Plucka Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Hello all, Is it possible to dualboot OSx 86 on a partitioned hardrive, say 10.4.8 the first partition and on the second partition uphucks 10.4.9? I have SSE2, uphucks is compatible with this, I have 10.4.8 working with just about everything except QE, woud really love to get that going, anyone have any ideas? My system: Processor pentium 4 2.4ghz sse2 no sse3 Video Nvidia gforce 4200ti 256mb agp Sound realtek AC97 working with msi kext (sometimes choppy?) Motherboard msi ms-6547 Memory is 1gb ram Hard drives are both ATA Thanks for any reactions I may recieve, Plucka Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSupachicken Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 I'd be keen to know about this too. Could have 10.4.10 on one HDD and 10.5 on another! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Yes to the first poster. To the second, I can't test (yet) 10.5, but I don't know why it wouldn't be possible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucka Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Yes to the first poster. To the second, I can't test (yet) 10.5, but I don't know why it wouldn't be possible. Hi, would you be willing to share your knowledge with me? I did say that the 2 partitions are on the same HD. Could you help me please? Thans, Plucka Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Hi Plucka: I've heard of people on this forum dual-booting with OS X 10.4 and 10.5. I'm not sure if they were on Hackintosh or genuine Mac hardware though. --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanS Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 It is possible to dual boot different versions of OSX on a Hackintosh, on separate partitions on the same drive. Just make sure that you give different names for the partitions. The last version installed will be the boot drive. To change drives/versions, go into the System Preferences and choose the boot device. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucka Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 It is possible to dual boot different versions of OSX on a Hackintosh, on separate partitions on the same drive. Just make sure that you give different names for the partitions. The last version installed will be the boot drive. To change drives/versions, go into the System Preferences and choose the boot device. Hello DanS Thanks very much for the info, one more question though, if I have a lot of apps backed up on my second partition, would installing uphuck on this partition cause my backed up apps to be un readable or unopenable? If so how can I make a third partition for uphuck? Thanks once again for your help, cheers, Plucka Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddy69 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Of course it's possible. I have Vista, 10.4.6 ad 10.4.9 installed on this laptop. I use Boot Manager from XFDisk to boot, but there are many other ways to do it. As long as every OS is in it's own Primary Partition, there are no problems. Some OSes (XP/2000/Vista) can boot from Extended Partitions also, but OS X must be on a Primary Partition. In fact, I like having 2 bootable partitions of OS X. It's MUCH easier to fix a problem in one by booting into the other. Things like adding/deleting files, Repairing Permissions, etc are much easier this way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Hi Naddy69: Thanks for the tip. That sounds like a good idea (having multiple partitions for different versions of OS X). --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddy69 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 It also makes tinkering with an OSX86 install much less risky! You can test different drivers, edit plists and stuff without worrying. If you happen to render your install un-bootable (which is VERY easy to do!) you just boot into the other and back out the changes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-404874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plucka Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 It also makes tinkering with an OSX86 install much less risky! You can test different drivers, edit plists and stuff without worrying. If you happen to render your install un-bootable (which is VERY easy to do!) you just boot into the other and back out the changes. Hi all, Could someone please post some detailed info on how you would go about dualbooting 2 osx's on a single hard drive with 2 partitions. I have one named Tiger and the 2nd one is OSX storage, on the second one I have a lot of Apps backed up that I have downloaded and wanted to keep so that when I have to reinstall I can apply them without searching. Is there a better way, or can a second Osx live happily with all the apps, please help would really like to have an extra version installed for experimenting. Please reply, and thanks a lot, Cheers, Plucka Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-405036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Just set it up using Acronis. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56614-dualbooting-2-versions-of-osx-86-is-it-possible/#findComment-405043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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