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Constantine
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much thanks - this worked extremely well for me. now to figure out how to make XP the default in Darwin...

 

 

Hey dude. I tried this another way (downloading the VMware image and then hardwriting it to the partition) and it didn't work. Another unfortunate side effect was that it set my non-working Darwin partition to active. This is the command I used to get XP back-

 

-Under Darwin, type 'fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0'

-Type 'p'

-At this step it will show you a table of partitions on your disk (Disk 0. Change the 0 to whatever your HARDDISK is)

-The active partition has an ASTERIK next to it

-To change the active partition, type f ___(whatever partition you want active. In my case it was 'f 1')

-Then type 'write' to write to the MBR.

-Then 'EXIT'

-Then 'REBOOT'

 

This worked for me - hope it works for you!

 

Constantine

Detosx
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I haven't been able to find a solution to my SATA problem. I have an ASUS P5VD2-MX. The Sata controller is a VIA VT8237A. I have used a Western Digital Sata drive and also a Seagate drive. Tried individually the install DVD doesn't 'see' either drive, though does get to the point of installing up to where you click on disk utilities to format a hard drive; as I say, neither of mine are detected. They are also invisible to Linux SUSE 10 (about seven months old) and to a Gnome partition CD. True they are a little out of date but I can't understand why Vista and XP see the Sata drive just fine. I have poked around in the BIOS but no joy there, so far. Frustrated I hooked up a regular IDE drive and installed to it, which went well until I got a message at the end saying there was no keyboard plugged in; in fact an APPLE USB keyboard was plugged in and during install I had selected the repair USB patch - perhaps I should not have? After rebooting and with a non USB keyboard plugged in, I found that I was unable to boot from the hard drive, getting the grey screen and the apple with a circle and a diagonal line through it. I reinstalled again, fell asleep and woke up to find... the darwin loader was in a reboot loop. I took out the DVD and rebooted but still that darwin reboot loop, every ten seconds or so. Any help would be much appreciated. :D I am wading my way through the forums but I am using dial-up and beginning to despair!

 

 

ASUS P5VD2-MX

Pentium D 2.8

1 Gig of ram at 533

tried a Seagate Sata HD and a Western Digital one (and a non Sata bog standard 160gig Maxtor IDE drive)

Pioneer DVD Writer

PNY Geforce 7300

Ralek
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Hi Guys,

Im new to this forum and though to Mac at all ^^ Thx to this great guide i just managed to install mac on my laptop, but now i got a problem, i have no choice than to boot to mac. When i switch it on it boots up and then it just starts up mac, im not offered any choice of booting windows, which is pretty bad. Any1 got an idea, i'd be really gratefull :D

 

Edit: I managed it but now i hit another problem, the chain0 method gives me a hard time, i followed the guide but whenever i want to enter mac cursor jumbs back to windows an the timer is reset to 5 ;/

 

Zepto 6214W

Intel C2D 2Ghz

1GB Ram@667

100 GB Hitachi

Sony DVD-Writer

Zach1188
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Hey (I'm new here), I just tried to install Mac OS X 10.4.4 on my PC (Dell Inspiron 9300).

 

So I got all the way up to step 7, and I successfully converted the logical partition to a primary partition. But for some reason, "Unknown Opperating System" doesn't show up in Acronis OS Selector.

 

Any ideas?

Constantine
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Most of you guys did better than I did. I got to the step where you boot from your DVD and convert your partition - only I accidentally HFS+-ed my entire harddrive. So I was like "Oh well, what eve" and went on with it. Low and behold, after it installed I rebooted, and all I got was a paragraph of errors concerning my ethernet. Any ideas? Should I try another iso?

 

Constantine

Zach1188
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Hey (I'm new here), I just tried to install Mac OS X 10.4.4 on my PC (Dell Inspiron 9300).

 

So I got all the way up to step 7, and I successfully converted the logical partition to a primary partition. But for some reason, "Unknown Opperating System" doesn't show up in Acronis OS Selector.

 

Any ideas?

Can someone please help me? I also tried disabling OS Selector making the OSX partition primary (to use darwin). Then I just get this:

 

MBR Error 3

 

MBR Error 1

[Prompts me to insert floppy disk]

 

And here are my computers stats:

 

Dell Inspiron 9300

Intel Pentium M 740 1.73 Ghz (Only SSE2, no SSE3)

1 GB RAM

80 GB Hitachi HTS541080G9AT00

SONY DVD+-RW DW-Q58A (8x)

ATI MobilityRadeon X300 (128 MB)

 

 

 

And another question, when I installed OSX it didn't give me an option for SSE2 or SSE3 patches (but it did show me the Ownage patch, AMD patch etc.). I thought it was supposed to?

JustAnotherIdiot
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wohoo

thanks alot

great work!!

well no problems whatsoever

 

my specs

Dell XPS 1210

2 GHz Duo 2 Core

2 GB RAM

Broadcom 440x 10/100 Ethernet

XP on 40 G NTFS

OS X on 20 G

Speakers and built-in cam not working but one headphone jack is working (fair enough)

 

 

I'd like to know about windows bootloader

i know we copy chain0 in windows root (C: in m case) but dont exactly know what to edit in boot.ini

will appreciate if u can help

TA

 

sorry was just being blind lolz

thanks alot

JustAnotherIdiot
JustAnotherIdiot
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arrite

m back

this time trouble lolz

when I select windows from windows bootloader its good and workin

but when i select OS X it comes back to the boot menu

any idea what could be wrong?

my boot.ini reads as below

 

[boot loader]

;timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

timeout=15

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

C:\CHAIN0="Mac OS x86"

 

TIA

iamgrowler
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Having problems converting to "primary" with Acronis Disk Director.

 

When I get to the step where I need to convert the x86 drive to "primary" the 'OK' box is shaded in and I can't convert it.

 

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Zach1188
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Thanks, but I don't remember it giving me an option for SSE#. I am using

MacOSX_10.4.4DVDPATCHED_Myz.iso

I did some research and apparently the "Maxxuss Ownage" patch is the SSE2 patch? Well I DID check it.

 

The only thing I unchecked of the 3 was the AMD CPU patch (because I'm on Intel). So now what?

philipcs
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if someone could help me itd be great! I have a dell 8400 with 3 partitions... my C: which is where windows installed, a backup which is d: and MAC which is G: where i want to install my mac partition. In Disk Utility in the mac install , i try erasing MAC with the volume format MAC OS EXTENDED ( JOURNALED ) and when i click erase i get the error :

 

volume erase failed : could not read partition map

 

what am i suppose to do?

 

thanks,

bsommer

 

Becareful of this statement in 1st post:

 

if your OSX partition is positioned after an extended or logical partition. So it's best to set up your OSX partition after a primary partition like this:

 

Windows XP | OSX | backup |

macgirl
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Yes, Mac OS X is more confortable with primary partitions than logical/extended, sometimes it can't recognize or use them, I know some have success installing/using on extended/logical partitions or using those partitions as data.

Rammjet
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why using that complicated slow Acronis os selector instead of chain0 method

Acronis is slow but some people like the GUI screen instead of a textual menu. Acronis can be configured to do more things than what the Windows bootloader can do. Some people have trouble getting chaim0 working and end up with "chain booting" errors.

 

Even simpler is to set the OSX partition active and then go to the boot.plist file in OSX and add the Timeout parameter. This will display the Darwin bootloader built into OSX. But it too is an "ugly" textual menu.

cbmkgd
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Mac OS X is more confortable with primary partitions than logical/extended, sometimes it can't recognize or use them, I know some have success installing/using on extended/logical partitions or using those partitions as data.

Doing some tests, I've had successes installing (and working with) OSXs in a logical partition, but only when it was the first logical in the extended. Anytime another logical was in front of it, there were problems.

 

Of course, once installed in a logical partition, you can't boot directly on it, i.e. it needs to be pointed to by another loader, eg by another osx install in an active primary (which happens when one is doing some test installations), or by the chain0 method. I haven't tested with grub, but might be problematic.

 

Didn't work with AOSS though (I might still try).

 

[i'm still trying to see what conditions are sufficient for a successful and working install on a primary after the extended partition.]

pheobee
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It does work for me!!!!

 

1. Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack burned to DVD

2. My computer:

 

Asus P4T-E (Intel 850 Chipset)

Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz

512 MB RDRAM

PATA Maxtor 120 GB

Ethernet : Intel Pro100 PCI --works directly

Samsung DVD+-RW : not tested yet

Audio: Leadtec CMI8738 PCI --not working yet, 3rd part driver cann't be loaded

USB: my USB keyboard and mouse working well

Speed: faster than my Vista in my tri-boot (xp,vista,mac)

 

3. Troubles:

- Acronis always loaded windows, I used method of Post#527 to fix it

- Acronis bootloader is tooooo slow, I want to use darwin, but I do not see darwin boot options when I select mac osx in acronis. What's wrong?

- My 8738 sound card doesn't work, my Ati 7500 Graphics card cann't open QE/CI, Titan cann't be loaded. I pached "JaS.10.4.8.SSE2.Intel.Only.Combo.Update.pkg.zip", nothing changed.

 

THanks!

Rammjet
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3. Troubles:

- Acronis always loaded windows, I used method of Post#527 to fix it

- Acronis bootloader is tooooo slow, I want to use darwin, but I do not see darwin boot options when I select mac osx in acronis. What's wrong?

- My 8738 sound card doesn't work, my Ati 7500 Graphics card cann't open QE/CI, Titan cann't be loaded. I pached "JaS.10.4.8.SSE2.Intel.Only.Combo.Update.pkg.zip", nothing changed.

Go into Windows and Acronis Disk Suite. Set the OSX partition active and remove Acronis Disk Selector.

Reboot to OSX

Set the Timeout parameter: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&p=243116

Now Darwin bootloader will be visible.

 

Go to Terminal and perform a: sudo chown -R root:wheel /system/library/extension/cmi8738.kext (use correct name of kext there)

Remove the files system/library/extensions.mkext and /system/library/extensions.kextcache

Reboot and hopefully sound will work.

 

Titan can't fix ATI7500. See 7500 links here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34068

pheobee
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Go into Windows and Acronis Disk Suite. Set the OSX partition active and remove Acronis Disk Selector.

Reboot to OSX

Set the Timeout parameter: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&p=243116

Now Darwin bootloader will be visible.

 

Go to Terminal and perform a: sudo chown -R root:wheel /system/library/extension/cmi8738.kext (use correct name of kext there)

Remove the files system/library/extensions.mkext and /system/library/extensions.kextcache

Reboot and hopefully sound will work.

 

Titan can't fix ATI7500. See 7500 links here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34068

 

Thanks Rammjet.

Darwin fixed.

I tried these hardware drivers, also searched all the forum, found many method but no one worked for me.

thanks for your resply.

jchaike
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hey i am having a problem. I can't even get past the gray mac start screen. After waiting about a minute, i get a random circle with a cross through the center, but it still looks like it is loading. Here is a picture of what happens, sorry for the {censored} quality i took it quickly on my cell phone

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I have an AMD ANTHLON 3000+ I just bought the chip and motherboard set yesterday and installed it last night to try and make it work thismorning, sadly, no luck yet. I am in the process of burning another DVD of the OSX, but this time, the AMD TEST1 iso image. Does anybody know what is wrong with my other iso image, or if this AMD TEST1 image will wokr better?

 

THANKS -_-

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