure that you have inserted the retail DVD or mounted the dmg image of it prior to proceeding. If you are creating a Lion or Mountain Lion installer make sure that you have downloaded the Install OS X (Mountain) Lion. Install. ESD. dmg from it, somewhere on your filesystem. If you haven’t already done so, download the my. Hack dmg (the link is above in the basic requirements section). Mount it and drag the my. Hack app to Applications to install it or double click to run from the dmg itself. Run the my. Hack. Hack will ask you to enter your administrative password, enter your password and proceed to the next step, the password will only be stored in your system memory it is not recorded, stored, or transmitted anywhere. Note: if the user account you are running my. Hack on does not have authorization to use “sudo” you will need to logout and run again from an authorized administrative account with access to the “sudo” command. Select your install type – Create OS X Installer > Create OS X 1. Install Disk, Create OS X 1. Install Disk, or Create OS X 1. Install Disk for Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard respectively. Select the target volume – this should be the internal/external stick/drive that you will be creating the OS X installer on. Hack will now attempt to locate the installation source. If this is for a Snow Leopard installer it will look under /Volumes/ for a Snow Leopard install DVD or mounted dmg – if this is for a Mountain Lion or a Lion Installer it will prompt you if you want to have my. Hack attempt to locate it for you or browse manually (I suggest using browse only if search does not locate it) – if you choose to browse it will accept the location of Install OS X (Mountain) Lion. Install. ESD. dmg. Hack will then prompt you to warn you that all data on the target you selected will be erased. Once you press ok it will ERASE all data on the target volume you selected and copy the OS X installation files to it. Note: If the file copy progress appears to be stalled, don’t worry, the progress bar can only calculate based on files completely transferred – large files may take a while to completely transfer to the destination prior to the progress being reported. Also if it appears to be transferring slowly, remember that the speed of transfers will be limited only by the speed of the device – some USB sticks and SD cards are very slow. After all files have been transferred it will automatically install Chameleon, my. Hack utilities, a Generic Extra, and make all necessary modifications to the installer. That is it, assuming you followed the steps correctly (the app is rather foolproof, assuming you have read and followed these simple instructions) you may now reboot, select the device that contains the my. Hack OS X Install Disk at your bios boot prompt, and boot to your installer! Wasn’t that easy? Step 2 – BIOS Setup. This is just a quick/general checklist, if you can not find these values in your bios ignore them for the time being unless you run into a problem: Ensure you have your SATA controllers in AHCI mode. Ensure you have enabled your CPU’s C states. Ensure you have HPET set to 6. Disable any devices you do not intend to use (extra SATA, Firewire, etc). If you have a UEFI system, ensure that you boot in legacy (bios boot) mode. Step 3 – OS X Installation. Assuming everything is configured properly for your system you should be able to boot to your USB device and be greeted by the OS X installer. This part is just like any typical OS X Installation, click on the language you want to use, go to the utilities menu, open disk utility, partition and/or erase the device you want to install OS X on, exit disk utility and then proceed with the OS X installation. Note: If you can not select your drives or you see nothing but the USB drive, go into your bios and ensure that your SATA device is running in AHCI mode. Alternatively you can try to install an IOATAFamily. SATA (and even some PATA) devices without the need for AHCI but it is not recommended. In the last two minutes or so of the OS X installation a series of growl- like notifications and dialogs will prompt you. This is my. Hack running it’s post installation functions. Hack will prompt you if you would like to install the generic Extra & Extensions bundled with my. Hack or if you would like to supply your own. Using your own is particularly useful if you already have a finely tuned OS X installation – you can simply provide the Extra of your choosing and it will migrate it properly for you. The generic bundle will boot most vanilla systems perfectly, but does NOT contain any extensions for audio/ethernet/acpi/ata/etc or dangerous DSDT “auto patchers”. After installation completes you should be ready to reboot your system without using the my. Hack OS X Install Disk. Reboot the system with the internal drive that you just installed OS X on. Congratulations, If all went well you now have a functional OS X operating system running on your system! Step 4 – First Boot. Go ahead and go through the initial OS X configuration, I tend to advise against using migration assistant, unless you are absolutely certain it was a completely clean installation. There are a number of reasons for this that I may write about later. Step 5 – Post Install. This is the section where I used to have instructions on running tools within my. Hack for post installation, but now that it’s done during OS X installation about the only thing to say here is this is where you begin your journey (if you did not already have a perfectly tuned extra for your system) and find the extensions you need to get the rest of your system working perfectly. For help in this portion of your journey, I suggest you join us in the Forum or on IRC. Important Note for OS X 1. OS X 1. 0. 8 Installs: If you do not have an smbios. Extra/ made for your system, based on the mac model which your system most closely resembles, several things will not function correctly (Appstore/Facetime/i. Cloud /Intel HD Graphics/etc for example) and the system may not boot at all (You may receive a kernel panic related to Apple. Policy. Control if you have not removed it). The solution is to create an smbios. Extra/ – if you need help figuring out how to create one feel free to ask in the Forum or on IRC. Section 2: Basic Troubleshooting. What I am placing here is primarily for common issues faced when booting OS X Installers or first boot of an installed OS X system using the Generic Extra bundled with my. Hack. It does not cover the many issued that can be faced during post installation when using additional Extras. For help with problems not covered here I suggest you join us in the Forum or on IRC. When I say “Boot with . You will see the chameleon boot menu and prompt by pressing any key at the first chameleon screen you see. Symptom: The system fails to boot but I don’t know why. Resolution: Boot with - v and watch carefully to determine at which point the system is failing. Note: When trying any of the suggestions below it is best to add the - v flag each time until the system is booting correctly, this is the most used of all boot flags. A BIOS to UEFI Transformation. Originally written: 6/2. I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying. I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a. Thanks! Donate $1. Donate $2. 5. 0Donate $5. Donate $1. 0. 0. 0Donate another amount. You've heard of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and the Unified. EFI (UEFI), and you're curious. Perhaps you're even desperate: You know. UEFI is the key to booting Windows on a disk larger than 2 Ti. B, but. your computer uses the old- style Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). Perhaps. you're in- between: You're fed up with the Master Boot Record (MBR). Windows to boot from a new GUID. Partition Table (GPT) disk on your BIOS- based computer. In any of these. cases, you may be interested in exploring a way to turn a BIOS- based. UEFI. This. article outlines how to do this, beginning with some background. Be aware that the tools and techniques I describe on this Web page are. The software might not work at all; in fact, it. The software works more reliably on Intel CPUs. AMD models. If you do get it working, it's likely to be at the cost. It won't work as well as a real. UEFI- based computer, so if you've got the cash, you're better off upgrading. UEFI. If it sounds like I'm trying to. Following the advice on. If you're technically inclined. One final caveat: I'm a Linux person, and some of the preparatory tools. Linux. If you don't know Linux, you can. Linux. on an optical disc or USB flash drive (I offer some specific. Bridging the Gap. UEFI is the next generation of firmware for PCs. Macs already use the. EFI, and most motherboards and computers. UEFI—even many that aren't. UEFI, although they often use a BIOS compatibility. The answer is to use a disk- loaded UEFI. Developer's UEFI Environment. DUET; or sometimes UEFI DUET). This software is a real. UEFI implementation that can be booted like an OS from a. Once it's in control, DUET provides typical UEFI. UEFI- based boot loaders and OSes. This sounds straightforward. DUET has historically been used by UEFI developers; it's not. Most importantly, it's available in source. Sourceforge Web page, but easy- to- install binary packages have been. This doesn't prevent you from installing an OS. El Torito boot files to boot with DUET, and some may fail to boot. This is true of the Windows 7 installation disc. This happens with the laptop computer on which I did. If you run into this problem. OS boot files to a USB flash. OS installation. The software has. USB flash drives, but. Some, such as Linux, can be fairly easily set up to boot. Others, such as Windows, have awkward conversion. Most importantly, it's really. In fact, it doesn't start up properly even on some x. In tests on five x. I managed to get one. It may just be coincidence, but the two computers. Intel CPUs, whereas the two that worked. AMD CPUs. Windows can install pretty. UEFI, but support in Linux is spotty (but improving). I. haven't tried Free. BSD yet, but I understand it's got pretty weak UEFI. Really, your best reason for running DUET is to use. Windows or a Windows/Linux dual- boot. I don't cover them here.). Because of these limitations, I recommend proceeding slowly with DUET. If it doesn't, you can. If DUET boots, you should do a test installation or. That way. if you run into problems, you'll know what they are and can either learn. OS. installations. There are several ways to configure a computer to use DUET. You can. use it for some or all of your computer's OSes. For instance, you might use. DUET to boot Windows from a GPT disk, but leave Linux booting in BIOS. GPT disk even on a BIOS- based computer. If you. use it to boot Windows, you should be aware that Windows must be installed. GPT disk when you use UEFI (including DUET)—but that may be. DUET! If you have more than one disk, you can mix. GPT and MBR disks. So, are you ready to proceed? You'll have to download several items. All. of them are open source software, with the exception of Windows if you. The list is: SYSLINUX—This. DUET. The download package includes both source code and binaries.). SYSLINUX resides in the MBR, meaning that it's the first boot loader to. In fact, several other boot loaders can be substituted for. SYSLINUX, and if you want DUET to be just one method you use for. GRUB. Boot. Duet installs in a partition boot record. PBR)—that is, at the start of a disk partition. This link is a source code. The DUET package described next includes compiled. Boot. Duet binaries in its Boot. Sector subdirectory, so you don't really. Boot. Duet separately. This link also includes the Boot. Duet code and various. If you don't know much about Linux, you'll. You can use a Linux emergency disc, such as Parted Magic,System Rescue CD, or RIP. Linux, to do the Linux- specific tasks. I used version Parted Magic. Since then, the Parted. Magic maintainers have changed to a date- based numbering scheme. It's also possible to install DUET without using Linux at. Linux- only script. Without. duet- install, you'll need to read the documentation for. SYSLINUX, Boot. Duet, and DUET and install each package manually. Among the. numerous Linux distributions I've tried on DUET and . Windows, as noted. UEFI system. Be sure to get a. OS, though. One of the limitations of UEFI is. OS. on a 6. 4- bit CPU; and because there are few 3. UEFI implementations. OS vendors support UEFI installation in their. OSes. Certainly Microsoft doesn't. Most desktop and laptop PCs. Experimenting in this way is risky, though, so I recommend. A USB flash drive or similar external. DUET, which consumes only about. Mi. B, but if a preliminary test with DUET alone is successful. OS, and you'll need more space for. This is especially true if DUET fails to detect discs. OS fails to boot from it. Some OS. installers will fit on a 4 GB or even a 1 GB drive, but others may. GB of space. You leave one computer untouched and use another one, with no. You can use the main. DUET configurations as OS installers on. USB flash drives, which you then use on the test computer. When you. find something that works, you can install DUET on the test computer. USB flash drives from the equation. If you've got just one. Parted Magic disc to set up the spare hard disk directly. If you like virtual machines, you might be tempted to use one for. This may work with some, but I've had no luck with DUET and. Virtual. Box. This isn't so bad, really, since Virtual. Box has its own UEFI. It can't boot Windows, though. I don't know how DUET. VMWare, QEMU, or other virtual environments. The following instructions assume that you've got a computer with a. If. this is your regular computer and you're using a spare disk for testing. Burn Parted Magic to a blank CD- R. It should extract into its own directory. If you're using a. Linux installation, you can instead install its own SYSLINUX. It should extract into its. They'll only confuse matters, and may be at risk of. If you want to. do an initial install of DUET to a USB flash drive, though, you. At the boot loader menu, select. The resulting window. Figure 1. GParted is a flexible Linux partitioning tool. If your computer has more than one hard disk or if you have any. A. dialog box appears. Heed the warning in the dialog box; if your disk has. Cancel and rethink your plan. Note. that it is possible to convert a disk from MBR to GPT form. GPT fdisk (gdisk. Experimenting. with DUET on your hard disk is risky, so try such a conversion. OS. I don't describe such conversions on this. To prepare a disk for UEFI use, it's best if. GPT disk. Click Apply to create a new GPT on the disk. You'll see a Create New Partition dialog box, as in Figure. You'll now create an ESP that will both hold your DUET software. ESP for the UEFI and your installed OSes. GParted enables you to enter new partition. Set the New Size (Mi. B) field to something between 1. Make it. on the large side of this range if you expect to install multiple Linux. ELILO or the kernel's EFI stub loader, since then. Linux kernels on the ESP. For most other. purposes, something between 1. Mi. B and 2. 00 Mi. B should be fine. If you. change the value by typing it, click in another space field to be sure. Note that Windows 7 requires FAT3. FAT1. 6, in its ESP, so be sure to get the FAT type right! This will show up in. Your new partition will appear in the display, but it won't. GParted displays a dialog box. Apply. After a moment, you should see a. It. will probably be /dev/sda. If there's a triangle with an exclamation. GParted just can't detect the filesystem, but. A. dialog box like the one in Figure 4 will appear. GParted identifies the ESP by the 'boot'. Select the . The two concepts aren't very closely related. GParted developers. As a general rule, it's best to let the OS. This opens an LXTerminal window. Figure 5. LXTerminal is Parted Magic's command prompt. Type ls /dev/sd* in the LXTerminal window. If you've got just one disk, it will. Take note of the disks and. You should see the. The whole- disk device. USB flash drive. If there's a. If there's no partition entry, it. If. you get an error message, you may need to experiment or get help. If. you're using a disk other than Parted Magic, you may need to select a. The. - m option tells the script to install SYSLINUX, and. SYSLINUX binaries exist. Review. this information and, if it seems OK, type Y at the. Do you want to continue (Y/N)? You can now remove the. Logout from the menu that pops up from the lower- left corner of the. When you reboot, the computer should go through it's usual BIOS startup. If you installed to a USB flash drive, you may have to press F1. F1. 2, or some other function key to get to the boot device selection screen. When this is done. WELCOME TO EFI WORLD and/or a. Tianocore logo. You're likely to then see a UEFI menu, similar to the one. Figure 6. The main DUET screen shows a number of. This menu is confusing to the uninitiated, but the most important item. Boot Maintenance Manager. Select this item, followed.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
November 2017
Categories |