HOW TO Install Snow Leopard on MBR Partition with the current install of Windows 7

[Jitu5000]

HOW TO Install Snow Leopard on MBR Partition with the current install of Windows 7

 

Requirements:

1) OSX 10.6 Retail Install Disk

2) An External Hard Disk

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4) EasyBCD on Windows.

5) Windows Repair Disc.

 

Process:

1) Boot into windows and install EasyBCD. Install EasyBCD as your boot manager and make a windows entry. Google for help on EasyBCD.

2) Install OSX 10.6 on the external disc using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/myhack method. You need to Ensure that the external disc is booting and you are able to make it to the 10.6.whatever desktop without using any flags.

3) Boot into your system's internal disc and into windows.

4) Make an additional partition after shrinking volume from disc management in Windows 7. Mark the partition as active

5) Restart and boot into OSX installation and open disc utility.

6) Rename the partition on which we need to transfer the current installation as OSX MBR (or whatever you may wish in order to distinguish it from external hard disk install). Click the Restore tab. Choose your external hard disc volume (your working OSX installation) as source (by right click and 'set as source') and the partition which was made in Windows (on which you want to transfer your current OSX installation) - OSX MBR - as destination (by right click and 'set as destination'). This will RESTORE THE OSX INSTALLATION TO YOUR MBR PARTITION.

7) After restoring - restart and boot into Windows Repair CD and fix boot so that the windows boot loader is fixed and you can boot in windows.

8) After booting in windows, make an entry in EasyBCD bootloader for OSX. Restart.

9) Boot into the external hard disc and use it to boot into your restored OSX partition. Use -x -v flags.

10) After booting into the MBR partition in safe mode - install the same bootloader that was used while booting from external hard disc to OSX MBR.

 

Restart and you should be able to boot into EasyBCD and into OSX MBR partition.

[flyingninjas]

I currently have a vbox hackintosh and its too slow and i want to change it to a dual boot. It currently has chimera installed but i have a backup that does not.

 

Has this method worked for you? I am looking to do this same thing, make a dual boot hackintosh without reinstalling windows. Do you ever get Kernal Panics?

 

Instead of step 6 can I copy the partition using gparted? Im not sure how mac disk utility works but i will not be able to boot from my external hdd.

 

Also, I would prefer to use Chimera/Chameleon as a bootloader because of the GUI over easybcd. If if booted that on 100mb partition, could i, from that, chose windows or mac?