ibr4him Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Hi everyone, I purchased this system yesterday: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3R-R3 Core i7 2600K Asus HD5670 1GB DDR3 I have installed Windows 7 (64bit) on this PC already and I have a legit copy of Lion downloaded from my Macbook and I have it on DVD as well as on Flash Drive. Now I searched a lot for a guide that would allow me to: 1) Install Lion directly (without having to install SL) 2) AND allow me to dual boot Lion + Win7 I'd really appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction? How to install Lion directly once you have win installed? Any guide available for my purpose? Many thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Hi everyone, I purchased this system yesterday: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3R-R3 Core i7 2600K Asus HD5670 1GB DDR3 I have installed Windows 7 (64bit) on this PC already and I have a legit copy of Lion downloaded from my Macbook and I have it on DVD as well as on Flash Drive. Now I searched a lot for a guide that would allow me to: 1) Install Lion directly (without having to install SL) 2) AND allow me to dual boot Lion + Win7 I'd really appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction? How to install Lion directly once you have win installed? Any guide available for my purpose? Many thanks for your help! Here is how I got my dual boot: 1. Partition HDD as GPT and name it Lion and Windows. Make Lion partition active. 2. Install Lion on first partition (partition 1 not partition 0 as it is EFI) using any guide available in this forum. 3. Install bootloader alongwith Extra folder including addition kexts to EFI partition. 4. After successful installation of Lion, make your other partition i.e. Windows active. 5. Install Windows (x64). 6. Boot into Lion and make EFI partition as active using fdisk. Your dual boot is ready. You may face startup error during Windows boot, in this case just make your Windows partition active and do Windows startup repair thru Windows Install DVD. Note: I am facing a little problem in dual boot. Once I boot Lion I am unable to boot into Windows. Might be Lion is corrupting Windows boot. To boot into Windows again I have to do startup repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aufa333 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Here is how I got my dual boot:1. Partition HDD as GPT and name it Lion and Windows. Make Lion partition active. 2. Install Lion on first partition (partition 1 not partition 0 as it is EFI) using any guide available in this forum. 3. Install bootloader alongwith Extra folder including addition kexts to EFI partition. 4. After successful installation of Lion, make your other partition i.e. Windows active. 5. Install Windows (x64). 6. Boot into Lion and make EFI partition as active using fdisk. Your dual boot is ready. You may face startup error during Windows boot, in this case just make your Windows partition active and do Windows startup repair thru Windows Install DVD. Note: I am facing a little problem in dual boot. Once I boot Lion I am unable to boot into Windows. Might be Lion is corrupting Windows boot. To boot into Windows again I have to do startup repair. i think he is talking about the 1st stages of installation ,which the Lion DVD by its self won't boot until he restore the basesystem.dmg and etc. to the usb ,in that case you can use any of the tutorials regarding the usb preparation for Lion through ur MacBook ,then install it next to Windows 7. about the dual boot ,i didn't try "7 + Lion" _only tried "7+SL" using EasyBcd ,but regarding the Lion _i have triple boot 'SL +Lion +7' here and its working perfectly ,maybe its related to the chameleon on mac ,try chameleon for windows Here and see will it work or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibr4him Posted July 28, 2011 Author Share Posted July 28, 2011 i think he is talking about the 1st stages of installation ,which the Lion DVD by its self won't boot until he restore the basesystem.dmg and etc. to the usb ,in that case you can use any of the tutorials regarding the usb preparation for Lion through ur MacBook ,then install it next to Windows 7. about the dual boot ,i didn't try "7 + Lion" _only tried "7+SL" using EasyBcd ,but regarding the Lion _i have triple boot 'SL +Lion +7' here and its working perfectly ,maybe its related to the chameleon on mac ,try chameleon for windows Here and see will it work or not. Yes, indeed I'm talking about the very first steps. So you're saying Lion DVD won't book but Lion flash drive will? I have Lion bootable on flash drive as well. What is basesystem.dmg? So, I have to boot into Lion using USB drive, create an HFS partition while preserving the windows partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aufa333 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Yes, indeed I'm talking about the very first steps. So you're saying Lion DVD won't book but Lion flash drive will? I have Lion bootable on flash drive as well. What is basesystem.dmg? So, I have to boot into Lion using USB drive, create an HFS partition while preserving the windows partition? -yes it wont boot because u need to do some modification ,the bootable flash from Macstore is only for ur Original Mac systems not the Hackintosh. -you can use Mald0n Guide or use Mine to make the usb. -and yes u can keep ur windows partition intact but it depends if you gonna use GUID or MBR , if GUID then u will have to format the whole HDD and reinstall windows again. MBR > is windows only GUID >is mac & windows + it will be easier to install any of the upcoming OS like windows 8 or even Mac without the need for any modified files to get around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibr4him Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Ok, previous 5 steps done, that is Lion and Windows Installed. Now I just can't figure this: 6. Boot into Lion and make EFI partition as active using fdisk. Can you please post the actual commands? Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aufa333 Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Ok, previous 5 steps done, that is Lion and Windows Installed. Now I just can't figure this: Can you please post the actual commands? Many thanks he means that u do excatley the same with Windows 7 to get it boot flaged with through ur DVD boot repair cmnds but this time u'll select ur lion driver to active so u can boot into lion chameleon menu ,btw the dual boot for windows and lion sometimes it just wont work but with some effort u may get succeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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