Create a Chameleon Boot USB Drive

A good thing to have if you're updating or changing your Hackintosh is a Chameleon boot USB drive. It is a USB drive or key that has nothing on it but the Chameleon bootloader- therefore it can be a cheap 512mb or 1gb drive! You can always boot directly from it in case your install or update doesn't work.
  1. Boot into your existing OS X Installation.
  2. Insert your USB drive.
  3. Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
  4. Highlight your USB drive in the left column.
  5. Click the Partition Tab.
  6. Click Volume Scheme- choose 1 Partition.
  7. Click Options…
  8. Select GUID Partition Table. Click OK.
  9. In the Name: field type: ChameleonBoot
  10. In Format: field select Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled)
  11. Click Apply, then click Partition.
  12. Close Disk Utility
  13. Download tonymacx86-snowleopard.zip
  14. Open and place tonymacx86-snowleopard folder on the desktop.
  15. Open Apps folder
  16. Open PC EFI 10.1
  17. Select ChameleonBoot and click Continue.
  18. Click Install, and then type your password.
  19. Open Terminal.
  20. Type: sudo rm /Volumes/ChameleonBoot/boot and type your password. (this deletes the boot file installed from PC EFI 10.1)
  21. Click and drag boot, DSDT.aml, and Extra from tonymacx86-snowleopard to ChameleonBoot. Or drag your own files from your existing Snow Leopard drive.
That's it- the drive is done. Just set your BIOS Hard Disk Priority to boot from USB first. Hope this helps!

For discussions on this and other topics, register today at tonymacx86.com!
Labels: , , , , , , , ,