2012年2月28日星期二

Create your own wowpc.iso under mac

this is the command.

sudo hdiutil makehybrid -o wowpc.iso bootmedia/ -iso -hfs -joliet -eltorito-boot bootmedia/usr/standalone/i386/cdboot -no-emul-boot -hfs-volume-name "Chameleon" -joliet-volume-name "Chameleo" -iso-volume-name "Chameleo"
This is the directory to create.









under /bootmedia/usr/standalone/i386/
there are those files:
bdmesg,boot,boot0,boot0hfs,boot0md,boot1f32,boot1h,boot1he,boot1hp,cdboot,chain0,fdisk440,and readme.txt

2012年2月12日星期日

Optical Bay Hard Drive caddy not recgonized, system hanging/not booting

Replaced the optical drive of my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1464) with a hard drive caddy to extend the storage capacity, but the BIOS seems could not recognize it.

After some digging and checking, I noticed that the SATA port in the laptop for the optical drive is only 1st gen (150MB/s), and it does not support the SATA II type (300MB/s). So I changed the mode of the dard drive into SATA mode with copper wire (jumper settings, to change the working mode), and it works perfect.
From Seagate.com