suprmodelrobot Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 (edited) I have my sata hd with vista installed..now i have tried to install 10.6 and 10.8 but get nothing, but on my old machine it worked...weird huh....well i was thinking its my hd, i get that circle line b4 anyting starts. SO i have a ide hd that i want to connect and disconnect my sata (vista). install osx to that ide hd, so it will run. then is there a way to then reconnect my vista drive (master) and set up boot options? I hope it makes sense! Thanks Danny Edited March 15, 2007 by suprmodelrobot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 (edited) Maybe you could circumvent the boot loader by selecting the boot drive from your BIOS. Normally this can be done by pressing a key at boot. hecker Edited March 15, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-324647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 So lets say i install osx to the IDE. What do i sent the jumpers at? Then when i have my SATA (VISTA) and my IDE (OSX) connected, what jumpers are those set at? Vista would be my master. Then once we get that handled, would i have boot issues? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-324666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 If both drives are connected individually, then they should both be set to master. Slave is only used when the cable is "shared" with another device and has no significance if the drive is connected alone. If you have your OSX IDE and Vista SATA drives connected then you can surely select to boot from either one of them via the BIOS boot loader. Most boards include this function, does yours? hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-324710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 Ill have to check on that when i get home from school, so since one is ide and one is sata can they both have master jumpers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-324744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Sata drives are master and on the ide with only 1 drive connected you set it to master Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-324754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 well i have my dvdrw on my ide...isnt that what they use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-324856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 hecker, in removed my sata (vista) and connected my ide drive on trhe same cable as my dvd, the ide is set to master with the jumpers, but does it matter which of the two connections i use on the cable? Also i did instakk 10.6 and 10.8, but after the install with all the add-ins, it wont boot, i get a boot error...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-328273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 BUMP edit..my hard drive is ide, do i need to connect the hd to the master part of the cable (2) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-330045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callysto Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Be generous and give each IDE device its own cable then set each device as Master. Or to answer your question: Yes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-330188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 how can i give each ide device its own cable? i think my mb has only one sport for ide hook up..there is a smaller connection...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-334265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprmodelrobot Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Ok, so im waiting for my ide drive to get to my house. i have my primary drive with vista which is sata. What im hoping to do, is connect the ide drive on the same line as my dvdrw. what should i set my jumpers at. MAIN= SATA 160 GB VISTA DVDRW=IDE OSX=IDE Then when i get osx installed, i can use that easybcd or whatever to craete a boot option for osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45396-best-way-to-install/#findComment-358371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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