Hi. Could somebody please give me a little pointer regarding the attempt to achieve the goal described in the thread title? I am trying to do this installation following the guide posted on YouTube, called "How to install and dual boot Mac OS X on a PC", here. However, at one particular point, it doesn't work for me anymore. Right after the installation of OS X is complete, when the YT video says to "Restart and enter into the [Mac] disk startup" (- at 5:08) in order to boot into the new installation, the startup volume is not there. (Only the DVD boot is there, and that's it. I can only boot into the Mac OS X DVD again.) I have no idea how to get into the hard-drive installation which acdcdude55 (- the YouTube poster -) says should work. I followed all the steps exactly like I should, I think (- with minor variations, of course, because his computer is not exactly like mine). So, is someone kind enough to offer me some advice on how to continue, please?
What kind of hardware are you running? And which hackintosh build are you trying to install? Maybe you need have a bootloader installed that isn't microsoft. My hackintosh was bootable that way.
Hi. Thanks for the reply. What do you mean by "what kind of hardware"? Do you mean, like, Intel P4 processor with 3 GHz speed, 512 MB RAM, that kind of info? The Mac DVD was made after the JaS SSE2 SSE3 Mac OS X 10.4.8 image. (I was using pretty much everything that guy on YouTube suggested, except I had Vista Home Premium, not Ultimate. Oh, and I was already dual-booting XP with Vista, if that matters.) Talk to you later, I hope.
I would recommend checking this site out : http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Simple_Dual_Boot Also it may just be easier to do a vanilla install of snow leopard as newer versions of osx hackintosh's have had great success before the 10.6.2 update, its only 30 bucks. I failed many times with 10.5.5 and has soon as i tried 10.6 it worked the first time. If your processor is capable you may want to consider just using vmware workstation (virtualization) and use darwin tools, it might be less of a headache and it doesnt commit your hard drive to anything. However if you do go to snow leopard youd need to pick up another 512mb of ram as 1Gb is the minimum.
Thanks, Johnghost! May I ask you one question, though? Can you tell me if I can run Leopard with this configuration I mentioned above? (In the meantime, I tried the iPC Leopard, since JaS's Tiger won't boot into the installation, but the iPC DVD doesn't work at all on my system - it crashes. I did use a DVDRW when it crashed, but that wouldn't matter, would it?)
Oh, I forgot to say this. I tried VMWare first and: 1) It is very slow for running the program for which I need the Mac 2) VMWare messes with the registry and system settings in Windows without any kind of warning or instructions on how to fix the problems. (Even worse, after uninstalling it, the problems remain.) So, VMWare doesn't help me.
You would be surprised, it actually might. Id suggest a DVD-+R instead. If you are worried about your hardware config I'd say it looks ok depending on what version you use. The fact that you are using 10.4 or 10.5 it should work. After looking at the little info of hardware you provided VMware wouldnt be a good idea. Especially with the minimalist RAM you have, itd help to have multi cores as well as p4 is only one Most importantly you wana take note of what 21Q said above, it may not be booting because of your boot loader. You wana look into stuff called chameleon or EFI v10.6
But I think the Leopard version which I tried had a chameleon boot (- I'm almost sure -) and it froze before the installation could even be started. The Tiger version was able to install MAC OS, from a DVD+RW just as well as from a DVD+R, but that installation just won't boot. (And I didn't see "chameleon" anywhere.) Or did you mean that I should use chameleon in another way, and I just didn't get that? Also, in the meantime, someone told me that I have to check every piece of hardware to make sure that MAC OS X would install on it. (Some guy I know said he looked for and bought a very specific laptop, because he found out on the insanelymac forum that MAC OS X would install on it.)
I don't know what to tell ya, maybe its just not compatible. I always due vanilla installs so I know everything I do is safe and not based on someone elses work who could be stealing my info. I haven't heard of anyone using a p4 or 512mb so i couldnt tell you from experience or associations when ive helped a lot of ppl do it And the whole, you need apple hardware to run osx is bullsh*t. Yes osx is only compatible with certain hardware, but its really nothing special.
If I post my specifications, do you think someone would know what OS X will install on my PC? And I'll use that flavor of OS X, for sure, if I can find it. (Man, those videos that you find on YouTube, about how to do this, never say that it doesn't work on all computers, even if from a performance standpoint it should. I see that now.)
