dyesober Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 So far, I've got a hold of 10.4.8 SSE3 I've partioned my Vistas only partion so that its now two separate partitions, with the newer one being a fat32 partition. And now I'm lost and whenever I try to follow a guide I get lost. Can anyone help me? I've never attempted to do this with Mac OS X, let alone dual boot anything ever before. Thanks for any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacOSMatt Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 im a little confused.. what is it u want to achieve here exactly? uve got hold of sse3 only version of 10.4.8.. partitioned hdd to fat32, so im guessing u want to install it? topic says 'finishing my installation' if u havent installed it yet then it should be.. 'installing' from there all u need to do is write it to a dvd, chuck it in, restart, boot of dvd and install, when installing click customize and tick all that applies to your motherboard, processor type etc. dual boot comes after u have the 2 fully working operating systems.. at least thats how i know it. when it is installed and u want to get to back cringing, i mean windows, just hit F8 right before apple logo screen loads up and it will show ur 2 bootable partitions (osx and vista). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyesober Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 omg i messed up everything so badly i installed acronis oss and when it loaded it showed my dell recovery thing and the mac and thats all i chose mac wehen it asked which os to boot after removing oss now when iturn the comp on all it says is hfs+ error mashing f8 does nothing nothing else works i put my vista dvd in and hit repair nothing worked put my xp cd in and used the partition manager on it to delete the mac partition now it says no bootable devices available when i turn my comp on. but in the xp cd it showed my 60 gig ntfs partition so its still there, how do i tell my computer to boot off of it? omggggggg im stressing out over this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacOSMatt Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 (edited) wow, painful. first of all, whats acronis oss? u tell ur computer to boot of the 60gb ntfs buy getting into ur bios and changing the boot sequence.. if u know what kind of computer u have, google what it is, otherwise try booting up and holding or pressing in f2, f4, f10, f12.. pretty much all the 'fs =p just get into your bios and choose the 60gb partition to be teh booter. HFS+ error means there is no boot sequence available on the drive its trying to boot (darwin [osx] ). to fix this, download Hirens Startup Tools http://soft-best.net/en/detail/hirens_boot...us__boot_cd_86/ then, on that, u can make whatever drive u installed osx on (the one thats going hfs+) to boot, and it will boot to osx. once osx can boot, then u can press F8 before it loads to get back into windows.. ~forgot to say, u do indeed put hirens boot cd on cd then boot with it.. shockingly enough.. it has everything you need on it, it should help =] Edited January 22, 2007 by MacOSMatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyesober Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Thanks so much man I'm back on my windows vista partition now. okay so, acronis oss is short for acronis os selector, which apparently doesn't recognize windows vista which is where hell went loose with me. I deleted all paritions except my main one, that was one painful experience with this. I still have my 10.4.8 dvd so if anyone would wanna help me and give me step by step instructions on how to successfully do this I'd be greatly appreciative. I'm attempting to run this on my Dell e1405. Thanks Matt and thanks to anyone who will help me out, I'd really like to make this happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dong Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I'd like to do it this way: 1. obtain a bootable CD that contains a tool with the ability to change active state of disk partition. 2. After install osx10.4.8 from the DVD to targeted partition and prompt you to restart at the first time, put in the CD mentioned above and boot from this CD. 3. change active partition to your windows partition, make sure the osx partition is not active. 4. reboot from harddisk into vista 5. download the tool easyBCD, use it to add osx into your boot menu. 6. When reboot, you'll have a dual boot menu to choose vista or osx. It should work if there are no other problems like SATA hard disk things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyesober Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Thanks, but where do I get this: obtain a bootable CD that contains a tool with the ability to change active state of disk partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dong Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 (edited) Thanks, but where do I get this:obtain a bootable CD that contains a tool with the ability to change active state of disk partition gentoo linux http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml can be a choice, download Minimal CD/InstallCD (Full version should work too if you prefer) for your architecture and burn it into a CD. When boot into this linux, you can type cfdisk to modify active state. If the state of osx partition is active, make sure to switch it off, because there can only be one active partition on one disk. Edited January 22, 2007 by dong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyesober Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 Hmm okay. And how about the VMware way, I don't understand that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dong Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 (edited) Hmm okay.And how about the VMware way, I don't understand that either. The way I install my OSX is the VMware way and I installed it into a external USB hard disk as the motherboard support boot from USB harddisk. Before below steps, I have created a partition in the disk with type AF in winXP by diskpart. 1. Download VMware 5.5.3 and install. 2. In VMware, create a freeBSD machine with a virtual harddisk size a little smaller than the target AF partition size and allocated the space for it. 3. The 10.4.6 JaS osx iso file is loaded by Daemon tools, it is set as the default CDrom drive for the virtual machine just created. 4. Start the virtual machine and press ESC to choose boot from CDrom, create the partition with diskutility. Then close the virtual machine. This is because my 10.4.8 JaS iso file can't create a partition with boot ability. 5. Load the 10.4.8 JaS iso file into Daemon tools, restart the virtual machine and boot from CDrom, choose the exist partition created in step 4 and continue install. When prompt to restart for the first time, close the virtual machine. 6. Add the target partition to this virtual machine, you can do this in its settings (add a harddisk and choose physical one). 7. Load the Gentoo Linux iso to Daemon tools, restart the virtual machine still from CDrom thus boot into Linux. 8. check harddisks in dev directory, make sure which one is your target physical partition, it should be something like sda?. You may check in Linux cmd: cfdisk. In my case, it's sda1 as I created this partition as the first partition in my USB harddisk. 9. Use Linux cmd dd to copy the osx drive: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/sda? hda1 is the osx virtual partition, replace sda? with your target partition (sda1 in my case). 10. Wait for it finished, then close the virtual machine. 11. Setup boot menu in your window system and it's done. I have to install to a virtual hard disk first and copy it to physical disk because the OSX installer won't be able to detect my physical drive in VMware, but Linux can detect. If it can be detected, there is no need to use the virtual disk and you can directly install to target partition, but remember to close the virtual machine when prompt for restart. Edited January 24, 2007 by dong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude916 Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 HI, I am new to this. Where can I find 10.4.8 please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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