dailyApps

does this work with xp or just vista?

Would this work with WinXP instead of Vista?

just after running with -v, the text stops shortly after mac framework successfully initialized. any help?

sure thing. intel p4 2.8 ghz, 512 ram. windows xp sp2

How would you delete one of these boots if you accidently made a spelling mistake.

Also I can seem to get mine to work it comes back with this when I try to type the GUID:
The element data type specified is not recognized, or does not apply to the specified entry.
Run “bcdedit /?” for command line assistance.

Thanks so much for the awesome tutorial,
a couple questions though,

any problems with a tri boot? I’m thinking of getting rid of my XP install anywayz, but just wondered if there was any problems it would cause (Vista is set as primary)

has anyone had to use the DVD to fix up there Vista boot? just want to get a feel for the likelihood of it happening.

OK, I got a chance to try this out last night. Thanks for the tutorial!!!

First I tried it out on my desktop. It started scrolling all the text and got to the part where it appeared to be looking for hard disks/partitions. Each line said something about waiting 100,000ms. This machine has a hardware SATA RAID-5 card at the moment and no regular IDE drive. I had setup an external USB drive with the unallocated space realizing that the RAID-5 card was probably not supported. I thought USB drives were supported?

I then tried my laptop (P4 3.x Ghz), 2GB RAM, etc. This got further. It went to a baby blue background after getting through the same steps that my desktop had jsut stopped on. Then it just sits there….I could leave it there for an hour or so and it is still just a baby blue background….nothing else.

Any ideas what I can do in either situation? I’d love to be able to run Leopard on one fo these machines.

Thanks!

Desktop System Specs:
EVGA 680i SLI Motherboard
EVGA 8800GTS x 2
PhysX card
3ware 4-drive SATA RAID-5 controller
4GB RAM
Intel Q6600

Laptop System Specs:
Gateway MX6650
2GB RAM

Hi, I’ve got meself a partition and SS3 processor, and can get as far as Darwin loading up – I type in “-v”, Darwin loads, comes up with about 7 lines of text, then the computer reboots rather than continuing to the leopard installation… any ideas?

Hi, I’ve got as far as Darwin loading up, but having typed in “-v”, rather than going to any further installation screen, it comes up with a list of 7 or so items, before restarting the computer. I’ve definitely got an SS3 processor and have partitioned the drive correctly (as far as i’m aware): is there anywhere else I’m likely to be going wrong?

ALBINOASIAN.

I have used the Vista DVD to do a repair when I set up dual XP, Vista with Vista installed first. If you need to do it, it is a piece of cake.

i can only find iATKOS v1.0i

is it the same thab iATKOS v1.0 with out the i ?

Hi! I tried to install iATKOS v1.0i (aprox. 2.44 GB) on my Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook (Core2Duo T7200 processor).
After the line
localhost DirectoryService[51]: Launched Version 5.0 (v514)
the installer stopped with no error message.

Could you, please help me.
Thank you!

Thanks for the guide. I’m downloading right now, but have a question before I start installing… I have 2 hard drives in my laptop. My C drive which houses Vista and all my programs… And then a secondary D drive which is usually just for backups, images, music, etc…

Am I able to parition part of the D drive for the OSX install and boot from there? Or must it be on the same hard drive as Vista?

Thanks.

Guess I should also post my computer stats:

Intel Core2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66GHz
4gb ram
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P Rev 2.0 LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX
Vista 32-bit

thanks for any help in advance

I got it installed, now just to get ethernet etc working =)
thanks

i cant install this. It stops when the text flow over the screen and it doesen’t continue for half an hour, what can i do?

I want to Dual boot Leopard and XP.
So far I’v installed Leopard and it works, but I cant get the boot.ini to work.

I use 1 disk and it’s called C and C got 2 partitions XP is installed on Part. 1 och Leopard on Part. 2.
I’ve flaged part 1 so that XP works.

I’ve googled this a lot, but I can’t get it right.

Hi all..
when I type -v and it starts to scroll texts it stops after “mac framework succesfully initialized”, when I wait more a text appears writing “Still waiting for root device” and it repeats that. Can any one help me please?

Got the DVD, started it up, and the boot stops on the following message:

“localhost DirectoryService[51]: Launched Version 5.0 (v514)”

Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help.

Hi,
I got a DVD from my friend, but dont know its iATKOS v1.0 or not.
whenever i try to install MAC (only for testing), the screen with the apple sign comes and after a little while, a small sign with a circle and a cross on it pop ups. after that, it just goes on like that.

i tried pressing F8 and then -v, and may be the error i got was ” still waiting for the host file” or something like that.

is the same iATKOS v1.0 image or some other.

Sorry, i am a newbie and this question might seem a bit silly.

Thanx in advance

Meep

Took 2 days for the download, and I get file errors transferring the iATKOS to the DVD. Must have been a corrupt download. Oh Well. Looks like a lot of issues here in getting Leopard running on a PC. I guess if I plan on doing this, I will be buying a copy of Leopard, but researching further the woes of putting leopard on an Intel based machine. And checking elsewhere whether I can even do this in a RAID 0 set up. I might not even be able to do this at all.

Turns out that to fix the problem above with “localhost DirectoryService[51]: Launched Version 5.0 (v514)”, I just needed to boot with these options:

-v -legacy

@DUSTIN

I couldn’t find the unallocated partition either, I just created a partition with no format and used the Disk Utility to format it to Mac OSX Journaled. Make sure it is the last partition on the drive or the utility will screw up everything afterwards. Vista CD was able to repair this for me but it takes a while and is a pain.

I’m having this same issue is there a fix?

SmilinBob

So far I have prepared the partition, restarted the machine and booted into the Leopard iATKOS v1.0 DVD, I have pressed F8 and typed -v at the prompt.
My problem is that immediately after this step I see scrolling DOS style text which freezes up and never progresses. It displays the message:
“com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

@ Karthik Kastury
Hi,
I’ve been trying to edit the boot.ini. But I’m getting 2 error every time I try.
1 error: “Can’t not find windows/system32/hal.dll
2 error. “Chain0 boot error.

I don’t get those error att the same time, I’ve to change the boot.ini.

The XP system will run on HD 0 partition 1 and the Leopard will run on HD 0 partition 2.

boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\CHAIN0=”Mac OS X” /fastdetect

Everything is fine up until Disk Utility which fails to see my hard drive. It’s a SATA on Intel ICH in RAID0 configuration. Any ideas?

HI
I tried it everything went fine, all is good, except that when i select Mac OS X at the boot i get an error message indicating chain boot error….any help would be appreciated…

Maz

Faizal

repair your XP with your install CD. your boot.ini was prolly corrupted. if you dont have a cd just get a torrent one from your friend or something

Hey all,

Did anyone of you try it with AMD Athlon XP 2000+ system.

Yes I know it is old but it is for testing. It has 640MB RAM & 128MB Graphics Card.

I currently have Win XP (C:\) & SUSE Installed in it.

How to install OS X Leopard on AMD based system.

***Chain Booting Error***

Excelent Tutorial, I’ve followed right down to the letter.

I’m on my 2nd attempt at loading this on as the 1st time I ruined my Vista Partition, my bad… But using the CD in the drive Leopard booted and ran great [apard from the lack of NIC connectivity]

I’m doing this again, and I now have both Vista and OSX installed but only Vista is Running.

I’ve set up my boot loader and can successfully choose either MacOS or Vista.

When I do select OSx i get

Chain Booting Error.

I ahve copied the Chain0 file over to the root of C: and also into c:\windows for good measure.

Now OSX will not boot from the CD either, Using Disc Utility all health checks come back fine.

Please Help… i’m off to trawl google!

Niall

@Peter

Can you specify how you manually installed darwin boot in XP?

Wow thanks for the tutorial. I have been running leopard great before this tutorial, but now it is easy to load leopard without the cd, but I have only one problem. Loading leopard off the cd gets me laptop controls, full use of Mail and chat, while booting off just the bootloader on the comp gets me to use leopard with less advantages such as no battery icon, no bluetooth unless i use -v at start up and less privelages in mail and chat.

So my question is how do I get the boot off my computer to run the same way as the boot off the cd?

I have Vista already installed…. I would like to try a tri or quad (!) boot with Vista-XP-Leopard-(and eventually Ubuntu 7.10). Do I ask too much? ^_^’
For a ’simply’-tri-boot must I install all WindowsS before Leopard or can I try Leopard now and add XP later?
Thankyou!!!

Hi,
I have since fixed my previous problem and got to the partition part and did that fine. But when I go to Utilities Darwin is not an option. What’s wrong?

Hey thanks for this.. but for some odd reason once the text strats to go down it stops at

Error: FireWire unable to dertermin security-mode; deaulting to full-secure
jettisoning kernel linker

I am lst at this point if any one has any ideas please let me knw
Thank you all

Sliminbob and Dan – I have the same problem as you: namely,

“com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

I have a Pentium C2D @ 3.0GHz, 2×250GB Seagate HDD under RAID 0. I’ve tried without the RAID and still get the same problem.

The only problem I have is that the Installer doesn’t recognize/see the hard-drive in the drive utilities nor the installer(SATA WD hard drive).
Yet if I boot on a PC with a WD ATA drive, the drive is recognized as well as the partitions.

My machine: Fujitsu-siemens laptop, Amilo Li1718, Intel dual-core 1.8, 160gb SATA WD hard drive, ati radeon 200m, 2gb Ram.

Hi, I am not trying to install a dual boot option but I am using the Kalyway 10.5.1 option. I have it burnt to disk and I get to the point where I press F8 and type -v

very shortly afterwards the whole thing hangs..

Abit – IP35
Intel Q6600
ATi x1800XT 512
Samsung sata SH-S203 (just bought this because dvd wouldnt boot with an IDE DVD drive.

Please help. Appreicate it if you can.

I would prefer to buy a copy of OS X and install in on my Core Duo SS3 machine. Does anyone know if I can just install a legit copy or does this only work with the Hacked version?

I have 4 computers and really don’t want to spend $3,000 on a MackBook Pro. I’ve set my machine up to dual boot with various other OS, Ubuntu, Xandros, etc. OS X just looks better.

Anyone know for sure?
Thanks

NOT TO BE FUNNY OR ANYTHING BUT I DONT BELIEVE THAT THIS WORKS….. THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I HAVE TRIED THIS ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS AND STILL RUNNING THE BORING OLD WINDOWS VISTA. IT HAS ONLY ONCE GOT PAST THE DARWIN BOOT AND WHEN IT DID IT WAS SAYING I HAD NO MOTHERBOARD OR ANYTHING I REALISE THIS IS DUE TO COMPATABILLITY ISSUES, AND THEREFORE I WENT TO BUY ALL THE HARDWARE I NEED TO GET MY PC WITH A SPEC THAT COULD RUN MAC OS X. I WOULD LOVE TO RETRACT THIS STATEMENT IF ANYONE COULD EITHER TELL ME WHERE IM GOING WRONG OR HELP ME TO FIX THE RECCURRING PROBLEM.

THANKS IN ADVANCE,

JOHN EVANS

MCSE

Hi Karthik !

After I type “-v” scrolling text stops at the line “IOAPIC: Version 0×20 Vectors 64:87″

I’m usign a notebook Acer Aspire 5672

Intel Duocore 1.66mhz
2GB DDR2
ACPI x86 – based PC
Ati Radeon X1400

thanks!

ahh, so close…
Made all the way to the end and saw my options to boot from Mac OS X or Vista, I chose Mac OS X and it loaded vista. I am stumped. Any ideas?

OK, I’m downloading the hack copy. WOW is this slow! ETA is 8 weeks! Where are all the seeds? If no one has any help, I’m ready to go by OS X and try to install it on my machine. Maybe I just need to find out what specific hardware Apple is using so I can swap out a mini PCI card etc.

Any ideas?

I could buy a used Macbook on ebay and have it delivered faster!

ROMAN

I have the same problem, when I go to Disk Utility, it cant find anything.
Did you find a solution?

I have a Hitachi ATA drive.

Answers, please!

Ignore my last post (I used the wrong GUID)

Now I am getting the same error as Timothy, Maz, Peter, Niall, Ceyos and Gery Vessere….
CHAIN BOOTING ERROR!!!!!
Anybody figure it out? Please share.

I couldn’t wait for the XP tutorial so I just went ahead and tried to install Leopard on my XP Desktop but I’m getting errors.

I have
Gateway GT5036J
Windows XP Home SP2
Intel Pentium D 930
3GB DDR2 RAM

I have XP installed on C: drive and installed Leopard on D: drive using iAtkos v1.0i R2.

I copied CHAIN0 to C:\ and changed boot.ini to:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Home” /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
C:\CHAIN0=”Mac OS X Leopard”

and I got Chain booting error.

Then I copied CHAIN0 to D:\ and changed boot.ini to:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Home” /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
D:\CHAIN0=”Mac OS X Leopard”

and I got “Cannot find windows/system32/hal.dll” error.

What do I need to do to fix this? Please help.

Mine hangs after pressing
F8, -v

says waiting for root device and just repeats that forever.

Help?

sata hdd
sata dvd
abit IP35
q6600
x1800xt

kalyway 10.5.1

Really want help

I’ve installed iAtkos 1.0i R2 to an external USB Harddrive. I activate the drive, and follow the steps to get MAC OS X in to Vista’s bootloader, but when trying to boot MAC OS X I get the error ” CHAIN BOOT ERROR”. Is there some way that I must edit the bootstring so that it will acknowledge the USB harddrive.

Like someone above did, i too went ahead installing Leopard with XP. I faced the same error as Faze when using Darwin Boot Step. I added the line

C:\Chain0=”MacOSX LEO” and in next boot when in select this, it errors …

“Chain Boot error”

Can anybody here help on this.

@Priyan

I encountered the same problem as you do.

I redo the installation selecting the Darwin x86 bootloader under Customize. This solved my problem. Good luck.

I am having the same problem as FAZE posted today. Is there a method of loading the darwin boot loader manually in a Vista environment?

Hi there!
I got some problems by the bootstep…
After pressing F8 and typing “-v” where comes 5-7 Lines…dont know what , after that my Laptop restarts…
Whats wrong ?!

NotebookStats:

Asus F5 Series
CoreDou 2ghz
2048 DDR
160HDD
ATI x1000 Mobility

just after running with -v, the text stops shortly after mac framework successfully initialized. any help?
i dun neo why. i tried 8 times. always hang there.
my specification is
acer 8215

- Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz (4MB L2 Cache)
- 2 Gig RAM
- 160 Gig 5400 RPM Drive
- ATI x1600 Mobility 256M DDR3 Memory (512 w/Hypermemory)
- Realtek HD Audio

Having this error any solution?

Error: FireWire unable to dertermin security-mode; deaulting to full-secure

Karthik,

Everything was running perfectly until I rebooted after install. Now I am stuck at the gray apple logo screen with the spinning circle. Any ideas?

Please help!

What will be the process to have tri boot (vista, xp and os x) ive installed xp and vista.. and have the both boot cd’s too, Ive just downloaded ‘iATKOS v1.0ir2′. Is there anyone here used this ‘iATKOS v1.0i r2′ and succeeded please tell me the methods about the booting part then.

Comp Specs:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz
RAM: 3GB (1gb x 2 , 512mb x 2)
Display Card: XFX nVidia 8600gt @ 256 mb
HD: 320gb (6 partitions),(32mb buffer speed)
[PS. I dont know anything about the RAID part how do i configure this ?]

Thanx, in advance..

Im sure you’ll not loose anything if you help a helpless.

Hey,
when doing the Vista dual boot, it gets to the scrolling text and stops at
“Waiting for root disk” and says it over and over. Any ideas

I have a Compaq Persario V4125CL with XP and Vista installed.
My problum is I’m having a problum booting from the dvd. After the white scrolling, it freezes and stays at the blue screen no matter how long I wait. I’ve had this problum with other Leopard downloads. Although I tried booting the dvd on desktop I have and the installer loaded up great. Wats wrong and is their anything I can do to fix it.

Any help appricated

I am trying to do a tri-boot w/ vista xp and osx. I got osx installed using this guide, but now when I reboot without a cd all that comes up is Unable to Load Operating System. I can’t load any of them. I tried using the vista dvd to fix the startup but it said that nothings wrong. Now I can’t do anything… I really can’t afford to lose the data on any of the partitions because I have things I need for work. If anyone knows a solution please help. And if you could throw me an email about it at bartystewart@gmail.com that would be great.

I just saw the comment left by FAZE. I had those same errors with the Darwin Boot. I really don’t want to have to wipe everything. Is there a way around that?

Not sure why, but when i booted with an Ubuntu Live CD and erased the Partition for Mac my Vista boot is working again. My XP isn’t working and I’ve tried a repair install off of the disk, but nothing. I am now having the same problem as usuf. I created a 20g unallocated partition and when i go into the Disk Management utility all I see are the two partitions with windows. When I click on the hard drive and select partitions It can see that there is free space, but all of the options to do anything are grayed out.

DAN, that’s what happens to me also; all the options are greyed out, and when I try to “mount” the partition, is says that it cannot be mounted. I don’t even have a “format” option unless I click my whole hard drive. If I just click the partition itself, I only get options to check and repair the disk. There has to be an extra step somewhere that we aren’t doing that was left out of the tutorial.

Dan,

Only if I format it through Vista first. Then, it shows up in the list with my other partitions under my hard drive, but I can’t do anything with it; the only way I can see an unallocated partition is if I choose to “partition” my main hard drive, in which case it shows up unallocated, but has no option to format.

I may try to find a utility that will format for Mac OS X Journaled inside of windows, so I can skip that disk utility step, and go straight to darwin boot, but I’m going to install sp1 and make an image of my computer in case I can’t boot into vista again.

Acronis True Image (50 dollars for a license).

yeah im trying a triboot ihave copied the chain0 as given in the steps.. nd i did boot editing in winxp.. nd cant understnd how to edit the boot thing using boot mgr.. in vista..
plz help!!

can you use the normal apple bought leopard CD instead of the iATKOS v1.0 one?

My sound & ethernet does not work
Intel Pentium D 2.80 GHz
Ram: 1gb
Network: Intel Pro/100 VE

dears all,

i’m not sure doing everything right. but untill now i didn’t get it work.

as describe in the howto after loading iaktos (not sure about my version) i used the disk utility but could not find darwin boot in the menu utilities. even though before i didn’t see the difference betwenn letting the system autoboot after pressing f8 the iaktos disk or following the howto. i always said x86 darwinboot after counting down. anyhow i did it the one or the other way the iaktos started and the installtion was easy but then nothing works out like the howto says. even after taking out the disk no system at all was found.

meanwhile i got the computer this fare back that it accepts the iaktos again and maybe through this i will be abel to start again from vista.

otherwise if there are some changes in the howto with a never version of iaktos i could or must say would be thankfull for some help.

here are my system facts for notebook msi vr601ne.

Processor & Cache: Intel® Core 2 Duo/Celeron Processors
Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Chipsets:Intel® GL960+ICH8-M
System Memory: 3GB, is more than supported but does work with vista
LCD Display: 15.4″ TFT AVC WXGA display
Graphics & Video Module Intel® Grpahics Media Acceleator (GMA) X3100
Audio HD Audio, 2 speakers (1.5W)

HDD:80GB SATA

Optical Drive: COMBO/DVD Super Multi

Communication Port

Built-in Gigabit Ethernet LAN and Modem Module
Built-in 802.11b / g WLAN Card
Built-in Bluetooth (optional)

PC Card Slots

PCMCIA 2.1, Type II x 1

Card Reader

4-in-1 Card Reader, MMC/SD/MS/MS Pro

Webcam

Built-in 1.3M pixel webcam (optional)

I/O Port

VGA out (15-pin, D-Sub) X 1
USB2.0 Port X 4
Mic-in Port X 1
Headphone/SPDIF out X 1
Modem Port X 1
LAN Port X 1
S-Video Port X 1
Line-in port X 1
IEEE 1394 Port X 1

i cant boot in to it
and can u descrribe what GUID is and where to find it

i have been stuck at the message “still waiting for root device” for over 2 hours. any suggestions?

I have tried this many times but got it work just for a single time … i installed leopard got installed but can’t boot into it…

i followed the mentioned steps but got HFS+ partition not found error.. dunno why… wasted my lots of hours

hey found a solution to boot chain error in install costumizing you have to select the EFI MBR V8 option

and your mac partition must be primary
look to your mac partition with EditHexa utility : check wether your partition has a valid boot sector … The last two bytes should read “AA55″.
Else, the boot sector of the partition won’t be accepted by chain0.

it works!!!!!!!!!
beautiful mac OSX
made it work with amd prossessor

can you maake a video tutorial
that would help out a lot

helloh.

Im on windows xp home.

intel celeron 2.6 GHz. about 1g of RAM

ehh the old emachines pc. fairly decent.

sorry but im being lazy.

i really want to get dual boot working with xp and tiger.

notice this is for leopard but i bet u can get tiger too. i hope.

i have the mac os x image dvd burt its the current JaS patcher.

i watched the vid and made a seperate partition on here with

acronis disk director. i boot from cd and i get to the darwin bootloader part. i press f8 it goes down the list and i get to “still waiting for root device.” errrr

i noticed you use mycomputer > manage > unallolacated for vista.

i also noticed this was a freshly updated blog.

pls help if you can ill check back if you need any more info. D

This guide seems great! Hopefully I can get it to work on XP.

I’m using Partition Magic 8.0 to repartition my drive since I don’t have VISTA. How do I setup up the partition using this software? Specifically, I am lost at making sure the partition is ‘unallocated’.

what type of Partition magic are u using? (legal or cracked?_)

It’s a legal copy.

Does it have to be vista or can it be xp?

JAMES, I got the same problem too.
For 2 week s,the installer just stops at

localhost DirectoryService[51]: Launched version 5.0 (v514)

and refuses to continue.

Any idea how can the installer continue?

Hi,

Have pressed F8 as the countdown begins and typed -v at the prompt and hit enter.
The text was scrolling on the screen, and then it stopped.
Thanks to help me out here.

Kind regards
Alain

Will this work on my laptop?

Product Name dv2402ca Product Number GA483UA#ABA Microprocessor 1.6 GHz Intel® Celeron® M Processor 520 Microprocessor Cache 1 MB L2 Cache Memory 1024 MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) Memory Max 2048 MB max supported Video Graphics Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (shared) Video Memory Up to 224 MB Hard Drive 120 GB (5400 RPM) SATA Hard Drive Multimedia Drive LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support Display 14.1″ WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800) Fax/Modem High speed 56k modem Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) Wireless Connectivity 802.11b/g WLAN

Alright, hit -v and it scrolled with the text, stops as:

BSD root: disck1s3, major 14, minor 6

Hey
I tried installing iAtkos i r2,
when the text start scrolling it stops and the last message says

MAC Framework succesfully initialized
using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Extension “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatfotmPlugin” has immediate depencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style
I hope someone can help me

how to create a multi boot for Win xp and Mac Os ?

Hi Guys,

I installed MAC OSX 10.5 Leopard using Leo4all.iso. Everything was going perfect. I was using Leopard. But then my new Mac warned me about the new updates. I said “install and restart” and instaled the updates but now I can’t pass the boot screen any more. I dont see the mac desktop. whats the reason? what happpened?

Hi,

Did anyone get Leopard and Windows XP in a dual boot working yet?

I’ve read some people commenting on their boot.ini here, but I understand no-one got it working?

Or?

Let us know (how), thanks!

will this work on a quad core pc?

I just NOW completed downloading the ISO file. Took forever, my ISP sucks. Anyways, my HD is repartitioning as I type, I’ll let you know if I get it to work right with XP.

Does anyone know what this command means?

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1

If I’m installing on a second hard drive, do I have to change it to rdisk1? or does it matter?
I’m trying to dual boot with XP and haven’t been successful at all.

BTW, I downloaded iAtkos v1.0i R2 through a torrent site.

@kungfumaster007
That command is to set your Windows partition to be active, so that you can start back to windows… And assuming you have XP installed on the first drive – obviously – use the command as it is.

BOOT CHAIN0 ERROR!!!!!!!!!!!

Wahahahahhaha!

Salman, Thank you.
I don’t have any problem booting XP with or without the command though. I wish booting into OS X was that easy. I’m still having Boot Chain0 Error like everyone else.

@Jason
I used Roxio and it burned at 4.0x which took approx 9 minutes. So 15 minutes sounds just about right.

Are you experiencing any problem specifically? Maybe i can help out.

@Everyone

Ok… so what you need to do to ensure that you don’t run into the Boot Chain0 Error is to hit Customize before beginning install with default settings, and checking the Bootloader from the tree. You can select the Drivers as well, but it led to the MAC being hung during startup which led me to reinstalling again.

There are a few things extra in the tutorial above… but if you follow it close enough – with the exception of checking Bootloader from the components to be installed where as the author of this blog said to install the default package – you’ll have MAC running on your PC soon enough.

I will post what i did in detail soon…

Best Regards.
Salman Khalid.

@ Salman Khalid

Can you write down the details that you did quickly !!! Thank you very much…….

Oh I’m dumb. I didn’t read the directions carefully! I missed a step. I wish there was ‘delete post’ button! Ok…I’m going in for another try!

Boot Chain0 Error =(
Any solutions?

@MIDOE

Read my comment made on March 29th… Comment no. 19019 on this page.

I got the same error but successfully bypassed it by making a slight customization to the install package.

@Nguyen

I am tied down with some work, but will post what i did exactly to get it to work later.

@Everyone
Other than RESTART (shutdown works perfect, but restart closes everything and goes to a load screen, but doesn’t restart) and problems with setting up the Network card (i have an intel onboard ethernet card) eveything else is just perfect.

I found a solution to installing the LAN card on it and will give it a go as long as they approve my registration (so that i can download the driver info). So hopefully will be up on the internet in MAC as well. Also got Office 2008 for MAC OSX and iLife 8.0 on DVDs and am gonna try installing them to see if they work or not.

BTW – my windows partitions are 100% accessible via MAC OS X!

Salam Salman,
I read ur post but didn’t know what customization to change (what package to add). I installed it without any packages (iATKOS v.1) which means that it should be working perfectly. I think that you have to install the Darwin bootloader X86 from the customization menu only if u have iATKOS v1.0ir2. I had the other version so I didn’t change anything but it didnt work.

As for the partition. The Mac didnt recognize it when it was unallocated so what I did is that i changed it to allocated by choosing the size of it. I didn’t format it though nor assigned a letter for it so that it doesnt show up when I click on My Computer in Windows.

Best Regrads,
Ahmad Marafi (Midoe)

IT WORKED!! WOOHO
Guys, use iATKOS v1.0ir2 and before installing it click on customize and add the EFI bootloader Package (Darwin EFI + 2 Stock Items)
It’ll work right away..

Im stuck with no drivers though.. i’ll look for them sometime soon..

@FAZE

you have to create a volume with a certain size (5 Gb at least) but don’t format it or assign a letter to it. Just leave it the way it is. You’ll be able to see it.

Basically, It’s not unallocated.. It’s a Volume!

Wsalaam Midoe,

Thanks for the info

@EVERYONE

So probably a dum question… but this is the full Leopard, wrong? The image was 2.5 GB in size… the original MAC OS X is over 5-7 GB in size…

Well, I followed the kungfumaster007’s link, used the kalway version and it worked the first time. I am installing the iPhone SDK right now to see if ti works, I have the same driver issues but will work that out later.

check it out here: http://maconpc.distinctlyjordan.com/2008/03/20/how-todual-boot-xp-and-leopard/#comment-72

Is it just me or the MAC extremely simple? I mean… in comparison to Windows which seems kind of huge!

The interface of Vista, i like better than MAC OS X. But there’s no denying that MAC OS X is way faster. I love the way the Folders/Setups are shown (autoruns have icons rather than buttons – sort of)

Furthermore… i just love the interface of Office 2008 on MAC! And the mail client is faster than Outlook – though lacking some features but Microsoft should include that as well in the Office suite for windows as a light version to outlook.

I need the drivers for my Gfx card Couldnt find it..
Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT (512MB) that comes with the M15x Alienware laptop

hi guys, im having trouble too….

well im trying to install Leopard on a second partition of my hard drive(other partition has vista on it) and im using the iATKOS 1.0i dvd and when i booted it, i hit F8, and typed -v, then it looks like its doin its thing and then it stops here:
Extension “com.apple.driver.itunesphonedriver” has no explicit kernel dependency; using version 6.0

and like every 2 mins it will say “Still waiting for root device”
it gets me thinking, i have an ipod touch(very very close to iphone) and it says “itunes phone driver” hmmm….but my ipod wasnt plugged in…i have the cord to plug it in thats plugged in, but the ipod isnt attatched to the cord….soooo does anybody have any idea on how to fix this?

I am getting the ‘Still waiting for root device’ problem on my
Intel DP35DP Q6600

@Midoe

Try their website… i had no trouble finding the MAC drivers for the OS x from their site…
http://msalmank.blogspot.com/2008/03/hurrah-for-ati-shame-on-creative.html

I am still looking for Creative soundblaster audigy live drivers for mac. Anyone?

Best Regards.

I was able to install using iATKOSv v1.0 r2, but when it was all said and done, during the OS loading I got a message saying I had to reboot. So no go. I wiped everything and tried again. BTW, for those who say their screen freezes at a blue background when booting from the install DVD… keep trying. I’ve noticed that I can get it to load the installer once every 6-8 tries. Sometimes more. One time I had to reboot 20 times before the installation screen booted correctly.

Once I installed again (followed Salman’s Blog), my computer now just reboots. It reboots too fast for me to read the message before hand. I’m thinking of following this guide… http://maconpc.distinctlyjordan.com/2008/03/20/how-todual-boot-xp-and-leopard/#comment-72 using Kalway 10.5.1 My connection is somewhat slow, so it will take a few days to download.

After giving up on the problems that i was having with iAtkos (Restart not working, and Shutdown not working sometimes, sound card drivers, Ethernet, and so on) i’m going to give Kalyway’s Leopard OS X a go.

Furthermore, the iAtkos is a bit too hacked for my taste. (just go into “About this Mac” dialog and you’ll know what i mean. I’d like it to be just perfect!)

True that i may not be able to get my ethernet card working on Kalyway’s Hacked Leo but i could always go for a cheap card that it does support, and i am sure i could find Soundblaster’s drivers given the time. As for not being able to use my ATI R3650 to its full capacity, its not like i’ll be playing any games on the MAC OS X, besides ATI has a few OS X drivers up on their site which i haven’t tried out yet.

I’ll let you know once i get it working.

@ Salman

Unfortunately, Nvidia doesn’t provide any drivers for Mac OS X
and my gf isn’t supported by their website because its a laptop gfx not a desktop one.

I am having problems : (

motherboard Asus p5n-e sli
intel core 2 quad processor
8gb of ram

vista is on my primary of 320GB and the other is showing up as unallocated 145GB

hit f8 during countdown type -v hit enter, gets upto about 6 lines of darwin then restarts, press any key to install osx then: loading darwin/x86 i see a white background for a split seccond then the computer restarts again asking me to hit any key to install mac osx splash screen, then shuts down AHHHHHH! its like groundhog day, as far as i know i am following the instructions properly and the harddrive was shrunken properly… anyone have any ideas whats going on?

any help is greatly apreciated!

Beware of Suspicious Drivers!!!

http://msalmank.blogspot.com/2008/04/dumb-and-dumber.html

@SLIMJIM

I don’t really recall which site i downloaded it from. Could you point to where you downloaded it from? (Do have an on-board intel ethernet card?)

I got the message continuously for like 15 times at-least before i gave up on it. Tried again now but didn’t work.

Kalyway download completed and am about to burn it to DVD. Will be installing it soon now.

@Salman

when i restart my comp with the disk in, i go through all the steps, and it does everything, then stops at

ERROR: FireWire unable o determine security-mode; defaulting to full secure

then it says

Still Waiting For Root Device

and it keeps saying that.

You should see scrolling text on the screen now. If it stops anywhere then drop a comment and I’ll try to help you out.

I´t don´t appear any scrolling text, after that it only says press any key. and then the mac logo appears, and nothing happens, after a while, it appears a symbol on the mac logo. what to do :S

ei guys, help here! I keep on getting stuck in the prompt that says “waiting for root device” what could be wrong? Thanks!

Hi,
I am using iAktos v1.0 R2.
When ever i try to boot into vista my system just restatts. The problem is not that my vista partition is inactive.
I got as far as after I execute the fdisk -e…… Commands to darwin. Vista wont start so i cant continue.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Josh

@Josh Man

execute the fdisk -e commands.. they’ll activate the vista partition..
if ur keyboard doesnt work and u cant type anything just keep restarting ur pc and start iAtkos with the -s command over and over until ur keyboard starts working..

Ouch.. did u erase it by mistake?

@Josh Man

Try using the Vista installation DVD and repair. See if that works for you.

I noticed in the steps that you say to choose 0 for the disk number. However, on my computer, I have two independent hard drives, and I want to install leopard on the second disk (Disk 1), which, would most likely change the number I enter for “Disk Number,” right?
Also, would any other 0’s be changed to 1 as well (particularly in the inputting of the commands “fdisk -e/dev/rdisk0″ as well as “bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0)?

Thank you.

@Salman

I used kalyway’s and it worked great but I need the same driver for network card as you do. I’ve tried a few but nothing hasn’t worked either. Let me know if you find a driver. I’ll keep trying, too.

@kungfumaster007

Ditto to you as well… i will try and locate the drivers tomorrow or on Sunday. Can’t risk looking for them tonight, as it is often time-consuming and i have tons of work to wrap up.

Well, I started to try and install Leopard about 10 minutes ago, but when I get in, and type the “-v” it starts up, but instead of a bunch of scrollign text, I just get:

System config file ‘/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found

And then, after about 15 seconds or so, a white(ish) band appears about a quarter way down my screen, and consumes the leftmost fifth of my screen horizontally

When I go to the disk utility screen to install leopard I don’t see any partions or hard drives to install to. Ive tried several differect configuations including assigning the unallocated space a letter, formatting it, and leaving it as unallocated space. Anybody have any suggestions or answers?

Im currently running:

AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology TL-50 / 1.6 GHz
1 GB DDR II SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
120 GB – Serial ATA-150 – 5400 rpm
DVD±RW (+R DL) / DVD-RAM

@Mr. Yum Yum

Did you burn at the lowest burn speed? (My Roxio software burned at 2x i think – at lowest possible)

Try re-burning the image, but if it doesn’t work still, then try re-downloading. I would advice Kalyway DVD.

Thanks a lot for the guide! This works great! As soon as I get drivers for my wireless card I’m all set.

My only issue was in Darwin I, instead of selecting drive “0″ (which, when I did so, failed to mount the Darwin Boot files), I had to use drive “1″. Other than that, everything works exactly like you said it should! I don’t know why all these other people are having so much trouble…..n00bs! lol

Where would i get the Kalway DVD? What would be the difference between using iATKOS and Kalway? What should i search to find the Kalway DVD, and what is the difference between iATKOS v1.0 and iATKOS v1.0ir2?

I managed to install Leopard .. But when i get to choose between VIsta / MAc OS X … I choose Mac .. and then nothing happens..

I can see the darwin countdown .. 5,4,3,2,1 and then i get the same screen as if i pressed F8 … i choose the partition i Installed Leopard on, i hit ENTER .. nothing happens. .. i get the same screen .. again i can choose the partition .. i tried some commands but they don;t work ..

I must say .. the step where : SELECT UTILITIES > DARWIN BOOT etc.
I didnt have that option .. so i just installed without those steps .. is this crucial for Mac to work ? ..
if so .. how to fix ?

Do vista and osX have to be on the same disc with to partitions, or can they be on to different discs

Hello, let me just say I have little experience working with mac’s so i would like to try it out first on my notebook before i go out and buy one. My question is this, i have a hp dv2415nr it has a amd processor 1.8 and was wondering if the above steps would work with an amd processor (it has Vista). If not, i also have an intel p4 2.8 w/ xp on it. How would i do it with xp?

Your contribution is greatly appreciate and hopefully i can successfully install it on my notebook or desktop. By the way, i figured a way to convert any windows vista os default language(english) to any target language. If you have not discovered how to complete this i can help you out.

Are you working on dual boot with XP? Please is very important…

ok i’ve done everything.

except i had the same problem w/ not being able to see my hdd, so partitioned it w/ iatkos and that worked well, but everuytime i start leopard, it goes to the gray screen then freakin restarts

what is the solution!!!!!

@ nathan

my computer keeps doing the same thing. i could not find any one who knew how to fix that. i was told it was a problem with the OSX i downloaded, but i tried another one and it did not fix it. if you fnd any thing else out let me know. i will keep looking.

@Aassem Askari

I don’t think it’ll differ for AMD. But try a search over at osx86 forums…

Best Regards.
Salman Khalid.
P.S. Sorry for the delay in response, i got tied down with office work.

@EVERYONE

If you are downloading iAtkos then download iAtkos 1.0ir2, not 1.0. IR2 release had a few issues fixed.

However, i would recommend downloading KALYWAY instead of iAtkos. I don’t know the exact differences, but KALYWAY is definitely better and i haven’t run into any problems with it so far. With iAtkos problems always existed, startup problems, or restart not working, and so on. But with Kalyways, its working perfectly.

Search using the keyword “Kalyway” in Mininova and you’ll find the image. Trust me, its better than iAtkos. I will post instructions for installing using Kalyway on my blog later tonight – msalmank.blogspot.com

Best regards.

hi i have a DELL Latitude D620 Laptop

Intel Core Duo T2500 2.00Ghz
it says it can accept MMX,SSE, SSE2, SSE3.
1 Gig of Ram (DDR2)
100Gb Hardrive
Motherboard: Dell OTD761

would it work? im supposing so.

but what i would like to know is at the start do i make 2 partitions initially or just the one partition when installing vista

eg. split the 100gb to two 50gb

or 100gb with vista installed.

thanks

When i searched Kalway on mininova no results came up. Is there a way to dual boot vista/Kalway, I doubt it, but just wondering.

@PRIMER

You searched for “KALWAY”. It is “KALYWAY”

You missed the Y after the L – in the middle.

I can’t wait to join the “it was a success” bandwagon too. I’ve been downloading Kalyway for 5 days at about 5k/sec… slow slow slow. I’m still only at 50 percent. By the time I get the full download I’ll have saved enough money to just by a Mac! LOL. The first time I downloaded Kalyway only took about 4 days but the file was corrupt, so I choose another torrent. Let’s hope this one works. Wish me luck!

@SALMAN

I will try WinRar and see what happens. The program I first used to extract it would just delete the iso file every time after finishing. No error message. I was like WTF? So, I tried using Windows’ built in extractor and it gave me an error message. So I thought all was lost. Thanks for the tip, I hope it works!

Hey there, I am trying to install the iatkos on my toshiba and am getting a media error message when I attempt to boot from the disk. Then it boots normally with vista… What am I doing wrong?

@Jason

I can pretty much imagine how you felt at that point!
I’m positive that it’ll extract with WinRar…

For those who have an AMD machine, there is a different torrent of Kalyway targetting AMD machines, and it is 10.5.2!

@.iNiz

I was going to write a full-fledge tutorial, but i realized most of the process was what i did to install iAtkos (as explained on my blog). So i wrote a new post detailing what differs and needs to be taken care of to install iAtkos.

visit my blog; msalmank.blogspot.com

@.iNiz

in my previous post, i meant; “…what differs and needs to be taken care of to install Kalyway” not iAtkos.

@Yaroub Raba

Since you have the AMD processor, i advice you to download the Kalyway 10.5.2 image as that targets both intel and amd processors.

I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work on your laptop.

what is “this media test failure, check cable”… i think i’m losing my mind!

@RAY

After burning iAtkos or Kalyway or any other hacked OS X, don’t look at the size of the DVD in Vista/XP and think it didn’t write correctly. Because most of the DVD files are in a format unknown to windows and thus the size is all wrong. It is mostly the size of the files visible within Vista usually.

Secondly, since you are getting that error when trying to boot-up from the DVD, don’t assume that there is anything wrong with the image. For some reason, iAtkos requires you to burn at the minimum speed possible! In Roxio my max speed is 16x or 8x, but the minimum was 4x. Before burning i set it to 4x (it is usually set to the fastest speed possible by default). Re-burn the image at a slow speed and try again.

If doesn’t work, re-download. But like before, i recommend downloading Kalyway instead of iAtkos.

Best Regards.
Salman Khalid.
msalmank.blogspot.com

@kungfumaster007

Same here… upgraded to 10.5.2 but no luck with the Pro/100 card. So many solutions out there, and so far none has worked!

I’m downloading the full version of Kalyways 10.5.2 as well… am going to give that a go. I am thinking of going out and purchasing a card that is supported by MAC OS X… Modem cards are pretty cheap here; from Rs. 100 to 300 – that’s like $2-$5.

thanks Salman Khalid
I went with your instructions, installed everything, but when I choose to boot with the mac os, it reboot the notebook, no problem to load the vista.
Any ideas what is going on?
thanks

When i hit -v the text scroll stops at :

Kernel Version 9.1.0: Sat Nov 17 02:56:34 SCT 2007: made by toH:xnu-1228.0.2~1/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_1386

well no one told me anything about needing a SATA DVD drive in order for the installation to work. That’s what i found out on the insanyMac forum.

I’m using a IDE DVD drive and upon boot the first and only error stop me from going forward. <>

I tried using a IDE to SATA plug but my motherboard just won’t detect the DVD drive (i think its the drive duo its not that old).

Please someone tell me how to install with a IDE DVD drive without using the convertor. I read on the insanyMAc forum that it is possible but no one wants to teach, and i can’t post topic nor reply on that forum even after i registered (really sick of it).

Please help, i am using a copy of iATKOS 1.0 ir2, with a IDE Samsung DVD drive, a 250GB IDE HD (1partition windows/2nd leaving for MAC), and my motherboard is an ASUS P5k.

Thanks.

;Hmmm… which software did you use? I used Roxio… and remember to burn at the lowest speed possible.

i use MAC’s toast8.0 to Burn my first copy. And to confirm, i burn my 2nd copy on a PC with Nero at 2.4x the slowest speed. Both are the same…..

This really sucks *** i wan to have mac and vista on 1 system…..

I got Kalyway 10.5.2, followed the instructions properly and got it to work. But, my my gfx is messed up, i only see a black screen, and when i fix it with mount uw/ and /movevideodrivers, i still get the same error..
is there anyone in the same boat as me?

Also, 10.5.2 fixed my lan card.

Aassem Askari,

Hmmm… i had a similar problem once, but when i reinstalled, it didn’t happen again. (I’ve probably done over 15 successful installations in the past week – most of the time the OS X becoming unfunctional due to some file that i try out to get my Intel LAN card to work – i’m planning to install 10.5.2 full release of Kalyway once it downloads completely (as of now, its downloaded 74.3%) and sticking with that, even if my LAN doesn’t work.)

Anyways… for your boot menu problem, i mentioned on my blog this utility; Vista Boot Pro… download that (its free) and it’ll let you remove your unwanted boot menu options… http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Salman,

Which torrent did you downoad? Is it “kalyway leopard 10 5 2 dvd intel amd 4122511 tpb” from mininova? I might try to download that one too, see if it’s faster. I’m at 80% right now with 10.5.1 I think this is day 7!

I got it burned and it is booting from the DVD… will install it later tonight.

Getting:

Extension “Com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PLATFORMPLUGIN” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style

What does this mean, what do I do?

@MARK

Did this error occur after installation was done? or during installation? Or did it occur before starting?

If it occurred after or between, then check the components you selected. Uncheck any matching the error…

Hi!
Thanks for your instructions. I have a little problem with booting Mac. As I am typing -v it starts scrolling but soon comes to:
MAC Framework successfully initialised using 15728 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Extention “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin” has immediate dependancies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components;
use only one style

after this test I can’t do anything to my laptop, just turn off.
Any ideas?

One more problem (hopefully).
When I try to boot into Leopard (verbose mode, so I can see its progress), it gets to the point “unknown SIGSEGV code 0″ and freezes.
What do I do?
Thanks.

fixed my sigsegv error, but when i boot leopard, it gets to the grey screen, plays that (strange strange) music, but then it stays at the grey screen, and the loading cursor is all that I see, and it doesn’t really go anywhere from there

Install stops at

diskarbitration: coreRAIDsomethingorother failure… or something.

Running a Dell XPS, nVidia 6800 gfx card, Creative X-FI sound card, 2GB RAM, Windows XP. Got my unallocated space all ready to go.

ONCE, it made it into a gray screen with a spinning colour wheel for the cursor… but the wheel froze, as did everything else.

sorry and im using iatkos v1.oiR2 boot disc

wow, I’m really unlucky with problems..
Now, when I choose to boot leopard, my computer gets through about 8 lines, and then suddenly restarts on me.

@Aassem & Wilson,

A guy Pete posted the following link: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253&st=0

Check if the problems you guys are having are mentioned in that with a resolution.

Cheers for the guide.

I’ve got leopard installed on my vaio laptop but get the chainboot error.

When i go to the command propmt none of the bcdedit commands listd work.

I need to change the path to c:\chain0 as suggested but it’s erroing out with “an unknown command was specified”

I have entered bcdedit/ set{5d134b8e-073b-11dd-a1de-a27ad10ab714}PATH /Chain0

What am i doing wrong?

Hi
I have AMD Athlon 3200 processor and vista installed i had make secon portion on hdd in vista and also installed osx 10.5 successfully but after restart at Darwin Boot Loader i press -s and try to enter

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot
but when i enter fdisk -e/dev/rdisk0 it show that not a command or path found error and also not booting in any operating system not even vista

@Paul

If you entered the command as you wrote in your post;
“bcdedit/ set{5d134b8e-073b-11dd-a1de-a27ad10ab714}PATH /Chain0″

then that would not work! If you wrote;
“bcdedit /set {5d134b8e-073b-11dd-a1de-a27ad10ab714} PATH /Chain0″
then that ought to work.

As for the bootChain error, you’ll have to re-install, and before installation begins, hit Customize and check the Boot option selected. Make sure you have the MBR one selected and remove the GUID one. That ought to remove the Bootchain error.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Still no luck with the Intel Pro v/100.
Anyone who had luck with getting that to work?

I have now gotten as far as getting leopard to start booting but it gets to a screen which says i need to reboot my pc (in three languages)

Anyone else had this and got past it?

@Paul

Looks like you chose some component that didn’t bode well with your system and thus OS X is skipping out on you. In the Customization screen, don’t select anything else other than the default selections but the MBR Boot option (removing the GUID option).

Hi Salman,

Got it booting to osx by installing as you suggested and then -x ing from darwin.

Means i can’t use net,sound etc but now i know it works (and fast) i’ll give kalyway a go.

If i don’t boot in safe mode in verbose mode it hangs at a message about the kernel i386 (i’ll post exactly when i get chance to note it down)

I’m having trouble working out what to add to get a working leopard.

I’m installing on this http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=21014&category_id=415&manufacturer_id=0

And my mother board is an intel from what i can work out,

Uhm, when i start up the darwin boot installer or anything it doesnt show any drives on my computer at all. I dont know what the problem is or how to fix it. I have tried a few things but nothing at all seems to be working. Anyone help me out here?

hi

i m having trouble of installing.. after install when i reboot my lepoard dvd.. i suppose to type
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

but it doesn’t work.. can some one help me wif it?

I use g parted and just right click the drive I want to boot go to manage flags and change it.

the only one I haven’t tried is kalyway .5.2

I’ll give it a bash

hey guys, to everyone that has been having trouble with the Disk Utility not recognizing their partitions…make absolutly sure your hard disk is in ACHI mode before you start it. I had the same problem found a forum post saying that you should tey that, i did it and it worked

@ Salman

Do you know which network cards have drivers for Mac? I got a corega gigabit network card but it didn’t work either. If I know exactly which one works, I’ll go out and get that one.

Hi,
thanks for your guide to dual boot, but my question is b4 I start the process, I already have Vista installed on my comp, with all the programs and settings I like, If I were to dual boot would I lose this data?
Also if something does go wrong in the process can I just put in the Vista DVD and repair without losing any data, becuase my father would be very upset if all his files were deleted, and all my music would be gone too.
I could back them all up, which I probably will. But I dont want to go through the hassle of having to install all my programs again, and stuff like that.
Thanks again

-Carpz-

When I get to the part where I have to boot up vista and replace the GUID with the GUID under “mac os x” in the command prompt, the “mac os x” part doesn’t show up. Only the windows part shows up. Anybody know why?

hey getting pretty much the exact same problem as smilinbob and dan;

So far I have prepared the partition, restarted the machine and booted into the Leopard iATKOS v1.0 DVD, I have pressed F8 and typed -v at the prompt.
My problem is that immediately after this step I see scrolling DOS style text which freezes up and never progresses. It displays the message:
“com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

what should i do?
-+-

sorry, this might be a noob question, but is C: the harddrive of your computer? and if so, where do i have to copy the chain0 file? i heard in the root of it, but where is that? (on vista) please, anybody, give me an answer as soon as possible.

i did every thing listed above and when i select to boot in to leopard it boots in to vista. if any one can help please email me at vikemi3@gmail.com

Thanks so much..

i tried to dual boot vista and mac but i am faced with a problem
when i boot into the atkos dvd it starts the countdown and works fine when pressing f8.
but thats where theres a prob
when i press -v it reboots and it does not show the mac set up screen
what should i do?

Also having problems with firewire. It hangs at “jettisoning kernel linker” after trying to load the firewire…. any help would be appreciated.

OK, so I just reinstalled, minusing the AMD patches and video drivers. Now its at the Apple logo. But the pin wheel is spinning rather slowly, is this normal?

Thanks

Ive got some problems too. I start the patched version for AMD and it works all great till the part where i have to chose the partition i want to install it on. But the Macinstaller does not recognize any harddisk..
SO it wont let me install leopard.
Im using the oatched version of iAtkos v1.0i
AMD +6000×2
4gb Ram
geforce 8800GTX
enough HDD-For Leo

El_KLAUMI’s problem..same..
My HDD isn’t detected.
I have SATA HDD.

Hi, I finished installing iATKOS on my second partition. I was able to follow through all the instructions. However, after choosing the partition for Darwin Bootloader to boot from, a white screen with apple logos appear for 1-2 minutes and then my computer automatically restarts. I tried to do boot Leopard again and the same thing happened. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

I get the following error on my machine:

EBIOS READ ERROR: ERROR 0×32
Block 4302328 Sectors 64

I can add my machine details if that matters.

hey i installed no problems but i finally got around to dual booting, when i was trying to dual boot i copied CHAIN0 file to C:

http://i15.tinypic.com/6l47cjt.png

went through the command Lines after the second command i was confused with which numbers to use for the {GUID} there were 2 under and above Mac OS X

http://i4.tinypic.com/8dwpkpj.png

When i use the top one it says Chain Error or something and if i choose the second one it boots vista

WHAT DO I DO…..

Hi I have amd 3200+
Nvidia A8nVM-CSM Mother board with nforce chips
nvidia network card on board
sound max sound card on board
Nvidia 7600GS Graphics Card
80 GB ATA HDD as System drive
200 GB SATA for DATA
I am using Vista Home Premium on in i have make two partition on systemdrive and installed kalyway 10.5 installation works fine and after installation i found error hfs partition error but when i installled Free BSD on my vista and i am able to boot in both os but my osx don’t have boot screen or logon screen it show some numbers or then suddenly open desktop of osx while vista work fine and also my sound card is not working and my network card detected in process but not able to connect my broadband and my broadband is pppoe and it takes ip and dns automatically please give me solution for boot screen and logon screen and sound and networking
my id is heeren_tri@yahoo.com

hi
i have the problem with firewire to:

“Error: FireWire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full secure”

please help me

thanks

@ JEFF

You’re doing it right, choose the top one. I had the same problem. When I installed it again, I choose checked the box next to bootloader under customize and that seemed to fix it.

Now I’m getting the problem of the circle with the line through it. It gets to the screen with the grey apple on the grey background with the spinning loading circle. After about a minute a box appears on top of the apple (around the stem) with a circle with a line through it, like the no smoking sign.

got kalyway working 10.5.2

for those of you having trouble with getting online due to lack of driver support get a ralink or zdyas wifi dongle or a ethernet to usb adapter.

Either should work out of the box and are cheap as chips on ebay.

Hi, I’m trying to follow the steps but when I get to the place where I’m supposed to press F8, and I press it, there’s no place to enter a command. It goes to a screen where the choices are “repair your computer”, “safe mode”, “safe mode with networking”, “safe mode with command prompt”, etc. What should I do??

During bootup, when there is a choice to select either MAC OS X or Vista, both options will lead me to boot up to vista. I think it has to do with the fact that i skipped the fdisk step (cos don’t have the darwin boot under utilities menu)

Is it possible to solve this using EasyBCD?
Thanks

Here is a complete guide to get a Dual boot setup with Windows Vista and Leopard running side by side. Please note this is a complete tutorial and if followed exactly you should be running Leopard and Vista side by side without any problems.

osxleopard

Yes, this guide has taken over a month for me to write and I have tried this out every possible combination of hardware setup I could possibly test, and I can assure you that if followed correctly you can easily have Leopard and Vista in a dual boot setup.

Loads of readers have sent me emails, dropped comments on my previous guides on installing Leopard and here is the guide for all you guys who waited so long patiently.

Disclaimer : This Guide is for educational purposes only, I suggest you buy yourself a original Mac. Also please do not post links to the Torrent’s as they will be removed.

Well before we proceed with the guide, here is the stuff that you will need for a successful dual boot setup.

* Vista Already installed on your Primary Hard Disk.
* iATKOS v1.0 DVD. (Do not ask me where you can download this)
* Windows Vista Boot DVD (Just incase something goes wrong)

Well now that you have everything ready, lets get started then. Please note this is going to take sometime so I suggest you have some Music playing near by and grab yourself a cup of coffee while you do this. Sit tight, here we go……….

* Install Vista on the First Partition of your Hard Disk. I am not going to elaborate into How to install Windows, I hope everyone knows it. If you already have it installed then read on..
* Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.
* Make sure that the partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step.
* Now restart the machine and boot into the Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.
* Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.
* You should see scrolling text on the screen now.

after this i get a Grey screen with a colored circle as the mouse pointer and after 25 min my sys gets shutdown plz help me out

i have

2GB ram
265MB nvidia 7300 le graphic card
duel core processor
Vista Ultimate Installed

And Can you please provide driver files

i didn’t work for me i tried twice it says when i try to load it says
no operating system detected
my computer is:
nvidia 8500gt
gigabyte s2 ga 945gcm-s2l series
intel core 2 duo
vista home premium sp1

I just got a gateway laptop with:

AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56
1.8 GHz | 512 KBX2 L2 cache
Chipset ATI RS690T
SDRAM: 2048 MB 667 MHz DDR2
video card; ATI Radeon® Xpress 1270M
VIsta Home Premium 32-bit with anytime upgrade dvd

I my friend has the actual leopard and tiger operating system disks and i was wondering
1. if i could dual boot with the real cd
2. if my cpu is compatible with the system
3. if i can install final cut pro and run it without problems.
4. if it would be better(safer) to dual boot with tiger because more of the hacks for the drivers are out there

Thank you for your time
NOaH

Hi! I’ve tryed to boot the iAtkos but computer will reboot endlessly. After Typing -v at the prompt it writes some lines and then reboots. This is all I can get Any suggestion?

Core2 Duo
3Gb RAM
8800GT

Hello!

I have a problem with dual boot MAC OS and XP.

I did the installation following this steps:

1) Created an unallocatted partition on C:
2) Formated NFTs
3) Reboot with MAC 10.5 Leopard ToH X86 9a581 RC2
4) Formated the partiton with MAC OS journaled extended
5) Then i installed MAC OS Leopard (plain install)
6) Reboot again click F8 and type -s
7) Then in prompt i executed

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

Reboot again and enter in Windows XP
9) Copied Chain0 from Leopard DVD to C:
10) I was not able to execute this below on prompt (don’t know why…can’t accepted bcedit…):

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0

11) Edited boot.ini to:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
C:\chain0=”Mac OS X X86″

12) Reboot and see option to choose XP pr MAC

HERE IS THE PROBLEM!

When i choose MAC OS i get a message like:

CHAIN0 error…..

HOW can i fiz this????

PLEASE!

bcdedit is not part of Win XP.

Its only included by Win Vista.

will this tutorial work if i have an original mac os x 10.5.1 disc??

thnx.

Hi, i’ve made a second partition, and bootet with iAtkos. My PC bootet and i type -v and press enter. Then it loads over a few lines and then it shows up an error message and I have to restart. I’ve tested iAtkos r2 also but the problem is the same with the both.
I’ve made a picture of the error message.

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Thank you for help
bye marcel

So, I’ve made shrunk the volume (It does show up as “Unallocated”), and I’ve booted into the DVD, and I’ve gotten into the Leopard installer. But when it tells me to pick my install location, I get nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. All I get is the “iATKOS v1.0i” but it says it can’t install into that volume.

HALPS!

At last i manage to solve the freezing problem
Now i have another problem,my hard drive wont show up in the Disk Utility! Help required badly. I really want to try it out.

Could you please make a windows XP guide?! thx

Okay, new problem:

I downloaded EasyBCD and deleted the previous Mac OSX entry because I got a chain boot error. I also deleted the chain0 file off of C and put it on D, and did the command line entries again.

I restarted my computer and I got the “pick your OS” screen. I chose Mac OSX, and I got a loading bar that said “Windows is loading files”. The bar finished, and I got the small cycling loading bar that said, “Microsoft Corporation” so I thought Vista was starting up. Then, I got a blue screen and something called the Startup Repair opened.

Help! How can I boot with EasyBCD and use the Mac OSX installation? If someone who knows how this works/has had this problem too, please let me know.

When I choose Windows Vista, it boots into Vista just fine. I only have trouble with OSX.

I think it might have to do with the fact that I have it on my D drive. Should I do a clean install of OSX? I’ll try doing a clean install of OSX on my D drive, and I’ll get back to you.

Ive installed it im up to the

“execute following demands

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

But it doesnt understand “flag 1″ can you help please?

I followed the directions step by step and it boots into vista on both entries. I then installed easybcd and on the mac entry it says chain loading error, it still boots to vista ok, what should I do to get the mac partition to boot?

what means ‘with “Elevated Admin” privileges’ ?

does mac os x require drivers for the sound card and lan, and graphic card etc. or does it auto configure or something

Hey ok there is a few things i need to ask, please help ok 1st can we go on the internet when using MAC OS X Leopard? and second when i set up the duel boot part in windows it shows at my boot menu…

Windows Vista
MAC OS X

When i choose MAC OS X it just boots Vista any help please??

I have the same problem as Jonno

whenever i go to boot into Mac OS X it boots right into vista.
Could Someone please help

I have tried to install using many different patched os x dvd’s, but still no luck.
i am using a SATA dvd rom and an IDE hard disk.
Mother board is asus P5N-D
graphic card is asus nvidea geforce 8800GT 1gb
2gb ddr 2 ram.

can anyone of you let me know whats the problem.
it always get stuck at the loading screen. thats right after we click the round arrow at the first screen…

btw…i have tried with IDE Dvd rom and SATA hard disks too…

Hi, nice 1 for all this, i’ve got it all done just can’t edit the bcdedit.exe

This is were i’m stuck !

bcdedit /copy{current} /d
Also if the partition is on drive E will that change the d to e lol.

Just keep getting the same thing unknown command, i’m not the best with dos so could you give us a clue,

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Only a few seconds after the initial reboot (after the allocated partition created) I get a “IOATAController device blocking bus.” message.

It then continues “Still waiting for root device” (on and on).

From forums I get that this is a disk problem, but my windows vista is running smoothly and no problems in the hard drive detected.

Any help?

woops, forgot, Core2 duo 2.4ghz 3mb cache

please help
after the scrolling text shown another creen appear full of words
and it just stop
what shall i do?

please please help me
i’m about to lose my mind i don’t know why it stop even before any thing happen just the scrolling text then another screen at its with some error after intilizing mac frame work
if u nedd any pics or else tell me please but help me man i spent 2 days partitioning and having problems with my hard and it all for nothing or wat

will it work on my PC?

- Intel P4 3.06Ghz with HT Technology
- MSI P4M900M2 MOBO, supports Intel C2D as well
- 2GB DDR II RAM
- MSI nVidia 8600GT 256MB DDR3
- Maxtor 300GB IDE HDD
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

i hope that i could work on my PC so that I can use Leopard instead of Linux on my PC. anyway, i already have a MacBook that I bought last year

I have a Gateway MT6821 Intel Core2 Duo 1.6, 160GB SATA HDD, 4GB RAM, Vista Ultimate.

When I hit F8 and type -v it begins to scroll text and gets to the following item:
Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 4230450.

It stays on that for about 5 minutes and gives the following error:
EBIOS read error: Device timeout
Block 6598912 Sectors 64

Has anyone seen this before or know how I should proceed?

ME4MUSIC

Hi there can you not get your Vista Disk to boot into it,

I’ve got stuck with a chain booting error LOL

And a note to all, i donk think posting will get a reply but if any1 gets theres going after reading the same probs on here please post your own solutions

Thanks, and try upchuck loads of stuff on there

i got it to work
but it messed up my vista cant be repaird for sum reason

I get this error:

Extension “com.apple.driverACPT_SMC_PlatformPlugin has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!

http://www.torrentz.com <– A great search engine for finding legal files on the internet.

Great review.

I am having the same problem as Cody, Rob and Keith…
Cody says he got around that problem how?
When it it scrolling through the text it gets stuck at Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 0 21:35:55 pdt 2007; root:xnu-1228`1?RELEASE_1386
Can any one help
Thanks

Ok when I try and boot it gets to the scrolling text and then stops when it reaches “USBF: 1.474 AppleUSBOHCI check sleep compatibility OHCI controller will be unloaded across sleep” can anyone please help me with this if they could it would be a ton of help thanks.

Hey!
The guide is PERFECT!, but I can’t install it!!! When I try the command -v it goes with a long list of lines, but when it finishes instead of begin the install process,it restart the pc!!
Please help me!!

PC WINDOWS VISTA
TRYING TO INSTALL LEOPARD OSX 10.5
INTEL CORE 2 DUO 2.13 GHZ

Please…. HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!

hello!
my computer is:
p4 2.8
768 ram
6600gtAGP
120 + 160 HDD
3x DVD writer
motherboard is QDI P4I865 (at least that says on manual)
i’m having problem with booting. i downloaded Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3 but i can’t instal it. it just stops when i type -v and press enter, then is doing a little work with a lots of code, and then it simply restarts. i tried disabling boot CD option after the first boot, but it just boot’s me in vista. help needed

HELP ME

Noooo, why me =(

It stops at Darwin Boot, it display the terminal with green square symbol, but the all the install stop, even the mouse, it’s the second time it happens.

My system configuration:
HP Laptop, Core Duo 2.33Gz, 2Gb Ram, DVD-RW, (don’t know the grafic card)

Please Help me to promatik at gmail dot com, I would be very gratefully. Thanks from Portugal

i cant get it on my xp to dual boot, i also used this guide, but nothing helps (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253&start=0)

its always the same problem….

media test failure,
exiting intel boot agent.

anyone has the same problem?
please help

Hi,

when i try to install i get passed -v, and while the text is scrolling down i come to “Still waiting for root drive” does anyone know how to get around this so i can move on the the next step.

Thanks

forgot to mention i had an GeForce 8800GT

hiiii……this is vicky…
am totally new in mac world….
so i want to try mac….
so am trying to install mac on my pc…
my pc config is as follows….:-
intel core 2 duo e4500 @ 2.20 ghz
a dvd writer
intel 965 classic series mother board…
160 gb ata hdd
1 gb of ram…
and am using vista now….
so i want to ask that can i use this tutorial to install mac on my pc…??? or is there any other way to install it…

Hi,
I have installed it, run the commands and rebooted.
After choosing the Mac OS X option at the boot menu, I press F8 and then choose the correct hard drive partition that has the Leopard installation on it. Then the white screen with the apple appear. After about 10 second the loading ring appears. The after about 30 seconds a dark grey screen descends down the page and it says I need to restart in several different languages. I do this but it just takes me back to the boot menu and its starts again from there. Anybody know what the problem is and how to fix it?
Thanks
Matt

I posted on the Uphuck forums to try and get some help. I am having the same issue as a bunch of you where it will just halt after the “com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components: use only one style.” thing. The reply I got was to go into the BIOS and disable hyperthreading. I can’t find a way to do this with my motherboard and since I am using a core 2 duo I believe that it is impossible, but maybe that will help someone out there.

Hi. Thanks for the great tutorial. I was following your steps with IATKOS1ir2, and hit a roadblock at the disk formatting step.

I’ve got a 20 gb partition that’s labeled unallocated, as required. Besides this, I’ve got my C:, about 201GB, and HP Recovery D:, about 11 GB. But when I go to my disk utility, I don’t see any option with the 20 gb partition. I see three options. The first option is the name of my hard disk – Hitachi HD… . It shows up to be about 230 GB, the actual size of my harddisk….., then under that, there are two options, ones for the C: with capacity ~200GB, and the D:, about 11 GB.

In the Hitachi HD… 230 GB option, I went to partition, and it has all three components, including the 20 GB free space. But it doesn’t show under disk utility. I wish I could provide screenshots. Any solution here.

Thanks.

@Mat, no way – after the msg, there wasnt anything to choose, didnt even found my wins, so i just formated disks and newly installed xp, np there coz i have xp on seperate partition just for os, but it gets kinda frustrating installing both os the 5th time

anyway i saw that no one else had the same problem so there must be prob with compability, but im fed up for now even to check wiki list for all compatible parts

I’ve downloaded and burned the iATKOS_v.1.0 iso image to a DVD with no read errors. I freed up 5GB on my hard drive. I tried to boot from the DVD and it came up with a message that a restart was required, but the only way I could restart it was to switch off the power by the power button.

When it next booted up, I got as far as the command prompt, typed -v, then after a few lines it stopped. Something about a panic debugger and an “FPU segment overrun in kernel thread context” at line 547 of /SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/osfmk/i386/fpu.c. What does this line of code do? The file isn’t on the installation disk. Is there any way to install without a fpu option, if it’s somethihng to do with the fpu?

I’m running XP on an unknown OEM motherboard with 2.4GHz Celetron CPU. I’m using AMI BIOS dated 2003 and an 845 chipset.

If I just start it up with no options, it keeps coming up with the same message telling me to restart my computer again and again.

Danny go to:

Uphuck Forums
InsanelyMac Forums
OSX86 Wiki.

More precise instrunctions there.

hey i tried to do this mac dual boot thing..
as i began..the screen hung up after i pressed -v and some text loaded but later it kept showing “STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE” …please tell me what to do… later i tried to run darwin boot loader by hitting enter….then it showed a “NOT” symbol and hung up again…
my pc config is..
intel core2quad q6600 2.4ghz
wd 250gb hdd
2gb ram
nvidia 8800gt gpu
with 2 optical drives,,,
plz help me…QUICK…!!!

What about us raid guys? I have the driver on a diskette but don’t know how to install mac now, no drives show up.

hello!
my computer is:
p4 2.8
768 ram
6600gtAGP
120 + 160 HDD
3x DVD writer
motherboard is QDI P4I865 (at least that says on manual)
i’m having problem with booting. i downloaded Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3 but i can’t instal it. it just stops when i type -v and press enter, then is doing a little work with a lots of code, and then it simply restarts. i tried disabling boot CD option after the first boot, but it just boot’s me in vista. help needed

so, if i disable this, it “should” work?
will try, and will report tomorrow

i need help which volume do i shrink…do i shrink my primary volume or the other volume….the other volume is hard drive C…while the primary volume is hard drive D

Hello, everything works just fine. When I boot my laptop I get the choice between vista and OS X. But with both options vista starts up. what can I do? I’ll keep working on this and keep y’all posted if I find out more.

Hi, I have been trying to dual boot Leopard and Vista with the iATKOS v1.0i r2 dvd and i can not get the Leopard installer to appear. The scrolling test pauses after it say “MAC frame work install successfully” and “use only one style”. Can any one help?

Please Help! I am using iAtkos v1.0i R2 and i am not able to see the DARWIN BOOT option under UTILITIES.
Needless to say I was not able to continue the install successfully.

Thanks!

Hi. I tried installing this with the patch that you provided the link for. I didn’t even get to the leopard install. I got to the scrolling text and after a while it said.

“Still waiting for Root Device” or something along the lines of that.

I’d be really grateful if you could help me.

i’ve successfully installed MAC OS X, and i could see a Vanilla boot selection and i’ve started to boot to mac os x, but suddenly the CPU stops reading, I could only see the animated loading lines and the Apple logo with vanilla background ,waited for two hours but nothing happens

I have found iAtkos v2 0i RERELEASE FROM BROKEN STONES online. Will this work with your tutorial as well?

Quote from EricO

“Please Help! I am using iAtkos v1.0i R2 and i am not able to see the DARWIN BOOT option under UTILITIES.
Needless to say I was not able to continue the install successfully.”

I have the same problem – Though i seem to be able to choose a partition from the UI and the install seems to work ok.
However, I’m not able to perform the step involving:

Execute the following commands :

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

In the end my computer would not boot any operating systems (Bios claimed “Missing Operating System”

Maybe because I already had XP and Vista on dual boot..?

Any ideas/pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Hi!

I see y’all have much problems installing Leopard on a PC. I’ve had problems myself, but i solved them all. In this post I will tell you how I solved them. I’ve worked a lot on this, so I hope this is usefull. Excuse me if my English is not that good, ’cause i’m a 16 years old boy from Belgium

If you still have problems after trying this, please leave a comment here and I’ll try to help you out. I will need to write a tutorial as well for one of the “much-seen” problems, but I don’t know where to post it yet. So be pacient ’till i found a place to post it.

I will read more of your posts to check if I can help you, but y’all have to know this takes time too.
If you want a tripple boot like me, just let me know and i’ll write a tutorial for it (maybe there already is one out there)

PROBLEM 1 — iATKOS v1.0ir2 –

Only one thing will help: start downloading iATKOS v1.0i
The r2 version does not have the darwin boot option in “Utilities” menu, so you can’t do some of the steps in the guide.

PROBLEM 2 — “Missing operating system” –

It is possible that you have vista, xp or another OS installed on your computer, (even with a dual boot) and you still see “missing operating system”. This is becouse you don’t have a working bootloader. You can solve this problem by installing Ubuntu (linux distro, only takes 2 partitions, one of 4 GB, and one of 1 GB). Ubuntu will use GRUB (bootloader). Then you’ll have a dual boot configuration of ubuntu and vista (or xp)*

*If you had already a dual boot config, you will now have a tripple boot config

ADVISE 1 — Other versions of iATKOS –

Please search for the right version. Don’t download somthing else. If you want to use another version of iATKOS, go search the web for a guide regarding that version.

PROBLEM 3 — Chain Booting Error –

In this guide, when you have to tell the darwin tool on witch HDD* you will install Leopard, and witch partition you will be using, you have to type 0 for your first HDD, 1 for your second, and so on. You have to do the same for the partition.
Instead of typing “0″ for your first HDD, type “1″.
If you use your second HDD, type “2″, and so on.
Do NOT do this for the partition selection. Only if you still got the error, you have to do this for the partitions as well!

Go on with the installation and follow the steps in this guide. Once you get to the step where you have to boot into vista, get back here.

Ok, let’s boot into vista and open the command prompt. Type the fllowing:

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”

What you just did, is verry simple; you copied the windows boot profile (of the bootloader, the OS you’re using right now, witch is your current), and you changed the name of that profile.. Now type this:

bcdedit /enum active

Now you will see all the active boot profiles you have. The first one will be the bootloader itself. The second will be windows (and the one we’re using now, witch you can check by the identifier; sould say “current”). An finally we have the third. This one sould have “Mac OS X” as description.
If you check the third profile with your current profile, you should see everything is the same, exept the description. If that’s true, restart your computer.

You sould get the bootloader already. Choose “Mac OS X”. Windows should boot up.

Once logged in, go open the command promt again. Type this:

bcdedit /enum active

Again, you should see three profiles. Same as before, the first one is your bootloader, the second windows (but not your current) and finally, the third, Mac OS X. There you should see “Current” as identifier now. If that’s true, type in this:

bcdedit /set {current} PATH \chain0

!!attention!! Make sure you type {current} instead of the alphanummeric GUID we used to type!!

Now reboot your computer and choose mac os x in your bootloader. Leopard should boot now.

* HDD = Hard Disk Drive

TROUBLE SHOOTING:

– If the problem is NOT solved yet, please leave a comment, because there ’s another way out!
– if you still boot into vista, leave a comment or try the original way of the guide

So, I will take the time to make a tutorial for my other way to solve the 3th problem. I hope this post was helpfull.

//Brecht

okkk

i tried with the iATKOS dvd
but after the disk formating i closed UTILITY
then again opened it
but ther is no DARWIN BOOT option in the UTILITY
can you please make me a little more clear?
i am a newbe here
so this question may be a dumb for you
i tried with Kalyway, Leo4all and iATKOS
but couldnt find darwin boot in diskutility
should i restart again
whats wrong with me?
hope you can point out
mine is an intel core2duo 2.2 processor with 2 GB ram
intel motherbord
vista ultimate running

I bet you have iATKOS v1.0ir2. this is the wrong version of iATKOS. Please read the comments. Especially the big ones

//Brecht

My comment was a reply on LLOID. I’ll try to help you to solve your problem, but give me some time.

//Brecht

Brecht, I do have iATKOS 1.0i. Any other ideas? Thanks.

make sure you got the right one this time. Hint: Mininova, 2.09GB

//Brecht

okk

now i am finishing the download

BRECHT, can u please tell me which patches should i use during the installation?

mine is an intel core2duo cpu E4500@2.20GHz
2GB RAM
Intel 82945G express chipset family
no other graphics cards

vista ultimate 64 bit running

Brecht

Hi nice 1 for getting back to us all…. your a big help

I got all the way boot on the dual boot i can get in vista but when i try the mac i get the chain boot error.

I did the dawin boot stuff b4 the install and bcd bits, but keep getting stuck on the chain boot lol.

please help mate.

running a toshiba satelliite pro A200
core 2 duo t7300 @ 2ghz
2 gig ram
ati radeon HD 2600
250 sata hd

thanks

and i got this thread

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25477

but coudnt understand how to get into kext

sorry i am a newbea

can you explain it ??
or will there be any other links??

@ IVAN (June 25th)

Try installing Ubuntu (Linux distribution) on a new partition.
You can make a new partitions in the ubuntu installer itself, so no need to download gparted (linux based too ).

You will need two partitions for installing ubuntu. Make a partition with a size of 4 GB, and Ext3 (just follow the instructions on the installer screen of ubuntu) as filesystem, and a little partition (about 1 GB) formatted as Swap.

Make sure you got those partitions and continue installing Ubuntu.

Just follow the steps on the screen. When that’s finished, you can try to backup what’s important from your harddrive. Normally you can access almost every type of partition formats (such as NTFS, FAT32, EXT3, and so on) on Ubuntu.

When you’ve got backups of everything that’s important to you, reboot your computer, use Gparted or somtin’ to erase evrything, and make new partitions. recommendet:
an NTFS partition for Vista
an NTFS partition for mac, but we cannot format this to the right format yet

Then install Vista. I think the Vista installer is clear enough, so i’m not gonna explain any of that.

After installing Vista, try again installing Leopard, and make sure you do it right. Also make sure you have the RIGHT version of iATKOS. See my hint above.

To be 100% safe, do NOT install any patches or drivers during installation.

Make sure you do EVERY step in this guide, and check my long post above too.

So, everything should go smoothly. If you still have trouble, drop a comment, and tell me exactly what happend. otherwise I can’t help.

So! I think I sould get to type the black messages

//Brecht

Hola, intentare instalar MacOs en una maquina con WinXP… Luego les cuento si lo logre y como hice.
Excelente trabajo “Karthik Kastury”, muy bueno, te felicito!.

@ Shifty

I already wrote a post to solve this problem. If you have a problem, please read the big posts before asking questions. I’m sure in most of the cases, you’ll find an answer. My first big post contains another way of setting up the bootloader. Try that. If that doesn’t solve your problem, i’ll try to help you out.

@ Ivan

I’ll try your way to solve the problem out, and type it in the next troubleshooting post I write. That way, others can try it too.

@ Gabriel

Can’t understand a word of what you’re saying. please try to retype your problem in English, or find someone to do it for you

//Brecht

Hey,

I have completely installed everything and i can boot into Mac OS in safe mode but if i try to boot in normally it gets to the gray screen with the apple and then freezes. If anyone could let me know if they got a solution to this that would be great.

hmmm..i cant find the unallocated partion that i created to format it. HELLLP!!

@ Tr3sy

format the unnallocated partition as NTFS. The leopard installer should show this fileformat.

@ Gabriel

Boot into vista. insert the dvd and tell me witch files are on it. This can be done using Windows Explorer.

//Brecht

WOW! thanx! now i cant find the “Darwin_Boot” option in the utilities drop down menu after i format it n everything..UGH!

This is the last time i’m gonna tell this:

If you don’t have the darwin boot option in the utilities drop down menu, you have the wrong version of iATKOS. I bet you have version 1.0vir2.

Please READ the pig comments before asking!

//Brecht

@ Omni

Cool, this looks like a better way. I’ll try this just for phun :p .

I thought of another way too:
Using GRUB instead of windows bootloader. working on it now. The more options to solve problems, the better

//Brecht

So, nobody is aswering huh? I’m busy all day long trying to GET the problems you guys have, trying to solve them, getting back on them, and nobody seems to be taking care of your problems? Did you read any of these comments? It would be much easier for me to leave y’all alone with your trouble. I got it working fine, so no need for me to post comments anymore.

I’m sorry if I don’t comply to your needs. I just don’t like your comment.

//Brecht

Hi Brecht.

I think what that guy was trying to say was that nobody is listening to you when you say that iATKOS v1.0i is the proper one to use and NOT ANY OTHER VERSION.

You have a lot of people on this thread (including myself) that appreciate your support.

Keep up the good job!!!

@ Joe
Give me some more info about your system, and folow the tips for installer-boot problems.

@ Eric
Thanx for your reminder

//Brecht

Hey. Sorry if I sound annoying, but if you have the time, can you please solve my problem. It is posted a few posts up.

Ok… I have downloaded and burned iATKOS versions 1 and 2 and neither of them will enter setup correctly. On version 1, I cannot even get passed the Darwin screen where you are supposed to enter “-v” to launch verbose mode. I enter “-v” and the Darwin just restarts. On version 2, I can get as far as “Click the button to install…” After I do that, I get a Mac logo and a blue/white striped loading bar that is animated for about 30 seconds and then just stops. At that point, I just left the computer for a while and came back, roughly an hour later, and it was still stuck at that screen. I also tried, with versions 1 and 2, to run the install using “-v -legacy” and on both versions, I got the same behaviors. Any suggestions? Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you get passed it? Thanks a million for any assistance!!!

-=brett=-

Hey, Brett again… I forgot to list my PC specs. Here they are.

CPU–Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 1066 FSB (8MB L2 Cache)
Mobo–eVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 nForce 750i FTW SLI ATX
Audio–Integrated Audio (Realtek HD)
RAM–4 GB Crucial Ballistix PC8500 DDR2 @ 1066 FSB Graphics–eVGA GeForce 9600 GT 512 DDR3
HardDrive–Western Digital 1TB HD SATA 300 Gbs

Thank!

Hey Brecht,

I have been reading your post and they have been really helpful so far. I was reading some of your earlier post and you said that if i ran into the problem with the scrolling test stopping to post the details of the iATKOS cd I am using.

iATKOS_v1.0:

BOOT 55kb File
BOOT.CAT 2kb Security Catalog
BOOT0 1kb File
BOOT1H 1kb File
BOOT1U 7kb File
BOOTEFI 59kb File
BOOTHELP.TXT 2kb Text Document
CDBOOT 58kb File
CHAIN0 1kb File

Thanks for your help.

- Sean -

@ Sean

Still checking for you. But I don’t think the problem has to be found on your disk, ’cause I think you’ve got all the files you need on your disk.

@ whitefang888

This guide is for Intel computers only. Since Apple’s computers are based on intel, I don’t know there is somtin’ like this for AMD. I saw a download of iATKOS of AMD too, but i’m not sure if it works. I don’t have an AMD PC, so I can’t help you on this.

//PSPro

In the tutorial iATKOS v1.0 is used. Will it be the same or better to use iATKOS v2.0? Or will that be a major compatabilty issue?

I thought I’d go for the iATKOS v1.0, instead of v2.0 since it’s in the guide. But here’s my first problem in this long and tiresome journey: I can’t seem to get through the Darwin loading. I press F8 at the countdown and I type “-v” and hit enter and what happens next is that the computer reboots. I tried without the “-v” command line, but that didn’t work either. Help is appreciated!

I have no idea. I’m not really an expert when it comes to what’s deeply inside the computer. That Brecht guy seems to have answers to many questions so let’s hope he can help us out

Yeah sorry about that version thing. I didn’t see your posts about that before I had already made a post. And thanks for helping!
- Zlash

Oh, I thought you wrote somin’ about AMD too, sorry. Well I’ll see what I can do.

//Brecht

@ Brecht

–CPU and MoBo specs are in a comment above. If you need more information, lemme know.
–The DVD has the following files: BOOT, BOTT.CAT, BOOT0, BOOT1H, BOOT1U, BOOTEFI, BOOTHELP.TXT, CDBOOT, AND CHAIN0
–I burned the DVD at 4X, the slowest possible
–The iATKOS fil size is: 2,559,968 KB (2.56 GB)

Thank you so much for helping!

-=brett=-

hi i was wondering if this would work on my machine or if i need to look at the patch for iATKOS v1.0 Image for AMD based machines, here are my specs:
HP a1710n
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz
3 GB DDR2 Ram
32-bit operating system
320GB HD
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

i am running windows vista