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Old 02-03-2009, 04:59 AM
foster foster is offline
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Can not and will not format any partitions I am not going to erase data.
The installer scripts should be able to handle an existing Mac OS X install, exactly like Apple does.

Come up with another idea like how to recover previous working Mac OS X on that partition

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Old 02-03-2009, 05:01 AM
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No.

You asked why it's erring on boot.efi, I told you why, it's up to you to figure out what to do at that point, it's not my responsibility.

If you don't want to lose any data, don't use Mac OS X then.

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (9L30) | Chameleon 2.0 RC3 | Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB HyperThread 1MB L2 cache SSE3 1MB L2 cache works, cosmetic display of 512KB L2 cache | Asus P4V8X-MX VIA Chipset, VIA-VT8237 Southbridge | AC97 VIA8237 | Dual 1GB 333Mhz DDR SDRAM | nVidia PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB 8x AGP DVI/TV-Out/VGA [NVinject 0.2.1; QE/CI/QuartzGL/Rotation] | Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Sun Jun 14 20:48:28 IST 2009; Voodoo 2.0 Intel alpha3 :xnu-1228.12.14/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386
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Old 02-03-2009, 05:19 AM
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I use Mac OS X so I dont have Data loss.

My point is this, the installer scripts should be able to handle an existing Mac OS X install just as easily as a blank partition.
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Old 02-03-2009, 05:59 AM
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Well they don't, and for good reason. It's to prevent borking a system that may have conflicts with a "upgrade".

Backup your stuff somewhere else and start fresh.

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (9L30) | Chameleon 2.0 RC3 | Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB HyperThread 1MB L2 cache SSE3 1MB L2 cache works, cosmetic display of 512KB L2 cache | Asus P4V8X-MX VIA Chipset, VIA-VT8237 Southbridge | AC97 VIA8237 | Dual 1GB 333Mhz DDR SDRAM | nVidia PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB 8x AGP DVI/TV-Out/VGA [NVinject 0.2.1; QE/CI/QuartzGL/Rotation] | Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Sun Jun 14 20:48:28 IST 2009; Voodoo 2.0 Intel alpha3 :xnu-1228.12.14/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386
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Old 02-03-2009, 08:14 AM
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I just deleted the System Folder, it installed the final

I didnt apply nforce 1.1 ppf or whatever it is. (the one after 5)
I do not have the looking for root device issue.
So I don't think I need the fix unless it fixes the following:

any DVD will not mount and trying to look at System profiler then Serial ATA or starting Disk Utility to see if it will mount the dvd that way, or even trying to eject the disk via iTunes, or eject icon on menu bar, causes System Profiler, Disk Utilities, iTunes, etc in Force Quit Dialog Box to show up as non responsive, this occurs with any non blank DVD in the drive.

Update: It thinks these DVD's are blank.

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Old 02-06-2009, 01:07 AM
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well, at this point i can only say this distro is Working. the other i've tried are Leo4All and iAtkos.. which didn't work with my AMD box.

this one works , i'm just not getting sound (i choose ALC850, it should be AC97), graphics look sluggish (Geforce 6600 + nvinject kexts.) and i can't get ethernet (choose NforceLan something.) . if someone including distro developers, have a clue on what is affecting my osx86 install performance, and why i'm not getting audio nor ethernet connection please help .

I'm leaving my specs here :

AMD 64 3500+ (skt939) @ 2.5Ghz
ASUS A8N-SLI (NForce4)
ASUS Geforce 6600 TD (256MB Vram)
Nforce4 Onboard Audio (AC97 ?)

SATA & IDE Disks are properlly detected

PS : NICE WORK, we owe.. for life
PS2 : How do you take screenshots with a "Mac" ? i tried ctrl+alt+3 or shif+alt+3 which seems to be the default key bindings... but doesn't work lol :s

peace
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Old 02-10-2009, 04:07 AM
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Success install on my rig !

Success install on my rig !
- Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L (Rev. 1.x) Latest Bios @Gigabyte site
- Samsung DVD IDE & Liteon DVD IDE
- 4GB Memory
- 500GB HDD & 250GB HDD
- XFX Nvidia 8500GS 1024MB
- Intel Core2Duo E8400

Thanks PcWizz!!




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