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

[macpoop392]

Just a followup to my above post. I'm still unsuccessful in my attempts. I have enabled verbose mode and now it's wigging out trying to find a keyboard..I've tried my regular PS/2 keyboard, a rubber USB keyboard and a USB Mac keyboard..and it still won't boot.

 

 

Any ideas? With the GUI it's stuck at the above pictured screen in my previous post.

[OSX-fan]

OK, let's start over. Is this happening when you first boot the DVD prior to installation? Or have you completed the installation, and now you get the text on boot? Does it finish booting and you get to the OSX Desktop or does it stall and never get totally booted?

 

If this is after installation, then during the installation, what packages did you select under Customize? You should have chosen only Intel or AMD packages, not both. You should have chosen SSE2 or SSE3, not both, depending upon the capability of your processor.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=4249

 

OSX installed fine, I get the text scroll each time I boot up. The odd thing is under customise there were no option listed for SSE2 etc at all with the Myz release I used. The Jas version which I also tried gave the white no entry sign which I get on my desktop pc so could'nt use this one either

 

Is there a way to alter things now I have OSX fully installed ?

 

I've just looked at the screeenshot which OSX release was this ? I certainly did'nt have any of these listed

[BlackCH]

This is the best method! Works perfect!

 

I just used DISKPART from COMMAND in Xp to generate an AF primary partition to host OSX.

 

The HD must be PRIMARY MASTER (1st IDE chanell) and the DVD unit must be PRIMARY SLAVE.

[macsga]

Well, hi there. At first thanks for the nice tutorial. I got the iso called '10.4.6.install.dvd.iso' off piratebay :pirate2: and i had a 80gb WD handy for the testing. My machine is an AMD Athlon 4200+ dual core 64 bit. Runs on an MSI nforce4 chipset (K8N SLI) and it has an Ati Radeon X800 RX extreme, equipped with 256Mb DDR3 ram. The System Memory totals at 2Gb of DDR1 @ 400MHz.

 

I must state here that I own 3 Macs (a 800MHz G4 Quicksilver Mac and two iBooks) and I am (kinda) old user of OS X.

 

I have started the procedure by installing Acronis suite and formatting the 80Gb disk as 'non defined' (yes the whole of it). I then defined the bootable devices (Win + Unknown) and started off the DVD Rom with the burned bootable ISO image. I customized the installation by selecting the AMD SSE2 commands (for some unknown reason AMD SSE3 gives a kernel panic error on boot)

 

The procedure lasts only 20mins and gives you a perfectly stable OSX running BLAZINGLY fast (both cores utilized)... The only probs I had so far is the ethernet (I have a couple of solutions for this in mind) and the kerx for the Radeon X800 (I will use the borisbadenov_3.2.pkg.zip right after posting this and see what happens).

 

Finally:

A.F.A.I.C. the SATA disks connected on the Nforce4 bus: It failed to recognize them both at first but did so right after 2-3 reboots. I guess that it's not a case to bother after they're working fine...

 

I guess that makes the 144th happy hackintosh user!

Cheers.

[cbmkgd]

Congrats on your success macsga.

 

We have almost the same board (except for SLI). I use the nvidia ethernet chip and had no problems to connect; are you using the other ethernet chip?

 

The amd x2 chips seem more stable with the sse2 patch; others have reported kernel panics with the sse3 patch on the wiki, so you're not alone.

 

As for the sata/nf4 combination, no problems here for reading (have only ntfs on that sata anyway); but writing on sata has been seen to produce errors in this situation. Hoping for eventual solution...

[Vikas Rana]

i installed 10.4.7 jas osx installation went perfect. but when i boot osx for first time from os selector, loading screen wid apple logo came after which some vertical lines appeared and after that my screen turned of(laptop). i dont see any scrolling text while booting!!!! what should i do?

[macsga]

We have almost the same board (except for SLI). I use the nvidia ethernet chip and had no problems to connect; are you using the other ethernet chip?

 

I am using the nvidia ethernet chip too, and it comes up with an error on the network assistant, stating 'cable not connected' (while it is). A hard guess is that I have got the 'ethernet bios' option disabled on bios (?). Did you not have the same problems?

 

As for the sata/nf4: I won't use my 2 ntfs drives other from reading. I just want them readable, as they're full with my personal files I want to have access to.

 

Thanks for the helpful reply!

 

Ah, I have something else:

 

Please do me a favor (anyone can test this on his/her computer). I have discovered a time/calendar problem some time ago with all my macs (both the G4 and my 2 G3 ibooks). When trying to set the computer clock over the 19/01/2038 the computer just stops! I had it googled and I found that the reason is, that EVERY Unix based OS (BSD core is *nix) has had this timing problem due to the way that it counts the seconds:

 

Quote:

"What makes January 19, 2038 a special day? Unix and Unix-like operating systems do not calculate time in the Gregorian calendar, they simply count time in seconds since their arbitrary "birthday", GMT 00:00:00, Thursday, January 1, 1970 C.E. The industry-wide practice is to use a 32-bit variable for this number (32-bit signed time_t). Imagine an odometer with 32 wheels, each marked to count from 0 and 1 (for base-2 counting), with the end wheel used to indicate a positive or negative integer. The largest possible value for this integer is 2**31-1 = 2,147,483,647 (over two billion). 2,147,483,647 seconds after Unix's birthday corresponds to GMT 03:14:07, Tuesday, January 19, 2038. One second later, many Unix systems will revert to their birth date (like an odometer rollover from 999999 to 000000). Because the end bit indicating positive/negative integer may flip over, some systems may revert the date to 20:45:52, Friday, December 13, 1901 (which corresponds to GMT 00:00:00 Thursday, January 1, 1970 minus 2**31 seconds). Hence the media may nickname this the "Friday the Thirteenth Bug". I have read unconfirmed reports that the rollover could even result in a system time of December 32, 1969 on some legacy systems!"

(source: http://www.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html)

 

Ofcourse, this shouldn't be happening to THIS computer as it utilizes a 64bit CPU!... but yet it has the problem. I have had Apple notified through a letter a few months ago but got myself no reply. If you have any info or possible solution on this, please contribute.

 

Thanks

[OS X PC]

Hi,

 

Almost complete success on a Toshiba Satellite P10 laptop with nVidia video with Mac OS X 10.4.7 AMD/Intel (JaS) ISO. Network ok, audio ok, just video resolution problem.

 

This is sweet . . .

 

OS X PC

 

P.S. I might be the only one who didn't know this tidbit but be careful defragging the XP partition if you're using Acronis OS Selector, it seems a defrag can confuse Acronis to the point where you'll only get a "Boot command not found" type of message. Booting off the XP CD and using FIXMBR solved it for me but had me freaked out for a while.

[henryisgod]

my config is

 

amd 3000+ 939 pin

1 gb ddr 400 ram

6600 gt

160 gb sata hdd

 

cpuz shows sse and sse2 for me and not sse3 or pae

 

tell me whether i'll be able to install this.

 

PS: will it install on sata

 

i am using Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack

 

plz help me

[cbmkgd]

@macsga:

No, nv ethernet never had problems here. Never used the other ethernet chip.

Didn't know about Friday the 13th bug!

 

@OSXpc:

Had similar problems. Now I've installed aoss in a non-system partition; fat32 also; it's a partition that i rarely need to defragment.

If you checked this present thread, I've suggested numerous times to create the acronis bootable cd, which can be used to fix aoss.

 

@henryisgog:

At least sse2 is needed, so you're ok; select the sse2 pack in the custom install.

nf4 boards are known to have writing problems on sata drives. Do a search in this forum about it. Consult the wiki hardware compatibility list.

[scwyes]

Hey this is my first post ever in this forum...

 

Okay..

 

Well I followed your guide to install OSx86 in my laptop. And I think I can cosider it as sucessful....well, although sound card and wireless card is not working.

 

In fact I tried both the Hot Tiger ISO and the Myz ISO. I couldnt make it with the Hot Tiger ISO then I tried the Myz one and it works.

 

My Laptop Config:

 

Fujitsu C2220

Pentium 4M 2.2GHz

ATI Radeon IGP 340M (its not regonized !)

ATI Chipset

768MB DDR Ram

Sigma Tel Sound Card(Not Working)

Intel Chipset Onboard Lan

Boardcom Wireless Lan (Not working)

 

Thank you very much for the guide, keep it up!

[samee]

my config is

 

amd 3000+ 939 pin

1 gb ddr 400 ram

6600 gt

160 gb sata hdd

 

cpuz shows sse and sse2 for me and not sse3 or pae

 

tell me whether i'll be able to install this.

 

PS: will it install on sata

 

i am using Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack

 

plz help me

 

NO, it's not gonna install on SATA, get a PATA drive.

[darfinno]

bad english ..

 

 

the method is working, but on my board (gigabyte Ga 915P Duo Pro) with a lot of trouble. After 2 days of fight i finally instaled osx tiger on my pc.

 

I problably will be buing Asrock motherboard (Asrock Conroe945G-DVI) to fully suport osx . Now i have nvidia 6600 gt so no support for hardware acceleration..

[OS X PC]

@OSXpc:

Had similar problems. Now I've installed aoss in a non-system partition; fat32 also; it's a partition that i rarely need to defragment.

If you checked this present thread, I've suggested numerous times to create the acronis bootable cd, which can be used to fix aoss.

 

 

Hi CBMKGD,

 

Thanks for the AOSS bootable CD info, definitely something I'll do.

 

OS X PC

[cbmkgd]

@osxpc: Cé ti-gidou right through...

[Eskemo]

You can add me to the Success Counter [Yea!]

 

ISO: MacOSX_10.4.6DVDPATCHED_Myz

Computer Specs:

AMD 3500+

ATI x700 SE [DVI]

2GB of Kingston RAM

NEC 3550 DVD-RW

Western Digital IDE 20Gb HDD

Segate SATA 250Gb HDD

Logitech Trackman Trackball mouse USB

Micron Keyboard :-/ [not supported]

 

I have Windows XP Pro installed on my 250Gb and Ubuntu Linux on my 20Gb HDD

GRUB has been my Bootloader for a while now till i came across this article, and i said hey mine as well try it.

 

This tut worked great.

After i installed it, i was a major noob and couldnt get Mac to boot of GRUB.. i never even thought to change the boot order to my SATA HDD.. so i uninstalled ubuntu and booted mac.. but when i was installing it I did everything up to step 5, When it said customize, i selected the SSE3 option for my AMD processor[wrong choice >.<] and it froze tring to load Mac...

 

After reinstalling Mac and Ubuntu everything seems to be going great except Mac doesnt support my keyboard, which is understandable, so im going to have to get one from my friends dad (he works for Mac)

 

Thanks alot cant wait to impress my friends with a tri-boot

 

Eskemo

[cwtr]

made it through the installation quite easily considering that it was the first time i did it.

 

used Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack

 

however, i only got into osx once, it booted directly to osx, then i went back to windows to browse for some wireless fixes, tried to boot osx again, suddenly i see all that darwin spam and at some point the computer locks up. no error message, however the last line to be read had something with 'localhost' in it. 2 or 3 lines above the audio drivers were loaded.

 

sound worked on that one run tho. changing to native resolution did not.

 

 

this is really a bummer, i expected there to be a lot of problem but not after it actually WORKED pretty well on the first run.

 

1.73ghz pentium m sonama platform, 1gig ram, x700

[ACC0RD22]

Hi, Im in need of help. Im using Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack.

 

So far I have a FAT32 primary partition, and the install DVD burned properly at a speed of 4x using UltraISO. This is my second DVD on this ISO file, and it works better, with less error messages than the first one I burned did.

 

My problem is, I can get to the blue screen after the grey screen with the Apple Icon, but when it gets there, it just stops. Ive let it sit for periods of close to a half hour hoping it would do something if I gave it time, but nothing ever did. At first I was getting Read or Write Errors with my first DVD and after searching through this thread I found that that was because it was wither a bad burn, or a bad file. However, I am not getting those errors anymore, so Im am confused as to why the installation is not continuing.

 

My PC specs are:

Dell Inspiron 2200

1.60ghz Pentium M 725 processor (MMX, SSE, SSE2)

Intel i915PM/GM/GMS mainboard

60 gig HD with a 12 gig FAT32 primary partition

1272 MB DDR-SDRAM

 

The only error messages Im getting are for AirPort, that I can tell at least.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

EDIT: Im going through the boot up process right now, so far so good, nothing Im reading says it couldnt do anything. However, I have always gotten this far with no error messages. My first error message reads "localhost lookupd[50]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local"

 

My next error message reads localhost diskarbitrationd[33]: unablet to mount /dev/disk0s2 (status code 0x00000047).

 

the next one reads the same, except instead of "disk0s2" it says "disk0s4".

 

Then it gives me 3 error messages about AirPort that I didnt have time to copy, and goes to the light blue screen and just stops everything.

 

Am I supposed to have the computer connected to the internet while Im doing this?

 

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Rammjet]

Try connecting it to an external monitor, a VGA dongle or use the 2-wire trick: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?ac...ost&id=1522

[ACC0RD22]

OK, so I have figured out that my first errors are drive errors. My FAT32 drive is the D0S4 drive it was trying to mount. I changed it from Primary to Logical to see if it would change anything, even if that means I have to do Step 7.

 

if this doesnt work, Im definitley going to try either connecting to an external monitor or that nifty paperclip trick.

[ACC0RD22]

ok, I got past the point I was stuck at before, and into the installer. However I was stuck at the part where I need to make it an OS extended (journaled) partition, because it claimed it couldnt write the partition map. any insight on this? it read the partition as d0s5 this time, instead of d0s4 like before, but Im 99% sure thats because I changed it from a primary partition to a logical partition.

[ACC0RD22]

Its installing, however i think I made a major error. In my haste, i forgot to look at the size of the drive I was erasing, and I accidentally erased the partition with all the DOS files, which happens to be the other FAT32 partition on the computer. I hope this doesnt cause too much trouble with windows.

[ACC0RD22]

I understand this most likely goes in a different section, but is tehre any way to fix an HFS+ partition error? thats the partition I accidentally wiped.

 

EDIT: Im gonna try using Acronis to copy the files that I lost off of the computer Im using right now onto a USB Hard Drive, plug that into the computer that lost the files, and pray that I can boot up into windows and replace the files. if I cant, I guess Ill just have to reinstall windows or something, and hope that it works.

[Rammjet]

is tehre any way to fix an HFS+ partition error?

Assuming you only have one hard drive, boot the install DVD and go to Terminal in the Utilities menu.

 

Type: fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0

 

Remove the DVD and reboot.

[ACC0RD22]

That didnt work, I got the same error. I dont think its anything that OS X did, Im pretty sure its all in what I did by deleting that partition. guh.