jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 it seems like most people are using the intel imacs and mac book pros, so i am not sure if i'm the only one with this problem installing windows on my mac mini. i got as far as windows beginning to copy over setup files, it freezes at 0%. Anyone else have this issue; and have a workaround? I don't know if it was my windows xp cd (i downloaded the first one i could find to test this out). I am burning a new one now without all the extra folders, and i just left in the oem/i386/support/docs; i hope that was causing my error. -- In the event that works, i read that the intel drivers for its integrated chip from their site, render the mac mini unbootable, so i won't even try them-- what are the other choices with regards to the gma950.. its not like there are other drivers to try out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 well that was not the problem...:sigh: Are there any intel mac mini owners that can confirm that windows installed? i went searching for the win xp disc that came with my dell, but its sp1a, so thats useless.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jph2003 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 well that was not the problem...:sigh: Are there any intel mac mini owners that can confirm that windows installed? i went searching for the win xp disc that came with my dell, but its sp1a, so thats useless.. I can not confirm the mac mini issue, but as for the sp1 disk that came with your dell. It can be converted into a sp2 disk. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windo..._slipstream.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis. Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I had the same problem mentioned above it got to 0% and froze so I shut it down. Now unfortunately it made a partition thats NTFS formated and of couse disk utility won't touch anything ntfs formatted so I have to repartition the entire drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I do have the exact same problem - the installer dies at 0%.... I'm also using a Mac Mini. I tried using: - a german MCE Install CD1 (this should be a regular XP Pro SP2 CD) - an english XP Pro CD with SP2 slipstreamed (both CD's have valid licences and are not just downloaded somewhere) any solution for the mini yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 i've burned like 7 xp cd's so far, and they've all frozen at the same stage... there has to be someone out there whose gotten this thing working on the intel mac minis, or else those two guys wouldn't have won the big pot of money.. ~.~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 sorry for the gratuitous bumping, but you can understand how anxious i am =P ; is there another forum where more people are talking? just wondering, cause not too many new threads are popping up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 As far as I know, the rules were just to install XP on a MBP. But nevertheless these guys helped to implement it on the iMac and the MacMini as well (THANKS To THAT!!!!!). There are people out there with a working XP on a MacMini. The reason, why we cannot boot XP on our MacMinis - I don't know... So lets try to find out what we're doing wrong. It seems that our problem is related to the MacMini (or does anybody else on a different system have the same problem?). - First option would be the XP install cd - I tried 3 different ones; jlmodell talked about 7 different versions -> this seems not very likely to be the problem. - Second option I can think of, might be the system configuration configuration: I have a MacMini 1.66 DualCore, 512MB Ram, 100GB HD -> XP is NOT working Could you please post the your MacMini configurations and let us know if XP is working or not Thanks, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Mac Mini Core Solo 1.5, 1gig ram, 80gig hd -> XP is NOT installing edit: thanks for taking the initiative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhagiratha Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I started doing this install, everything went fine except that my intel mac mini hang just as the installer was about to install the “setup” files. It stayed like that for about 30 mins and northing was happening. I was wondering if I was surpose to have formated the partition 2. I think I did a full NTFS format. where did I go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 It seems there is one guy in this forum who got it running on a MacMini. He has a Dual-Core.... (I sent him a message to post his complete configuration). I also posted our problem at the onmac.net forum. Hopefully we get more replies as soon as people get up in the states (at the west coast it's 7:30 in the morning at the moment). What else could be wrong? I somehow recall that I called my xp partition "WINDOWS HD" (with a blank) and not "XP" as we were supposed to. I'll try to change that as soon as I get back from work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Originally i labelled mine winxp, which failed, so i did a 2nd try and didn't deviate from the instructions. is there a problem with continuing from the ntfs format instead of reinstalling osx over again for the ms dos partition each time? i get the same results either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddh Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Same issue here.. Setup hangs at 0% I have a mac mini duo 1.6 100GB drive superdrive 1GB Ram my only diviation from instructions was that OSX was the first partition and DOS was the 2nd. So I tried to install windows on the 3rd partition from the XP CD. I was about to burn a new CD but I guess I won't bother now.. Todd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhagiratha Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I came cross this post here in an effort to try to find a cause for this issue: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php...d=1#post2237091 when I tried again, it doesn't take me back to the setup section. It boots up to the black and white screen ( where the patches were loaded) and hangs again. how do i go about re-installing from the very begining? must I reformat the drive again? I am hoping that I wouldn't have to do that. Also, could it be possible that the external devices that I got connect to the mini is causing the problem. I got a dell 24" monitor, external firewire drive, printer, scanner, network cables etc. Would it help if I disconnect all the other devices? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 bhagiratha, I had the issue as well that it hung at the black and white screen the second time. I just hit enter and it went on - but than I had the same problem with the 0% at the xp setup..... I guess to start from scratch, you might have to reinstall the whole procedure.... I'll be home in an hour and start trying again.... Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 i'm going to try that other guys suggestion, and just retry it a few times and see if it goes through ... also trying the slow ntfs format now to see if that makes any difference. doubtful, but here goes attempt 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butsugai Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Mac Mini Core Solo and I am hitting the same roadblock. I have to work some keyboard voodoo (F6 and enter after the text x2) but I get to the setup screen and hang at the "Setup is Copying files...". I figure there might be something that I need to enter but no clue what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toasty Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Does anyone know if there is a driver for the airport on the mini? If there is I am selling my G4 mini and buying an Intel on Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhagiratha Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 (edited) Yea, I tried it a few times and it still hangs at the initial setup windows screen. i also notice that once the installer gets to that screen, the cd-rom stops spinning. seems like something is not accessing the cd-rom fast enought to access the setup files. I notice also that when I boot in osx, the partition that xp is to be installed on has the name "Untitled". should it say that or should it say "XP'. Also, I need to add that I didn't create the "winxp on intel mac" bootable disk. since I don't have a PC, I went ahead and downloaded it here: HEY no links to torrens, READ THE RULES. maybe the disk is corrupt .... than again, how do I verify the accuracy of that disk. non-the-less, am not giving up ..... help will come! Edited March 17, 2006 by macgirl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 i think you better wait a week or two, and make sure xp can be installed before you do that lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis. Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I have a Core Solo 1.5Ghz 512mb ram, 60gb hard drive, combo and I'm having the 0% problem although I only had it the first time I put the disk in now I am stuck at the black screen with white words and it doesn't do anything I tried changing the partition back to ms-dos in the disk utilty but it won't let me without repartitioning the entire drive which I would rather not do because I would lose my OS X and have to restore from the my cloned image again which takes hours. Why isn't there any free mac partition managers that work with intels...grrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 when you get to the black screen with white words and it just stops... hit enter, and it should continue into the windows xp setup screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I'm just trying to reinstall with the slow format option (therefore I deleted the partition in the xp setup and created a new one). if that doesn't help I'll try to start all the way from the beginning - including the whole osx installation..... I'll let you know if it helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 ok - the slow format option didn't help at all.... so I tried to install everything from scratch. This time I did everything as stated in the Howto (including partition names). But as before I changed sizes for the partitions. I had about 25GB for windows and the rest for osx. This time I didn't even get to the 0% Setup step. On the first install screen (white text on black background), when it was showing: ... 2000:0EFE: int 13_48 2000:0EFE: int 13_48 2000:0EFE: int 13_48 the install process just stopped. Even after hitting enter nothing happened. After the second time hitting enter I got this: Patch #0: Not found. Patch #1: Not found. Patch errors detected!! int 13 called from 2000:0EFE. GDT=003F000L000003FF IDT=00000000L0000FFFF EAX=00000000 EBX=00060000 ECX=00000005 EDX=00000080 CR0=00000010 ESP=00067FE8 EBP=00067FF2 ESI=00060000 EDI=00007FFA CR3=00039000 DS=3000 ES=0060 FS=0060 GS=0060 SS=22F3 FL=00000206 2000:0EFE 0F 82 06 00 jb 00000F08 ($+6) The same exception I found here. It seems that there is still some problem with the xom.efi file and the disk size. It also seems that people are working on this problem... I will try one more install - without changing the size of the partitions (50%xp, 50%osx). If this doesn't work, I think we should let the experts finish the boot drivers..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirby944 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 I was having the same issue of getting to the installing files promt and it would not go any further. I had given up for the time being and went back into os X. I was just messing around and set my screen resolution to 1280X1024 and then went back to install windows and it started working! by default the resolution was 800X600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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