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Old 10-23-2008, 04:05 PM
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Smile It can't boot up after install 10.5.5
Hi all,

I'm pretty new in Hacknitosh world, I installed iDeneb 10.5.5, system won't boot up by itself, you need to inset the iDened DVD into the DVD drive, then it can boot up. Am I missing something?

Intel D945GCLF2 Mini-ITX board, Atom 330 CPU, 2G ram, 250G HDD, DVD burner.

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GMow
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Old 10-23-2008, 04:32 PM
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Sounds like you missed installing the bootloader or it didn't install correctly for some reason. To fix download and install Chameleon
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse

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Old 10-23-2008, 05:23 PM
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Sounds like you missed installing the bootloader or it didn't install correctly for some reason. To fix download and install Chameleon
mumm..... you mean my source is bad? Can you tell me more detail about? Thanks.
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Old 10-23-2008, 06:04 PM
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What I meant is that when customising your install options you may have missed the bootloader.
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse

MacBook Pro || 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo || 200Gb HD || 2Gb Ram || NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

iPhone 4 || 16Gb
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Old 10-23-2008, 06:06 PM
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Oh....... thanks, let me check it out.
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Old 10-23-2008, 06:10 PM
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@ gmow - When you say "system won't boot up by itself, you need to inset the iDened DVD into the DVD drive, then it can boot up" this is pretty characteristic of a bootloader problem. It doesn't mean you did something intentionally wrong, or even that it was your fault at all. When installing OS X, the Install DVD needs complete access to the HD you are installing to in order for it to finalize the script for the drive to boot when called upon. This is what the bootloader is.

So from the sound of it, If you need the DVD to initialize your drive before you can access it, just install Chameleon once you've booted into OS X and on the next boot you shouldn't need the DVD in the drive anymore.
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Old 10-23-2008, 09:58 PM
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So from the sound of it, If you need the DVD to initialize your drive before you can access it, just install Chameleon once you've booted into OS X and on the next boot you shouldn't need the DVD in the drive anymore.[/quote]

Thanks for the info but you said install Chameleon once mean.......?? Sorry, I'm pretty new for that.
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Old 10-23-2008, 11:30 PM
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Voyn1x posted a link for you in his first post... Did you even click on it ?

Here:

http://chameleon.osx86.hu/file_downl...-installer.zip

Download Chameleon by clicking that link, double click to install then reboot without the DVD to see if it worked.
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