boinkytwo Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 I am stuck at: ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM, Can someone please send me a link for My bootCD. The funny thing is that I had OSX working fine and I just wanted to get XP on my computer to test out the speed of the system, but even after installing XP (I wiped OSX and partitioned to NTSF), I get this loading error. Please send me bootCD if it will fix this issue. Or if anyone can help me get XP loaded, let me know what the solution might be if there is one. dude, make sure that your windows xp partition is set to ACTIVE. the bootcd is very useful for that particular task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frag84 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I used this method the last month, it worked great! Now I had to install the new 10.5.6 with Efi_v8. My question: Does this also work with EFI V8 ? Cause you are writing something bout darwin boot loader ? Greets thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fosterians Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hi can you send me the link please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla55 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 could i get the bootcd link? Thx in Advanced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 I used this method the last month, it worked great! Now I had to install the new 10.5.6 with Efi_v8. My question: Does this also work with EFI V8 ? Cause you are writing something bout darwin boot loader ? Greets thx you can't use this guide for efi dual booting, coz it uses mbr. but i may still help you with the following links below: 1. Dual Boot OS X 10.5.X and XP using 1 hard drive 2. ----- -------------------------------- bootcd request granted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captj2113 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I have xp on hard drive 1, all 1 partition. and i have osx on 1 of 2 partitions on hard drive 2. idk how to boot into osx and i tried using the chain0 you wrote, but it just gave me a chain loading error or whatever. any help? is this b/c i have it on 2 different hard drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla55 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 i followed the steps, i have xp on partition 1 and mac os x on partition 2 though when i try to install os x i get hung in the pre-installation at "still waiting for root device" Does anyone know how to get around this? It would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 I have xp on hard drive 1, all 1 partition. and i have osx on 1 of 2 partitions on hard drive 2. idk how to boot into osx and i tried using the chain0 you wrote, but it just gave me a chain loading error or whatever. any help? is this b/c i have it on 2 different hard drives? It should also work. but better of use a single drive for the two os, as this guide's requirement. i followed the steps, i have xp on partition 1 and mac os x on partition 2 though when i try to install os x i get hung in the pre-installation at "still waiting for root device" Does anyone know how to get around this? It would be much appreciated. have you already tried a successful installation of osx? you should... before trying dual boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakaryya Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 May I please have a link to your boot cd, thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davide88allright Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 hi guys can i have link for my boot cd??sorry for my english..tanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooivanoo Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Simple Dual Boot Guide: Windows XP + OSX86 (Hackintosh) ***Please post your feedback here, after following the guide. ***Make sure that you already tested osx86 to run with your specs, or that your specs are osx86 compatible. This is the best ever dual boot technique that I've tried and used. It is so simple to setup and plus no Dual Boot Software required. You may choose the following: A. Using Darwin Boot Loader B. Using Windows XP Boot Loader ***Users who have windows xp already installed on 2nd partition of their hard drive, use my created bootcd to move the windows xp partition to the first part of the hard drive making it the first partition. After that, update the MBR. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to be on hand before executing the following procedures: 1. OS install CDs - WinXP - OSX 10.4.8 - Clean and Unpartitioned Hard Drive, no data/files in it. 2. My BootCD (3.5mb) - post your request here, download link will be sent to you - download and burn it. 3. Chain0 File - necessary when using windows xp boot loader 4. OSX Boot File (com.appleboot.plist) - necessary when using darwin boot loader ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Procedures: A. Using Darwin's Boot Loader 1: Boot windows xp install cd and create a partition and allocate at least 5gb (5,000 mb) or depending on your preference and resources. If there's any existing partition, delete them all until you only see one unpartitioned hard drive, before doing this step. 2: Create the first partition for windows xp installation as mentioned above, and leave the other partition untouched, or leave it unpartitioned. ***The first partition is for windows xp The second partition is for osx The third partition is for all your files to be stored in 3: Proceed with windows xp installation procedures, make sure that It will boot properly after installation. Boot the newly installed Windows XP, and input a volume name for your windows xp partition. 4: After Installation, boot from my created bootcd. a. press enter when " boot: " appears. b. press enter when MY TOOLS appears. c. press enter when PARTITION MAGIC appears. you were looking now at Partition Magic's User Interface. 5: Now, right click the 2nd partition, then click Resize/Move Click on New Size and input at least 6,000mb or more. Click OK Two new partition appears, making your single drive divided in 3 partitions. Now, right-click the 2nd parition and click Create, in Create As dialog choose Primary Partition click Partition Type and choose Unformatted click OK Now, right-click the 3rd partition and click Create, in Create As dialog choose Logical Partition click Partition Type and choose Fat32 ***with this format both your OS will have read/write access click OK Finally, click Apply. ***During this process your computer may seem to hung, but its not. Wait for confirmation, reboot and eject the bootcd. 6: Insert OSX86 install DVD and install OSX When reaching the Select Destination menu, open Disk Utility and format the 2nd partition in MAC OS Extended (Journaled) format, Input your desired Volume Name (ex. My MAC). Then proceed with the installation until finished. 7: After successful installation, restart your system and eject the install dvd, darwin will boot osx and will take you to account creation, etc. 8: Now, upon reaching the desktop, go to your osx installation Open Library, then Open Preferences, then Open SystemConfiguration and then Paste this file: com.apple.Boot.plist, authorize it with your account password and replace it when prompted. 9: Open Termninal from the Application-->Utilities Folder. Then, Type: sudo -s Press: enter Type in your password and hit enter. (***your typed password will not be shown as ********) You will be prompted with this: account name:~ root# ex. boinkytwos computer:~ root# 10: copy and paste this in your terminal window right after root# chown -R root:wheel /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist chmod -R 755 /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist close the terminal window 11. Now, restart 12. Upon reboot, you'll see Darwin's boot loader counting down from 5. Hit enter, use arrow keys which os to boot from and hit enter. ***The 1st choice is windows xp, and the 2nd choice is OSX. 13. You're done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. Using Windows XP's Boot Loader 1.> Follow steps 1 to 7 above. 2.> Insert my created bootcd and boot from it. 3:> Upon reaching Partition Magic's user interface Right-click the windows xp partition. Click Advance, then click Set Active, then click OK, then Apply, then Yes, and finally OK. Wait for the confirmation, and then restart 4.> Upon restart, you should be able to boot Windows XP. Boot from it until you'll reached the desktop. 5.> Put chain0 in C: drive 6:> Now right-click My Computer, then Advance, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings under Default Operating System, click on EDIT at the end insert: c:\chain0="MAC OS X Tiger" it should look like this: [boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)0000 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)0000="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect c:\chain0="MAC OS X Tiger" ------------------------- ***do not alter the blue text, just add the red text. the one above is just an example of the contents of my boot.ini file. ***you may change MAC OS X TIGER to other names you like. ie. OSX 7.> Click Ok and close all dialogues, reboot to test. Good Luck!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***This whole procedures had worked for my machine. ***PLEASE POST YOUR RESULTS HERE IF YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL ***ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM, when booting osx solution: use the bootcd to make windows parition active, and then reboot, then boot again from the boot cd. use again the bootcd to change back osx parition into active. reboot again, osx should boot now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsx09 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I have 10.5.2 (Kalyway) and XP booting from the same 80GB hard drive. When booting OS X after XP, it gets as far as the black screen/white text where it says Darwin bootloader, the restarts the computer. If I use the Kalyway disk to repair permissions, OS X keeps working as long as I don't go back to XP. If I boot into XP, OS X ceases to work until I repair permissions again. Is there any way to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 I have 10.5.2 (Kalyway) and XP booting from the same 80GB hard drive. When booting OS X after XP, it gets as far as the black screen/white text where it says Darwin bootloader, the restarts the computer. If I use the Kalyway disk to repair permissions, OS X keeps working as long as I don't go back to XP. If I boot into XP, OS X ceases to work until I repair permissions again. Is there any way to fix this? --------------------- not really sure of what is causing it. did you install something about efi from the install dvd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianimator Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Please send me a link to download My BootCD for OSx86 10.4.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsx09 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 --------------------- not really sure of what is causing it. did you install something about efi from the install dvd? I don't know. I used all the default options. I think the "sleep kernel" was selected, if that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 try just to install the basic packages and patches, exclude those you're not so sure what it is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audigy Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 can i get a link to the boot cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 link sent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianimator Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Excellent guide! I'm now dual-booting a Motion LE1700 Intel machine with Windows XP Tablet Edition on one partition, Mac OS 10.4.8 on the other partition! Awesome! Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Excellent guide! I'm now dual-booting a Motion LE1700 Intel machine with Windows XP Tablet Edition on one partition, Mac OS 10.4.8 on the other partition! Awesome! Thank you. great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdp_93 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Simple Dual Boot Guide: Windows XP + OSX86 (Hackintosh) ***Please post your feedback here, after following the guide. ***Make sure that you already tested osx86 to run with your specs, or that your specs are osx86 compatible. This is the best ever dual boot technique that I've tried and used. It is so simple to setup and plus no Dual Boot Software required. You may choose the following: A. Using Darwin Boot Loader B. Using Windows XP Boot Loader ***Users who have windows xp already installed on 2nd partition of their hard drive, use my created bootcd to move the windows xp partition to the first part of the hard drive making it the first partition. After that, update the MBR. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things to be on hand before executing the following procedures: 1. OS install CDs - WinXP - OSX 10.4.8 - Clean and Unpartitioned Hard Drive, no data/files in it. 2. My BootCD (3.5mb) - post your request here, download link will be sent to you - download and burn it. 3. Chain0 File - necessary when using windows xp boot loader 4. OSX Boot File (com.appleboot.plist) - necessary when using darwin boot loader ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Procedures: A. Using Darwin's Boot Loader 1: Boot windows xp install cd and create a partition and allocate at least 5gb (5,000 mb) or depending on your preference and resources. If there's any existing partition, delete them all until you only see one unpartitioned hard drive, before doing this step. 2: Create the first partition for windows xp installation as mentioned above, and leave the other partition untouched, or leave it unpartitioned. ***The first partition is for windows xp The second partition is for osx The third partition is for all your files to be stored in 3: Proceed with windows xp installation procedures, make sure that It will boot properly after installation. Boot the newly installed Windows XP, and input a volume name for your windows xp partition. 4: After Installation, boot from my created bootcd. a. press enter when " boot: " appears. b. press enter when MY TOOLS appears. c. press enter when PARTITION MAGIC appears. you were looking now at Partition Magic's User Interface. 5: Now, right click the 2nd partition, then click Resize/Move Click on New Size and input at least 6,000mb or more. Click OK Two new partition appears, making your single drive divided in 3 partitions. Now, right-click the 2nd parition and click Create, in Create As dialog choose Primary Partition click Partition Type and choose Unformatted click OK Now, right-click the 3rd partition and click Create, in Create As dialog choose Logical Partition click Partition Type and choose Fat32 ***with this format both your OS will have read/write access click OK Finally, click Apply. ***During this process your computer may seem to hung, but its not. Wait for confirmation, reboot and eject the bootcd. 6: Insert OSX86 install DVD and install OSX When reaching the Select Destination menu, open Disk Utility and format the 2nd partition in MAC OS Extended (Journaled) format, Input your desired Volume Name (ex. My MAC). Then proceed with the installation until finished. 7: After successful installation, restart your system and eject the install dvd, darwin will boot osx and will take you to account creation, etc. 8: Now, upon reaching the desktop, go to your osx installation Open Library, then Open Preferences, then Open SystemConfiguration and then Paste this file: com.apple.Boot.plist, authorize it with your account password and replace it when prompted. 9: Open Termninal from the Application-->Utilities Folder. Then, Type: sudo -s Press: enter Type in your password and hit enter. (***your typed password will not be shown as ********) You will be prompted with this: account name:~ root# ex. boinkytwos computer:~ root# 10: copy and paste this in your terminal window right after root# chown -R root:wheel /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist chmod -R 755 /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist close the terminal window 11. Now, restart 12. Upon reboot, you'll see Darwin's boot loader counting down from 5. Hit enter, use arrow keys which os to boot from and hit enter. ***The 1st choice is windows xp, and the 2nd choice is OSX. 13. You're done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. Using Windows XP's Boot Loader 1.> Follow steps 1 to 7 above. 2.> Insert my created bootcd and boot from it. 3:> Upon reaching Partition Magic's user interface Right-click the windows xp partition. Click Advance, then click Set Active, then click OK, then Apply, then Yes, and finally OK. Wait for the confirmation, and then restart 4.> Upon restart, you should be able to boot Windows XP. Boot from it until you'll reached the desktop. 5.> Put chain0 in C: drive 6:> Now right-click My Computer, then Advance, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings under Default Operating System, click on EDIT at the end insert: c:\chain0="MAC OS X Tiger" it should look like this: [boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)0000 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)0000="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect c:\chain0="MAC OS X Tiger" ------------------------- ***do not alter the blue text, just add the red text. the one above is just an example of the contents of my boot.ini file. ***you may change MAC OS X TIGER to other names you like. ie. OSX 7.> Click Ok and close all dialogues, reboot to test. Good Luck!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***This whole procedures had worked for my machine. ***PLEASE POST YOUR RESULTS HERE IF YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL ***ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM, when booting osx solution: use the bootcd to make windows parition active, and then reboot, then boot again from the boot cd. use again the bootcd to change back osx parition into active. reboot again, osx should boot now. can i have the link for the boot cd(3.5 mb) plz? can i have the link for the boot cd(3.5 mb) plz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scuba_si Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Please could i get a linky too? Thanks so much EDIT: Received, Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuba_si Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Hi, I have both an XP install and a Leopard Install working, however with dual boot i get the message: Reboot and Select Proper boot device or insert Boot Media in Selected Boot Device and press a key. This happens if i make the HDD the primary boot device or the cd primary boot device and dont have the cd in the drive. With the CD in the drive i can load OSX no problem. The only thing i think it might relate to is the sudo -s command - i didnt get the result you described so i logged in as a root user and chmod'd again. Please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 double check the following: 1. xp partition should be set to active, if you wish to use xp boot loader to dual boot (chain0 technique) 2 osx partition should be set to active, if you wish to the darwin boot loader to dual boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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