|
I always would recommend to disconnect all other HDs during an OSX installation if it has not been working at once. I'm not sure how about using a combined HD with Windows and MacOS, how's handling installation and how safe it is. It's also dangerous: if you used once the Disk Utility on a harddisk it would be problematic to change partitions in Windows. PartitionMagic shows the whole harddisk as a big yellow bar marked 'DEFECTIVE'. You can't delete it, you can't move it, nothing. The only way to repartition it with Windows again was to delete the whole MBR, what means that all data on the drive are destroyed. Using two HDs also makes dual boot very easy, you could use the Windows XP boot menu.
I used at the beginning of OSx86 experimenting the easiest configuration: A complete harddisk for MacOS on primary master, DVD on secondary master, no other drives in the system, two bootable partitions. With this method nothing could be destroyed. I never was using a combined HD 'cause I never trusted the PC's silly partitioning system with its Primary, Extended and Logical partitions. And dunno how different filesystems are supported. The Amiga had a great partitioning system: It could use any kind of HD-capable filesystem which was loaded directly onto the drive, an unlimited number of partitions every partition could be set to bootable, including a priority. Selection was possible from the inbuilt bootmenu. What for a partition type is your MacOS partition? It is logical or primary (as it should be)?
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
|