The White Rabbit Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 V. 2.3 release next week, says the chinese mother site ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiezhy Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 Update 2.3 1. support Snow Leopard 2. support smbios.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy4ever Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I am some what new to this and i need help: I am going to follow the following step let me know if I am taking right or wrong steps: Installed window 7 (which created 1st partition with 100 mb and 300 gb for windows itself) shrink partition made more partiton (100 mb, 50 gb - current win 7, 50 gb - for os x, 200 gb - shared drive) Install Think Boot 2.3 windows version in windows 7 install iAtKos v7 10.5.7 os x without any bootloader selected from dvd done and hopefully everything working fine Am I following steps correctly? I haven't done this yet but I Just want to make sure that I am going to following right steps. Thanks in Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiezhy Posted September 8, 2009 Author Share Posted September 8, 2009 I am some what new to this and i need help: I am going to follow the following step let me know if I am taking right or wrong steps: Installed window 7 (which created 1st partition with 100 mb and 300 gb for windows itself) shrink partition made more partiton (100 mb, 50 gb - current win 7, 50 gb - for os x, 200 gb - shared drive) Install Think Boot 2.3 windows version in windows 7 install iAtKos v7 10.5.7 os x without any bootloader selected from dvd done and hopefully everything working fine Am I following steps correctly? I haven't done this yet but I Just want to make sure that I am going to following right steps. Thanks in Advance iAtKos v7 maybe will install one bootloader at least, and it will damage the loader of win 7. You could have a try [1]-->[2]-->[4]-->fix win7 loader with the win7_DVD -->[3]-->[5] -------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy4ever Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 iAtKos v7 maybe will install one bootloader at least, and it will damage the loader of win 7.You could have a try [1]-->[2]-->[4]-->fix win7 loader with the win7_DVD -->[3]-->[5] -------------- Thanks for quick reply I really appreciate it. I will try that and see how it goes tonight. one more question when you say fix my window 7 loader do you mean i put win 7 dvd choose repair than run command and make 100 mb partition active and fix startup automatically or should i choose the 50 gb win 7 partition? I think i should i choose 100 mb partition cause i read somewhere that 100 mb partitions is where windows installs bootmgr, is this correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swede420 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Thank you for the awesome boot loader! I am trying to boot original DVD with BootThink 2.3 and get "still waiting for root device". I have SL installed and it boots fine. any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Anyone try using this on a netbook? I'm getting a kernel panic when trying to boot Snow Leopard. It gives me an error about an unsupported CPU Edit: Nevermind, NullCPUPowerManagement.kext solved my problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Very intriguing. Even though the file structure is more complicated than it has to be, it has a ton of support for OS X Snow, Leo and Tiger. I had a successful boot of Snow Leopard, however I was unable to get CD Boot to work with my Snow Leo DVD. I tried showing all boot devices and pressing C at startup. Thanks and it's coming along nicely! -Stell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afiser Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Very intriguing. Even though the file structure is more complicated than it has to be, it has a ton of support for OS X Snow, Leo and Tiger. I had a successful boot of Snow Leopard, however I was unable to get CD Boot to work with my Snow Leo DVD. I tried showing all boot devices and pressing C at startup. Thanks and it's coming along nicely! -Stell im suffering from the same problem. thanks for the bootloader tho it works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredouille Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Congratulations, once again !! Install; put kexts in Darwin / System / library + library SL and tried and ... magic result . Able to boot leo, SL, and XP xithout pain. Thank you very much ! (I could still notice that the boot 's time of SL keeps much more long than leo . fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Rabbit Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Update 2.3 1. support Snow Leopard 2. support smbios.plist greaaaaaaat : I was waiting for you to set up my SL ; thx A LOT for your excellent work ! question : can we boot retail SL DVD with your loader, assuming proper .kexts are in place ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cr4z33 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I am not sure I understood. Can we at last use this solution to install Mac OS X 10.6 with VMware Workstation under Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keds Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Thank you xiezhy! This is really stable and I get no kernel panics running SL retail. Its the first bootloader for SL that works flawlessly on my system, no problems whatsoever. I prefer this to all the others, (no offence to others) Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General_Cartman Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Xiezhy - Thanks again for your work mate. Your boot loader is by far my favourite, and with SMBIOS injecting it is now almost complete! Just wondering, when ever I try to boot a retail DVD on the intel hackintosh in my sig I always get a "waiting for root device" error. Does the CD-Boot only work on certain chipsets, or am I just doing something wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 If I'm running Boot Think off an SD card/USB drive, can I just drag and drop kexts into /Darwin/System/LibrarySL/Extensions/ ? Or is there something else I need to do? I've dragged and dropped VoodooHDA and a few other kexts, and they don't seem to be working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Tried with success in my PC (see sig.), only 10.5 for now. It boots perfectly Windows XP from other hard disk. Putting AHCI or SATA extensions into /Darwin/System/Library/Extensions it can boot from Leopard DVD. Both commands "# p=-" (hide non bootable partitions) and "# b=3" (timeout for default partition) work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General_Cartman Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Fixed the waiting for root device problem by disabling AHCI in the bios. if anybody else is having that problem I'd suggest doing the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorazine74 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Thanks again for the great contribution. Sorry to be a pain in the ass but if this bootloader is indeed based on boot132 shouldnt the source code be published somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General_Cartman Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 After installing on my EFI partition, it now shows up on the desktop and in Disk Utility. Does anybody know how I can hide it again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawley Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Can someone upload to rapidshare.com or mediafire? can't download from rapidshare.de and chinese download is very slow... (2kb/s !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arial Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Many thanks xiezhy tested on my Snow. EFI64 supported..! also worked when boot -x32 had to manage for booting Leo on different partition, because Boot Think will load Leo's extra mkext & kext from Snow partition, NOT from Leo/Extra - copy Extensions.mkext from /Leo/Extra to /Snow/Darwin/System/Library - copy *.kext from /Leo/Extra/Extensions to /Snow/Darwin/System/Library/Extensions also it will load DSDT.aml, com.apple.Boot.plist, smbios.plist from /Snow/Darwin, NOT from /Leo/Extra. my Leo using Chameleon 2 RC2. here is my Darwin dir.. Can someone upload to rapidshare.com or mediafire? can't download from rapidshare.de and chinese download is very slow... (2kb/s !) http://rapidshare.com/files/277528624/Boot_Think_2.3_Mac.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/277532105/Boot_Think_2.3_Win.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsotelo2 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 hyit's neccessary to know if we can use equal or similar important flags.. usbehciacquire=yes or usbfix=yes this is a must for most of the people that has the need to solve usb hi speed ehci troubles at boot +1 Thanks for the great bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuppMan Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I got "major" problems, I can only boot XP and DOS partitions with bootthink 1.1.0. With all the later versions of Bootthink the computer just reboots when I try to boot those partitions ?!? Any Ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stada Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 The EFI installation on Boot Think 2.3 did not work well for me , It just won't install anything to EFI partition. And now the EFI Hidden partition won't hidden anymore , even after I'm back to PC-EFI, it show up on boot list and mounted automatically on Finder. Any ideas how to hide the EFI Hidden partition? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General_Cartman Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Actually it wasn't changing the AHCI settings that allowed me to boot from the DVD. Try booting with -f. It's kinda weird for me, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Just keep rebooting until it does. As for re-hiding the EFI partition, I have no idea, I just reformatted and am running boot think of a USB stick for now The Intel Machine in my sig is now running a completely vanilla 10.6.1 installed form a retail disk with everything working and no modified kexts in S/L/E! Thanks to this bootloader I'm probably one of the few ppl in the world running a stock Snow Leopard install on a PowerMac G4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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