iBoot USB problem

Lotion · Mar 29, 2013

Hi all,

I'm a noob doing my first SL install on my i7 2700k z68x-ud5 system.

I dl'd iBoot 3.3 and copied it to my 8gb usb stick using disk utility->restore (on my mac laptop) then tried to boot from it on the i7 desktop with no luck. It gets to

"Loading Operating System...
Missing operating system"

A site (http://txcom2003.wordpress.com/2011...boot-usb-flash-drive-instead-of-using-grub-2/) recommends installing multibeast on the flash drive. I tried but there is no way to select the destination disk! Am I doing it wrong? Please help!

Lotion · Mar 29, 2013

Ok forget the above, the installer just does a double back and lets me select the disk. I just have scaredy cat first timer syndrome.

I do have another problem though- using the Easybeast install with iboot it gets past the iboot load screen (is it supposed to?) and then has a kernel panic with the error:

Unable to find driver for this platform: \ACPI\".\n"@/SourceCode/xnu/xnu_504.15.2/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1307

What do I do now? Thanks for any help!

MacMan · Mar 29, 2013

iBoot ONLY works with optical media. It must be on a CD and can only boot the Snow Leopard Retail DVD.

Lotion · Mar 29, 2013

Huh. Why is that?

I own the retail DVD of SL. I just don't want to buy yet another optical drive for the new computer. I never use them except for installing operating systems.Also, everything else I own use laptop optical drives so I can't easily use them in the new desktop. Are you sure there's not another way to boot into the installer?

I just want to make a bootable USB install disk that I can chuck in a drawer for laters and avoid buying extra hardware. Not trying to circumvent software licensing.

totenkopf4 · Mar 30, 2013

Lotion said:
Huh. Why is that?

I own the retail DVD of SL. I just don't want to buy yet another optical drive for the new computer. I never use them except for installing operating systems.Also, everything else I own use laptop optical drives so I can't easily use them in the new desktop. Are you sure there's not another way to boot into the installer?

I just want to make a bootable USB install disk that I can chuck in a drawer for laters and avoid buying extra hardware. Not trying to circumvent software licensing.

Lotion

Here is an idea ...
Borrow one Optical drive from another computer and hook it up... as you said

I never use them except for installing operating systems.

As you are installing an operating system...to this hardware!!!!

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