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Old 03-01-2010, 06:18 PM
kizwan kizwan is offline
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Originally Posted by uman View Post
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One thing that drives me crazy, though, is that the vanilla retail scene is changing so rapidly. Are you aware of a recent guide that steps through a retail SL installation? I'd like to use Chameleon RC4, and I *think* I want a hidden EFI partition.

I have Leo installed currently, and I have a new hard drive for SL, and an external USB case.

I think I need to restore the retail DVD to a dmg on my current drive. Then install to the new drive in the USB case. Then install various kexts, Chameleon, my DSDT for SL, and then try booting off the USB drive. If all works, then I swap the drives, and then migrate my data from the old drive.

Does that sound about right?
If it is possible, instead restore retail DVD to a dmg file, why don't you just restore retail DVD to a (new) partition in your current drive using Disk Utility. The size of this partition don't have to be big, 8GB will do (retail DVD size less than 8GB).

Then upgrade your current boot loader to Chameleon 2 RC4. This is how you placed 10.6 kext files without overwriting 10.5 kext files:-
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Extra/10.5/Extensions
Extra/10.5/Extensions.mkext
Extra/10.6/Extensions
Extra/10.6/Extensions.mkext
But I guess you know this already. This way you still can boot to your leo.

Finally, reboot, select "Mac OS X Install DVD" and install Snow Leo to new drive.

For unknow reason, I can't use "boot" file from Chameleon RC4 package. It just stuck after selecting OSX partition. I just replaced the "boot" file from PC EFI 10.6 downloaded from netkas.org.

kizwan

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Last edited by kizwan; 03-01-2010 at 06:24 PM.
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