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Old 01-30-2008, 09:04 PM
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Quote:
Puttabong's step by step for GUID+EFI

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boot with the dvd

open a terminal and type

diskutil list

diskutil unmount /dev/diskXsY

cd /volumes/"YourVolumeNameHere"/pc_efi_v80

umount -f /dev/diskXsY

./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1

diskutil unmount /dev/diskX

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1
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Here's another tutorial for EFI, which works for amd AND intel:
http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2520

diskutil list

diskutil unmount diskXsY

cd /Volumes/bootloader/pc_efi_v80

./startupfiletool /dev/diskXsY ./boot_v8

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/diskXsY bs=512 count=1

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1
there is a difference between Puttabong and the other guid: the one make rdisk the other one only disk
whats right now?

@Puttabong: u were right, there is a difference between Master and Slave on Sata! the board is looking for the right connectivity and switch between master/slave. i'm definitely on master now!
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Old 01-30-2008, 09:05 PM
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Puttabong;
Will EFI be installed automatically with Rev 2, or will it be an optional install at boot time? Also, does it really make a big difference to smoothness and stability? I personally feel that Leopard doesn't quite seem as 'solid' on my x86 hardware as it does with my other, lower powered PPC Macs.

MacBook Pro 15" | Mac OS X 10.6 2 GHz Intel Core Duo 2 GB DDR2-667 ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 128 MB 100 GB Serial-ATA
Hackintosh | Mac OS X 10.5.6 3 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ MSI K9N AM2 2 GB DDR2-667 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB ALC888 Audio 300 GB Serial-ATA
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Old 01-30-2008, 09:36 PM
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Puttabong, any comments to my previous post, the difference between the 2 guides?
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Old 01-30-2008, 10:50 PM
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R0GUE, it's optional, you can choose EFI during the install process, but I'd recommend it.
I have experienced much better system performance with EFI. I know the reason why.

With the use of EFI, RC2 is able to use the apple stock kernel and kexts, and they work very well
together, as they are concerted. Selecting GUID + EFI and the proper chipset and graphic
settings, will give many systems a perfect out of the box install.

Also, read some other posts about EFI that I posted into the Discussions, I think I was talking about
improvements compared to PCBIOS.
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Old 01-30-2008, 11:19 PM
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Original by Netkas (about GUID)

Code:
 Fixed version
This arcticle will describe how to use guid partition table for OSX on your machine.
Making bootable guid:

1) get a harddrive and format it using Disk utility, use guid partition disk. Make as
much partitions as u want.
and OSX can be installed to any partition under 2TB on disk.
On guid disk u can have up to 128 partitions .
bootloader will boot first hfs+ type partition.
After u created partition, choose your drive in disk utility, press Info, and
remember value for disk identifier

e.g. if it disk2  - then X = 2 (X will be used later)

For all commands use root account
After it, go to terminal and type diskutil list
find there your guid drive
and find there device name for first hfs+ partition
e.g.

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *55.9 Gi disk1
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS OSX 10.0 Gi disk1s2
# is your Y, so in this case, Y = 2, remember it

Now umount  your diskXsY partition (umount -f /dev/diskXsY ), did u forget your X or Y ? (look above if so).

cd to/folder/where/you/unpacked/pc_efi_v80/

./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1

now unmount all partitions on your guid drive (with disc utility e.g.)

imortant step(PRIVET)

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1

your guid drive should be ready for booting now
reboot and try to boot from yout guid drive (with choosing bootable hard drive in bios e.g.)

if it boots and shows  /com.apple.boot.plist couldn’t be found - or smth like that, then it’s installed correct

if you doesn’t see any messages on such boot - repeat step PRIVET, or make this step from linux system,

using another drive name for of=
Migration step

U can also migrate with any utility u want(maybe, using another way to migrate,
u will have to repeat steps with installing boot1/boo0/pc_efi_v8 ), or u can just
install new leopard on fuid-ready disk(it will requires repeating bootlaoders installing
steps. here is simple example of migrating.
now boot your osx again,
and using root account make this

cp -Rfp /Volumes/MYOLDLEO/* /Volumes/MYNEWLEO/

where MYOLDLEW is name of partition where u have leopard isntalled
and MYNEWLEO is a name of partition (on guid disk) where u want to copy your installed leopard

this operation will take a time, depends on size of your leopard partition
after it u should be able to boot this partition with pc_efi installed to your
guid drive (boot from guid drive).

here is example of commands to install pc_efi_v8, this in the only EXAMPLE

./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk1s2 ./boot_v8

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s2 bs=512 count=1

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=400 count=1
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Old 01-30-2008, 11:27 PM
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so the guy made a mistake with disk and rdisk ? http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2520
on line: ./startupfile........................
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Old 01-31-2008, 12:22 AM
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need rev2 asap to many problems playing around with rev1 ! ! !
zeph go for it! (maybe someone give a more or less date-tipp when it will be released? or the status what u all working on or plan to release with rev2)
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Old 01-31-2008, 02:47 AM
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Xan: if you are still getting just the flashing cursor on boot this worked for me

download gparted live cd and boot it
changed osx drive to Boot



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