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

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First off, Great guide, thanks for all the time you've put into this.

 

I ran into no problems during the install, the only small snag i had was when i went to boot to osx for the first time it booted to windows, so i followed the instructions of post #527 and made the mac partition active (although i'm not sure what was meant by "re linked it with the mac osx icon") anyways, i made it active and tried booting again and it seemed to work. Next popped up the "Loading Darwin x86" line and the cursor was doing it's little twirl for about 5 seconds, then it jumped to a white screen with a grey apple in the center (i never got to pick an OS to boot to via darwin btw) then 2 seconds later the screen turns grey and tells me i have to reboot by pressing down the power button blah, blah, blah. (the same screen as shown in post #164)

 

I'm using the Jas install and i selected the SSE2 and SSE3 patches along with a couple driver patches...also i am using acronis os bootloader..

 

Just wondering if someone can point me in the right direction for curing this.

HoTRoD
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yeah i select the first option that said i had to select it if i had an intel(i beleieve i remember the word update in there some where), i also selected sse2, sse3, some wireless patch and a patch for radeon mobility. Should i have just selected the update patch and sse3?

hoyanf
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Easiest method i've tried so far for dual booting is installing windows 1st then OSX86... On 1st booting of OSX after install the original boot prompt will appear in text mode (nothing fancy) for you to select the partition you wish to boot... i've had my setup :-

 

1st Partition - OSX86 DVD (for fast reinstallation)

2nd Partition - OSX

3rd Partition - Windows

 

No fuss no frills...

bendzor
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Hey, I recently Mac'd up my PC via this tutorial.

 

Mac OSX is running entirely, not a single issue anymore. Judging by this forum I think I must be quite lucky that I sorted out any issues within 12 hours of my first attempt.

 

CPU : Intel Pentium4 3ghz. Not sure which chip exactly, but its the one that fits on my motherboard.

 

Motherboard : ASUS P4P800 SE

 

Sound : Onboard

 

Ethernet : Yukon Marvell onboard

 

Graphics : ATI Radeon 9800 pro

 

OSX : JaS 10.4.6

 

Installed it first time, and had no sound, no ethernet and no 1280x1024. Getting the Yukon Lan to work was easy. Just used the driver I found via linked in the forum. Sound wouldn't work at all, and couldn't get the video to work (higher resolution). I then tried adding the 1280x1024x32@60 to my boot.plist and it crashed the entire thing.

 

Second attempt; Yukon working easily, and to my suprise sound was working by default. I think I must have missed one of the customise updates on the first install. I basically did all the updates this time, excluding the AMD ones. So I suggest to not be 'conservative' when you choose those updates. Get anything that might help. You never know!

 

I found that not putting the @60 in the boot.plist worked. So for those who find it doesn't work, just use "1280x1024x32" and make sure you put the command just underneath the existaning key/string commands, and not beneath the actual bulk of the boot.plist

 

So now I have a totally running MacOSX on my system, and I couldn't be more happy. Thanks so much for this very very handy tutorial to explain everything.

 

Kudos :(

Jedisinclair
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This is an amazing guide and after a few snags, I'm running my Hackintosh. Thanks SOOOooo much for this forum and this guide. It's been three days and I'm already almost "windows free"... I've found OS X equivelants for MOST of my windoze programs... but it's nice to have xp there IF I need it... AWESOME STUFF !!!

dilnalomo
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what about sata and pata? is it okay?

 

some people have problem with SATA drives, but mine works fine.

 

I have figured out that I can press F8 and this will get me to the boot command. But now it is just wierd. It lists just one device to boot from, and it says "Ethernet Device" or something like that. WTF?? I suppose os x might not like my teac dvd drive. i havent yet tried to boot with my usb dvd-r. I will try that now.

 

Also, I tried inputting "mach_kernel.nonx. That did nothing.

 

Thanks.

 

Fujitsu N6210

Pentium M 1.86

1.5 GB RAM

ATI Mobility Radeon x600

 

there should a something like "boot from cd-rom", you need to choose this option when you boot the install DVD

 

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QUOTE(Alan B @ Aug 4 2006, 02:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have a problem I have done the guide right and everything but when I use the Disk Utility to format the partition that I made logical and FAT32 my hard drive doen't show up, all I get is the DVD drive and I know it isn't he DVD I used in on another computer just fine. I have a AMD 64 3500+ 1 GB ram NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PICe and ATI mobo seagate 160 GB HD. Any help would be appereciated!!!! And I frogot to mention the HD is not a IDE drive but the DVD drive is.

 

you can try make your osx partition in another location of you Harddrive. i had this problem before, but after making the partition in another location it's fine.

HoTRoD
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well i tried 3 more times, i just installed the Updated Combo patch, SSE3 and the wireless patches. Same thing happens, my first boot attemp ends in the "you must restart" screen. Anyone find it odd that i don't get a darwin screen asking me to select an OS? I get the Loading Darwin.... but 5 seconds later it goes to the white scren witht he grey apple, 2 seconds after that i get the rstart screen.

 

Just wondering, after it finishes the install and reboots, i take the dvd out.... should i be leaving it in? is there more to install?

Rammjet
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well i tried 3 more times, i just installed the Updated Combo patch, SSE3 and the wireless patches. Same thing happens, my first boot attemp ends in the "you must restart" screen. Anyone find it odd that i don't get a darwin screen asking me to select an OS? I get the Loading Darwin.... but 5 seconds later it goes to the white scren witht he grey apple, 2 seconds after that i get the rstart screen.

 

Just wondering, after it finishes the install and reboots, i take the dvd out.... should i be leaving it in? is there more to install?

 

Try an experiment, start the boot and when the screen turns black, start tapping the F8 key until you get a Darwin command prompt. Type: cpus=1 and Enter. Some people have a conflict with 2 CPU's on a Core Duo and they must turn off one of the CPU's.

HoTRoD
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ok, i got to that screen via f8, typed cpus=1 at the boot prompt and it just did what it's been doing all along. So i restarted and thought i'd try just putting -v at the prompt and lines of something started scrolling faster then i could read, then the font became small and finished with a solid cursor at the bottom (no keys worked at this point) 1 line i did notice was that was on the screen at the end was in yellow type that read something like failed to load com.apple.blah blah. Dont know if thats important or not.....

HoTRoD
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sorry, im not sure how to boot in safe mode, or even what i'd do if that worked. i tried booting with the -v switch. there was a line in yellow type that said it couldn't find com.apple.driver.something not found and near the bottom of the screen it said something about kernel panic (i've noticed the panic thing is a problem others have gotten)

 

is installing with just SSE2 rather the SSE3 wortha try?

 

BTW here's a out-of-focus pic i took of the screen i get when i use "-v" at the darwin boot loader screen

Burning Dog
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-v is verbose mode, thism ean it does not show the frey screen with the apple but text, to boot in safe mode you have to use -x, it does not load kernel extensions so you can see if came froma major incompatibility or just an extension problem ^^

 

personnally i have some issue booting in safe mode (notebook just power off during safe boot) but it boot well in normal mode :( but usually safe mode should works as it is mean to be :P

sbohan
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Well after another hour of tinkering it is almost working perfect, I used my Powerbook as a guide to writing my own boot.plist file and that now has the Mac loading as the Primary OS without OS Selector, Sound is also now working and I am just about to start work on my Wifi Card.

 

(funnily enough the card actually has Mac drivers yet the card is still undetected:

http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm I am probably just missing something.)

 

I think I am right in asuming there is no point even trying with my video capture hardware really, there won't be mac drivers for that kind of thing will there? its nothing fancy just an OEM one I picked up a year ago, really pleased with this so thank you, one little error I do have I don't know if it is common is that the machine will not restart, it Shuts Down fine, just a problem when restart it freezes on the blue screen.

 

To sum up in a quick way:

 

++$successes;

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