MasterBeta Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Hi there. I've been working to install OSx86 onto my computer for the past few days now, without success. Needless to say, I hve gotten very frustrated by this point. I have OSX installed (I hope so, anyways). I'm using 10.4.6, and it's installed on the second partition on my primary slave hard drive, on a 19 GB partition. Acronis OS Selector doesn't seem to work. When my computer is starting up, just after the BIOS screen finishes, it says: Starting Acronis Loader... Press ESC for menu... Press F6 to skip menu..._ If I do not press F6 before this section finishes loading, it will stay like this for an indeterminate amount of time (after about 10 minutes I reset). F6 sends me to Windows. If I press ESC, nothing happens. Can I get some instructions on how to set up Acronis OS Selector to work with OSX? Is there possibly some way to set up the BOOT.INI file to show OSX instead? I'm getting very frustrated with all of this! Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted July 18, 2006 Author Share Posted July 18, 2006 Well, I guess I got it working. I set my BIOS to boot from HDD1 rather than HDD0. Now I can use Mac, and I just have to switch it back to HDD0 when I want to go back to Windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-146816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 The Acronis OS Selector can change the hd boot itself. Check the user guide (here: download.acronis.com/pdf/DiskDirectorSuite10.0_ug.en.pdf) on pp. 89-90 to see how to specify the boot order. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-146846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Starting Acronis Loader...will stay like this for an indeterminate amount of time (after about 10 minutes I reset). Acronis not fully OSX compatible, try the beta version of SPFdisk here for free: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...&hl=spfdisk the Mac OSX86 bootloader loads the MBR again to verify the real active partition entry and dump the one which was fed to it. That's why you'll need some other kind of partition manager which can dynamically set up any one of the four pasrtition entries as active and modifies the MBR physically. . http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...;p=128410 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-146894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 Okay, I've gotten it to work. When OSX starts, it asks to update some things. Quicktime, iTunes, and 10.4.6 to 10.4.7. I allow it to, the arrow indicates that two of these five things will require a restart. It finishes, and then everything freezes. And my cursor turns to a text-box cursor. Afterwards, I reset, and OSX fails to start. It gets to the grey loading screen and reboots, repeat, etc. I have to reinstall OSX. Is there any way around this? Should I just not update to 10.4.7? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-146951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Okay, I've gotten it to work.When OSX starts, it asks to update some things. Quicktime, iTunes, and 10.4.6 to 10.4.7. I allow it to, the arrow indicates that two of these five things will require a restart. It finishes, and then everything freezes. And my cursor turns to a text-box cursor. Afterwards, I reset, and OSX fails to start. It gets to the grey loading screen and reboots, repeat, etc. I have to reinstall OSX. Is there any way around this? Should I just not update to 10.4.7? You definitely should not update a hackintosh directly through Apple's updates. Next time you install, you should disable any update notice from Apple. When you want to update, check this board (for example) for hacked updates and informations on the how, the why and the possible corrections/additions to hacks. This is (partly) what this board is for and you'll find plenty of help. To speed up the help, you can put in your signature what kind of system you have: cpu, motherboard, videocard, hard drive (specify pata or sata), which osx dvd (jas? myzar? other?) and version, which updates, etc. For 10.4.7 for example, you should use JaS' or Myzar's hacked updaters, depending on whether you have an Intel or AMD machine respectively. See this thread for example. Or search this forum. I do not know any way to reverse what you have done. At least now you know that Acronis OS Selector was working well and taking care of booting on the second drive. As for thrunner's suggestion of using the beta-SPFdisk instead of Acronis, you might try that eventually if you have problems. Hopefully SPFdisk will eventually have proper english support and direct english contact with the deverlopper(s). It's promissing, free and open source. If you continue to use the acronis boot manager, I strongly suggest you make the Recovery CD (through DiskDirector) which can solve eventual problems. Read the manual to know how to make it and later use it. As for the comment about Acronis not being fully OSX compatible, lets remember that neither is OSX initially, except for specific hardware Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-146987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 First, thank you for taking the time to type that up! It helped a lot. Next, I should add that by saying "I got it to work", I'm still using the BIOS switching-bootable-drives method. It's clean, and doesn't involve using a bootloader. I tried using Acronis again, I tried changing the boot order, bu I still couldn't get it to work. Acronis still froze at the screen I mentioned earlier. Now, as for the update...Ah. I'll have to keep this in mind. It's 1:30 AM right now, I'll be reinstalling OSX (again) tomorrow, making this my sixth time reinstalling. I'm using the HOTiSO release of 10.4.6, which I heard is basically a duplicate of JaS's. When I reinstall, I'll look into the hacked updates. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-147064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Well, then if you still want a bootloader later, you could have a look at the beta-SPFdisk mentioned above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-147182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
packagefixer Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Why is everyone making it so complicated!!! Boot into Mac OSX. Edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist with a text editor. It should look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>10</string> <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> </dict> </plist> Boot into windows and open a command prompt. type "diskpart" and you will be at the "DISKPART>" prompt DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 56 GB 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- * Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB DISKPART> select partition 2 DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB * Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB DISKPART> active DiskPart marked the current partition as active. DISKPART> Exit Shutdown windows. Start the computer. You will be prompted to press a key to get the Boot selector or it will time out and run OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-147220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 I don't understand quite what you're saying, packagefixer. Do you mean edit the Boot.plist file to look like that, or it should look like that? Second, I have more than one hard drive, and OSX isn't installed on a partition of my primary master drive. So I assume you mean set the partition that OSX is on to be active? Because I did that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-147317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
packagefixer Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I don't understand quite what you're saying, packagefixer. Do you mean edit the Boot.plist file to look like that, or it should look like that?Second, I have more than one hard drive, and OSX isn't installed on a partition of my primary master drive. So I assume you mean set the partition that OSX is on to be active? Because I did that. Boot.plist??? You obviously didn't edit the file I specified so I recommend you go back and read the post again. The file in question is com.apple.Boot.plist and it's located in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration so I don't see how that can be confusing or mistaken to be Boot.plist. It doesn't matter how many hard drives you have, the drive/partition containing Mac OSX must be the selected active boot drive/partition. Don't place anything in your Windows BOOT.INI file or use any other bootloader software. If your com.apple.Boot.plist file looks exactly like the one in the post (verbatim) then it will launch the Darwin bootloader and you will be presented with a selectable boot menu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22205-how-to-boot-into-osx86-with-acronis-boot-selector/#findComment-147343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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