[HowTo] XP + OSX 10.4.4-10.4.8 native dual boot

[Brightstar]

Did you try simply pulling out your graphics card, pulling off that thing below your keyboard port that's covered, and plug in your monitor there? (assuming you're at least a year 2004 or latermachine)

[Vinnyduke]

Works perfectly here :

 

Installed using MacOSX_10.4.6_GoatsecxDVD.iso then updated with Jas 10.4.7 update.

 

The installation itself was very quick. The conversion to primary (100 GB partition) took more than an hour. Guess I should had made it a bit smaller

 

System :

 

P4 3GHZ(FSB800) 930 Dual Core

2x512 DDR400

Asrock 775i65G (Intel 865G chipset)

IDE Maxtor 120 GB (where OSX is installed)

SATA Western Digital 250 GB

nvidia GeForce 6600GT AGP

LG DVD-ROM

LG DVD-RAM (cd burning not tested yet)

Sound (on board)

USB (mouse)

Ethernet (on board: internet + samba shares.. still have to get the network printer to work)

PS2 (keyboard)

 

Everything is fully natively detected. Speedy as hell.

 

Adding :

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>cpus=1</string>

 

to the file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist fixed a lot of stuff (ethernet was detected but got the system frozen when the cable was plugged in; sound was skipping; system was way slower; had multple error messages on startup; etc) Maybe is there an other workaround to get both cores to work but still performances rock hard.

 

Had to patch /etc/rc to use both USB mouse and PS2 keyboard at same time : ps2 patch

 

Still using Acronis boot loader (less than 10 sec to load) because I get HFS+ error when setting osx active. No big deal.

 

Actually, OSX seems to be even more stable than windows XP (havent find out why yet..)

 

Thank you zillion times!

[x86SMD]

I had complete sucess (minus the audio) dual booting OSX 10.4.6 with this method. The only thing I did different is use GParted (Gnome Partition Manager) instead of Acronis.

 

I simply press F8 at boot and I get a selection of OSX or WinXP.

 

***Note: I used the Beta2 Build1 MacVidia Drivers to get my Apple Cinma 20" to work with 1680x1050 DVI

 

Hardware:

Sony Vaio RB30 P4 3.06 GHz

Intel 915 Chipset

PNY gForce 6600GT - DUAL DVI connected 20" Apple Cinema Display @ 1680x1050

Full Ethernet

2GB Corsair XMS RAM

[Jhero]

So I used the hotiso release on a Dell 4550 and it worked!!

 

I have a gfrce mx420 pci card in there and the first boot the graphics were fine. After I installed some udpated via software update but not 10.4.7 and then added the line for 1280x1024 and then I tried to find the macvidia drivers but their site is shut down currently so I got beta 1 rls 5... Once I rebooted, the colours are all messed up but I everything else is fine.. It's really hard to read

 

Any help?

 

Thanks

 

***Note: I used the Beta2 Build1 MacVidia Drivers to get my Apple Cinma 20" to work with 1680x1050 DVI

 

Would you mind sending this to me? It seems the site is broken

 

EDIT: well i fixed it, just needed to remove those extra lines

[Mastapopo]

Got Acronis dual boot on an Asus A6Jc

 

*updated*

 

Core Duo T2300 (1.66ghz)

1gb DDR2 533

100gb PATA HD

Intel Pro Wireless 3945 (not working)

Built in ethernet (not working)

Intel High Def. Audio (not working)

NVidia GeForce 7300 Go (not supported with macvidia drivers. Only displays at 1024x768)

8X DVD burner

Bison Web Cam (not working, have not found a driver as of yet)

Ricoh SD card reader (not working)

 

I used 10.4.6 HOTiSO release.

 

Basically, not much on the laptop works. The GeForce Go 7300 will be supported in the next release by the macvidia team according to the boards.

[btkk]

to dilnalomo:

thank for your guide, well done. I saw a lot of successful installations with your guide but unfortunatly I have problem.

 

Firstly, I used the 10.4.6 install DVD (JaS), and followed the guide, everything was ok... but when I reboot and selected MacOS (from Acronis OS selector 10), some carzy text went up (as your guide) then..my PC restart again and again...

 

HDD structure:

XP partition(NTFS) | MAC OSX (HFS) | DATA (NTFS)

 

I tried the 10.4.6 Iso Myz, and I have the same problem...

 

All the Iso CRC checksum is ok, I burned DVD at 4x (SONY burner)...

 

Before trying 10.4.6, I have install 10.4.3 patched without this problem..

 

My PC spec:

 

P4 530 (SS2/SS3/SSE)

Motherboard Gigabyte GA-8IPE775-G

HDD SATA Seagate 80Gb

[dilnalomo]

@ btkk: if 10.4.3 worked for you, just install it and update it to 10.4.7, that's easier than installing all over again.

 

@ vinnyduke: so you added this to disable one core?

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>cpus=1</string>

and, hell yeah, even running on hardware made for windows, osx is a hell lot stable on my machine than windows. it's all in the code man...

 

 

i counted every success reported to me via PM and replies here, and up to now there are 70 known success. of course there are some failure also, i would say about 20 people...

[greenbmw530i]

Hi there! I would first like to thank you for your incredibly comprehensive guide! I have a problem, however. When I turn on my computer, OS Selector gives me two options, "Windows XP" and "Mac OSX." "Windows XP" boots right into XP (as it should), however, "Mac OSX" boots into XP as well! Please tell me how I can fix this, I followed your guide 100%.

 

I used 10.4.6 JaS install dvd and I'm using an Alienware laptop and made sure I checked all needed options during the "customize" part of the installation.

 

Please help me -- Thanks in advance!

 

On a side note, I was getting a kernel panic error which wouldn't let me get past the beginning grey apple screen of installation -- I used "platform=osx86" and that allowed me to go through with my installation, could that have something to do with it?

[dilnalomo]

hi, go to page 27 and read post #527 by -Bj, maybe that works for you.

[greenbmw530i]

hi, go to page 27 and read post #527 by -Bj, maybe that works for you.

Thanks for your speedy reply dilnalomo,

One step closer! I did what Bj did and booted from "Mac OSX" in OS Selector, which shows Darwin loading but then I get to the grey apple screen which quickly changes to a "Restart your computer" (in several languages) screen. Naturally, I restart, but I get the same thing each time I restart. This is the same screen I got before I used "platform=osx86" during the installation process. What's the problem here?

[naddy69]

Your method is OK, but why the extra steps of first creating a logical, FAT32 partition then converting it later? Just create a Primary partition and leave it blank, then use the OS X Disk Utility during the install to "Erase" it. This creates the necessary HFS+ partition type also.

 

I'm using the Bootmanager from XFDISK. It works fine and is free.

[nooutlet]

ISO used: Mac OS X Tigher ... 10.4.6 OSX 86 ... HotISO

HP zd7380us Laptop, 3.2 ghz P4, 1gb ram

15GB Win partition and 50GB OSX partition

 

--

 

Installation was smooth, everything works great! Only issue is the Nvidia GeForce Go FX5700 video card is not recognized and the macvidia drivers crash the system. If the resolution problem was resolved, this would be a perfect install!

 

Thanks

[dilnalomo]

@ greenbmw530i : sorry, i have no idea wht's going on, does it say why you need to restart?

 

@ naddy69: i did it this way because it worked for me. another more reasonable reason is shown by j.vimal in Post #265

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...1339&st=264

 

@ nooutlet: you are success number 71! you can edit the com.apple.boot.plist change the resolution.

[greenbmw530i]

@ greenbmw530i : sorry, i have no idea wht's going on, does it say why you need to restart?

 

I booted with -v and got a picture of it, I hope this makes sense to somebody, because I sure as hell don't know what it means:

 

"fpu segment overrun exception in kernel thread context" seems to be the problem...(My intel p4 cpu supports sse2, so I checked the appropriate customization hack during installation)

[Jhero]

I have a problem, my motherboard is a DFI ut 250 (nf3) and I followed the instructions and managed to install it on my ATA hd. Now, when I reboot and try to boot it from acronis, it does not show up under the list of available os's . The ata hd in question is setup this way

 

Backup (primary, ntfs) | os x (logical, fat 32)

 

Btw, this is on my amd pc and not the intel box previously posted

 

EDIT: I have made it primary in windows and used the chain0 method and set the win xp partition to active yet when I try to boot into os x it gives me the chain boot error

 

Can anyone who has an amd setup which patches they exaclty checked if you used the hot iso release? I tried to reinstall and at the end of the install where it asks to restart, it tries to restart but hangs

[dilnalomo]

hi jhero,

 

if you use acronis,

windows partition = primary,active

osx partition = primary

no chain0 is needed

 

if you use chain0,

os selector = deactivated

windows partition = primary, active

osx partition = primary

and edit boot.ini in windows.

 

if you use darwin,

os selector = deactivated

windows partition = primary

osx partition = primary, active

no chain0 is needed.

 

btw, greenbmw530i : i believe you have what is called a "kernel panic".

 

your kernel is afraid of something in your computer......

 

(just joking. lol)

[Crawfish]

Iso Hotiso OSX 10.4.6

Hd Asus A8V - AMD64 3000 - Radeon 9200 256 mb

 

Installed with no problems! Also installed fixes for AGP, Yukon 81008 and thats all. Good!

 

 

java script:emoticon('', 'smid_2')

 

 

 

java script:emoticon('', 'smid_4')

However never got OSX to recognize my usb printer hp 1315. I searched the net over and have not found a solution. I am currently downloading other iso s to see if they will work.

 

Again, Good job on the tutorial! I will keep a copy of it near my computer at all times. By the way some advice for us newbies. Make a rescue disk with Acronis 10!!!!! It can save your computer!!!

 

Crayfish

[dilnalomo]

nice #72!

 

maybe you can edit some files in osx and use a generic driver instead of a specific driver, i dont know how, but just an idea for you.

 

i never bothered to make an rescue disk, and i did messed up my boot, so a rescue disk may actually come in handy. what does it do anyway?

[greenbmw530i]

btw, greenbmw530i : i believe you have what is called a "kernel panic".

your kernel is afraid of something in your computer......

(just joking. lol)

I followed the guide 100%, I checked all neccessary customizaiton packages, and I'm sure my hardware is compatible with the install dvd that I used (JaS 10.4.6). I've been searching the forums here for "kernel panic" and there are a lot of threads regarding the topic, but none seem to have a definitive solution...got any suggestions? I really don't want to give up on OSX86

[dilnalomo]

in the picture you provided, near the bottom of the text there's a line

"com.apple.driver.ApplePS2Controller..." i have no idea what these text means, but maybe osx have problem with your PS2 controller, meaning your keyboard or mouse, try use a usb one?

good luck!

[greenbmw530i]

Interesting, I didn't notice that before. Before I somehow disable my keyboard and mouse: would it have made a difference if I had installed "X11" (during customization). What does X11 do anyhow?

 

Back to the ApplePS2Controller, though. Would this link help me in some way? http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=21952

 

Thanks a bunch for putting up with my noobness!

[dilnalomo]

i dont know what are you doing to do with that, just try a a usb keyboard/mouse and see if it works.

[greenbmw530i]

For the heck of it, I tried to boot into Mac OSX again with -v, and I took a pic of it....as you can see, there is nothing about a PS2 controller driver this time...which is pretty darn strange.

For the love of God, all I want is for my damned kernel to stop panicking.

[dilnalomo]

do you have a dual core cpu? for some dual core cpu, one core has to be disabled to get osx to work.

[greenbmw530i]

No, I don't have a dual core cpu...however, I'm positive mine supports hyperthreading. I say this because I also use linux, and I know the linux kernel for dual core cpus is the same kernel you use to "enable" hyperthreading...so there's got to be a connection.

You're on to something dilnalomo; work your magic!