peejamm Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 ...it won't boot without the DVD in the drive... Ok, I've installed Kalyway 10.5.2 in my old Dell Latitude d420, dual boot following the instructions here; http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...DualBoot_10.5.2 It all went smoothly, got through the welcome video and everything looked fine. Played around with it for a bit and didn't have any major problems - no sound, no wireless but I could live with that for the moment until I got the dual boot working. However, I can't get either chain0 or tboot to work (I tried both "just in case")... Anyway, it will boot into XP but when I tried booting into OSX after removing the DVD from the external drive (d420 has no internal optical drive) it said something about an "MBR Error 1 please insert floppy"! I'd like to get tboot or something similar working but the search routine on this forum keeps telling me there are errors so I haven't been able to check on that. Obviously, though, getting OSX to actually boot up would be a big plus Can anyone shed any light on the situation or point me in a direction to get it sorted? Many thanks in advance! EDIT: Now it won't even boot up with the DVD in the drive, it keeps going into a new installation dialogue... I'm baffled... EDIT 2: Got into disk utilities and it still sees the osx partition but, on choose startup disc, no option is given for the previous install... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206157-well-it-installed-ok-but-now/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Startup Disk will never work with a Hackintosh. You need to install a bootloader such as Chameleon. If you've done this, you probably need to activate it using something like EasyBCD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206157-well-it-installed-ok-but-now/#findComment-1381867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peejamm Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 Startup Disk will never work with a Hackintosh. You need to install a bootloader such as Chameleon. If you've done this, you probably need to activate it using something like EasyBCD. Ah, I see! Thanks for that! So, Chameleon can be installed under XP? I looked at their site back when I was trying this out and must admit I didn't find their faq very newb friendly and couldn't work out what to do with it Also, thanks for pointing out EasyBCD, too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206157-well-it-installed-ok-but-now/#findComment-1396292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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