downloadbob Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Have a working native install on a PATA drive. Tried to install to a SATA drive using the same DVD install disk, but it looks like the SATA is not detected when booting from the DVD (Waiting for root, etc). I can see/access the SATA drive if I boot Tiger using my PATA drive. So it looks like the SATA on the motherboard is working OK. My goal is to have a working dual boot on my 160GB SATA drive. I already have Win XP loaded on one partition and the other half is free space. Can I run an image utility to copy my PATA partition to the second PATA partition then use chain to boot OS X? The motherboard I have only has one IDE port on it and 4 SATA, so I'd like to use the IDE ports for optical drives if possible. Thanks for any light you could shed on this! downloadbob Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 It is a bit hard for anyone to help if you don't actually provide us any specs... Like the exact motherboard you are using, etc. I know that for the two 915 and 945 motherboard systems I've used 10.4.3 on, that neither had an issue with the SATA on them. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-34942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
downloadbob Posted December 7, 2005 Author Share Posted December 7, 2005 It is a bit hard for anyone to help if you don't actually provide us any specs... Like the exact motherboard you are using, etc. I know that for the two 915 and 945 motherboard systems I've used 10.4.3 on, that neither had an issue with the SATA on them. I guess you're right, but as far as I can tell, the SATA is working OK with it. I installed 10.4.1 using the DVD install disk onto a PATA drive without any issues - everything (Video, Sound, Ethernet, Firewire, SATA) is working. When 10.4.3 came out, got the DVD install for that and did the upgrade just as easily. MB - Intel board with 915 Chipset (Was originally in a Gateway 3250X Media Center PC. The board is called "Augsburg" I believe) with integerated Intel Graphics, ethernet and HD sound. The specs are very close to the developer systems, and this seems to be borne out by the ease with which the OS installed via the DVD. HD - Seagate 160GB Currently running Win XP but has a second partiton to hopefully install OS X! As far as your experiences with your SATA installs on the 915 MB, did you use the DVD install or the deadmoo image method? I believe that if I can get the partition moved over to the SATA drive and use the chain file to configure the dual boot, it would probably work just fine. If you did use a DVD install disk with a SATA drive, please enlighten me which one you used and any particulars about BIOS settings that may have been. There also might be some kind of boot up switch I could use but haven't seen much on this topic. Thanks for you assistance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-34945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 This is pretty straight forward with Acronis True Image. It will drive copy the entire PATA to SATA. It is one of a few that will support HFS+ type AF partition that OSX resides on (although it will not resize it) as well as WinXP and Linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-35021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
downloadbob Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 This is pretty straight forward with Acronis True Image. It will drive copy the entire PATA to SATA. It is one of a few that will support HFS+ type AF partition that OSX resides on (although it will not resize it) as well as WinXP and Linux. Got ahold of the program, it's a bit different than some others I had used in the past. One thing I didn't like about it - only about 20GB used on a 120GB drive, but still took over 80GB for the image using compression! Since it wouldn't let me resize to a smaller partition I had to reinstall onto another drive partitioned in a similar manner to move over to the SATA drive. Once I got it moved over, the only way I could get it to boot was by making the partition active. The chain0 trick isn't working for some reason. But I did get it to work, and it seems about the same as the PATA install. Xbench is giving me about 80 or so for both. Now if I could get some boot manager to make it truly dual boot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-35811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phineas J. Whoopie Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) The chain0 trick isn't working for some reason. I couldnt' get chain0 to work for me either. I have 10.4.3 8f1099 on the first partition and XP on the 2nd. I ended up using Darwin's boot loader to dual boot OSx86 or XP. I havent' figured out how to configure Darwin to load XP by default instead of OSx86. -Phineas Edited December 11, 2005 by Phineas J. Whoopie Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-35851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Did you try to activate the XP partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-35862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondynet Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 i have the same problems when using a SATA drive... using verbose it stops on "IOATAController device blocking bus" and it keeps on repeating so and so... im using intel 915 gag board 1gb ram 40gb WD Raptor drive using JaS' consolidated patch... wonder what wrong with SATA support. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-35898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phineas J. Whoopie Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) Did you try to activate the XP partition? I installed OSx86 (8f1099) first, which had the HFS+ partition active. I then installed XP, which made the NTFS partition active. I had copied chain0 off my OSx86 installation and put it on a flash key. I copied it off the flash key into the c:\ directory and added the c:\chain0.exe="OSx86" line to the boot.ini file. I got the OSx86 item in the NT boot loader menu, but when selecting it, it doesn't do anything. It goes away for a second, then comes back to the boot loader menu. Does chain0 work with 8f1099? I booted the OSx86 install DVD and ran disk utility to set the HFS+ partition active. The darwin boot loader will boot XP just fine. By default, it will boot OSx. Is there anyway to configure it to boot XP by default? Nothing is apparent in the com.Apple.boot.plist file. -Phineas [edit] ps. I am using a Seagate 80GB SATA drive with an ASRock 775dual915 motherboard and it works just fine. I would think any intel 915/ICH6 based motherboard should work with SATA. Edited December 11, 2005 by Phineas J. Whoopie Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-35920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
downloadbob Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Was reading elsewhere on the booting issue - found that others had success using the chain0 technique! The secret is after selecting MacOS then press F8. From there you can select the partition you want to boot from. Tried it and it did work for me. This is better than having to change active drives with another utility and reboot. Until we find a better fix, this is an acceptable solution for me! Thanks for all your assistance! DownloadBob Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5523-move-working-1043-on-pata-to-sata/#findComment-36185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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