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

[sameer]

try using the dvd to check ur partitions for error, using disk utility

[cbmkgd]

There are 85 .rar and win rar files...

If there's a rar file and many other files with .r01, r02, .r03 extensions, then just select .rar file and uncompress from there.

If the extensions are .part001.rar, .part002.rar, .part003.rar, etc, then uncompress only from .part001.rar.

It's a multivolume rar archive, quite common for big releases (and even small ones).

[hirruken]

try using the dvd to check ur partitions for error, using disk utility

 

well i just burnt another copy using another different burning program on another diffrent computer, and it renders the same result =.=" (hangs on twirl screen)

 

where do i find/access disk utility? i'll go look it up when i have a chance...

 

btw, i havn't installed osx yet, i am attempting to install it, so it wuld seem that partitions isn't that important atm since i haven't had to select a partition yet, as i cannot even get to the first installation window

[Rammjet]

When the DVD asks you if you want to press F8, go ahead and press it, then enter -v at the command prompt.

 

Watch for any errors, especially right before it hangs. But give it a little time - booting from a DVD is a slow process - several minutes.

[ouroboros1827]

ISO Downloaded: 10.4.6 JaS

 

Hardware:

AMD Sempron64 3100 SSE3 Socket754 Palermo E6 @ 2600MHz

DFI nF3 250Gb Lanparty

1Gb RAM

Intel PCI Ethernet Card

nVidia 6600gt & Dell P1130 CRT

PS/2 Mouse & PS/2 Keyboard

IDE: 40Gb, 20Gb

SATA: 80Gb

 

I intended to install in on my SATA drive, but the Disk Utility from the disk failed to see it, so I created a partition with Acronis on my 20Gb drive. FAT32, Logical. Rebooted, had a IOATAController error. Rebooted to XP, set the Type (like the ID) from Linux Swap to FAT32 LBA. Booted back to the installer. Some other random error...kept rebooting until it worked. Converted the FAT32 to the Mac Journaled. Installed with the Combo Patch, the AMD patch (and the AMD SSE2 & SSE3 patches). Rebooted to OS Selector, worked first try. Seems like the installer made the partition Primary (not Logical) and active...(it was Yellow, not purple in the Disk Director). On first boot the keyboard didn't work (I had a USB mouse & PS/2 keyboard), but then I got a PS/2 mouse and all worked fine.

 

I forget what Resolution it runs at but the Dock magnifies very smoothly...basically, it runs NICELY. I love it. Network worked without a hitch, and sound works too AC97 (I think). Only thing that is laggy is when I switch to the Dashboard...takes a few seconds to load everything...meh

 

That's all for now! Thanks a lot for the guide!

 

EDIT: One more thing: System Profiler identifies my system as 3GHz, 2Gb RAM...I'm pretty sure the installer disc saw it all correctly though...

[Onetrack]

System 3,MINE is finished.

 

Again, GREAT procedure here dilnalomo, again I did it without the drive conversion, Acronis allows you to create the fat32 partition as a primary so that conversion after you erase the drive in the installer is not required at all ! Man that saves a lot of time.

 

Again, same specs as before: Using HotISO 10.4.6 installer dvd

Mobo. Intel 915Dgvel

Proc: Celeron D 346 @ 3.07Ghz (OEM, Aspire Socket 775 HSF)

Ram: single stick 1 gig pc 5300

Video: Onboard GMA 900 256 meg, full QE/CI

Note: for the video I had all res's but no qe/ci after boot, there is a hack script but this little gem works the best / easiest:

 

Keyboard/mouse - Logitech KB with Logitech 2 button scroll optical

Monitor: 19" widescreen Acer AL1916W - 1440X900 res (so pretty)

HD: Western Digital Sata2 250 gig, 10 gig partition for WinXP, the rest for HFS+

DVDRW- Pioneer 111D - FULLY SUPPORTED - 100%

Case = 17" Mid Tower Xion with a HUGE silver X on the front and an apple logo (personal touch)

 

All parts 502cdn plus tax. (plus 200 for the monitor)

 

Boots from the acronis screen as the default os to my desktop in 13 seconds flat.

 

I love OSX so much I bought the wife a macbook.. my poor little winxp shuttle system is unplugged and gutted. Prolly turn it into an ubuntu box or something.

 

The case is 1/2 really nice and 1/2 fugly as all hell.. it has 2x120mm and 1x80mm with all green leds - looks like alien eyes in the front. Real easy to work on tho.

 

I'd sure like to benchmark this and see whats what.

2 Projects upcoming, get a Radeon X1600 Silent working, and get Audio in working, I hear there is a little USB c-media chip that will work, I need it for Gizmo.

[dilnalomo]

i think 2 people did it with FAT32 primary from start. i think it works either way, i originally did it with FAT32 logical then convert it into a primary, but FAT32 primary worked with my last 2 installs and it saves time.

 

hmm..maybe i should edit the guide...

 

well i just burnt another copy using another different burning program on another diffrent computer, and it renders the same result =.=" (hangs on twirl screen)

 

where do i find/access disk utility? i'll go look it up when i have a chance...

 

btw, i havn't installed osx yet, i am attempting to install it, so it wuld seem that partitions isn't that important atm since i haven't had to select a partition yet, as i cannot even get to the first installation window

 

do not run the install DVD from acronis, it wont start correctly, i tried.

when you boot, before acronis starts, press F12 or whatever key it is to get into boot menu, and choose the option to boot from cd-rom

[Onetrack]

do not run the install DVD from acronis, it wont start correctly, i tried.

when you boot, before acronis starts, press F12 or whatever key it is to get into boot menu, and choose the option to boot from cd-rom

 

This actually didn't work for me, i had to do a fixboot/fixmbr from the recovery console to remove the acronis bootloader, then boot from the dvd, do the full install, let it reboot into windows - then install the acronis bootloader again, it was a little wonky but it seemed to work.

 

And yeah, no need to make a logical then convert to primary, making the fat32 drive as primary to start saves a ton of time because no conversion is needed.

 

Cheers,

One

[dilnalomo]

i edited the guide now, people can go with logical or primary, its's their choice.

[cbmkgd]

If there are problems at first with the Install DVD properly treating the primary fat32 partition (like it happened to me), Acronis can set it to type 0xAF ("ShagOS swap").

Primary partition of type 0xAF always worked instantly for me. (reference)

[hirruken]

This actually didn't work for me, i had to do a fixboot/fixmbr from the recovery console to remove the acronis bootloader, then boot from the dvd, do the full install, let it reboot into windows - then install the acronis bootloader again, it was a little wonky but it seemed to work.

 

And yeah, no need to make a logical then convert to primary, making the fat32 drive as primary to start saves a ton of time because no conversion is needed.

 

Cheers,

One

 

ok, i've just set my 10gb fat32 partition to primary and going to commit it once i finish this post. With regard to what onetrack said about fixboot/fixmbr, will this cause problems if I didn't need to do this?

 

and just to make sure, the f12 boot menu is just the menu from the BIOS that allows you to directly boot from either harddrive, floppy drive, or optical drive right? This is just to save time, rather than to set the the options for 'boot order' to have cdrom drive boot first?

[hirruken]

Ok, i set the -v option to check out the diagnostic messages while booting up CD with the osx partition as fat32 primary. There are no problems when the CD is booting up through the ms-dos looking console. But when it comes to the changed font (i assume this is where the grey twirl screen comes), I wrote down some of the messages that seems a bit suspicious.

 

Local APIC version not 0x14 as expected

 

Extension "Com.apple.driver.AppleACPIThermal" has no kernel dependency

Extension "Com.apple.driver.AppleOnboardPCATA" has no kernel dependency

 

BSM auditing present

disabled

From path: "uuid",

 

USB caused wake event (EHCI)

USBF: 59.600 Apple USBOHCI[0x2763000] :: start OHCI will be unloaded accross sleep

USBF: 59.604 Apple USBOHCI[0x2933000] :: start OHCI will be unloaded accross sleep

 

ApplePS2Controller : Timed out on keyboard input stream

 

and the final message on where it hangs is:

BSD root: disc0s3, major 14, minor 2

 

Again, there is no HDD or CD activity (due to no led lights blinking)

and also, keyboard does not respond during this time (cannot turn on num lock etc) - but i dont think this is important

[cbmkgd]

i had to do a fixboot/fixmbr from the recovery console to remove the acronis bootloader, then boot from the dvd, do the full install, let it reboot into windows - then install the acronis bootloader again

Actually, you just need to disable Acronis OS Selector in Windows and re-enable it later.

Make sure to create the Acronis bootable cd to re-enable aoss.

Make the osx partition active with disk director.

Then reboot on the install dvd and install osx, making sure it works.

When you're satisfied with your osx system, reboot on the acronis bootable cd and re-enable aoss; in the next reboot (removing the cd) hopefully aoss will detect the new os ("Unknown OS" icon).

Right-click icon and make sure the Properties are ok (active osx partition, right hd boot sequence...).

Now aoss should be ready to handle osx.

 

Keep the acronis bootable cd; it can be quite handy as it can repair an aoss install if it becomes corrupted, and it also includes a full version of disk director.

[Bra55monk3y]

SKIPPY!

 

Ok it works for me thanks for the help folks.. now trying to get all the goodies to work.

 

IOS: JAS 10.4.6 ISO

 

System:

Gateway MX3230 Notebook

Intel Celeron M Processor 370 (SSE2)

512Mb RAM

S3 Graphics Card

 

Cheers and tanks for the guide.

[hirruken]

ok, i got my laptop to get passed the grey twirl screen, unlike the other two desktop computers. I even got it to get to installation. However, when it was checking installation it seemed like a part of the dvd was damaged or something. i got to 98% installation of part 1, and then the installation told me to restart again. but it seems like i cannot install osx again, i'll reformat that partition. btw, the laptop is sse2 supported, while the two desktops are sse3.

 

is it possible to just mount the ISO to the harddrive? so i can prevent from reading errors? or it just doesn't work out of windows xp (if i mounted it through xp). i think i will download the JaS iso, *sigh* didn't want to do that...

[cbmkgd]

If you doubt the integrity of your dvd burns, you could try the vmware-to-native tutorial, where you mount the iso image, install through vmware using physical disk, and then later try to boot native.

 

But not all succeed, it has its own set of problems.

[hirruken]

Well I just successfully installed osx on my laptop, Acer Travelmate 920 (i think everything works except wireless lan, no 3rd party driver installed yet) - you can add another to your counter!

 

So I can safely assume it hasn't got to do anything with the dvd (as user suggested above), however, with my desktop (which is the more important computer for me), I will try through VMWARE workstation.

 

*EDIT: okay, I got it to fully install using VMWARE, however, when i reboot, acronis attemps to load, and then it says "HFS+ partition error". Sometimes acronis will succesffuly load, and I tried booting osx through it, but it came up with the same error. I'll see if windows boots up proprely, most likely. how can i solve this?

[dilnalomo]

cool, hirruken you are lucky number 108,

 

as for the "HFS+ partition error", maybe your osx partition is not set to the right type.

it has to be the type of OxAF and a primary.

[rresende]

Hi fellas,

 

I'm trying to run OSX on my lappy for a long time, but now I figured out that it doesn't support PAE, only MMX, SSE and SSE2.

I'm trying to install (MaC.OsX.10.4.5.Universal.Install.DVD(INTEL_AMD_SSE3_SSE2) on a Toshiba M55-S135 lappy, so I would like to know if someone else had sucess with this machine and version of OSX86.

 

Thank you a lot.

 

Rodrigo

[dilnalomo]

 

hmm...cpu-z doesn't show that PAE for me either...

but pc wizard says i have it...

 

so i am not sure if my hackintosh supports it or not.

 

 

anyway...you will need select the SSE2 patch during install, and you dont need to install the SSE3 patch.

[hirruken]

cool, hirruken you are lucky number 108,

 

as for the "HFS+ partition error", maybe your osx partition is not set to the right type.

it has to be the type of OxAF and a primary.

 

hurrah for 108, aside from this, how do i convert the partition to 0xAF? Acronis does not have such a type to change to, is there a program to allow me to do this? I assumed disk utility in osx setup would convert to the correct partition (i selected the one suggested in this guide), however, this was under VMware workstation.

 

how can i change it to 0xAF?

[Burning Dog]

Disk Director allow to change to 0xAF but it's in advanced settings or such menu, you have a BIG list of type and 0xAF is in and associated as ShagOS Swap

[hirruken]

yeh i just noticed it. i was looking for the exact type 0xAF, but there was none listed, closest one was like 0AF, anyways, you look under the OS names for 'ShagOS swap' and it's there, just not under '0xAF'

 

unfortunately, even if i got rid of the partition error, osx will still not boot up. the last message pops up seems like it is waiting for something. "still waiting for root device" or something like that...

 

just a wild guess, but does this have anything to do with disabling things such as usb or lan?

[dilnalomo]

maybe one of your hardware is not recognized by osx.

[rresende]

dilnalomo,

 

same here, cpuz doesn't show PAE support but pc wizard says it's fine.

 

I'll keep trying to install.

 

Thanks for the tip.

 

Rodrigo