XellDusk Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Firstly, I'd like to say hello to what looks like a cool community. On to the geekiness, I have 2 HDD, one SATA, one IDE. My SATA is running XP and has 3 Partitions in total. IDE has 3 Partitions also. I plan to resize my SATA's first partition, C:, and install OSX on the partition created. I did read that I should have only 2 partitions on the HDD I use - OSX & WinXP. Before I start all this, I was wondering if you could give me any insight to whether this will work? Will having 4 partitions on my SATA HDD work? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 In any disk, SATA or IDE, you can have a maximum of 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions plus an extended partitions wiht some logical units. So, you can have the 4 desired partitions in your disk. Windows and Tiger must be installed into primary partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-87011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XellDusk Posted April 1, 2006 Author Share Posted April 1, 2006 OSX 10.4.5 Installer has booted up without a hitch, but no drives (except the DVD drive) have been detected. Should I set the partition I created to Active? Or is it due to it being on a SATA HDD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-87079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 Start the Mac OS X installation. After the language selection screen, the menu bar (in the top of the screen) is showed. Go to the menu: Uilities / Disk utility, select the target disk (to where you are going to install Mac OS X) and do one of this tasks: - select the target partition (named volumes in Macintosh), erase it and create a new one with this filesystem: Mac OS Plus Jounalized (this task can leave the other partitions unmodified) - select the entire target disk and partition it with the desired schema (1, 2, 3... partitions). The target partition for Mac OS X must be Mac OS Plus Jounalized (this task erases all the partitions and data in the disk) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-87082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XellDusk Posted April 2, 2006 Author Share Posted April 2, 2006 Thanks for the reply, but no drives are showing. No partitions or drives, only the DVD drive. Does this have to do with SATA? I can't imagine it being a problem with SATA as my IDE drive isn't showing either. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-87345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 Does this have to do with SATA? I can't imagine it being a problem with SATA as my IDE drive isn't showing either. I think so, it hasn't to do with SATA but try to start the OsX installation with the SATA disk unplugged (only the PATA disk enabled). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-87469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XellDusk Posted April 4, 2006 Author Share Posted April 4, 2006 Thanks again Lazarus. Ok, so I've been playing around in VMware. Using the 10.4.3 Installation guide for non-supported SATA to try and get a Native boot. I've followed the instructions down to the last line, but keep getting an error here: kextcache -m /System/Library/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleVIAATA.kext I've put in my SATAs address but when doing kextcache it claims that the kext has missing dependencies, but will be included anyway. I then do kextcache -L -N -e Which completed but when I try booting natively it just won't work, IOATAController is blocking something, and something about AppleOnboardPCATA also comes up. Finally the dreaded Waiting on root device comes up... Vague but it's pretty much saying my SATA isn't supported, right? Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-88703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
two2deep Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 XELLDUSK Did you get anywhere? I have the same issue and have done the same steps as yourself. Let me know if you found anything out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-102764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XellDusk Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 Sorry to take so long to reply. Still no progress Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-117599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyuiop Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 in the bios you can change the sata settings to ata mode or somthing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13673-setting-up-osx-1044-on-sata/#findComment-117891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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