Dark.Cobra Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hello, I've been lurking for awhile, reading these forums an wiki, trying to get OS X 86 to run on my laptop. I've managed to install in VMWare, then dd the image to the second partition on my internal drive, as well as an external USB drive, I followed the directions "Install On A partition..." in the wiki, using Chain0 in my XP Boot... However it gives me "Chain booting error" when trying to boot only from the internal drive. When I plug in the USB drive it will boot from it but gives me a kernel panic "nfs_boot_init failed with 6" -debug output- "Waiting for remote debugger connection ... kdp_poll: no debugger device". - Thats the same error I had gotten when trying to install natively to the internal HD or through VMware. Partition Type is AF, with Partition 1 (XP) set as active; setting Partiton2 (OSX) would just hang saying "Missing Opperating System" According to the wiki atleast one person has gotten it to work (Aspire 5001WLMi) The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5002WLMi CPU: AMD ML-30 (SSE3, NX, PAE) Chipset: SiS760GX Anyone got any ideas to get it going? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9467-boot-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Chain0 assumes OS X is on a separate hard drive. Separate partitions will not work. Most laptops have only 1 hard drive installed, and I believe Chain0 assumes OS X is on IDE channel 1, slave drive. BIOS support and booting from external USB drives is something I've never gotten working either. My success has been in shrinking the existing Windows partition with a utility, then creating a partition with id=fa using diskpart (the Wiki has this info in Technical FAQ), then from there boot the installation DVD and use the Utilities > Disk Utility program to erase the disk0s2 partition. From there, booting back and forth is a matter of switching what partition is active. Windows diskpart utility can activate partitions (the Windows built-in help from the Start menu has an entry for diskpart), and in OS X, the System Preferences lets you choose which volume to boot, the Windows operating system volume would be what you'd want in that case to switch back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9467-boot-problems/#findComment-59005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark.Cobra Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 I got it to work by re-dd-ing the image to the hard disk, and it boots with the chain0 string in xp's boot.ini... Now just my keyboard and mouse dont work =/ (but they do work in VMware). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9467-boot-problems/#findComment-59438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader J Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 On my machine, a laptop, partitioning works just fine - to a point. I've got XP in the first partition (first 6 GB), another 40GB, then a third HFS partition with 10.4.1 on it. Works fine, boots fine! The problem I'm running into is, no matter how or where my drive is partitioned, installing 10.4.4 screws things up along the way. I can format the partition just fine, but once I go ahead and start a 10.4.4 install (Maxxuss' instructions) things get screwed up and I have to do a full drive restore from a backup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9467-boot-problems/#findComment-59446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
philter Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Chain0 assumes OS X is on a separate hard drive. Separate partitions will not work. Most laptops have only 1 hard drive installed, and I believe Chain0 assumes OS X is on IDE channel 1, slave drive. Chain0 will boot osx on many different partition variations of the same physical drive, it does not have to be a separate disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9467-boot-problems/#findComment-59470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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