microphizzel Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Hello everybody. First off, thanks to everyone who made my clumsy, yet beautiful installation possible through tutorials and tips. My guide might seem slightly simple and nothing new, but I thought I'd collect the information I gathered together in order to make it slightly easier for anyone wanting the same set up as me. My system info: DELL VOSTRO 1510 Processor: Intel Core Dual 2Ghz RAM: 4GB Drive: DVD+RW Video: nVida NB8M-GS Audio: ALC268 (HDA) Display: 15.4 inch (1280x800) Wireless: Dell DW1390 - bought off ebay for £10 (original Intel 3945AGB not working) Ethernet: Not working, but I don't ever use it so I didn't bother kextulizing it. You will need: XP Disk iAtkos v7 Chameleon 2.0-RC4 - from chameleon.osx86.hu NVkush - from diabolik1605.com/DHF The neccessary back-ups in order to format your system Before I begin, I'm not saying this is the best method of doing things, or even the easiest, it's just the one that worked for me after a few days of trying . Boot up the iAtkos V7 disk (just to format and prepare the hard drive). Press continue when prompted, then go to "Utilities" on the top bar and launch "Disk Utility". Select your hard drive from the list on the left and then click "Partition". Here you can divide your hard drive into anyway you see fit. For me I went for this: "WINXP" - 30GB - NTFS "LEOPARD" - 30GB - Mac Journaled "STUFF" - 126GB - MSFAT32 ***afterthought: I went for these formats as I was under the impression that OSX and NTFS didn't see eye-to-eye, and so I made the shared hard drive a format they would both understand. Instantly I hit problems when I tried to share a 7GB file between the two OS's. Luckily this was only a one-off for me, but it is probably better to make the shared partition NTFS and enable it for writing in OSX by THIS METHOD (look for "how to add NTFS write support" in that post). Make sure in "Options" (below the partition view) that MBR is selected, as WinXP 32-Bit will not understand GPT. Click "Apply", and after the Disk Utility has finished partitioning your drive, restart and boot up into the WinXP installation disk. Now go through all the neccessary steps in order to get XP up and running on the WinXP (or whatever you called it) partition. I won't bother explaining the XP install, because if you can't do that then you don't deserve a dual booting XP/OSX machine. Once youy have XP working on your machine reboot into the iAtkos v7 installation disk. Go through the steps agreeing to the contract and selecting the destination drive until you get to the page before the install with the "Customize" button on the bottom left. Customize your install to the following: Kernel: Vanilla (default) Bootloader: Bootloader Chameleon 2 DSDT Apple Decrypter Sata AHCI Intel SpeedStep Laptop Battery HDA Voodoo Drive (Audio) Voodoo driver for PS2 mouse and keyboard Now confirm your selection and click "Install" with your fingers firmly crossed. When your computer restarts, Chameleon should automatically boot you into Leopard after a 5-second count-down. Go through all the step-up stuff and then lovely Leopard will load for the first time on your machine. If you have the same graphics card I do then you should notice the horrible, almost unuseable glitch in the graphics. This is fixed with the NVkush installer. Simply run it and reboot to fix. And there we go! You (should) have an (almost) fully working dual-booting OSX/XP machine. Optional: This next step for me is purely for vanity reasons. I didn't want to have to press a key on boot-up in order to have the option of booting OSX or XP, and I didn't want my storage drive appearing as a bootable drive in Chameleon. First of all, you need to update to Chameleon 2.0-RC4 to make the unbootable disk vanish. To do this, download the package off the Chameleon website and copy the "Boot" file into the root of the Leopard drive. There is already an invisible "Boot" file in the root so you have to do this in Terminal as the folder view wont let you overwrite it. I'm not a massive fan of code, so I did this by: Open Terminal Type "sudo -s" (without quotations) and press enter Type *your password* and press enter Type "mv" (without quotations) Drag the "Boot" file from the Chameleon folder onto Terminal Press spacebar and type "/" (without quotations) and press enter Boot should have moved and become viewable in the root You will now have the new Chameleon installed on your machine. I don't know if you need to restart your machine at this point to finished the installation, but I would do it just in case. On your next boot-up you should see the unbootable partition has vanished. Now I changed Chameleon so that it didn't automatically boot into Leopard, and gave me the option of OSX or XP on the initial start-up. Open Terminal Type "sudo -s" (without quotations) and press enter Type *your password* and press enter Type "nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist" (without quotations) and press enter With the arrows, move the cursor down where it says "Time Out", by default this will be "5". Delete that and change it to "No". Press Ctrl+O to save Press Ctrl+X to exit nano Close Terminal. Restart and hopefully you will enjoy what took me a few days to accomplish. I just noticed a fix for the keyboard layout in that post I referenced to earlier with the NTFS problem. Look for the section called "Swapping " and @ to their proper places" HERE. I havn't tried this yet, but it should be fine. Thank you to everyone I sourced info from to get this working as I wanted. Sorry I can't be bothered to name you all individually. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204266-dell-vostro-1510-osx-1057xp-dual-boot-success/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
microphizzel Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 well... i did have it working beautifully. but then i tried the sleep button on it. completely broken my laptop. doesn't even boot the bios anymore, let alone dual boot xp/osx! from what i can gather i need to buy a new motherboard that'll set me back about £150. sadest day of my life if you do try my dual boot install method, i would recommend not pressing the sleep button. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204266-dell-vostro-1510-osx-1057xp-dual-boot-success/#findComment-1371093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
microphizzel Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 panic over! after having a tinker about with it i found that pulling the bios battery got it working again. i did have to reinstall iatkos leopard though. but atleast there was a happy inexpensive ending! i turned off all forms of sleep and hibernate mode as i read somewhere that the sleepimage that osx writes to the hard drive can be problematic with 4gb of ram. automatic sleep can be turned off in the system menu. to turn off hibernate open terminal and type: sudo -s ***your password sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 if you just type pmset you can have a better understanding of what that all means. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204266-dell-vostro-1510-osx-1057xp-dual-boot-success/#findComment-1373373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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