mastastealth Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Hey guys, I was wondering if you could help me out a bit. I'm using a 10.4.6 JaS DVD, attempting to install on a Inspiron 9300 Laptop. Reading the wiki, there have been successful installs on it. So... The first problem is the boot. 1 out of 20 times I can actually get past the Darnwin loader screen. I normally get an error about a System config file, /com.apple.Boot.plist or something like that? That it's not found. I have to keep rebooting until that moment that it actually works. Any ideas on this? Anyway, once I'm in the installation (which I use -v mode now, since it seems to work better) I come up to the language menu. Choose english continue, continue on the next one. Now, I've tried opening Disk Utility to format an HFS partition BEFORE I get to selecting my destination. if I just continue on before doign so, it'll reboot for some reason. By itself. Unfortuantely, I've had problems in Disk Utility... First, at one time it just froze. Completely. Another (my most recent one) it froze as I selected a partition (It was called "untitled" or something)? And at another time, it showed me my Windows Vista partition, but that's it. I have another primary partion waiting for OSX to be installed on, and I've tried formatting as FAT32, NTFS, and just keeping it unallocated, but Disk Utility never seems to see it (Despite seeing the Vista partition, which I don't get). So that's really my problem. How can I use Disk utility properly to change that primary partition into HFS, or can I use another utility to do that beforehand so that I can go ahead and select my destionation, and find it there? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41210-attempting-vistaosx86-dual-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) Create a primary Fat32 partition in windows, name it something and make sure it shows up in Disk Management. In Disk Management, right click on the partition you made and choose, Mark Partition as Active. OS X is unable to format NTFS and you will not be able to install to a partition that's inactive PS, Forget 10.4.6 and use new kernel 4.8 Edited February 5, 2007 by joe75 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41210-attempting-vistaosx86-dual-boot/#findComment-294519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastastealth Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 Ahh, I was wondering about that active partition stuff, but couldn't find the option when formatting with a Ubuntu Live CD. I'll try through Windows. Also, is there perhaps a way to "update" my current .iso through some patches of sorts? As I would really not like to download a whole 'nother DVD on this crappy connection I have... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41210-attempting-vistaosx86-dual-boot/#findComment-294533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastastealth Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 All right, it seems I have gotten further with your tip. Disk utility saw the FAT32 partition. Unfortunately, when I selected it to erase, the installation reboot again. The second time I was able to get the installation working, I reformatted it as Case-sensitive MacOS Journaled (Before was just journaled) and with the same name it had on the FAT32 partition, "OSX". this time, I saw the name on the left turn into a "disk02s" or something along those lines, and while mounting, once again the installation rebooted! Now I can't boot the DVD, because it apparently installed Darwin or something, and it gives me the (hd0,1) Windows NTFS and (hd0,2) OSX options on a boot menu. However, I need to boot (hd2,1) as that was what the DVD drive appeared as on the successful boots. So I'm going to reformat it to FAT32 again, and do it all over. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41210-attempting-vistaosx86-dual-boot/#findComment-294605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Try wipeing it with a linux partition utility, then partition the free space with the Disk utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41210-attempting-vistaosx86-dual-boot/#findComment-294812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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