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OSx86 Snow Leopard Working Finally

Derek — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:35:53 +0000

I finally got OSx86 10.6.3 working and am now running Snow Leopard! It took about 5 or 6 tries this time. There is so much information to learn — I basically got lucky and stumbled upon a working solution to my problems. The other disk is for Windows XP, which I have not yet installed. My computer specs:

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Processor: AMD64 X2 4200+
Memory: 3 GB 800 MHz DDR2
Video: 8800 GTS (320 MB) PCI-e
HD: 120 GB Western Digital Caviar (IDE)
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.3 and Windows XP

Screenshot or it didn’t happen:

Dual Booting my Mac OSx86 Machine

Derek — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:50:35 +0000

Installing Windows XP on Partition 2

So I installed Mac OSx86 on my spare computer. If you missed it, you can read about some of my adventures HERE. I am currently trying to figure out how to dual boot with Mac and Windows and having a few troubles. The main problem being, I installed Mac OSx first. There are many guides that suggest you install Windows first, but I had not read them until now haha! So, anyways, I’ve been tinkering with the Windows boot.ini a lot, because for a while I wasn’t able to boot into Mac. Found this small boot program called “chain0″. It isn’t working fully properly so far.

** Small update ** I am able to now boot into both OSs, but through an extra menu. I have to go through BOTH the Windows boot loader AND Darwin’s boot loader to get into Mac OSX, where I only have to select “Windows XP” from the Windows boot loader to get into my XP partition. What a nightmare. I may just end up reformatting both OSs and start over from scratch. I have only installed 2 or 3 programs so far in OSx, and haven’t installed even a driver yet for Windows. Let the tinkering continue!

Can’t Sleep

Derek — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:49:47 +0000

I had a very productive day today, although I didn’t go to the gym. I started the day by researching routers, the one I have is so shitty and cheap. Looked into this new technology called “Gamer Lounge”. It is supposed to prioritize gaming packets of data over p2p and http traffic. This would be ideal for me, since my parents are now streaming videos and music more than ever.

Later on, I got out my old computer (I call him College 1) that hadn’t been working for the longest time; spent many hours tinkering with it because it was not putting out any video. I think the video card is crapping out on me; could also be the motherboard or small parts on the motherboard. Anyways, I figured out the video card needed to be plugged in exactly right and the connection from the cord to the video card is very touchy. I think I disassembled the whole damn computer 3 times, triple checking connections. So now everything works!

There were breaks in between all this computer doctoring in which I barbequed up some chicken thighs/breasts and tri tip steak I had marrinated the night before. Also threw some bell peppers on the grill. It turned out great! Dad made rice to compliment the meal. I think the dry rub is getting closer to a real tasty treat. The chicken was a little too salty, the tri tip…almost perfect. Very tender.

Later on I played some CS1.6 and TF2. PWNT teH FacES and made people rage quit.

So, I later on went back to my newly stitched up computer, and now the TWO cd-rom drives I have in there aren’t functioning properly! So I fumbled with the damn things for another extended amount of time to no avail. I took a shit a while later, frustrated and confused, when all of a sudden a brilliant idea came to my head! I should use an external cd-rom because I’d forgotten my Dad has one. So I snatched it and, while I was writing this, was installing Mac OSx86 on my PC. So here I am, happily watching the welcome video for Mac OSX Leopard, w00t!

I am off to find a USB keyboard! Late!