cumanzor Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I had a copy of OSx86 (10.4.5), patched, lying around because my dvd burner wasn't working, and it worked horribly slow in VmWare. I finally got a new dvd burner (since the old one literally exploded, yeah, my XP cd was in there and the it exploded) so I burned the copy of OSx86, and then booted with it. Once the installation opened, I went to Disk Utility, and created a MacOSx Partition (Journaled) and then installed OS X in it with the Intel Base and Intel SSE2 patches. Installation completed, and then I rebooted the system. So I went to XP just to check that everything was still there, and yes, XP is still alive thankfully. I tooked the chain0 from the OSX DVD and copied it into C:\, and then I addded the C:\chain0="Mac OS x86" line to boot.ini. Went to msconfig just to check the paths and everything was fine. Rebooted, and when I select Mac OS x86 in the XP boot loader menu, it goes straight to Windows again, what's going on? Went to msconfig again, checked the paths, downloaded the chain0 from a link I found in the wiki, and still the same problem. How can I boot Mac OS X? I tried booting with Acronis OS Selector and it appears as "Unknow Operating System" but I get a HFS+ Partition error. How can I boot OS X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Please confirm this with someone because I'm not sure but I think you have to set your OS X partition as active (?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumanzor Posted October 21, 2007 Author Share Posted October 21, 2007 Ok thank you, and I've been doing some research and I found that it can't be a logical partition, it has to be a primary want. Is this correct? If so, it's a shame, I've been dying to try OSX. Is there anyway at all to boot OS X from a logical partition, cause right now I really can't reinstall xp. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chow Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I believe that you need to add <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>10</string> to your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file. You need to boot to windows to set the osx partition active first though. Boot windows, go to a dos prompt and use the diskpart utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I believe that you need to add <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>10</string> to your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist file. You need to boot to windows to set the osx partition active first though. Boot windows, go to a dos prompt and use the diskpart utility. That won't work on a logical drive. Use acronis and create a primary drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Yep, that was what I was going for. Needs to be on a primary partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumanzor Posted October 21, 2007 Author Share Posted October 21, 2007 So, no way to run it from a logical partition? Damn, I'll have to wait to my next XP reinstall to try this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Acronis OS Selector worked...You could also try a linux based bootloader like GRUB or LILO. I do recall though that you can boot an OS X installation from the install DVD. Insert the install DVD, go to the F8 boot prompt, select your OS X partition with the arrow keys and hit enter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallieballie Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Edit: Solved Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Wallieballie, you'll have more luck finding help if you post your own thread. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-476955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumanzor Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 Duh me! I thought primary partitions were always the first partition on the hard drive and only that! So I went to Windows, used Acronis to delete the current OSX partition and made a new, primary partition. Reinstalled, and it boots now!!!!! I'm having several issues now so I'll ask them in another thread, but as far as this goes, this topic can be closed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67121-after-installing/#findComment-477571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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