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No applications present after installation on Dell Mini 10 V, install from Snow Leopard Retail DVD modified for MBR #209

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?

0. Start with a HD with 4 Primary partitions and lots of logicals. Win7/OS 
X/Ubuntu/etc. Worked with 8.3rc4
1.
Use .8.4.pre Netbookmaker to make a bootable USB stick. Modify boot stick 
to accept MBR installs, by patching it according to 
http://prasys.co.cc/2009/08/installing-snow-leopard-for-osx86/  See 
paragrapgh: "Patching Installation for MBR Disks"

2. Install with USB, install "timer" freezes at points but is awoken by a 
touch of the mouse. All else normal to my knowledge, also first run steps 
of OS X run as usual.

3. Get into system that lacks all Applications and is generally superbroken. 
Filled with strange removable disks. As I lacked any useful programs I 
could not research it further. 

What netbook are you using this on?
Dell Mini 10v stock

Please provide any additional information below.

I will leave my system in its current state and would be happy to help with 
debugging. I would also be perfectly content with using a method I know 
works, but if possible I'd like to help out, cos you guys freaking rock!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jallg...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2010 at 6:56

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You booted to your internal drive using the boot disk, not using the internal 
hdd. Currently it'll try to patch the 
drive as if it were a dvd (it'll be changed in the future so that it only 
patches if it's a dvd). 

Short answer: Don't boot to the internal drive using the usb drive, use the 
internal drive.

Original comment by Meklort@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2010 at 9:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yup, that was the case. Reason I used it to boot was that it defaulted into my 
Win7-
instalation. That means the less severe bug would be that NetbookInstaller did 
not 
mark my HFS+ partition as active/boot. Easily fixed with Gparted-live.

I can now boot right into what seems like a quite working 10.6. The default 
Finder 
sidebar is not right at it though. Where I usually have "Applications" is an 
icon/text 
for my NTFS/Win7-partition.

I will redo my install with an old 0.8.3-version I know to work. Before I do 
that, do 
you devs want me to test anything? I am happy to destroy anything (except 
hardware). =)

Original comment by jallg...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2010 at 10:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
May be worth a try looking in the Finder preferences.  

I was worried to not see the internal hard disk show up on the desktop at first 
start up - but it had not been 
ticked in the finder preferences.  'Visible' is the default, but I have seen 
this before on a standard MacBook. 

I note that 'applications' can also be made invisible!

You never know your luck!

Original comment by chrism...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2010 at 9:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This should be fixed with 0.8.4, let me know if it isn't.

Original comment by Meklort@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2010 at 11:09