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I've installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my Dell Inspiron 10.5.2. It installed succesfully, but said Error loading operating system while booting. So someone on IRC told me to try rd=disk0s2. It booted fine, but now it will only boot with the CD. And the wireless internet on the laptop wont work either. Here are my specs.

 

Intel Centrino 1.4 Ghz

1002mb ram

 

The proccesor is SSE2, it should work fine.

I think it might be a problem with the bootloader, because on startup without the disk it doesnt even show it and goes straight to saying error loading operating system. I can also run the system without the disk, but no boot it.

I am not completely versed in all this, but I believe you need something like pc_efi (netkas.org) or chameleon (chameleon.osx86.hu) to load a bit of code that overlays your computers BIOS to make it look like EFI. I am sure there are a number of ways to get this to work, but what I did was the following.

 

I have 2 drives, one with OSX (started with Kalaway 10.5.1 and have upgraded to 10.5.5, also I choose GUID partition type) and the other Windows XP (MBR partition type obviously).

 

Set the Windows XP drive in the BIOS as the boot drive.

 

Installed pcefi_v8 on XP, and here is the menu.lst that I use:

#--------------------------------

color black/cyan yellow/cyan

timeout 30

default /default

 

title Windows XP

fallback 1

find --set-root /ntldr

chainloader /ntldr

savedefault --wait=2

 

title Mac OS X Leopard

kernel (hd0,1)/boot_grub_81

#---------------------------------

 

Also, you may need to set the mac drive partition bootable/active with a partition editor.

 

As you can see from the menu.lst file, I am using boot_grub_81 rather than boot_v8. Look around in the pcefi package and you will find it.

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