[sapele]

Hello,

If this has been covered I would greatly appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.

I have a DM9 with a 16g stec , dell efi 1.25, trackpad v18. that is packed to the gills. My runcore should arrive today and I hope to do the following.

Clone my 16g to the runcore with CCC.

Would I then run NBI 8.3. I am new to NBI. Is it obvious what to check? Can I install the DSDT patch while it is connected via USB or will I need to run NBI again once it is connected as described in the thread on installing to a runcore from a real mac?

I should say that I am not running snow, just plain leopard.

thanks.

[humph]

Hi sapele,

I'd encourage you to give it a go as you describe. Worst that can happen is that it does not work, but you'll soon figure it out and have fun learning!

OK, seriously....Whilst I don't use CCC so I may be getting this a bit wrong (I use SuperDuper), I understand that CCC does not do sector-by-sector cloning including MBR etc. Instead it uses various unix routines to get all the right files onto the new drive in the right places, and then for a normal Mac will ensure that the disk is made bootable.

Since you don't have a normal mac, after using CCC, I suspect that the disk won't boot. Hence once you've copied to the new disk, boot off old drive, run NBI again with the target as the new disk, and just install the Chameleon bootloader (or if you like Terminal work I guess you can copy the boot0 and boot1h files to the right places on the new disk).

I imagine that the DSDT that'll (hopefully) get copied over with CCC is basically OK, meaning that change of disk won't make any real issue, on other hand won't have any fixes that are new to NBI (if any). Reason to not generate a DSDT if "installing" from a real mac is that the DSDT would be based off that hardware, rather than the target machine. So you could generate it with runcore on USB as you'll have booted (old disk) on the right machine. But to be on safe side, perhaps better to re-generate DSDT once you are booting on the new disk in the machine.

I guess also however that you may like to run NBI with "all options enabled" as this is latest greatest better than older EFI thing, and I presume has improvements.

Perhaps a true expert (not me) may comment whether there are in fact any problems to "upgrade" from DellEFI. But back to my 1st sentence, if it were me, I'd just do it and see what happens!

Good Luck.

[sapele]

Thanks for the encouragement to go for it. I was wrong about the delivery date so this will have to wait for a few days (going out of town). When i return I will give it a try upgrading to the NBI 8.3 in the process. If nothing else it will fix my battery indicator.

Thanks again

[Akki]

Originally Posted by humph

Since you don't have a normal mac, after using CCC, I suspect that the disk won't boot. Hence once you've copied to the new disk, boot off old drive, run NBI again with the target as the new disk, and just install the Chameleon bootloader (or if you like Terminal work I guess you can copy the boot0 and boot1h files to the right places on the new disk).

Run NBI or NBM?

[humph]

Originally Posted by Akki

Run NBI or NBM?

NBI (Installer).
You can run this on an already booting/installed system, to update (like when 0.8.2 goes to 0.8.3), or just "fix" like if say you were playing around with kexts in /Extra, messed it up and wanted to get back to "standard" (if you could still boot!).

You'd use NBM (which includes NBI) to "prepare" a USB OSX boot/install thumb-drive after you'd restored OSX install DVD to the USB drive, so you could boot from it and (ahem) load OSX to your machine.

Somewhere there's a thread where this is explained better than I can (NBI vs NBM). But you can do a right-click "Show Package Contents" on both NBI and NBM to see what's under the hood. If you're feeling so inclined, you can then even go and change the kexts that get loaded when you run the NBI !! Although it works so nicely I can't see why anyone would want to be doing that at this stage, unless modifying for a "non-supported" machine...

P.S. I saw on other thread on this site, a note from a SuperMod/Expert guy that yes you can use NBI to upgrade from older DellEFI. As usual with me, I can't remember who it was! Sorry.

[meklort]

Do what humps said.

Basically I'd do this
1) Copy internal drive to runcore (I'd use disk utility)
2) Run NetbookInstaller and select the runcore (use the defaults).
3) Reboot to the runcore (just to verify that it's bootable)
4) Swap the drives.

[BigJim]

1) Copy internal drive to runcore (I'd use disk utility)
2) Run NetbookInstaller and select the runcore (use the defaults).
3) Reboot to the runcore (just to verify that it's bootable)
4) Swap the drives.

Tried this with CCC and still getting Operating System Not Found. Wonder what happened to the original poster. Maybe I should try Super Duper instead of CCC? Anyone having any luck cloning their working mini 9/10v?

OK finally getting some traction. I held down 2 while booting. Set USB Legacy enabled. Also DISABLED (Shift-1) "Hard Disk" as a boot option (seems like putting it at a lower priority is not enough).

Now I'll try to CCC from the Runcore onto the internal STEC. Then hit the internal STEC with NBI for good measure.

I'm doing all this because the internal STEC is only 8GB. 10.6.1 seems to weigh in around 5GB, but IIRC during the install its needs more elbow room than 8GB.