3rd_egg Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Hi ppl. I decided one day that I really miss playing this old game so I want to install windows on my hackintosh. I tried using Boot Camp Assistant and got an error that I need to update my Boot ROM firmware. I don't even know what that is! If anyone got this error and knows how to fix it, plz help me! I'm not really a computer wiz but If u explain the solution well I'll understand. Computer: 1.87 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo btw it says in my System Profiler that my Boot ROM version is "Hack.int.t0sh". Might it be the source of the problem? Any kind of assistance will be appreciated! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon351 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Um... you don't need Boot Camp on a Hackintosh! PCs can already boot Windows natively! Even on Macs, Boot Camp Assistant is only needed to repartition the disk so you can install Windows. The updated firmware is the main component which allows "legacy" systems to boot, as it includes a BIOS compatibility layer. A PC already has a BIOS firmware, so all you need is to add another hard disk or partition to install Windows on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkear5 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hi ppl.I decided one day that I really miss playing this old game so I want to install windows on my hackintosh. I tried using Boot Camp Assistant and got an error that I need to update my Boot ROM firmware. I don't even know what that is! If anyone got this error and knows how to fix it, plz help me! I'm not really a computer wiz but If u explain the solution well I'll understand. Computer: 1.87 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo btw it says in my System Profiler that my Boot ROM version is "Hack.int.t0sh". Might it be the source of the problem? Any kind of assistance will be appreciated! Thanks Hackintoshes can not physically run BootCamp due to the need for official Apple EFI firmware. They were working on a project to overcome this at one point, but it looks to be dead. The only advantage I see with BootCamp is a pretty boot loader. Aside from that a standard Dual Boot will get you going. Search in this section for a guide that meets your requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rd_egg Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 Thanks guys, but I'm not ready to go through all that. I'm too afraid of messing it up, especially if I'm going to split my os x partition -the one I boot from that is- which is 10.5.2 and I only got 10.5.1 system on a bootable CD etc. I'll ask my friend for help, the one who set me up with this computer... I'll refer him to this thread, might help him out. Thanks again. P.S. If someone else has anything to add that may be helpful, you're welcome to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I don't think you understand... Hackintosh's cant and dont need to use Boot Camp, nor do real macs anymore use it anymore. Back in the beta stage Boot Camp was good for partitioning and making drivers and setting the start up disk to be the windows install disk... Now all that boot camp is good for is partitioning and setting the start up disk to be the windows disk. A lot of people think that boot camp installs that pretty boot menu... It doesnt, that is in apples firmware only found on real macs. If you have a GUID Partition scheme, you can find out from Disk utility, you can just add a partition with out destroying your old one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rd_egg Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 No no I got it, it's just that Disk Utility doesn't allow me to change anything, unless I'm doing something wrong. It's "grayed-out", like I can't edit the partitions... And I need another partition for Windows. Partitioning through Disk Utility would be ideal, since I'm pretty sure it won't go wrong. If there's a way to do all this through Disk Utility, plz share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Ohh ok then Disk utility wont let you do not destructive partitioning unless you have a GUID partition scheme which doesn't sound like you do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB06 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Well, I'm also looking into Boot Camp on my hackintosh, because I think the primary advantage over a regular Windows install is that a boot camp install can be virtualized in OS X, which eliminates the need for 2 separate windows installations. Or did I miss something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritthish Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 boot camp cant and wont work on hackintoshes people.... however, you CAN boot into your actual windows install through vmware fusion or parallels (atleast i can....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB06 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 boot camp cant and wont work on hackintoshes people.... however, you CAN boot into your actual windows install through vmware fusion or parallels (atleast i can....) Did you do anything in particular or can I just pop in my retail windows CD/DVD, install it and somehow boot it virtualized? Because I checked it with Parallels (I don't own Fusion yet), but I cannot find anything that would suggest it's possible to boot into an existing install. I would really appreciate it if you could enlighten me . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritthish Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Did you do anything in particular or can I just pop in my retail windows CD/DVD, install it and somehow boot it virtualized? Because I checked it with Parallels (I don't own Fusion yet), but I cannot find anything that would suggest it's possible to boot into an existing install. I would really appreciate it if you could enlighten me . No all i did was install VMWare fusion and it detected by Vista Install as 'bootcamp partition' it needed some tinkering as i got a boot0 error but managed to get it to work... that said, i must admit, running leopard and vista virtualized on 1gb ram was NOT a good idea :S i just use a virtualised XP install now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur1 Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I'm curious how you got this to work. I just downloaded VM Fusion and I can't see how to add my windows partition (on another disk) to VM Fusion. This does not seem to be possible with Parallels (ugh). Does anybody know what parallels looks for on other partitions? It seems as though this must just be a setting somewhere, but I've not found any information about it. This might also be a version 3 vs version 4 issue, not sure. As the pvs file I'm looking at in 4.0 is XML and all the information that i've seen about this is not. I wonder if it might be possible to use parallels to load a boot loader, and then load your windows/linux partition from there- there seems to be some indications that this might work here, but I did not have success with it (yet). any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cavallo Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 I use win xp only on imac cause it runs well than on any other one. There will never possibility to have Apple efi, in any case it is not just a bios problem, there is also an hardware acpi distribution table and in Apple machines it's not software serching requirmenbts it's hardware serching software. We will forever need a patch emulating that to let disc boot on installation. We will never be able to boot a retail osx disc without an harware (Efix or Psystar) or software patch (dfe-chamaleon etc). U efi will not be able to do that. All Apple mobo are modified for it's machines so as that is a total hardware problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd05 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 No all i did was install VMWare fusion and it detected by Vista Install as 'bootcamp partition' it needed some tinkering as i got a boot0 error but managed to get it to work... that said, i must admit, running leopard and vista virtualized on 1gb ram was NOT a good idea :S i just use a virtualised XP install now... How did you get pass that boot0 error? I have the same error and dont know where to go from there. Its a Vista partition on the same physical disk as the hackintosh. Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny G Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Im surprised this is still being talked about. sorry to bring up an old post, but if people read this i dont want them to think it is at all challenging to boot a native windows install, in parallels. i don't use vmware, i just didn't like the interface, i very much enjoy parallels 4. coherence is beautiful =P anyways, simply go into parallels and set up a 'new virtual machine' but not run it. manually edit the pvm file with a text editor.... check this and you'll be good to go. very easy. i assume if you're trying to boot a native xp install within parallels, dual boot is setup properly. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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