vectormanrjh Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 First off, let me give you the specifications of my PC so that it will be easier for you to better assist me: Sony VAIO VGC-RA840G Desktop PC 1GB of DDR2 RAM 250GB 7200RPM Western Digital Caviar SE Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive Intel Pentium D Dual Core Processor (Running at 2.8GHz) 1 DVD±RW DL Drive 1 DVD-ROM Drive Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 ATI Radeon X300 128MB Graphics Card Pretty sure that the motherboard is an ASUS. -------------------- Ok, I am trying to Dual-Boot Windows and Mac OS X Tiger. I created 3 partitions on the drive. 1 for Windows, 1 for Mac OS X, and 1 for file sharing between the 2. That part is ok. BUT! When I load in the Mac OS X disc everything goes well. I then go to Disk Utility so that I can format the Mac OS X partition. Well..... when I go to Disk Utility......... MY HARD DRIVE DOESN'T SHOW UP. No partitions or anything. Although the DVD drive where the disc is in shows up but that is it. -------------------- Also, I am not so much familiar with these things called "kexts". I don't know if loading in one of these "kexts" would fix the problem either. I am totally lost. My BIOS doesn't allow very advanced changes either. -------------------- Please be detailed with your solutions if you may as I am just beginning to look into this OSx86 project. -------------------- Thank you with very much kind regards, -VectormanRJH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellogs Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Hi, there arent too many things actually working for the average PC user. Personally, I have been struggling for about a week just to get the OSX86 boot on my machine. Of course you get no optical drives (I got 2 of them), no internet, no 5.1 sound, no 3D capabilities or at least some option to change the resolution, and the cherry on the cake --> there is also no iphone sdk support for those kind of hacintoshes. You do get instead plenty of I/O errors and all sort of failures at boot time. So, I have thrown out the window 6 days of my life in vain. I recommend you to stop it right now and go back to windows Bottomline is - try to place your hdd on the first SATA port if it is not already. Then try to switch it from port to port. Still here ? well ... I have tried to turn you away from this but .. if your hdd gets to be considered as part of the system by any chance, expect to have it randomly turned on / off during non X sessions. If you make it all the way to geting into graphics (X) mode, the on / off problem seems to go away, but not just like that - it gets replaced by ... OSX random launching the 'disk utility' program ) Oh and some funny thing - although none of my optical drives gets auto/manually mounted, I am actually able to open/close their disk trays Other than that, it is a fine looking OS. Good luck PS. I probably wownt find this thread again because .. ... because the search function of this forum is very much alike the OSX86 on a PC: not really working, that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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