Comments on: ICH10R (in RAID Mode) and Snow Leopard, Part 2!

By: Gnu2OSX

Gnu2OSX — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:02:41 +0000

These articles have been so helpful. Thank you so much. I followed you’re instructions to install on my rig. Instead of installing grub on its own drive, I configure EasyBCD in Windows 7. The key is to use EasyBCD 2.0 Beta 65. Newer versions won’t read the menu.lst. Install NeoGrub in EasyBCD, copy the boot file to c:\NST and edit the menu.lst in that directory.

My menu.lst config:

default 0
timeout 10
title Snow Leopard
rootnoverify (hd2,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/NST/boot biosdev=81
boot

My Config:

Asus P7P55D LE
i7 860
4GB DDR 1333
RAID 0 Win 7
SATA 10.6.2 Vanilla

By: IcyTexx

IcyTexx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:10:10 +0000

Soooo…
Would this work on an Asus Rampage II Extreme?

I’m quite still a noob with Hackintosh and I don’t know how to setup this.

By: DigitalDJ

DigitalDJ — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:24:30 +0000

I believe so, however I’m not quite sure. I’ve never attempted to install Snow Leopard to a drive larger than 500GB.

By: Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:28:48 +0000

By “hard disk” you mean LUNs carved off of your RAID configuration, yes?

That is, if I have 2×1.5TB HDDs in RAID0, then create 4 100GB ‘OS’ instances off of that (with the remainder as a shared space), each of those 4 count as separate drives?

By: DigitalDJ

DigitalDJ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:13:50 +0000

sorry for the delay…

I highly reccomend you create a small FAT32 partition and install grub to it. Or use a USB drive to boot. The Darwin boot0 loader doesn’t like ICH-0R so without modification to this, there’s no hope. This is out of my area of expertise I can’t think of any other way to chain load the Chameleon boot file directly.

Also, make sure you use Chameleon RC3 ssine you have.a 1TB drive.

By: ranton

ranton — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:08:20 +0000

Hey Grant

Is this possible without having to have a Linux install also?

I dont use linux?

but cant seem to adapt this to function with Win7 on Raid 0 on ICH10R and have a Standalone 1tb Drive on ICH10R