Swedish Meat Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Hi! I´m tryng to install OS X 10.4.8 on my laptop. It´s a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo XI1546. I want to have a dual boot system with XP home. I have 2 SATA disks. The primary partition on the second one is FAT32. But when I try to install the installer doesn´t find any hard drives. Then I read that there are some issues with the serial ATA controller ICH7. Is there any way to go around this problem so I at least can install OSX? My system is: XP home Intel T2500 ICH7-M 2x SATA 80GB Radeon mobility X1800 256mb 2x512MB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james2mart Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 try installing through VMWare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subtext1 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Did you run DiskUtility to format/partition as required? The installer sees only partitions, which are "ready" for installation. ICH7 is very well supported by OSX86. Hi! I´m tryng to install OS X 10.4.8 on my laptop. It´s a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo XI1546. I want to have a dual boot system with XP home. I have 2 SATA disks. The primary partition on the second one is FAT32. But when I try to install the installer doesn´t find any hard drives. Then I read that there are some issues with the serial ATA controller ICH7. Is there any way to go around this problem so I at least can install OSX? My system is: XP home Intel T2500 ICH7-M 2x SATA 80GB Radeon mobility X1800 256mb 2x512MB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedish Meat Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 When I tried Disk utility I just Found my DVD-RW drive and an USB stick. No hard disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabcat Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Is there any settings you can change in the bios? For the ICH7-R on asus boards it was best to set the following: "Visit IDE Configuration in BIOS: Don't choose AHCI SATA. Use Standard IDE mode for SATA+PATA" http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.6 Maybe if you can find something similar to that in bios you might be able to see the disk? I found that with some SATA bios configurations, I could see the disk and install on to it but I could not boot directly off it until I made the setting like above. In other configurations I could not see the disk like the problem you have. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedish Meat Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 Is there any settings you can change in the bios? For the ICH7-R on asus boards it was best to set the following: "Visit IDE Configuration in BIOS: Don't choose AHCI SATA. Use Standard IDE mode for SATA+PATA" http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.6 Maybe if you can find something similar to that in bios you might be able to see the disk? I found that with some SATA bios configurations, I could see the disk and install on to it but I could not boot directly off it until I made the setting like above. In other configurations I could not see the disk like the problem you have. Good luck I can´t make such settings in my bios since my laptops bios is EXTREMLY simple. The closest thing i get is the raid configuration where I dont have any options like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabcat Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I can´t make such settings in my bios since my laptops bios is EXTREMLY simple. The closest thing i get is the raid configuration where I dont have any options like that. That is a shame. You might have to give james2mart's idea a try. I think he means that you can to an installation to a partition using vmware and then try and boot from that partition afterwards as a normal boot. I have seen some discussion about that around this forum so do some searching to see if that will be suitable. Another thing you could try is finding out who made your hard disks and see if they have software/driver to allow older operating systems (eg win95) to be able to see the disks. For example seagate offers this software: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html which allows the full capacity of the large drives to be visible to old operating systems. From my understanding, these "drivers" are quite low level and get loaded before the operating system so they might help with letting macosx recognise the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedish Meat Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 That is a shame. You might have to give james2mart's idea a try. I think he means that you can to an installation to a partition using vmware and then try and boot from that partition afterwards as a normal boot. I have seen some discussion about that around this forum so do some searching to see if that will be suitable. Another thing you could try is finding out who made your hard disks and see if they have software/driver to allow older operating systems (eg win95) to be able to see the disks. For example seagate offers this software: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html which allows the full capacity of the large drives to be visible to old operating systems. From my understanding, these "drivers" are quite low level and get loaded before the operating system so they might help with letting macosx recognise the drive. Thanks for your advice about the disk software. I´m lucky, Ihave two identical seagate disks. I will give it a try. Let you know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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