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Start the Virtual Machine, it should load iBoot and bring you to the Chameleon screen.

USB: click the add a USB filter from device button and select your USB drive (this step does not appear to be significant).

Leave the second IDE device empty for now. This will contain iBoot that we will boot the virtual machine with.

Select the topmost IDE device, and set it as the primary master, mapped to Host Drive E, and check Passthrough.

Storage: add an empty CD/DVD Device to the IDE Controller (there should be 2 devices under the IDE controller now).

Display: increase the video memory (I set 48MB) and enable 3D acceleration.

System: Boot Order: Set CD/DVD ROM first.

Select the Virtual Machine (OSX) and click Settings and make the following changes:.

Click Finish and the new Virtual Machine should be displayed in the left panel of the main window.

Uncheck ‘Boot Hard Disk’ (our machine will not need one, but you can create one if you wish).

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Select a type: Mac OS X (version: Mac OS X Server) [I don’t think these matter in this case).Click ‘New’ on the toolbar to create a new virtual machine.Firstly, we are going to insert our 8GB USB drive, we will need to tell the virtual machine about it.Click the ‘Add Extension’ button and open the Extension Pack.Add the Extension Pack to VirtualBox :.

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Mount the iBoot ISO image to the virtual drive (I am using drive letter E).

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Install Virtual Clone Drive (it will install a driver that might trigger a security warning).Procedureįirst a few screenshots of the process, to add a little clarity along the way (each image is also linked at the relevant part of the article). Of course, a bit of patience and tech savvy will go a long way.

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Used to update Snow Leopard to the latest version

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Needed so that Snow Leopard will install on an MBR disk ( alternate link)Īdditional Software, Post-Install (not used in this guide): Software Title Will be used for the initial boot loader (iBoot) Despite the seemingly long procedure that follows, the steps take less than 15 minutes to follow (plus the 1 hour wait for the DMG to extract). Since we are doing this without accessing a Mac (we are starting on a Windows machine), we are going to use the Disk Utility on the Snow Leopard installer, and will access it through a virtual machine. The best way to get the contents of a DMG image onto a USB drive is by using Mac’s Disk Utility. Furthermore, since we will need to modify the installer, a more complex route would be needed if a piece of software can only burn the image to disk (and not modify it). Most Windows tools are unable to work with a DMG file, and from my experience, those that can, have difficulty with the OS X installer. The problem with this is that Windows can only see 3 (4 with EFI) partitions (which, as I typically have 5 partitions in addition to my operating systems, will not work)

A more practical solution is to use a hybrid GPT/MBR drive, which is easy to setup, and works well.

EDK2/tianocore), however, the success rate tends to be low and the complexity is high.

It is possible to install an implementation of EFI (e.g.

The need for MBR stems from Windows, which is currently unable to boot from a GPT disk on a non-EFI system (although, Windows 7 does recognize GPT disks).Īs a side note, there are two ways that can be used to install Windows on a GPT disk: Background:įor the above mentioned setup, a modification is required to the Snow Leopard installer so that it will accept an MBR (master boot record) type destination disk, instead of only a GPT (GUID partition table) type destination disk. The next few posts will chronicle the necessary steps to complete a triple boot (Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10, OS X 10.6.5) setup on a (non-Mac) notebook. (Note: the limits imposed above were purely for the fun of it – I have access to a functioning triple boot Hackintosh, but realise that many people trying to create such a Hackintosh for the first time do not.) Today’s task is to prepare an OS X installer on a USB drive, starting from an Apple Disk Image (.dmg), without access to a Mac. It’s holiday time, and as such, the geek within is restless.