ralph9994 Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 well i wanna dual boot windows 7 and MAC OSX. but im still confused. about all those repos and stuff. and witch one to take. hope someone can help me. SPECS: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 MSI P45 Neo3-FR motherboard 4GB RAM ATi 4870 P.S. I tried iATKOS s3 on my pc and that didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Forget distros, it's like a lottery. Use a retail Snow Leopard DVD + a suitable boot CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 like [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Yes, for example. There are several different ones out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 so just follow THIS guide and see what happens??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Yes, for example, although starting out with a triple booting setup might be a little drastic if you haven't done that before. There are tons of guides like that (simpler ones too) so take your pick. Or mix and match, use whatever works for you. There is no law in the arena. Don't be afraid to experiment, you can't break your computer by installing an operating system on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 ok thanks. im still learning this stuff at school so im just experimenting a bit. so you have any examples of the so said much easier guides?? otherwise im just gonna go with this one. and i can just use the latest version of MAX OSX?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I don't use install guides, I have my own retail installation method that works with the hardware I have. Use whatever the guide you follow says you should use. You should probably try to find a guide for a motherboard that has Intel P45+ICH10/ICH10R chipset like yours. Like the Gigabyte EP45 or Asus P5Q series for example. Some boot CDs, all based on the Chameleon bootloader - type each into google and see what you can come up with: Kakewalk MyHack nawcom's MyHack mod [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (+ [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]) Empire EFI There are more, I can't remember them all. You can make your own Chameleon boot CD if you know your hardware well enough and you have access to a working OS X installation, on a real Mac for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 ok Thank You so no distros. experiment abit. check different bootloaders.. follow some guides that kinda match my motherboard specifications. ok gonna work on that this afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 ok i just got the retail Snow Leopard. no luck. not even to the apple with the loading wheel thingy. guess i need to find someone who did a sucsessfull install on there Neo3-FR. and does it matter if you have something installed on your pc.?? i mean windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 srry for double post but i forgot to add: is tryed iTAKOS s3 on my pc and that didnt work. You can always edit your posts, no need for double posting. I have just done it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 ok i just got the retail Snow Leopard.no luck. Do you know how to use a boot CD? Use CD-RW and try several different ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 10, 2010 Author Share Posted October 10, 2010 yea.. i burned it on a cd-R. in the meantime i tryed to get OSX on a USB stick. but you need a real mac for that. and i dont have one. so i tryed it using vmware. but no luck. its says could not restore can not allocate memory. so im stuck. o btw. if i but iatkos in. its goes to the apple logo with the spinning thingy. after a while it shows a circle with a diagonal stripe in it. do you know what that means?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 boot with -v to see diagnostic messages. If the error is 'still waiting for root device', just google/forum search it to find several solutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralph9994 Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 well i forgot to enable ACHI thing in the bios. now it works. but i have a question. 2 years ago i built my computer. but when i put 4 GB in (or a certain RAM module) i got CRC errors. can this be the reason why it says: could not install the nesseary suport files when i try to install OSX?? im still trying to figure out witch on the broken on is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Yes, if you're getting CRC errors it is most likely because of bad RAM. Test your RAM with memtest86 (google it) to find out which stick is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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