Iceman5 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 HEllo, I finally got OS X to work on my PC . I have used the tiger-x86-flat.img. I have loaded it on to an extra HD. In order for me to use OS X, I have to disconnect the HD with XP. How do I go about getting a screen to choose what OS to use with out disconnecting any HD's? Please help!! Also: When I am in OS X can I update my OS X by using the update software? and how do i get a higher resolution? My PC has the SSE2 do I need to put any patches into it and if I do how do I go about it or can i use update software? PLEASE HELP Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedneuron Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 What I did was install acronis disk director suite on my windows hd. Once you do that and restart, you can install the acronis os selector from start-programs-acrois-etc. Once you install that, when you boot, you'll have a choice to run acronis os selector on startup. Just choose "Unknown OS" and you're good to go. I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but I have my winxp on the primary drive and osx on a slave drive. I hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMWN Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Acronis seems to be a easy solution... But didn't work here after 3 tries... Had to use my XP boot disk to fix the mess... just my 2 cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one4u2nv Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Acronis works fine for me. It does mess up after a little while, but my computer lets me hit any key and boot into Windows. Once in Windows I can reinstall Acronis and it will work fine after that. If I was you I would try it. Just make sure to make the Rescue Media when you install Acronis. As long as you have that you should be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulfo Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 what worked for me fine is the bios integrated boot selector... when i hit f11 i can select which drive to boot from, if i choose my maxtor it boots osx and if i choose my samsnug it boots xp and with the dvd-rom it boots linux... i don't know if this is supported by every bios though... hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolbgdog Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 what worked for me fine is the bios integrated boot selector... when i hit f11 i can select which drive to boot from, if i choose my maxtor it boots osx and if i choose my samsnug it boots xp and with the dvd-rom it boots linux... i don't know if this is supported by every bios though... hope this helps! Yea thats what I used to do. I want to know If I can install osx on my slave drive and still use it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzie123 Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Go with Acronis. There's always a free alternatif like GRUB but I prefer the ease of acronis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 yup acronis rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivier Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I use also BIOS selector.... I press F8 few times before the "BEEP", and I can select wich disk to boot. Of course, it need 2 physical disks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Acronis gets my vote. Worked for me first time, has gone on working faultlessly and it was nice and simple to set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 If booting on a drive with dual partitions, make sure the osx partition is set to PRIMARY! (Of course the Win partition should also be set to primary.) Otherwise, you will not be able to boot it from Acronis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roli Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Today I tried Chain0 metod but it don't work. The botloader ignore it and boot windows.But if I go to the advance boot menu I can select OS X but it throws me back too windows.I version 10.1 I was using darwin bootloader because OS X installed it on my C drive and I coud select windows or OS X.But in version 10.3 I can only boot OS X.I don't realy want to use acronis bootloader because it is not nice.I have some experience with linux so I will maybe try GRUB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amilmac Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 GAG (Graphical Boot Manager) http://gag.sourceforge.net/ You can dd img into a 1.44MB disk or burn in CDROM, and reboot to load.Gag is installed in MBR and you can add and allow to boot your Windows, Linux, Mac OS X partition,etc. And of course, its free software GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net Current version: 4.5d GAG (initials, in spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. It's loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use. Its main features are: * Allows boot of up to 9 different operating systems. * It can boot operating systems installed in primary and extended partitions on any available hard disk. * Can be installed from nearly all operating systems. * GAG doesn't need its own partition. It installs itself in the first track of the hard disk, wich is reserved for these kinds of programs. It can also be instaled on a floppy disk, without using the hard disk. * It has a timer to boot a default operating system (selectable by the user). * The configuration menu can be protected with a password. * The program works in graphic mode (needs a VGA or better graphic card), and has a lot of icons. * Hides the primary partitions which allows the user to have instaled more than one DOS and/or Windows in the same hard disk. * Allows a password to be put on each operating system, denying access to non-authorized people. * Allows the boot manager text to be translated to all languages. * Can exchange disk drives, allowing to boot from the second, third... hard disk operating systems such as MS-DOS. * Has the SafeBoot system, that allows to boot your hard disk even if GAG is accidentally overwrited. * Supports a great variety of keyboards (QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ and DVORAK keyboards). * Fully support for hard disks up to 4 terabytes (4096 gigabytes). * Full version and free software (distributed under GPL licence, with source code) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i1sam Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 GAG (Graphical Boot Manager) http://gag.sourceforge.net/You can dd img into a 1.44MB disk or burn in CDROM, and reboot to load.Gag is installed in MBR and you can add and allow to boot your Windows, Linux, Mac OS X partition,etc. And of course, its free software GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net Current version: 4.5d GAG (initials, in spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. It's loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use. Its main features are: * Allows boot of up to 9 different operating systems. * It can boot operating systems installed in primary and extended partitions on any available hard disk. * Can be installed from nearly all operating systems. * GAG doesn't need its own partition. It installs itself in the first track of the hard disk, wich is reserved for these kinds of programs. It can also be instaled on a floppy disk, without using the hard disk. * It has a timer to boot a default operating system (selectable by the user). * The configuration menu can be protected with a password. * The program works in graphic mode (needs a VGA or better graphic card), and has a lot of icons. * Hides the primary partitions which allows the user to have instaled more than one DOS and/or Windows in the same hard disk. * Allows a password to be put on each operating system, denying access to non-authorized people. * Allows the boot manager text to be translated to all languages. * Can exchange disk drives, allowing to boot from the second, third... hard disk operating systems such as MS-DOS. * Has the SafeBoot system, that allows to boot your hard disk even if GAG is accidentally overwrited. * Supports a great variety of keyboards (QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ and DVORAK keyboards). * Fully support for hard disks up to 4 terabytes (4096 gigabytes). * Full version and free software (distributed under GPL licence, with source code) ive tried this and i resulted in installing again osx86... in my sata with 2 partition 1 for xp and 2d for osx86... when setting up the OSes... it went well ... booting to xp is oki but booting ib osx86 replies me h>>fs something invalid or error.... its fast but cant used it... any other wiki for this???? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheYoungSav Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 If booting on a drive with dual partitions, make sure the osx partition is set to PRIMARY! (Of course the Win partition should also be set to primary.) Otherwise, you will not be able to boot it from Acronis. how do u make them primary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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