Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine? - Page 2

ulysses_609 · #11 12-23-2008, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nfoav8or

Right now, probably nothing except keep researching your system components and double-checking throughout this forum and others to see how people got issues resolved. Since you are going to be booting these from separate Hard Drives, does your BIOS give you the option to start up with a different (selectable) HD on boot? (for example, I need to press f12 near the end of the BIOS boot)

Yeah if i go into the BIOS it lets me select which drive to check first or to boot from, and if want to boot from a CD/DVD. Also, do I need to change and jumpers or anything inside my machine??

nfoav8or · #12 12-23-2008, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ulysses_609

Yeah if i go into the BIOS it lets me select which drive to check first or to boot from, and if want to boot from a CD/DVD. Also, do I need to change and jumpers or anything inside my machine??

well this wasn't quite what I meant. here is a different method...

You can use the windows bootloader to select at startup which system to boot.

Copy the chain0 file from

Code:

/usr/standalone/i386/chain0

on your OS X HD to your windows drive's root directory (ie. C:\chain0)

Now boot into windows and add

Code:

C:\chain0="Mac OS X"

to your Windows bootloader.

Go into your BIOS and ensure that your Windows HD is the one that is selected to boot. When you turn the computer on, you should get a menu for

Windows
Mac OS X

You can choose either, and once you select and press enter, it should automatically boot into the desired OS. No other settings required. I've used this method in the past and you can also change the default system to either drive using the windows bootloader.

ulysses_609 · #13 12-23-2008, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nfoav8or

well this wasn't quite what I meant. here is a different method...

You can use the windows bootloader to select at startup which system to boot.

Copy the chain0 file from

Code:

/usr/standalone/i386/chain0

on your OS X HD to your windows drive's root directory (ie. C:\chain0)

Now boot into windows and add

Code:

C:\chain0="Mac OS X"

to your Windows bootloader.

Go into your BIOS and ensure that your Windows HD is the one that is selected to boot. When you turn the computer on, you should get a menu for

Windows
Mac OS X

You can choose either, and once you select and press enter, it should automatically boot into the desired OS. No other settings required. I've used this method in the past and you can also change the default system to either drive using the windows bootloader.

Ok, cool, thanks. I will definitely do this if and when I install OS X. Now i just gotta wait for Leo4all to finish downloading. But just one more thing..(sorry for im a newbie at this kind of stuff) How do I insert that code? Or can you give just a little more detail..sorry

nfoav8or · #14 12-23-2008, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ulysses_609

How do I insert that code? Or can you give just a little more detail..sorry

In XP you just manually edit the boot file on your C:\
or navigate through the Control Panel to System -> Advanced tab -> Startup and Recovery "Settings" -> Edit button... either way it is the same file. :-)

I'm checking right now if it is different in Vista as I haven't used Vista in a while.

ulysses_609 · #15 12-23-2008, 09:16 PM

ok, thanks

now im just waiting on the download.

ulysses_609 · #16 12-23-2008, 11:27 PM

ok its done downloading. now im burning the iso.

nfoav8or · #17 12-23-2008, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ulysses_609

burning the iso.

Thanks for the heads up... I'm going to be offline for a while since I have to go pick up my wife from the airport a few hours away. I should be online tomorrow if you need any more help... but there are also tons of other qualified (at least in my opinion) people at this forum who can help you out.

Also, ** burn it at a slow speed **

4x or slower is best.

ulysses_609 · #18 12-23-2008, 11:58 PM

Can someone please help me?? The install was going fine it was going through all the white text with the black screen and it got stuck at: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=144 [lssave] clearing CS_VALID

nfoav8or · #19 12-24-2008, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ulysses_609

Can someone please help me?? The install was going fine it was going through all the white text with the black screen and it got stuck at: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=144 [lssave] clearing CS_VALID

boot with "-f -x -v cpus=1" to try and circumvent any issues with the hardware detection.

ulysses_609 · #20 12-24-2008, 01:19 AM

yeah I booted with those flags but I got that error. It also said something about not being able to mount the disk or something like that