Weebs Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Recently my boot camp has told me that my disk needs to be repaired whenever I attempt to partition my disk to install Windows XP. I go into disk utility, verify and repair disk permissions both work just fine. Ounce I try to "Verify Disk" I get an error and it tells me I need to repair it. Well that should be the simple solution of just booting into my install disk, problem is that I have lost my install disk. Well I just figured I could download an OSX86 disk and boot into that to use disk utility to repair my hard drive, but whenever I startup I hold down the option key. The Boot Camp's boot loader comes up and gives me the option of either starting my Mac OS X or starting my OSX86 disk which it has labled "Windows". Well whenever I try to do that, it seems to boot up a BIOS screen, but it just sits there with the curses blinking. I also tried booting up my computer while holding down the C button on my keyboard, but that just ends up bringing me to what appears to be a blank BIOS screen with a curses blinking. What can I do to boot up my OSX86 disk? Or am I just going to have to find a torrent/link for a copy of my install disk? If it helps at all, I downloaded the popular "OSX86 10.4.6 JaS Install" off of the usual site. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47081-boot-osx86-disk-on-intel-imac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 OSx86 wont boot on a real iMac. Since you own an iMac, you already own a copy of OS X, so it is legal to download another copy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47081-boot-osx86-disk-on-intel-imac/#findComment-337197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 well it is legal to download it but i dont think it is legal to seed it to others who are not legally downloading the image Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47081-boot-osx86-disk-on-intel-imac/#findComment-337271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 thats right, as long as he sets his client not to seed, its ok, but besides that, what are the odds of being caught. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47081-boot-osx86-disk-on-intel-imac/#findComment-337295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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