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Hi everyone
I've got a problem which I tried to solve all last night but no avail and I hope someone here can give me some ideas as to a fix.
Years ago, 2010 to be exact, I built a great hackintosh using ------- running Snow Leopard on a GA-EP45-UD3LR with 9800GT GPU. This machine was flawless for years and it was a real joy to use. I'm fixed on 10.6.8 and have no need to go any further, I'm finding Apple software (iphoto, itunes, mail, imovie) to be getting worse and I've got everything I want where I am.
However, the main drive went down a couple of months ago (after 9000 hours use) so I'd thought I'd replace it with a SSD. Ended up going with a 480Gb Crucial M500. I cloned the backup drive onto the SSD using CCC, reinstated the bootloader (Im still using something called Asere 1.1.9 that Going Bald gave me years ago, essentially Chameleon v2) and ran it up, amazed with the speed. However when I tried to rearrange my drive boot order in BIOS to put the SSD first I get either stuck in the POST screen or caught in a loop that goes (Splash, POST, Splash, POST, ad infinitum). I once built a Hackintosh for someone with a 2Tb and encountered the boot0 problem and changed the boot1h file and got through it. Searching for clues I thought that was what I was experiencing so did that fix. The machine went from hanging at POST to the reboot cycle as described.
I've now tried updating Chameleon, fiddling about with different boot1h's but to no avail. I'm pretty good at Hackintosh's but this boot loader stuff I don't really fully understand. So is this a 4k SSD problem or is it something else? The machine I use just by booting of the backup drive and then jumping over to the SSD so it's not life or death but I really want a machine that boots without needing 2 drives. Any one got any advice? Thanks.
I've got a problem which I tried to solve all last night but no avail and I hope someone here can give me some ideas as to a fix.
Years ago, 2010 to be exact, I built a great hackintosh using ------- running Snow Leopard on a GA-EP45-UD3LR with 9800GT GPU. This machine was flawless for years and it was a real joy to use. I'm fixed on 10.6.8 and have no need to go any further, I'm finding Apple software (iphoto, itunes, mail, imovie) to be getting worse and I've got everything I want where I am.
However, the main drive went down a couple of months ago (after 9000 hours use) so I'd thought I'd replace it with a SSD. Ended up going with a 480Gb Crucial M500. I cloned the backup drive onto the SSD using CCC, reinstated the bootloader (Im still using something called Asere 1.1.9 that Going Bald gave me years ago, essentially Chameleon v2) and ran it up, amazed with the speed. However when I tried to rearrange my drive boot order in BIOS to put the SSD first I get either stuck in the POST screen or caught in a loop that goes (Splash, POST, Splash, POST, ad infinitum). I once built a Hackintosh for someone with a 2Tb and encountered the boot0 problem and changed the boot1h file and got through it. Searching for clues I thought that was what I was experiencing so did that fix. The machine went from hanging at POST to the reboot cycle as described.
I've now tried updating Chameleon, fiddling about with different boot1h's but to no avail. I'm pretty good at Hackintosh's but this boot loader stuff I don't really fully understand. So is this a 4k SSD problem or is it something else? The machine I use just by booting of the backup drive and then jumping over to the SSD so it's not life or death but I really want a machine that boots without needing 2 drives. Any one got any advice? Thanks.