mlmorg Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hi all, I have an a8n-sli deluxe motherboard with an AMD 64 3200+ SSE2 processor. I already have XP installed on my SATA hard drive but I want to install OSX on a blank IDE drive I have. I was planning on taking out my XP drive and installing to the blank IDE drive as if it was a new computer. However, once I finish installing I want to be able to put the XP SATA drive back in and dual boot the two. How do I go about doing this? I'm guessing it's not the same procedure as a dual boot on one hard drive. Any suggestions? Thanks, Matt Sorry! wrong forum...can you move it please! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cro Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 i have a similar setup, i'm using the a8v, athlon 64 3000+ sse3 @2600mhz, xp on my sata drive, and osx on my pata drive. what i did was disable the sata controller via the bios, installed osx onto my pata drive, re-enabled my sata controller and set my sata drive as secondary boot under my optical drives, i.e. 1st boot dvd, 2nd boot dvd, 3rd boot sata drive, 4th boot none. used the chain0 method to setup the dual boot via windows xp boot manager (edit boot.ini) and poofta, it worked. hopes this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-297796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) If your motherboard supports a BIOS Boot Menu (like on my mobo), you don't need to setup any bootloaders. I just disabled my other drives through BIOS, installed OSX to my target SATA drive, then setup boot order to boot from OSX drive first. Pressing F12 brings up a boot menu which works as my "bootloader" enabling me to select which boot device my motherboard supports (HD, USB, Floppy, ZIP, LAN, etc). This method involves more keypresses if I want to boot into windows or any other partition aside from OSX, but it reduces the risk of installing bootloaders that may not work with different filesystems. This only works on operating systems installed singly on their own bootable partition, however I haven't tried booting on one of multiple partitions per drive but I doubt it'll work. Just my 2 centavos. Edited February 9, 2007 by Zulu.Walker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-297806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 moved Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-297811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hey all, Thanks for the replies Cro and Zulu. I have a couple more questions. Cro, so you basically did the same thing Zulu did except went one step further with the boot.ini correct? my mobo has a boot menu, obviously, but I'm a little confused how you two set it up. Right now mine is set to boot [DVD] [HARD DRIVE] [REMOVABLE DRIVES] in that order. The problem is, it doesn't show both hard drives on the boot device priority menu. I can, however, go to the Hard Disk Drives menu and it will give both drives and I can move the up or down...I'm guessing this puts it in order? I just don't understand why the Boot Device Priority menu doesn't have both in there. Also, how do you disable a drive? Thanks again, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-297877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvornik Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) Personally, in addition to the motherboard boot menu I have Linux installed on the same drive as OSX. So on that drive I use a Grub bootloader. I added the other drive with XP on it (which is my main OS) to the Grub's bootloader. That way I can boot XP both by itself from the bios menu and from a simple menu list that includes all my OSs on the experimental disk. Edited February 9, 2007 by dvornik Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-297929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cro Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) i find that using the bios as a boot loader to be more of a pain in the butt, because i'm not always at my computer during post, or am working on another project or dealing with my family, i have it set to use the windows boot loader so i can choose my os when i get back to my machine, in case there is something i want to do in a particular os. as far as disabling a drive, you should have an option in your bios to disable your sata controller, which in tern disables your sata hd. also, you can go as simple as just unplugging the data cable on your sata hard drive and install os x that way. once os x is installed, boot into windows and edit your boot.ini file to use chain0 and set the timer for something like 20 seconds. save your changes reboot, and you should be all set to boot os x. my boot.ini file looks like this [boot loader] timeout=300 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN c:\chain0="Mac OS X86" my timer is set to 5 minutes, if i dont select an os, it defaults to windows. make sure you copy the file chain0 into your root directory of your c drive before you try to boot os x. hope this helps Edited February 9, 2007 by cro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-298379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Ok cool, sounds good. I will try tomorrow and see if it all works. Thanks again, Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-298659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 I only went with the BIOS bootloader option as not to mess with another openSUSE installation on another drive that didn't want to install Grub2 without writing to my OS X partition, causing OS X not to boot at all. My setup is more for compatibility than ease of use as I mess around with my operating systems a lot and usually I screw over one of them and reinstall almost as often. It works for me and I haven't lost any data at all so I use it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-299540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Installed Jas' new image with the ppf and defiant patch and worked perfectly. Just unplugged my XP SATA drive, installed OSX, plugged the SATA back in and just change the boot order in the bios. I agree Zulu, I'm not going to mess around with boot.ini. It would only save me about 10 seconds anyway. But my first hackintosh and everything works except my video card. a8n-sli deluxe athlon 64 3200+ sse2 xfx geforce 6600 0x0141 (not working) marvell yukon lan (suprised that worked!) even my firewire 410 with drivers off m-audio website! so very suprised that all that worked...annoyed about the video card though...dashboard and screensavers are soo slow, no dvds...maybe ill try macvidia. Thanks all for the quick replies. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-299545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Good luck with making QE/Q2DE/CI work, macvidia has a 1.810 update but I haven't tested it yet. Looking around the forums will reveal a lot of info on making your card work as it is of a common make. I just added another FreeBSD installation to my already overcrowded system to play and explore with, and my BIOS bootloader doesn't need any adjustments to boot it. Pure bliss! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-299615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cro Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 i have 2 other machines that i use to mess around with differant os's and configurations so that i dont loose data. and i have my main box with vista xp (my own build of xp with things like flip 3d, thumb view and side bar ported from vista) and os x. what ever works for you and as long as you are happy with your rig. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41622-install-osx-on-blank-hdd-and-xp-kept-on-another-hdd/#findComment-300481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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