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Hello!
Firstly, great, great, GREAT work Tony I'm very much obliged to you. I'm up & running with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 in about the same time as it takes to install Snow Leopard on a regular Mac! ;-)
Setup is a vanilla Dell Optiplex 7 and so far USB, audio and video all work fine. I'm waiting on an Asus PCI WiFi card to arrive in the post but by all accounts that should be fairly trouble-free (WL-138G v2)
The only issue I'm having is booting from the HDD without initially booting from the iBoot ("Supported") CD and choosing the "Snow Leopard" on my HDD. I've upgraded to 10.6.3 and installed Multibeast 2.0 as per the guide, which I believe should allow me to direct-boot form the HDD?
In fact I've gone back & deleted /Extras and tried reinstalling Multibeast again, but always the same issue; upon reboot without iBoot CD inserted I get a very brief flash of the Chameleon screen and then instantly into the OSX / Apple logo with spinning progress wheel at the bottom of the screen. Very little if any HDD activity takes place and after a couple of minutes I end up at a very small circular icon with a line through it - Apple logo still displayed & progress wheel still spinning.
When first partitioning my HDD using Disc Utility in the Snow Leopard installer, I created two partitions (as per the guide for installing Windows 7 in a dual-boot confirguarion); one partition "Snow Leopard" in Mac HFS Journaled, the other as MS-DOS FAT. At the moment I don't have my Windows 7 disc at home so the OSX86 box simply has Snow Leopard on one partition and an empty FAT partition awaiting Win 7.
If I boot with the iBoot CD and choose my Snow Leopard partition I can boot up into Snow Leopard perfectly fine and eject the iBoot CD so it feels like I'm close to a 100% happy system, but it would be great to be able to boot without the CD if I can.
Does anyone have any ideas please? As part of installing Multibeast 2.0 I've installed System Utilities / repaired permissions & cleared cache. Is Step 5 of http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... -snow.html necessary for my setup? As I understood it Multibeat 2.0 took care of that side of things ("...[Multibeast is] designed to enable boot from hard drive").
Thanks in advance,
Steve
Firstly, great, great, GREAT work Tony I'm very much obliged to you. I'm up & running with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 in about the same time as it takes to install Snow Leopard on a regular Mac! ;-)
Setup is a vanilla Dell Optiplex 7 and so far USB, audio and video all work fine. I'm waiting on an Asus PCI WiFi card to arrive in the post but by all accounts that should be fairly trouble-free (WL-138G v2)
The only issue I'm having is booting from the HDD without initially booting from the iBoot ("Supported") CD and choosing the "Snow Leopard" on my HDD. I've upgraded to 10.6.3 and installed Multibeast 2.0 as per the guide, which I believe should allow me to direct-boot form the HDD?
In fact I've gone back & deleted /Extras and tried reinstalling Multibeast again, but always the same issue; upon reboot without iBoot CD inserted I get a very brief flash of the Chameleon screen and then instantly into the OSX / Apple logo with spinning progress wheel at the bottom of the screen. Very little if any HDD activity takes place and after a couple of minutes I end up at a very small circular icon with a line through it - Apple logo still displayed & progress wheel still spinning.
When first partitioning my HDD using Disc Utility in the Snow Leopard installer, I created two partitions (as per the guide for installing Windows 7 in a dual-boot confirguarion); one partition "Snow Leopard" in Mac HFS Journaled, the other as MS-DOS FAT. At the moment I don't have my Windows 7 disc at home so the OSX86 box simply has Snow Leopard on one partition and an empty FAT partition awaiting Win 7.
If I boot with the iBoot CD and choose my Snow Leopard partition I can boot up into Snow Leopard perfectly fine and eject the iBoot CD so it feels like I'm close to a 100% happy system, but it would be great to be able to boot without the CD if I can.
Does anyone have any ideas please? As part of installing Multibeast 2.0 I've installed System Utilities / repaired permissions & cleared cache. Is Step 5 of http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... -snow.html necessary for my setup? As I understood it Multibeat 2.0 took care of that side of things ("...[Multibeast is] designed to enable boot from hard drive").
Thanks in advance,
Steve