jeanpave Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Hi. I'm not 100% sure if I've done this properly, but I tried to install the Jas 10.4.8 SSE2 SSE3 Mac OS X onto a computer running Windows XP (SP2). The installation started properly and ended properly. But it doesn't boot. When I get to the boot menu, I can only see the DVD boot option. If I remove the Jas DVD+R, it boots into XP automatically. After trying this a few times, with the same result, I also attempted to use Kalyway's 10.5.2, and iPC's 10.5.6, but those ISOs always freeze before even getting to the first screen of the installation process. If I post my configuration here, would somebody know whether my computer is able to run any version of OS X natively or not? (Although I was thinking: If the DVD works properly when it installs, shouldn't that version of Mac OS X be supposed to work, too? Maybe I'm just doing some little thing wrong.) Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozon42 Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 hello, try to seach this forum. for example my posts - you can find how to prepare the disk (how to format, set boot ) before installation. And yes - please update your signature with your configuration. regards, bozon42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanpave Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 Hi. Thanks for the reply. I followed the instructions in a YouTube video. (Would you like to know the exact clip?) There was also a similar set of instructions on one of the OSX86 Project pages. (- looks like Wikipedia) So, I'm close to being sure that I followed the instructions properly. But the instructions weren't saying anything about setting boot; after setting the hard drive as active, and installing Mac OS X, I was supposed to let the PC restart and then I was supposed to see the option to boot the hard drive installation I had just completed. Now, the configuration: Desktop PC (JaS Mac OS X 10.4.8 SSE2 SSE3 PPF1) Motherboard = ASUS P4P800 CPU = Intel® Pentium® 4 @ 3.00GHz RAM = 512MB Network = Realtek Ethernet NIC (100Mbps) -- I think disk0 = Samsung 30GB disk1 = Seagate 80GB DVD-RW = NEC DVD Burner Is that enough, hopefully? Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanpave Posted April 23, 2010 Author Share Posted April 23, 2010 If I boot into the installation DVD, and go to the 'Startup Disk' option, I can see the hard-drive install showing up there. But, even if I select it to start upon reboot, it still won't start. The partition was set as active. I have no idea how to check if the partition starts before cylinder 1024, though. Also, the 'sudo' command (in 'Terminal') cannot be found for some reason. As an aside, I tried to do what it says here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Simple_Dual_Boot (Could this be a defective Mac OS X image, or something?) How can it install properly (- the DVD behaves perfectly during the formatting and installation processes -) and then not even attempt to boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac 4 PC Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 You might be interested in the project I'm currently in the process of developing.<br />It's called Mac4PC - I'm 99% sure that it would work on your computer.<br />The whole project took me a year, and because I'm very close to release a BETA version, I've decided to show the finished product itself. I work very fast and currently trying to get the stupid quad cores and the AMD's to work. It took me <b>2 days</b> to get my GeForce 4 Go card working on the TC1100. Still there's some issues:<br />Wi-Fi works but never finds any networks (tested on 2 laptops and 4 pc's)<br />ATI Not supported (tested with both AGP and PCI-E)<br />Quad Core and AMD not supported<br />Empty "About this Mac" fields<br>And something weird that I can't fix for now: Always shows the drive as a Pioneer DVD-ROM.<br />But there is some advantages:<br />Installs flawlessly all the time.<br />Always boots.<br />Sleep, shutdown and restart always works!<br />Some screenies if you don't believe:<br /><a href="http://img714.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=photo049x.jpg" target="_blank">http://img714.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=photo049x.jpg</a><br /><br /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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