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cheerio
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I was able to obtain tiger-x86, and i made a partin 6660MB type af, everything went fine. I dd'ed it, and all was swell. Then came the time that I had to boot it. I don't understand the chain0 method. My tiger is not in my C: drive, but it is in my desktop, with the DD files. When i tried the chain method it said "error loading chain" or something. Then I set the AF partition as active and i had ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM which pissed me off. Then i reformat, follow the same steps, and this time is use PQboot that came with partition magic. It just did the same god dam thing and now I am extremely angry.

 

 

Can somebody PLEASE tell me what exactly I should do now.

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quixos
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the unfortunate fact of the matter is, that the people who are capable of talking you through a tiger-x86 type installation, are all talked out, or dead of old age. ;)

 

start with 10.4.5 at least, it's very "findable". and you'll be on the same page as everyone else.

 

the basics of setting up OS X on pc are findable in either the Genius Bar area, or in the Installation threads. everything has been covered by now, it's really helpful to begin with a more recent installation method. good luck! :)

cheerio
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Well I have a dell dimension 2400..not much else i know about, but it does support that SSE2 thing.

 

But I did DD everything again, and I used the chain0 method again. This is what my boot.ini looks like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
C:\chain0="Mac OS x86"

 

When i restart computer, I can choose either OS, and when i select Mac i get chain booting error.

Now, I kind of have 4 partitions:

  1. 31MB, Primary,FAT And it has to do with Dell so i don't want to mess with it
  2. 69GB, Primary, Active,NTSF. My XP is stored here
  3. 6667MB, Primary, AF This is where I dd'ed mac to.
  4. 133MB. Unpartitioned space

From what i know, I think it's because the Mac partition is not 'active,' however i am not going to try to make it active because it's happened 3 times before and i had to reformat all 3 times.

cheerio
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Wait wait i just remembered!!!

 

Is it possible to use a .iso image instead of a .img? I don't think it would make a difference, but I haven't seen anybody say anything about it, because I am using a .iso image! When i DD'ed it seemed to work fine, but I sure hope that this can't be the cause of the problem ;)

RAF2
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First, do you have the file "chain0" on your C:\ ?

 

If so, ok, let's read next:

 

Instead of doing the DD method I'd recommend you to do like this, this way is much easier and very likely trouble free:

 

Leave the chain0 in peace, don't delete it and your boot.ini is good as well. Leave them alone.

 

Now:

- The Tiger you got is 10.4.3 or later? 10.4.6 would be the best;

- Since you got PartitionMagic (right?), format that Mac OS X partition again (sorry);

- Format as FAT32, you can put ANY size that you want in that partition instead of the 6660 MB. I used 9GB on mine. ;)

- If your CD drive has the ability of reading DVD discs, burn the .ISO to a DVD (do you have a friend who has a DVD burner? In low speeds, 4x or lower, please);

- Boot the computer with that DVD into the drive;

- It will load all the Tiger thing for an install;

- When it comes to the screen asking you in which drive/partition you want to install it, probably it will be empty, showing nothing.

- Go to the menu above Utilities > Disk Utility;

- It will show your NTFS partition with Windows in it and your FAT32 formatted partition. Choose the FAT32 one, click on the "ERASE" button. That partition will be formatted to HFS+.

- Now close the utility, now the partition should appear as a choice to be installed on.

- Select it and click Continue to proceed on the installation screen;

- Now you're on your own. :)

 

Good luck.

cheerio
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Sorry, But i am using 10.4.1 I think. My drive can't read DVD's at all. My brother does have a DVD drive, but he's a real pain and won't let me use it anyways.

Anyways, when i looked on the wiki i only saw success full installations on 10.4.1, i don't see any dell 2400's on 10.4.1+

I've been PM'ing a few people who have installed it on 2400, only got 1 response, but he had a DVD drive. I guess that's my only choice :'(

 

I'm sorry i'm such a dodo, but I'm wondering what exactly do these guys mean:

Method: native boot using dd from VMWare image (TPM extension removed)
Deadmoo's image, Darwin 8.0.1, restore image in VMWare to a Secondary 10GB HDD, Maxxuss 0.5c patch

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