Dual Boot Windows AND Mac OS X on a PC (Intel)

What would the equivalent way of “copy the partition” be under linux? Would a simple dd work? I’m already dual booting a few OS’s (but with lilo) and have a few partitions set up, particularly a spare 10GB one which seems like it would do great for this purpose!

As soon as I can get the “kit”, I’ll try booting under VMware, and if successful, I’ll move straight on to dual booting it. Hopefully I won’t screw anything up…

I’ll report back here, of course

Thank you ‘SomeGuy’

I did this by using another computer to dd the image to the hard-drive then used ghost 4 linux to export the partition on another comp over the network, then i used my other laptop with windows/linux dual boot with 8 GB free for a partition, crated a 6.2 GB partition, the partition type/flag is af. and just used ghost 4 linux to write the partition and grub can now boot linux/windows/mac hehehe =) also the mac boot loader at first loads windows by default, since the mac os X isnt the first partition so i had to change that.

also to add you can do this with a single HD if u have a DVD-burner, i said how to do that here:
http://www.360hacker.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=158&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=165

just look for posts from Xevious

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[...] So I guess OS X can be run on cheap Intel hardware. [...]

[...] So I guess OS X can be run on cheap Intel hardware. [...]

Got it to work!!!
Unpacked the image to the Harddrive of my Workstation, bootet my Pentium M Notebook to Kanotix, mountet the shared folder with the image of osx and dded it like described in the tut.
After that i bootet it with the -x option and i had to change the password.
Console freezed with -v option so i bootet it with -s
and changed the sh command to sh /etc/rc
and changed the password there.
Runs like hell on a 1.6Ghz Pentium M.
Ethernet works, but not the Wlan and the Sound.

if i have windows on one hard drive and mac os x on another, do i choose which one to boot off of in the bios?

yes, I believe you change which drive it boots off of in the bios settings

After reading various posts, I’ve pondered what might be the most efficient, effective solution for myself at least. Should this scenario work?:

Mount the tiger img as a virtual drive, use partition copying software to produce a new image, gzip and burn that image, then zcat/dd that image onto (or into, for math geeks) a fresh partition, and afterward use LILO or grub to multiboot?
It appears to me that that ought to work but I may not fully understand the subtleties.

Am I the only one trying to boot Mac OS X on a AMD chip? Screw intel.

ha! VOTE 4 PEDRO

Once OSX is installed on a hard drive, would it be possible to re-partition said drive with something like partition magic as a workaround to not being able to install OSX on a partition? OSX itself supports partitions, so my guess is that the limitation is on initial install more than on final usage. Anyone had any luck with this?

What does the grub entry look like in menu.lst? I can’t get it to boot the partition.

I tried this guide from http://www.osxonpc.com, it uses dd and it doesnt work. when i boot I got to the boot menu in BIOS and select primary slave (the drive I installes OS X onto) then it just freezes

Is it possible to dual boot OSX and XP via the XP bootloader/boot.ini?

Is it possible to dual boot OSX and XP via the XP bootloader/boot.ini?

I’m just sick of going into the BIOS and changing the boot drive each time – and really don’t want to install GRUB. Ideas?

Theoretically it’s possible. You have to make an “imagefile” from the bootsector of your installed OSX. (I don’t know how, but Linux Guru’s can help for sure. ;) )

Then you have to edit your boot.ini like this:
————-
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Pro” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
c:\bootsec.osx=”osx86″
———-
bootsec.osx is the image of the osx bootsector

Greetz
[enzo]

oh, I forgot…
of course you have to copy the bootsec.osx to your c: drive.

[...] Dual Boot Windows and Mac OS x86 on a PC (Intel)   [...]

creatin bootsector file for boot.ini

# dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1 of=/windrive/bootsect.ocx

Where is your OSX root partition is /dev/hda2.
Prior you have mounted the FAT C: partition as /windrive . If you cannot access to this partition for any reason, just write ‘bootsect.osx’ to a dos formatted diskette or some partition where your dos/windows system can read from. If you put ‘bootsect.osx’ in a place other than ‘c:\’ remember to modify the ‘boot.ini’ file correctly.

i have a problem, i got the arhive u are all talking about but my .img has only 2gb, is it a corrupt arhive or should i try with this one??

I cant copy the partition from one hd to another. Why cant I put it on its own partition?

WTF is up with this guy? Leet Speak went out with the dog I had when I was 12.

“1′m 1n 7h3 pr0c322 0f u21ng M4g1c120 70 4dd 4n 0SX d1r3ct0ry 70 7h3 Ubun7uL1v3×86.1so 1m4g3, 4nd 7h3n 1′ll ph1ll 1t w1th th3 ph1l3z, brrn 1t t0 4 du4l-l4yer 8.5GB DVD. W1t d1s s3tup 1 w0n’t n33d 4n 3xtr4 dr1v3. w00t!”

Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 – Boot Manager works like a charm!!! Two partitions XP on 1 and Tiger on 2. Native installs for both OSes.

Got mac working on a pentium iv 3.o mhz
but, safari kicks out, unable to download anything, (flash, or firefox or anything for that matter)
applied the sse3 patch – nothing,
set new user with pass, nothing
any hints?

is it possible to repartition the disk and install windows xp on new partition AFTER installing the os x on that disk?

i understant that i cant install windows and keep them before installing os x on the same hard disk, but can i install windows xp ON THE SAME DISK, but different (newly created) partion, AFTER installing OS X?

Does anyone know if it’s possible to resize an OSX partion with Partition magic? If it is, you could (unless I’m dumb) clone an OSX image to a DVD, install windows and Partition Magic, copy over the OSX image, and then resize the OSX partition to the desired size. If this is possible, it would be great for people like me. I’ve got a laptop with one HD and a DVD burner. This method would allow me to dualboot OSX and Windows (and Sol10).

[...] Dual Boot Windows and Mac OS x86 on a PC (Intel) [...]

@Johntron: Don’t pin me down on this but I think OSX uses HFS(+?). Patches for parted (command-line partitioning program) exist to resize HFS partitions, but it seems to be risky and doesn’t support journaling (which I understood can be turned of from inside OSX).

Regarding access to the disk image, you can also use a LiveCD like SystemRescueCD and mount (mount -t smbfs -o username=user,pass=user \\server\share /mnt/localmountpoint) a network share (can be a Windows share, any Windows install with enough harddisk space will do). When mounted, the share appears under /mnt/localmountpoint and can be used as a normal directory, and you can use dd to write the partition. HTH. Good luck!

simplest way to dual boot OSX & Windows on a PC !

http://www.360insider.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=237

CU

I used the DD method to write the osx image to my hard disk

however i understand that the osx image will only use up 6 or so gig

now what i did was to dd this 6 gig image onto a 10 gig partition

now when i use acronis disk director to view my hard drive

i see the 10 gig os x partition

however in osx when i “get info” on my osx hard disk it says i have only 6 gig

this means that i have a total of 4 gig floating in limbo !!!

does anyone know how I can resize within my osx environment to claim back my 4 gig of space ???

thanks

hi,
i used ubantu to dd the image, but the hdd does not boot….
any suggestions?
thanks

hi guy, if you have only 1 hdd + Win Xp installed on this hdd, try partition magic and rezise the actual partition whitout loose any data and make a nuy partition of 10 GB to instl the tiger OSX native mode.
this work perfect to me and now i have a dual boot OS Xx.86 and Win XP pro. Enjoy

Okay, so how does the reverse work? Can I install XPP on one of the new MacBook Pro’s running Intel Duo?

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can you please tell us how to find the bootsec.osx file?

hi I could not install OSX from DVD directly to HD (3 HD 1st 60 Gb XP+Me+2000+data partitions, 2nd OSX 10Gb, 3th 160Gb audio – video files) it hangs on falf install process, so I experimented:
1. – In VMware installed Xp
– In another virtual machiene OSX works fine as stand alone
– to XP added new HD (virtual) with OSX installed
– installed Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 on VMW XP and
– at startup it shows (OS selector) XP & OSX and booting is ok

so I tried this

2. – On my second HD (10Gb) with VMware installed OSX (on real HD no virtual)
– booting works fine
– installed Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 on Windows Me
– added Windows MCE 2005, Windows Me (for games XP sucks it doed not rum CMR 2005 nad it’s just too slow for games [ P4 HT 3GHz, 512 DDR ....], Windows 2000 for satellite tv (SS2) and OSX,
– all but OSX boot fine, OSX shows error something like no boot loader (or can’t find boot) I’m not shure I’m writing this at work

whot to do hot tom make OSX boot ????

Installed Mac os X on my intel pentium m 1.7 laptop, works sweet but no network so no internet…
any idea’s
cheers

What does “DD” mean?
lol

I guess no1 likes AMD, since its the best, and better than crappy Intel

Does anyone here able to help me ?
I am trying to dual boot win2k / MAC OSX. I got a problem whereby OSX startup disk is not able to see NTFS partition, If I couldn’t see it, then I can’t choose Win2k to bootup……

Larry
I guess no1 likes AMD, since its the best, and better than crappy Intel

hahaha your funny dude AMD SUCKS ASS INTEL rocks AMD IS CHEAP

Joe
1 week, 5 days ago

Larry
I guess no1 likes AMD, since its the best, and better than crappy Intel

hahaha your funny dude AMD SUCKS ASS INTEL rocks AMD IS CHEAP

wow you guys aren’t biased or anything. i got mac osx tiger rnning on an old pc with 512 ram and 550mhz cpu on a 40 gig drive with kubuntu, suse 10.1, and win xp pro. they all boot with grub. another good boot loader is osloader.

Joe
1 week, 6 days ago Larry
I guess no1 likes AMD, since its the best, and better than crappy Intel

hahaha your funny dude AMD SUCKS ASS INTEL rocks AMD IS CHEAP

I think youll find AMD processprs now out perform all intel chips by around 20% on many different applications so intel does suck ass

pity it hasnt been hacked for AMD yet

”
Joe
1 week, 5 days ago

Larry
I guess no1 likes AMD, since its the best, and better than crappy Intel

hahaha your funny dude AMD SUCKS ASS INTEL rocks AMD IS CHEAP
”

You dumbass intel has never been able to live up to the performance of any AMD, AMD might be less expensive but that is because it doesn’t have to have ad campaigns to tell you how sweet they are, people love them enough. Intel sucks nutz and quite frankly so does Microsoft, but (until now) Mac OS has never existed for anything other than a mac machine, and if you build your computers then your without it.

I have not heard about the capabilites let alone compatability for the Mac OS v.10.4 Tiger able to run on a AMD CPU which i would perfer since AMD is owning the Proccesor market just like Nvidia is pawning ATI in the Video graphics race! Also what would be the best way to dual boot Mac OS with Win 9X, XP serries operating systems

Any comments please email me at Dalexa05@aol.com

LOL!!! VOTE 4 Pedro!!!!!!!!!

i know you say that it runs on an intel machine but i’m curious could it be posible to hack it to an amd machine
personally i would like to see how a mac would work on a 64 bit

Since Tiger is a 64-bit OS it should be fast as hell on a 64-bit AMD processor. Assuming that there is an AMD hack of the OS out there.

can one of you smart people tell me what grub and lilo are. And also, what is a dd install? And can someone walk me through installing it? My computers stats are listed below.
_ _ _ _ _ _
Laptop= Gateway MX3225 (Celeron M 1.5 ghz)
256mb ram
60gb hd two partitions one 4gb other 54gb
s3 unichrome graphics processor

Computer1= Sony Vaio PCV-RX820 (Pentium 4 2.0 ghz)
512 mb ram
80 gb hd two partitions one is 16 gb (XP PRO) the other is 64 gb (WINDOWS VISTA beta 2)
ati radeon graphics

Computer 2= Custom pc (with ASUS Motherboard AMD XP 2800+)
256mb ram
40 gb hd one partition(XP HOME)
NVIDIA Graphics

I would also like to learn how to partition one hd without losing all my crap if its possible. Thank you.
Please call me at (510)673-0736
Or email me at aneel89@gmail.com

Yo, I am installing Mac OS X86 on my second hard drive but dont want to abandon windows. But whenever I restart after unbutu does it’s thing I boot into windows. does anyone know how I can boot onto my other drive?

[RTFM]
man grub
man lilo
[/RTFM]

Is it possible to run on 902 mhz?

I have run OSX on a intel D915GRV with celeron D 3.2 GHz and 512 of RAM, its insain. …..But i cant get it to daul boot with windows xp. I dont want any one to speculate i just want facts. If you have daul booted let me know what it took.

Sure, getting Mac OS X running natively on a PC is interesting enough but, what can a mac do that a pc can’t?… i personally won’t bother because i have no use for ‘mac osx’ … haha, screw you intel and apple!

What can a Mac do that a PC can’t?

Select, drag and drop a group of icons on the first try. That’s a very basic function of the graphical interface, that I struggle with in Windows and have no problem at all with in OSX (or System 9, 8, or 7).

Allow you to put your files and programs wherever you like.

Save you the bother of defragging.

Stay virus-free.

Minimize clutter and unnecessary crap.

Present dialogs in a semblance of plain English instead of 1988-era technobabble.

Look good. Desktop, general appearance and icons at least a generation removed from the rubbish available in Windows.

As long as you don’t care about those – but a lot of people do – XP or hell, even 98, does the job.

may i use portable hdd boot Mac os x in my PC(intel)? i use ATi 9200 graphic card, how to treat or install driver in my mac os x?

Anyone have ny luck getting dual boot to work yet on a pc?

Now, can we get Windows to run on an x86 Mac?

Hi, I got Mac OS x86 to run on a Amd Sempron 2800 using puppy linux, but one bad thing about is it had no internet, it was fricken slow and when i hit the powerbutton on the front of my computer my hard drive turned off but the rest of the computer stayed on.

and mike3 yes you can run windows on a x86 mac using bootcamp

or Parallels :)

Can Boot Camp run on iBook G4?

I’m waiting for your answers

Nope – You need an Intel mac

IM AN AMATUAR AND BEGINER. I DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT REPROGRAMING OR ANYTHING, BUT IM PRETTY SURE THERES AN SIMPLE ENOUGH WAY TO GET BOOTCAMP OR PARRALEL ON AN IBOOK G4 OSX 10.4.6???? I DONT THINK ITS AN INTEL BASED MACHINE, CAN ANY ONE HELP???PLEASE?

Ok. I’m running Windows Media Center. On gateway with AMD 64 4000+ …. Can i use partition magic to creat another partition , Then install Mac on that partition without problems. I’m looking around on this site and i see no definitive yes… Basically Im looking to be able to boot Media Center and Mac OSX on 1 harddrive, please post all replies in the form of “noob language” ;-)

Hey im just wondering can some of you guys guide me through this, Im not sure what the necessery software i need for this or how to use it, but im pretty keen on getting dual O/S’s working smoothly. Also im pretty confused about the whole thing – I commented somewhere else on this site about it.

Basically I want OSX and Windows on my pc without loosing any of my excisting data but want to have the ‘full’ mac experience if it’s possible.

cheers

could you use bootcamp using an emulator to get mac on an x86?

That’s right ROCHELLE you’re AN AMATUAR AND a BEGINER. The whole point of Bootcamp is to get windows XP running on MACs. XP will never run natively on PPC (you G4) so… no, you absolutly neeeeed to have an Intel based MAC to use BootCamp.

Unless of course you’re just downloading it on to you machine and telling people you’ve got bootCamp on you G4 iMac. (totally dumd).

hello to all,

this is a very informative website but being a newbie i’m finding it hard to follow the instructions to install OS X on my intel laptop running XP. i have a n inspiron 640 core duo laptop, how do i dual boot with XP and OS X? pls guide me step by step because as i have mentioned i’m new to this. you can send the instructions via my email.

thanks and more power

by the way my email is cassanova_jacques@hotmail.com

thanks in advance

ROCHELLE, YOU SIMPLY CANNOT RUN BOOTCAMP ON ANY NON-INTEL BASED MAC, FULL STOP.

INTEL BASED MAC AND PC ARE RUNNING ON THE SAME CPU, WHILE G4 (OR G3, G5 FOR THAT MATTER) IS SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT. ITS LIKE ASKING WHETHER YOU CAN RUN A DISEL TRUCK ON GASOLINE, THE ANSWER IS DIFINITELY NO.

Sorry about the cap, just figure Rochelle might read better with caps…

Hey everyone, I was hoping maybe somebody could give me some advice on dual booting Windows and Mac on my intel laptop cause I’m a noob at a loss and I’d really appreciate it ;)

I’m currently using a Toshiba Satellite M40 laptop with Intel Pentium M processor at 1.86GHz and 512MB of RAM. I have Windows XP Media Center 2005 installed on one partition and I’ve installed OS X on another partition (of the same HDD). Note: to do so, I used the diskpart utility in Windows to change my second partition id=af and then used the OS X installer to format it to Mac OS Extended (journaled).
This seemed to work perfectly fine and OS X installed successfully, but when I reboot my computer and OS Selector loads, the only option I have is to load my XP operating system, it doesn’t give me any option to boot any “unknown OS” like many other online guides have said should happen.

So the situation is this:

It appears that I have both OS’s installed on two different partitions, respectively, but I am only able to boot XP, no option to boot to OS X.

Any ideas?

I’m stuck at the first step: extracting the file tiger-x86.tar.bz2 (1,383,030,913 bytes). WinRAR 3.50 can’t extract it completely. bzip2-104-x86-win32.exe said it had CRC error. The extracted part isn’t 6GB as described here. It’s more like 1.5GB.

So is it possible to make it work, if:
1) I don’t have any Linux running on my PC
2) I don’t want dual boot but to run it with VMWare 5?
3) using AMD64 processor. I do have a spare P4 though.
Any instruction on DD described in the thread?

Thanks for the help,

wfz

Guys…. see Chadly’s info below…

Get The JaS OS X Installer and just run Acronis…. I’m running it and it is great.

“Chadly411
September 2nd, 2005 – 2:11 am
Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 – Boot Manager works like a charm!!! Two partitions XP on 1 and Tiger on 2. Native installs for both OSes.”

All of you ask some great questions. I really enjoy reading all the great questions. Unfortunately, there are very few answers. I hope someone can send in a few answers soon.

TEMIS: What’s the problem with your link? I tried it several times, even pared it down to just the http://www.360insider.net and still no server found. Either you made a typo or my DSL doesn’t like that web site.

Are all of you trying to install OS X on an NTFS partition? I thought it must be either UFS or HFS+. And about the OS X Startup Disk pane: if it doesn’t see an NTFS for a startup volume, I’m not surprised. You would have a better chance with a FAT32 partition. At least OS X can write files to FAT32, but it cannot write to NTFS.

for the method shown is there any hardware requirements

hello, i got a problem with installing mac os x on my sony vaio ar31m,when i boot the os after loading a bit of stuff and asking language and agreement, it won`t simply recognize any hard drive, so i`m stuck there. any idea?

To Donzer:

Question: “What can Windows Users do that Apple users can’t ?”

Answer: “SHUT THE FUCK UP”

You know, I just dont see the point of installing a MAC OSX on a PC, but I have one thing to say, “Good Work!!!”. And… Theres really no difference between AMD and Intel, its only on the MAC operting system. AMD = previously used so no problems. Intel = Hard to cooperate why? only was introduced to the Core Solo, and Core Duo so still a newbie to MAC. Then again, that is all I am saying, dont get a MAC on a PC, if you have really valuable information on it. Also, look for your specs. If your specs are with Mac E.g. processors (Intel Core Solo/Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon, … thats about it).

You Can`t Play Grand theft Auto on Apple :( i know i know everyone should buy ps3 to play for exaple but i rly like this game :D

Hey everyone,
I had another idea,
couldnt you install parallels, and boot ubuntu from parallels? it should work, since ubuntu is a form of linux. I’m actually installing rite now. Shouldn’t this clear up the driver problems etc.?

hi!!!!
is it possibel to install mac os 10 on intel mother board. if yes than plz tell me how.
my comp. is P4 with celeron D processor, intel 915 GL express chipset, with intel graphic meda accelerator 900, 800/533 MHz system bus support.

Hi, Can anyone help me… I’m using a compaq laptop, cel m 1.73Ghz, 512mb ram. Can i install mac os x on this????? and will everything work properly???????? Can i dual boot Vista and mac?????????

Why don’t you people try and download the PC linux live cd and use it’s boot loader to configure mac to boot, not much coding is required with it’s GUI. I myself didn’t install linux but it works fine but not so fine, anyone here know where to download drivers for intel Pentium D asus P5VDC-MX for mac if any e-mail me at junjun_psp@yahoo.com.ph cause the audio,usb and ethernet.

I tired it. I’ve intel patched dvd. When i select my dvd room to boot, after darwin menu, Mac installer says, You need to restart your computer. Hold the power button for while or press restart button’

I have a p.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer with a 120 GB HD with XP on it and a 40 GB HD with Ubuntu on it. I also want OSX to run on this computer, is there any way to install OSX while maintaining Windows XP and Ubuntu? I have so much stuff customized on both OS’s that i don’t want to scrap either. Is this out of the question? Also i currently have grub coming up and letting me choose between XP and Ubuntu. I would like to have OSX as one of the options on that boot list. is this possible? please email me at minivitale@gmail.com if you are willing to help out a noob like me.

hi guys…..please help me out!!!!!!!!! i know how to do all this stuff…i got the dvd…partitioned…everything…when i booted the dvd, it asked for language, then it asked me where to install os x…it showed a cd with a red x on it…it says Mac os x leapord AMD…so i know that’s the dvd i’m booting from…and so i can’t install it on the dvd it self…but i see no hard drive… i go to disk utility and on the side i only see the dvd i’m booting from…but NO HARD DRIVE…i don’t know why…

i really want to install Leapord on my computer but it is not showing my hard drive…i have a SATA hard drive…i hope MAC is able to install on SATA drives…i hope i don’t need to have an IDE drive…please help me guys…please

ya guys im having the same exact problem
i have the disk but no hard drive is being shown in installation
i too have a SATA drive and hope its possible with a SATA drive
guys could you please give us some info on how to do it
please, thx

Hi people…please help…when I boot MacOSX86, computer load all..and this load run about 3-4 minutes and then computer restart. I do this many times over and I don’t boot Install DVD. Please help somebody. Thank you and sorry for my English. I’am 16 years old and I’am from Czech Republic. Bye

Wrong Installation – try and locate a “KALYWAY_LEO_10.5.1intel_SSE2_SSE3.zip” DVD – that should solve your problem @Bender Killer

@Rez Croll – If you partitions exceed 128 GB in size … u have issues, if your partitions are smaller, then you should be fine :( – I had to buy a 80 GB SATA, because i had issues with my 400 GB SATA

:-) if anyone has figured/located a step-by-step DUAL boot for Leopard, please direct me to the site … i am curious to see how it works out.

hey i’m also on the way trying dual booting with winxp and macosx but mac osx booting just ignores partitioning and freezes whereas i’ve tried linux ubuntu with win xp dual boot they worked but untill such time i tried fighting a virus off my computer and had problems running linux can anyone help me in trying to load mac osx please?

Great OSx86 Resources:

http://www.infinitemac.com
http://forum.infinitemac.com
http://www.insanelymac.com

German: http://osx86.kbot.de

hi, i m an system ing. Now i want to see how can it work a clone pc work of mac os.

Best regurds
Md mithu