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07-01-2009, 10:04 PM
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Puma
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 18
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Voyn1x
Your post has conflicting information, the guides you linked reference Kalway, but you also mention Boot132. 
You should try the Chameleon 2.0 installer, as it contains legacy kexts for ICHx support which you can optionally install. You shouldn't need to touch the main partition at all.
Briefly, for a retail vanilla install you need to:
- Use Boot132 to install using the retail dvd
- After installing, continue using Boot132 for the first boot
- Download and install all available updates
- Restart, again using the Boot132 disk
- Download the Chameleon pkg installer, choose 'install to EFI partition' option when installing
- Mount EFI partition
- Copy over required kexts to /Extra/Extensions or mkext to /Extra - you'll find the Legacy ICHx kexts here
- Reboot without Boot132 in drive
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Hello,
I used boot-132 generic iso to install 10.5.0 from Retail DVD.
I just tried the chameleon 2.0 RC1 (the latest) package installer and installed it on to my pre-existing EFI.
I now get Still waiting for root device error even for 10.5.5. Now I have to repair my EFI by removing the three extra kexts that chameleon installed.
Well, its worse than that. It refuses to boot even with the generic iso cd. Now I need to use a Retail DVD to remove the /Extra directory because I had stupidly installed these on to Macintosh HD prior to doing the EFI install.
Recovered after the steps above. Back to 10.5.5.
A clarification - I cannot set AHCI mode for my SATA disk. Maybe that is related to all of this.
Last edited by msingh; 07-01-2009 at 10:35 PM.
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