SteveM Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 MacMini users experiencing problems even getting XP to boot, see my post here: http://forum.onmac.net/showpost.php?p=871&postcount=7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhagiratha Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I downloaded the new xom.efi file posted by SteveM. Started the installation again.Apparantly, this xom file had a different resoultion that is needed. Instead of filling up my entire monitor I only got a size of 1280 x1024. that fixed the installation issue. the system went ahead and stated to install the windows setup files. the entire installation was done fast and I was finally at the windows desktop. Here are some issues that I came across .... I guess those would be due to lack of drivers. - noticed that the keyboard and mouse still freezes abit. - when I restat windows, it shut down the mini ... but the screen area of windows stays up on the monitor. the monitor cycle power does not get refreshed. I will try to get my hands on the drivers I need for this mac mini. I will keep you guys posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I downloaded the new xom.efi file posted by SteveM. Started the installation again.Apparantly, this xom file had a different resoultion that is needed. Instead of filling up my entire monitor I only got a size of 1280 x1024. that fixed the installation issue. the system went ahead and stated to install the windows setup files. the entire installation was done fast and I was finally at the windows desktop.Here are some issues that I came across .... I guess those would be due to lack of drivers. - noticed that the keyboard and mouse still freezes abit. - when I restat windows, it shut down the mini ... but the screen area of windows stays up on the monitor. the monitor cycle power does not get refreshed. I will try to get my hands on the drivers I need for this mac mini. I will keep you guys posted. OK that resolution issue must be because the tester who confirmed this worked, had a monitor that was 1280x1024 (must have). The only way to fix this is to make a new XOM.efi that has a X and Y resolution variables that can automatically adjust to whatever your screen res is, or to manually go into the shell and set the X and Y variables so that they fit your screen (this would require using the modded xom.efi in order to get into the console). Does Windows let you downsize (or upsize) to your monitor's res? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livert Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Could someone make a detailed post on the dual boot wiki on how to install XP on the macintel mini? http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Dual_Booting_XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KublaKhan Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 All you Mini users... there's a cool podcast from MacBreak showing them dual booting - the best video on the web so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsdb0 Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 guys it works right out of the box for the install i was the tester that worked with blanka to adapt the patch to work with the mini if you have any questions, PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 18, 2006 Author Share Posted March 18, 2006 Guys, can you help me out a bit... I used the new xom.efi, and i got past the 0% copy screen, and completed the first half of hte installation. Now my problem is it won't continue to the 2nd half after i remove the windows xp cd. It just stays at the black and white screen and there is now a dash (-) prompt. I tried hitting 'g' and it just repeated the last thing. someone suggested that i try the whole process again, so now thats what i'm doing; any other suggestions? edit: FLOPPY: No floppy image (floppy.img) found CDROMBoot: Unable to read block 00000011: No Media HDBoot: Found active partition #1 << MSDOS 00064028-01A64027 HDBoot: Found valid boot sector on partition #1. Booting... int D called from 0D00:0717. GDT=1EDED9C0L0000003F IDT=00000000L000003FF EAX=00000002 EBX=00013001 ECX=0000FFFE EDX=00000000 CR0=00000010 ESP=0000CFB4 EBP=00000000 ESI=000007CE EDI=000031FE CR3=00000000 DS=0D00 ES=0D00 FS=0000 SS=0000 FL=00000202 0D00:0717 26 67 8B 03 mov ax,es:[ebx] - any of that mean anything to anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolof Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Same issue for me as the previous post! What can wee do ? I already tried to reinstall xp, It's always the same problem for me. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 18, 2006 Author Share Posted March 18, 2006 someone in the irc chat told me to start from scratch completely... i just finished installing osx... god that takes forever x_x;; and i'm trying to install xp again -- i'll update if it works.. and i'll beg for another solution if it doesnt. Lol OKAY, that solution definetely worked, but i have no clue what changed! http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1877/img04034mg.jpg =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfennek Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I guess I had all the issues you guys are posting here. I finally got XP (even MCE) working. I think the biggest problem might be caused by the display. I have a 20'' and a 23'' Cinema at the moment. It's the first time that I wish I had a regular 17'' TFT Using the 23'' Cinema, initially I came all the way to the 0% Screen in the XP Setup and then the system halted. I tried this a couple of times... After installing OSX from scratch, I didn't even get so far. I always got stuck at the black/white "bios" message. With the resolution switch I came a little further (but only one time - the problem is: Cinema HD doesn't supprt 1280x1024). So I switched to the 20'' Cinema - and here I nearly always got into the XP Setup menu - still the problem with 0%.... But all the problems were gone when I used this MacMiniXom.zip. It looks odd - because a 1280x1024 screen is displayed in the upper left corner, but it went all the way through the XP installation. Once XP is installed, you can switch back to the original XOM file and everything looks perfect..... I guess the easiest way would be to use a standard vga monitor with a 1280x1024 resultion for the installation.... I also found out, that depending on the install media you sometimes have to use the F6/enter trick (as soon as the black/white screen comes up, press and hold F6 until the CD stops running and then press enter) to get into the XP setup screen and sometimes not (I burned at least 10 CDs). Also it's important to make sure that you use the correct TXTSETUP.SIF in your XP patch. The one that comes with the 0.1 distribution is for english versions of XP. If you use a different language, some files may be missing during the install process. The same with MCE. ok - thats my experience with XP on the MacMini. Hope this helps you guys a little..... Thanks again to Narf2006 and Blanka!!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlmodell Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 be wary about installing drivers unless they've been confirmed.. i.e. the network drivers seem to be working universally.. i fudged my install by messing with the video drivers. =\ back to square one... be back in a few hours. -___- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 For anyone who has this up and working, does 3d acceleration work on the mini in XP??? Can't find anyone confirming or denying this. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FancyNatra Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I am registered but i can't access to MacMiniXom.zip. Can somebody post a mirror? thx Edit:its available again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyO Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I have a monitor question for y'all. The only computer monitor we have in the house is a 23" Cinema HD, which seems to be causing problems with the XP install on the Mini. Would using Apple's DVI->Video adapter on a small LCD television work? I'm trying to gather all the information on the Mini process before I go out and get one, so I guess I need to know if I should find a cheap computer monitor, too. If it makes any difference, this Mini will be connected to one (non-HD) TV or another about 99% of the time anyway. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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