OSX 10.4.9 / Vista dual boot (Intel/AMD)

102 comments:

1. Anderson A. said on June 24th, 2007 at 3:24 am :
   

   Nothing is impossible, Thanks a lot!

2. Pags said on June 25th, 2007 at 12:18 am :
   

   Still trying to get drivers for my video and sound card working. Other than that, it installed perfectly, thanks!

   Note: For step 6, you should probably include an instruction for using the Disk Utility before installing OSx86. Many people aren’t able to select a drive to install to because the partition hasn’t been completely formatted properly. So, they should open up Disk Utility, select the drive (or volume of a drive) that the person wishes to install on, and then click Erase. After the partition is erased, it will be formatted to Mac OS X extended (journaled) and it will be selectable to install on.

   thanks again for this.

3. yofresh said on June 25th, 2007 at 2:19 am :
   

   just vista?
   is this possible with win xp pro?
   please more info

4. Mike said on June 25th, 2007 at 11:14 pm :
   

   I want to run another instance of OS X under VMware or Parallels on my Mac for testing.

5. BIll said on June 26th, 2007 at 7:05 am :
   

   Would be really nice with a VMware og Parallels image with OSX preinstalled for testing purposes.

6. WackyMac said on June 26th, 2007 at 8:16 am :
   

   Thanks Pags, my disk won’t show up, so I ran the Disk Utility and selected the 7GB partition I had made on my 250GB Maxtor Drive which is connected over USB 2.0, clicked Erase and now the Volume Format is Mac OS Extended (journaled) however I still cannot pick it to instsall OS X on. Can this not be installed on a USB drive? I figured as long as you can see the drive you can install to it. Anyone else ever see this?

   I’m trying to install on a Dell XPS 1710 ,fully compatible with OS X according to my research.

7. douchebag said on June 26th, 2007 at 9:58 am :
   

   WFT? Who would want a PC with OSX? Don’t be so cheap, buy an Apple and install XP wor whatever they are calling it this week

8. Michael said on June 26th, 2007 at 1:47 pm :
   

   Will it erase all data within the Vista partition after reboot?

9. admin said on June 26th, 2007 at 8:09 pm :
   

   @Michael:

   If you do everything carefully there’s a 99% chance that NO data will be deleted, though you’re working with a computer so everything is possible. Always backup your important things before doing something like this.

10. naddy69 said on June 26th, 2007 at 11:58 pm :
    

    Uphuck 1.3 is awesome. I’ve got it on 2 laptops now. One is triple booting XP/10.4.6/10.4.9 and the other is triple booting Vista/10.4.6/10.4.9.

    Who wants to “buy an Apple” when your existing PC is perfectly fine for running Tiger or whatever they are calling it this week!

11. bonedaddy said on June 27th, 2007 at 4:57 am :
    

    I have a 2-year old 1.3 GHz compaq laptop running XP. Can I install OS X on this machine? Or do I need a much newer model? And how would I switch between OS X and XP when I needed to for work?

12. WackyMac said on June 27th, 2007 at 6:16 am :
    

    ok, so i used the firewire port on my external drive and did the same ‘erase’ etc, and suddenly it worked. has anyone got this to work on usb? or is firewire the only way to do an external install? has anyone booted to external drive?

13. paul tolbert said on June 28th, 2007 at 9:20 pm :
    

    omg thank you sooo much! I got it working successfully the 1st install. So easy. I look at other osx86 install guides on the internet and they seemed way too compilicated. I’m so happy I could cry! Everything works perfectly, including network, having issues with sound card not being detected (Soundblaster Live! 24 bit internal) and some keyboard buttons not working (Home, Insert, Shift etc) Here’s my system stats incase anyone’s interested.

    Dell Dimension 1100
    Intel Celeron D “Presscot” 2.53GHz SSE3
    512MB SDram
    Onboard 96mb intel video card
    Creative Live! 24 bit internal sound card
    installed osx on a 18gb partition on same hard drive as Windows Vista Ultimate

14. WackyMac said on June 29th, 2007 at 6:38 am :
    

    I have a dell xps 1710 it has a nVidia 7950 512MB and the only way i can get osx to boot is if i don’t install the nvidia graphics driver from the install disc. also if i install the nvidia driver from the 3rdpartydriver wiki, the next time i boot it crashes and says to reboot.

    is there a “safe” mode on osx like there is on windows where i can login when something goes wrong and fix it? like uninstalling a driver if it doesn’t work?

15. admin said on June 29th, 2007 at 8:43 am :
    

    @WackyMac:

    You can boot in safe mode by typing:

    -x

    In the darwin command line before osx boots.

16. RRR said on June 29th, 2007 at 2:45 pm :
    

    please translate all that in german or french; thanks!!!

17. paul tolbert said on June 29th, 2007 at 5:47 pm :
    

    EDIT:

    I got the sound working by using my onboard SoundMAX sound card and following the these instructions
    http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t1393.html

    “Also, go into AUDIOMIDI in the utilities folder and set your output to 4 channel 16 and set the active speaker configuration to 3 and 4.

    That has worked for a lot of people, myself included.”

18. WackyMac said on June 29th, 2007 at 10:00 pm :
    

    Admin: Thanks for the -x command, I didn’t realize that line of text that flashes before OSX boots was typeable. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll try.

    I decided to do the install on a different computer (first try was Dell XPS 1710 notebook, core2duo, nVidia 7950 512MB). This time I tried my tower, AMD X2 4200+, ATI X1950. Graphically, this is SO MUCH SMOOTHER. The Dell was jumpy and slow with graphics, and barely did any animation. The AMD/ATI system is smooth so far. I haven’t even loaded a graphics driver, i’m still installing.

    Weird note, the animations like the blue “OK” buttons that glow, or the progress bar look normal on the AMD/ATI machine, but are super fast and all jumpy on the dell xps with nvidia 7950.

    I’m really dissapointed it doesn’t run well on my dell. Thats the computer I really need it on!

19. patatash said on June 30th, 2007 at 3:55 am :
    

    My laptop came preinstalled with Vista and only has a recovery installer.

    How do I go around step 8 and 9?

20. admin said on June 30th, 2007 at 10:45 am :
    

    @patatash:
    Use a bootcd like Ultimate Boot CD to change the active partition back to your Windows partition.

21. R-o-meo said on June 30th, 2007 at 7:49 pm :
    

    Ok, i have been downloading the “uphuck” image for about 3 days and its only on 57%.

    Its getting there.

    I have verified that i have SSE2 and i do

    So all should be good.

    Was going to buy a mac but this is better and cheaper lol.

    Thanks

22. Zalves said on June 30th, 2007 at 11:33 pm :
    

    I’ve only read the guide and I’m already thanking for it being sure that it will work.

    I would just like to ask a few questions,

    With a P4C800-E Deluxe MB and a Prescott CPU with SSE3 will the OS work like in any other Mac?

    Can I use all the software I have in it? (adobe, final cut and so on)

    What are the differences between this 10.4.9 and 10.4.10?

    Thank you!

23. Frank said on July 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am :
    

    Does the CD cause the “still waiting for root device” error on some computers?

24. Frank said on July 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 am :
    

    yea… it does…

25. Lin said on July 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm :
    

    Quick question: will I be able to receive updates from Mac with this configuration?

    Thanks.

26. admin said on July 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm :
    

    @Lin:

    Do NOT update! If there’s an update available the developers first need to crack the kernel. I’ll keep this site up to date with the latest guides, so for 10.4.10, here’s the guide: http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/06/25/osx-10410-vista-dual-boot-intelamd/

27. Jason said on July 3rd, 2007 at 9:55 am :
    

    I have 3 different hard drive in my pc. and i install the OSX on my other hard drive(not the windows boot drive). I can make both OS works. but in order to dual boot. i have to go into bios and change the boot drive. is there an easier way to do this? so i can choose which drive to Boot?

    so my windows is in C drive, and OS X is on E drive.
    and they are physically 2 diffeerent drive.
    i can make them work as long as i go into BIOS and change the first boot drive.
    but can I do this in an easier way? so i can choose which 1 to boot when computer starts up?

28. Michael said on July 4th, 2007 at 7:28 am :
    

    ok so i am all new to this and REALLY want os x on my pc and i have a pc running windows xp home edition.

    i have a 20gb partition that i can install on.

    can someone tell me if i can just put in the uphuck install dvd, install it and thats it. (likw a XP setup

    if not tell me what i need to know to have a dual boot xp and os x. the tutorial seems a little confusing.

    my specs are

    OS: XP Home Edition
    AMD Athlon Processor
    512 mb ram
    1.05 ghz
    Standard VGA Graphics Card

    and also i have a Buffalo Wireless Card (will this work with os x)
    and how many drivers will this respond with. tell me if you need more info

    PLEASE EMAIL ME AND HELP!! mjdot2005@hotmail.com

29. Michael said on July 4th, 2007 at 7:29 am :
    

    one more thing… how do i find out if my processor supports SSE2?

    PLEASE EMAIL mjdot2005@hotmail.com

30. R-o-meo said on July 5th, 2007 at 3:37 am :
    

    Can the image be burnt any other format of disk?

    Like DVD-RW?

31. tom said on July 5th, 2007 at 7:21 pm :
    

    have downloaded uphuck, it is a .cdr file what is this? how do i burn it?

32. Michael said on July 5th, 2007 at 9:30 pm :
    

    can someone answer my quesion please
    and also toms because i need help with that too

33. admin said on July 5th, 2007 at 9:37 pm :
    

    @Michael:
    Read the guide carefully and everything will go smooth and well, though there is a possibility that you need some drivers to make extra hardware working. Don’t be insulted, but I think you can understand that if I place the following lines above the guide:

    [b]EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: You need a processor that supports at least SSE2 to make this work.[/b]
    You can check this with a program called CPU-Z (http://cpuid.com/cpuz.php).

    a question like “one more thing… how do i find out if my processor supports SSE2?” is quite stupid.

    Because you’re using XP, you need to use a different partition manager. Check out my 10.4.6 guide in the h4ckers corner (see navigation bar above) for more info about the XP dual boot. The OSX part will remain the same as in this guide.

    @R-o-meo:
    I don’t know why, but there are a lot of reported problems with DVD-RW’s so if you want to be safe burn it to a DVD-R.

    @Tom:
    Just rename the file to uphuck.iso (make sure that you turned ON the file file extensions option in Windows Explorer) and burn it with Nero.

34. Michael said on July 5th, 2007 at 10:36 pm :
    

    alright well cpu z is saying the instructions for the processor are MMX (+), 3DNOW! (+), SSE so i am guessing it does not support SSE2, right?

    i dont want to sound dumb here but i just want to make sure i am doing all the right stuff.

35. admin said on July 5th, 2007 at 10:41 pm :
    

    @Michael:
    Yes, sorry, your processor doesn’t support SSE2.

36. Hamish said on July 6th, 2007 at 3:59 am :
    

    I could not get it to start on my AMD based computer, it would come up with a screen that said the computer needs restarting when I try to boot from the disc. I used an old 2.0GHZ intel celeron with 767MB of ram that that I had put away. It would boot and install but at the end of the installation it needed to be restarted and this is where if stopped. The little wheel spun around but it would not restart. I left it for a few hours and it still was doing it. I restated the computer with the button and when it comes up with the screen that has the apple logo and the spinning wheel on it, a small blocked sort of symbol would appear in the middle of the apple logo. I really have no idea whats gone wrong.

37. ask said on July 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pm :
    

    hi, when i opened disk uttility to erras disk i coudnt fid out partition wich i made,even my hard disks not in they are.only my dvd wr in avilable.what should i do.and i try to instal without opening dik uttility,its askin where to instal but i coudnt find out where to instal b,cos no disk in there please help.

38. Michael said on July 6th, 2007 at 6:50 pm :
    

    dang i was hoping to get mac on here since i already waited for it to download for 3 days.
    well thanks for the help anyways.

39. Greg said on July 6th, 2007 at 7:49 pm :
    

    So Im at step 3 of the install (select a destination) and Im not getting any options of where I want to install osx. The system profiles recognizes my hard drives, as well as the partition I would like to install to, but I have no “select a destination” options. Anyone run into a similar problem?

40. admin said on July 6th, 2007 at 7:52 pm :
    

    @Greg:
    Try to reformat the partition (ONLY THE PARTITION!) with disk utility (see start bar at top of the screen) to HFS+ (journaled)

41. Marmaduke said on July 7th, 2007 at 4:12 am :
    

    This killed my computer.

    I did everything required and it all worked… up until the point where I restarted my computer with the OSX86 image disk.

    All that came up was a weird character. I tried setting my laptop to boot from the HDD but that gave me the same results.

    I’m currently re-formatting everything and re-loading Vista with the factory image disk.

    Any possible areas where I could have screwed up?

42. Michael said on July 9th, 2007 at 12:00 pm :
    

    is it possible for a triple boot system using vista’s bootloader? os’s are xp/vista/osx10.4.9! Thank u in advance!

43. Michael Teoh said on July 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pm :
    

    when it comes to the ’select a partition to install osx screen’ the cd cannot detect anything
    ! some help please i beg everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

44. Michael Teoh said on July 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm :
    

    wat is htps+ partition error

45. Michael Teoh said on July 9th, 2007 at 3:23 pm :
    

    wat option should i choose the mac osx extended(journaled) or the osx extended ( journaled and case sensitive) ? please disreguard my above comments thank you

46. vsd said on July 10th, 2007 at 4:50 am :
    

    wat kernal should i choose 4 the fujitsu t4215 laptop i used cpuz and i can support sse3 i managed to install osx 10.4.9 but when loading the os, the loader stops at one point any help please???????

47. Pex said on July 11th, 2007 at 8:26 am :
    

    hi!….i have the uphuck 10.4.9 dvd. the intstallaion went smoothly! but when i tried booting up it gives the awful plist…error! it cannot boot! i tried dual booting with vista…it showed the darwin boot options but still, i have that plist error again….what to do? the only osx that worked for me is that 10.4.5…no prblem but i wanna upgrade to atleast 10.4.9…please someone hear me out! thanks!….pex

48. Hubey said on July 16th, 2007 at 6:14 am :
    

    Hi! What a great opportunity to get to know osx before I buy a macbook pro. But I have a question. Can I dualboot with XP pro instead of vista? I know that there has been guide about xp before, but still, can i use osx 10.4.9 instead of 10.4.6?

49. Jennifer said on July 16th, 2007 at 6:27 am :
    

    When I attempt to use the bcdedit commands, I receive a message that says “The boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied.” I am the administrator (there is only one user account, the administrator one) so I am unsure as to why this is happening. Does anyone know how to make this work? I have OSX installed on a partition, but at this point I am so frustrated. I really was looking forward to being able to dual boot Vista with OSX, but at this point, I may just give up. Please let me know what to do to resolve this issue. Thanks!

50. Nir said on July 18th, 2007 at 7:41 pm :
    

    Hi. My installation went smooth, but (as other people here have mentioned) I get the kernel panic when the OSX tries to boot after the installation.
    Moreover, when I boot without uphuck’s DVD in the DVD drive, it gives me the ‘HFS+ partition error’.
    It only boots when I insert the DVD and don’t press any key (so it won’t boot from the DVD).

    I’ve tried installing with 4 different kernels (3 Intel’s and the newest generic one)… nothing!

    I use an Intel Core2Duo E6600 with ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard and Gigabyte GeForce 7600GS (512MB) video card.

    I’ve also used various combinations of patches.

    I’ve always chosen the Intel component, and all the software available. I’ve chosen what seemed to be the most appropriate drivers for my machine.

    Can someone share his/her success story with a similar machine, or try to help me out with getting this to run?

    Thanks a lot,
    Nir

51. Nir said on July 21st, 2007 at 6:52 pm :
    

    Jennifer,
    run your command line as administrator:
    go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories, right click on ‘Command Prompt’ and click ‘Run as Administrator’.

    This worked for me.

52. Nir said on July 21st, 2007 at 6:53 pm :
    

    People,

    After running the BCDEdit commands successfully, and booting the machine, I did have an options menu, but when choosing the ‘MAX OS X’ it just looped back to the same menu. Vista booted ok though.

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks,
    Nir

53. Ahmed Iftikhar said on July 22nd, 2007 at 10:23 am :
    

    hy there,

    i have installed previously The VM Ware image for OSX available , since it is submitted in 2005 so i do have a sort of idea that its not ment for MY PC (INTEL CORE 2 DUO 2.13) , any ways for getting it done , I have created the af partition (6690 MB) on an IDE HARD DRIVE As Primary MASTER , attached along with SATA 80 G.B Seagate hard drive , containing Windows Vista Ultimate , then used EasyBCD 1.6+ to dual boot

    i used the the skip=63 option also in the DD command

    when used with “platform=ACPI|X86PC -v” it says , “Darwin Boot 5.06″ and then “Still Waiting for Root Device” repeating the shit again n again ….

    now will any bdy from you , tell me that wht i have to do to run the OSX .

    more over , i am now downloading the UPHUCK 1.4i DVD image , so if that old installation is not gonna work will some body tell me wht will be the procedure to dual boot the new installation with VISTA Considering the hard disk situation with EasyBCD or without it

    i have two HDDs

    1) Maxtor 80 G.B SATA
    2) Seagate 40 G.B (IDE ) attached as Primary Master along with Sony DVD RW as slave on a single IDE cable , since the Intel DG965RY mobo has only one IDE channel

    i have a Custom built PC with the following specs :

    Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz
    Package Socket 775 LGA
    Family/Model/Stepping 6.F.6
    Extended Family/Model 6.F
    Core Stepping B2
    Technology 65 nm
    Core Speed 2131.2 MHz
    Multiplier x Bus speed 8.0 x 266.4 MHz
    Rated Bus speed 1065.6 MHz
    Stock frequency 2133 MHz
    Instruction sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
    L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
    L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
    L2 cache 2048 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
    Chipset & Memory
    Northbridge Intel P965/G965 rev. C2
    Southbridge Intel 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) rev. 02
    Memory Type DDR2
    Memory Size 1536 MBytes
    System
    System Manufacturer
    System Name
    System S/N
    Mainboard Vendor Intel Corporation
    Mainboard Model DG965RY
    BIOS Vendor Intel Corp.
    BIOS Version MQ96510J.86A.0816.2006.0716.2308
    BIOS Date 07/16/2006
    Memory SPD
    Module 1 DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Kingston
    Module 2 DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 512 MBytes, Kingston
    Software
    Windows Version Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0) Ultimate Edition (Build 6000)

54. Paul The Geek said on July 23rd, 2007 at 8:43 pm :
    

    First of all, thanks for the guide. Is it true that you’ve only tested installation on the same physical hard drive of vista? I tried installing OSX on a different hard drive. After successful installation, it won’t boot. Basically the BCDEDIT trick just made an entry in the boot screen, it’s a dummy entry that won’t actually boot. And I’m pretty certain that “create partition primary id=af” won’t work on different hard drive either. For example, if your Vista is installed on physical drive a, and you are installing OSX on physical drive b. Also, what exactly does “create partition primary id=af” do? Partition your drive to Linux swapOS partition? Diskpart gives error message when I try to do that. I used Acronis to partition it to SwapOS.

    But anyway, my point is: It seems that this guide won’t work for people who’s trying to install osx on a totally seperate hard drive. Can you please confirm that?

    I will try to install it on the same hard drive of vista and see what will happen. I will post an update late.

55. admin said on July 23rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm :
    

    @Paul:
    This guide is indeed for a single hd configuration, sorry that I didn’t say that at the top.

    If you want to install OSX on two seperate hard drives, chain0 won’t work and the diskpart part isn’t needed cause you can just reformat the full hd with Disk Utility on the osx install disk. Reformat it to HFS+ journaled and then install OSX on the drive. After that setup a dual boot with something like EasyBCD.

    Hope that this’ll help and good luck!

    @the others:
    I’m on holiday now and typing this from an internet cafe. I’ll answer your questions later when I’m back.

56. Paul The Geek said on July 24th, 2007 at 1:15 am :
    

    I used Acronis OS Selector to boot OSX. Now it hangs at “Still waiting for root device”. I guess my hardware is not compatible. Anyone has figured out how to get pass this “Still waiting for root device”???

57. Paul The Geek said on July 25th, 2007 at 10:43 pm :
    

    I got it up and running now. Here’s a somewhat easy way of installing OSX on a seperate hard drive and do dual boot or triple boot of vista, xp and osx. (Depending on how comfortable you are in terms of opening up your computer case.) This way, you don’t need to worry about accidentally deleting your xp or vista during installation:

    1. You need a spare IDE hard drive.
    2. You need Acronis Disk Director Suite software, you will be using the OS selector function of it.

    Install Acronis Disk Director and OS selector. Activate OS Selector.

    Connect your spare IDE, use either partition magic or acronis disk director to make one big partition and format it to either linux shagSwap OS or FAT32. Really doesn’t matter. Make sure make the whole disk just one partition, do not leave any other unallocated space or other partition in it.

    Reboot, go into bio and change the boot sequence to boot from cd/dvd drive first. Save change, reboot and shut down computer.

    You need to open your computer case, if you are scared of doing that, you really shouldn’t be trying to do any of this kind of stuff.

    Disconnect all the existing hard drives. Connect your spare IDE hard drive (which you will be installing osx on it) on the primary master IDE port (the blue port on some motherboard). And make sure you have your dvd rom connected on secondary master.

    Put osx installation dvd in and reboot. When it boot into osx installation screen, go to disk utility and select your hard drive (there should be only one). Erase the disk using MacOS extended Journaled format. Close Disk Utility and continue installation. Select either Intel or AMD, and correct drivers and patches. Continue installation.

    Once installation’s complete, took out the installation dvd and reboot. It should successfully boot into OSX now.

    Important highlights to note: make sure the hard drive is partitioned into one big partition only. Make sure it’s connected to primary master during installation and first boot.

    Once you’ve successfully boot it up, shut down computer. Reconnect your other hard drive (IDE OR SATA) in original order. Connect your OSX hard drive as primary slave.

    Reboot, OS selector will scan your hard drives and find all bootable os, including OSX which will be marked as unknow os by OS selector, but it’s fully bootable. Now you can select which OS to boot. I’ve tested on triple boot and it works.

    Very important note:
    Don’t ever expect your hardware to work 100%. Max OS is designed to work with very limited set of hardware configurations and peripherals. My onboard sound and lan are not supported. My PCI Soundblaster audigy se is not supported. Good thing that my graphic card is fully supported. Though CPU is fully recognized and supported, it seems to run into problems with chess game and some of the screen savers. Haven’t searched for solutions yet. All PowerPC based application are running fine.

    This experience tells me a few things:
    You won’t end up having a real Mac on your PC, but somewhat limited representation of a real Mac. It’s indeed a very cheap way to experience Mac but it will be time consuming for most of those who tried.

    I did this purely for fun and challenge. And I indeed learned a lot. I never expected to have a full function free Mac by the end. I may very possibly have one that’s very close to fully functional after I replace my sound and lan to compatible ones (they are all very cheap), but that’s not my intention and I don’t think anyone of us should expect that either. It will save you a lot of frustration if you don’t go in and expect a free Mac.

    I’m thinking about writing a more thorough guide but don’t know where to post it.

58. Ahmed Iftikhar said on July 28th, 2007 at 12:29 am :
    

    @Paul :

    Sir , i think; i’v asked for a lil help so wud u like to tell me ?

    i hv tried a lot for installing Uphuck OSX 10.4.9 V4.1i r2 (disabled 1 CORE , used -v , -s , -f , -x , and platform=X86PC , acpi =off , spearately and combined in all combinations) but each time i boot from DVD i stuck at

    ACPI State [S0 S4 S5 … ] (S3)

    nothing happens after it , PC does’nt hangs but do nothing even if i wait for 2 hrs … (keyboard responses , so its not a hang)

    i have a spare HDD and tried to install it your way …

    here are some CPU Z details about my PC

    Mobo : Intel DG965RY

    Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
    Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz
    Chipset & Memory
    Northbridge Intel P965/G965 rev. C2
    Southbridge Intel 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) rev. 02
    Memory Type DDR2
    Module 1 DDR2, PC2-5300 (667 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Kingston
    Module 2 DDR2, PC2-5300 (667 MHz), 512 MBytes, Kingston

    you guys have some idea about it ?
    ma BIOS did’nt allow me to mess with ACPI

59. Paul The Geek said on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:35 am :
    

    To Ahmed Iftikhar,

    Is it true that you can’t even go into the installation screen? If so, you may need to burn your dvd again. Try to burn it at lowest speed.

60. Callum said on August 8th, 2007 at 6:22 pm :
    

    I require some help, when I get to the install screen after booting from OSX DVD, both my keybored and mouse are unresponsive both are PS/2.

61. Tim said on August 9th, 2007 at 3:51 am :
    

    I have the same problem as Nir. Any help?

62. Ramesh said on August 9th, 2007 at 5:01 pm :
    

    hi admin,
    thanks for making this guide so easy to follow. i did everything that u asked to do and the installation went fine. but after the restart, i can see vista and os x to select and vista is working fine. but if i select os x it is not displaying any graphics and it is showing root:#(only command prompt). no os, nothing. plz help me admin.

63. dudeX said on August 12th, 2007 at 4:09 am :
    

    ok anyoen got ATI FireGL 7100 drivers: how?? I need help please also my OSX hangs at the white passed apple logo boot screen never really boot in? what can it be? anyone

64. Martin said on August 12th, 2007 at 2:19 pm :
    

    Why?
    There were some words saying”going to single user mode.” after the installation DVD( uphuck_10.4.9_v1.4i_r3.iso to install)just start up the computer.

65. JanLeung said on August 13th, 2007 at 6:26 pm :
    

    Have a question on STEP 3: Do we really have to use shrink volume? What if I have a slave drive with 120gig free space (required is only 6gig) then on STEP 5 I will just select that partition(120gig).
    I have XP install but I didn’t see a shrink volume command on the disk management, any other way for XP to use shrink volume?

66. Kiran said on August 14th, 2007 at 11:06 am :
    

    Hey admin,
    I followed the guide, every thing went fine. After finishing the installation it asked me to reboot the system, i did so. After reboot i get a prompt where it asks me to select the disk i want to boo from which is Mac OS. And at the prompt Boot: when i press enter nothing happens, i have tried using -v, ? options but got nothing. I am just stuck at that screen. If I select the Windows NT partition vista boots up properly.

    What could be the Problem?????
    Thanks in advance

67. Ferdinando said on August 15th, 2007 at 1:26 pm :
    

    Hi man!
    I’ve installed uphuck v 1.4r3 on an Acer Aspire 5622WLMi (Intel Core Duo T2300, Ati Mobility Radeon X1300, 1GB DDR2).
    Installation process works fine but on first boot freezes on a screen with a grey background and the apple logo on center and Cpu seems to be not operative.
    I tried to boot on -v mode and i realized that “freezing” happens when these lines are displayed:

    IOAPIC: Version 0×20 Vectors 0:23
    Started Cpu 01

    So how can i solve this problem?? Thnaks so much!

68. St4r Scr3am said on August 15th, 2007 at 8:34 pm :
    

    I dont have the Windows Vista DVD [stupid HP]. It came preloaded with the laptop. Can I use a beta version of Windows Vista or do I really have to get a Vista DVD from somewhere..
    I am running Windows Vista Business

69. St4r Scr3am said on August 15th, 2007 at 8:41 pm :
    

    Sorry, didn’t realize the question had already been answered.. And thnx for the guide

70. eafaq said on August 16th, 2007 at 6:02 am :
    

    I followed the guide, but I could only got to “waiting for root device..” and then it hangs there for about 2 minutes, then the some message come up again. It’s this don’t support SATA? I got a asus dvd rom connected to my mobo as SATA, same as my hard drive.

    some one please help…

    Thx in advance…..

71. St4r Scr3am said on August 17th, 2007 at 7:31 pm :
    

    I downloaded UBCD4WIN and when i try to build the iso image of the boot cd, it says : “couldn’t find setupldr.bin”. Anyone can please help?

72. RedDragon 101 said on August 19th, 2007 at 7:38 am :
    

    Guys,
    needed help. Can I install it together with vista ultimate 64 bit?

    thanx in advance..

73. dep999 said on August 19th, 2007 at 4:40 pm :
    

    When I burn the uphuck 10.4.9_v1.4i_r2 ISO and reboot the computer with the disk in the DVD Drive it just sits as if it’s trying to boot from the DVD after 10-15 mins I’ll eject the disk and then it boots to vista…. I’m burning the disk at 4x with nero, am I just not waitting long enough to make it boot… I have tryed a few burns to make sure it wasn’t the disk I burnt

74. kwauhk said on August 20th, 2007 at 7:09 am :
    

    NIR

    I faced same problem as you.

    I solve it with use tboot intead of chain0. I download from following website. But it is in Chinese
    http://www.osxcm.cn/download
    http://www.osxcm.cn/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/macosx1048/tboot.rar

    Instruction:
    bcdedit /copy {ntldr} /d “Mac OS X”
    bcdedit /set ID device boot
    bcdedit /set ID path \tboot
    bcdedit /displayorder ID /addlast

    Another solution:
    I also found some information from internet. When using chain0, you need to press some key during darwin bootloader. As darwin bootloader set “Quiet Boot” to yes in default. So need to turn it off.

    Here is the procedure (I think):
    - Press F8 after select Mac OSX under Vista Bootloader
    - “-s” Remark: logon using Single Mode
    - nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
    - Modify the line Yes under Quiet Boot to No

    Remark: I haven’t tried this setting at this moment. I will try it later

    But I am now face another problem. I can boot up the darwin bootloader with tboot and see beautifull Apple boot up screen. But go to blank screen after that without any response. I think it is problem of graphic mode setting. I also need to change the setting of com.apple.Boot.plist. But I unable to save it as it said the file system is protected. May be it is because of the own setting problem. I will try to modify it and test it again ASAP.

    Anyway thank you for the wonderful instruction in this blog. It is very intersting

75. Vic said on August 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 am :
    

    SO i have installed succesfully mac os x, but i couldn’t get the ethernet card to work =(, i was so excited but this was such a let down….. mac without internet = boring…

    well i wonder how do i uninstall the mac os, and bring my pc back to normal without the booting menu and all that, should i just format the partition and merge it with the main one, or i need to do something special???? thx

76. matt said on August 24th, 2007 at 4:20 am :
    

    i want to install OSX 10.4.9 on my AMD Windows machine, dual booting with Vista. but i don’t understand about command lines in step 5 :

    “select disk [the number of your disk]” –> what [the number of your disk] means..?
    and
    “select partition [the number of your new osx partition]” –> what [the number of your new osx partition] means..?

    is anybody can explain it to me..?
    thx.

77. benny said on August 27th, 2007 at 11:19 pm :
    

    @Hello ADMIN’
    I want to ask Before i go to install OSX on my laptop LG-P1, if i already have dual boot,
    one for windows XP Professional and seconed for vista Ultimate, If i can make third booting for os x ?

78. Jeyaco said on August 29th, 2007 at 12:21 pm :
    

    @Paul:
    Thanks for your guide about installing OSX in a separate drive. It helped me a lot to understand the process. But a I have a question about it:

    In your guide you say that you have to attach the new hard drive to primary master IDE Port and DVD to the Secondary Master IDE Port… Well, my motherboard has just one IDE Port and many SATA so I was wondering it it would be possible to do this:

    Option 1: Atach an Ide Hard Drive to Primary Master IDE and attach DVD to Primary Slave IDE.
    Option 2: Atach a SATA Hard Drive working as IDE Native (Sata port) and DVD to Primary Master IDE.

    Do you think it will work?
    My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6. I´ll show you a link to gigabyte´s product page so you could see its specs.
    http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2295

    Thanks in advance.

79. Docvader said on August 29th, 2007 at 4:48 pm :
    

    hi
    im just researching this before i have a go, but wanted to ask something before i sit there twiddling my thumbs..
    will this work if i have vista installed as a clean upgrade from XP

    sorry if i sound dumb but wanted to check
    Cheers folks
    ps youre all very nice people!!

80. SqrenA said on August 29th, 2007 at 10:31 pm :
    

    Hey.

    I have Installed Mac OSX 10.4.9
    But when I start, it comes with at welcome, and then it only display, a lot of black and grey lines.
    i can see were the windows are, but can see nothing,

    Plzz help.

    

81. Tomm said on September 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm :
    

    It took me a while to figure out that I had to format (or something) the partition in the OS X installation for it to be able to install on it (All 4 had been greyed out). But in the end it worked, and it works GREAT. Thank you very much for this installation guide. Legend!

82. Ander said on September 2nd, 2007 at 4:49 am :
    

    I have windows XP and I have the Boot DVD with MAc OS X86 10.4.9. Can I do a Dual boot with it? What guide I have to follow to do a dual boot with XP and MAC 10.4.9?

83. Ander said on September 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 pm :
    

    I forgot, I already have a partition with more than 10 Gb for instalation.

84. Kyle Temkin said on September 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am :
    

    Worked fine, but I had to make my two cores appear as one to Mac OS X in the bios, or it’d kernel panic on startup.

85. Rein said on September 9th, 2007 at 12:18 am :
    

    O .. another question: See my last posting: Do you have to give the formatted 2nd HD a stationletter or is this not important?
    Thanks again.

    REIN

86. Rein said on September 9th, 2007 at 12:50 pm :
    

    O.. my first question hasn’t been placed.(84)

    Hereby my first question:
    It is about installing on a 2nd HD, just like:see == POSTING 57 Paul The Geek ==
    My installation started ok, but I could not see/find any destination HD to install to.
    Also with diskutility I didn’t see anything: no HD’s at all, I only see the DVD where installation started from. What went wrong?
    I did format my 2nd HD (500GB) in Vista and made one FAT32 partition, just a small unallocated 7Mb which cannot be removed (?). Is this OK? And do you have to give the partition a stationletter and label?

    Please help me out.

    Thanks,
    Rein

87. sankalpmantri said on September 9th, 2007 at 4:54 pm :
    

    Hey admin,
    I followed the guide, every thing went fine. After finishing the installation it asked me to reboot the system, i did so. After reboot i get a prompt where it asks me to select the disk i want to boo from which is Mac OS. And at the prompt Boot: when i press enter nothing happens, i have tried using -v, ? options but got nothing. I am just stuck at that screen. If I select the Windows NT partition vista boots up properly.

    What could be the Problem?????
    Thanks in advance

88. Scott said on September 16th, 2007 at 10:58 am :
    

    Hey guys. I am battling with the bcdedit bit. when i type bcdedit /set ID PATH \chain0 it keeps giving me a error that i cannot find the chain0 file. What EXACTLY must i type in in that part?

    SCott

89. Scott said on September 16th, 2007 at 1:21 pm :
    

    it comes up with the error “the element data type specified is not recognized, or does not apply to the specified directory”

    any help would be appreciated.

90. Izzy said on September 18th, 2007 at 6:38 am :
    

    Hey, thanks for the guide
    except im stuck at step 6..the DVD boot’s up and asks me the language and stuff, but then when i get to the part on where i want to install it, it doesn’t give me any choice’s. I went into Disk Utility as well and none of my drives show up, only the DVD drive. Any help on this?? I connected an external hdd and this does show up in the Disk Utility but i would rather install it on my internal drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

91. Henk said on September 19th, 2007 at 7:45 am :
    

    Hey to all,

    try installing uphuck on a AMD Turion X2 Compaq V6000 series with Vista. I can’t find the partition to install to. In the Disk Utility the disk is shown, but is markeds as not activated. I followed the steps in the manual above in Vista to create and activiate the partition. How to work around this problem??

    Thanx.

92. fousier said on September 20th, 2007 at 12:10 am :
    

    Hello Everybody:

    I just downloaded this DVD Image. Burn it out and tried to install it on my Pavilion dv6220. This image does not support SATA disks, right? I cannot see any startup disk. I opened disk utility and just saw my DVD Drive. Any ideas to install this image on my SATA disk ?

    Thanks

93. xxdejavu said on September 21st, 2007 at 7:25 pm :
    

    i got the same problem with FOUSIER and HENK, when i boot up with CD, i can’t find my Internal Drive, what should i do? i try so many time to install on my external, installation smooth but when i try to boot it up, they said something error, i’am using Acer Aspire 4520 (AMD Turion 2x) SATA 120GB and 2GB ram, any idea how to run it?

94. Andre said on September 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm :
    

    Hey guys, I have tried to install the Mac os 10.4.9, I did everything as the guide said and I was able to install, the OS 10.4.9, after it was finish installing it restarted my computer, I did as the guide said and remove, the dvd dis, so ti could boot from the hard drive but when trying to boot it said
    Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press enter. Can some please help me remidy the issue.

    Thanks so much. Please reply immidiately.

95. Jamie said on October 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 am :
    

    Can you use grub to dualboot? I know it boots windows fine, how about OS X?

96. Pamela said on October 4th, 2007 at 8:28 am :
    

    I have a sony fz140e and whenever i try to boot from the uphuck dvd i get:
    EBIOS read error: device timeout
    block 2170400 sector 64

    is there anyway i can fix this or is it not going to work period
    thanks guys!

97. Molotov said on October 5th, 2007 at 5:51 pm :
    

    Do I get drivers for sapphire radeon x1600 pro? and is there a german version of this tutorial? My english isn’t very good. Thx alot

98. Chris said on October 5th, 2007 at 6:40 pm :
    

    just installed on a sony vaio 770g
    works great except that its missing sound and wireless drivers..

99. Steven said on October 6th, 2007 at 1:03 am :
    

    I have the same setup and issue as fousier and have tried it on my dv2000 (amd x2, sata, 2gbram) as well as two acer desktops of similiar hardware, in my acer i through in an IDE hd and found simliar issues to others booting on different hard drives however those were test runs my main concern is my laptop and unfortunately It wont find a hard disk to install on

100. Jan said on October 7th, 2007 at 9:29 pm :
     

     Hej Admin, I’ve tried installing the unpuck 10.4.9 onto my computer, WindowsXP dual-boot, but OSX installation did not find my harddisk — what can I do? I got an Asus P5VDC-MX / VIA P4M800CE with onboard HD controller.

101. Edison said on October 7th, 2007 at 9:51 pm :
     

     hey, i get the “still waiting for root device” error. nobody has answered how to solve this.
     soooo….
     how do i solve this? im itching to try it.
     my specs are
     dell dimension 521
     2 gig ram
     250 gig hdd (20 gb partition for mac)
     need more info?

102. waqas said on March 25th, 2008 at 10:57 pm :
     

     when i boot from the dvd it throws a panic and last line it gives is the darwin version and the nothign happens !!!
     what to do i am using Uphuck 10.4.9 Universal DVD v1.3
     MSI KG9AM2 690v amd chipset
     AMD ATHLON X2 dual core
     2 GB RAM

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