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Tutorial: Install Chameleon/Chimera on a 4K drive

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Will something like this work for a desktop hackintosh? I'm having trouble with bootloader. I have followed multiple guides, etc. Able to bootup off of usb lion perfectly. Keep getting Boot0 errors. I've tried this up until the last step, and still nothing.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

1tb Seagate 7200rpm
i5-2500k
16gb ram

Thanks!
J
 
worker perfect for me in a moptherboard gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3
thanks a lot!
 
I checked my diskutil, which is the same as yours. But when I type in the commands into Terminal, I get "no such file or directory." Help?
 
your paths are different. just have to edit them for your system.
 
Songokussm said:
Credits: blueking, Gringo Vermelho (voodooprojects.org), begg (tonymacx86), the Chameleon team, and the tonymacx86 team.

Updated(12/21): It works with Chameleon and Chimera.
Updated(1/4/12): Typo
Updated(1/5/12): Works during first install

This Guide will correct the boot0 error.

This is the only method that worked for me to install Chameleon on a 4k drive.
My laptop is stock. No extra hard drives. if yours is the same, you will not need to make any changes to the commands. If it is different, use disktutil list to get your disk/partition locations.

Requirements:
unibeast usb stick
working lion install
usb keyboard
the Chameleon zip attached to this post

Part 1:
download and install Chimera from tonymacx86 download page
-or-
download and install Chameleon from osx86.net's boot loader page
-then-
Download the attached Chameleon zip, extract it to your desktop.
Put the i386 folder on your unibeast usb stick
shutdown

Part 2:
plug in a usb keyboard (right side usb ports only)
boot off of your unibeast usb stick (right side usb ports only)
select USB to boot into the lion install
Click continue
unplug your usb keyboard
Select Utilties, Disk Utility
Right click your Lion Partition, click unmount
Quit disk utility.
Select Utilties, Terminal
type: diskutil list
-write down your lion disk and partition. Stock will be be disk0 Partition 2
-write down your USB disk and partition. Stock will be disk1 Partition 1


Part 3:
Mounting the unibeast flash drive. On my system it was Disk 1 partition 1. If yours is different changes the bolded numbers.
mount_hfs /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/USB

Change directory to the unibeast flash drive, and the i386 Chameleon folder
cd /Volumes/USB/i386

install Chameleon to disk 0, partition 2.
dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2

exit
shutdown your laptop
unplug usb stick
Your done!
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How would this work with an 10.6.8 Install? If you know. I am now on my 7th attempt to get it booting correctly and honestly, im about ready to call it quits all together. I know they said it will take some time to get it all working but two days crazy.
 
you say it will be the same but I don't boot of USB. I still have to boot in Iboot w/cd. Is that the only change.
 
this only works after i fist install lion? or does it work now cause i already booted lion a few times.
 
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