Derek Tacconelli Blog » osx86 http://dtacconelli.com/blog The Internet is Serious Business Mon, 21 May 2012 22:44:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 OSx86 Snow Leopard Working Finally http://dtacconelli.com/blog/got-osx86-working-finally/ http://dtacconelli.com/blog/got-osx86-working-finally/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:35:53 +0000 Derek http://dtacconelli.com/blog/?p=1205 Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'Array' was given in /home/ghep/public_html/blog/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 170
]]> 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:

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]]> An update from This Post.

Last night:

UUUUGH, what a nightmare. I followed some online tutorials of people who claimed they had their dual boot computers working. ALL of them suggest installing Windows XP first. I did this, created 2 partitions (3 total – 1 for OSx, 1 for WinXP, 1 for a shared storage drive in FAT32). I dropped the ‘chain0′ file in the C:\ drive and edited the boot.ini to have Mac OSx listed at boot. Everything was going quite smooth until I went to install OSx. I was able to format the 2nd partition into MacOS Journaled; woopie. The custom settings I chose worked fine, the install peformed normally. When OSx rebooted after installing it hung; fuck. I tried googling the error, a few people had encountered this as well, but nobody gave a concrete answer. After digging through forum after forum, I ended up giving up for the night.

frustrationFast-forward to today:

Still unable to get into either OS. Tried tinkering around more and going through random forum walk-throughs, but to no avail. I decided to try to install OSx again; perhaps I forgot a custom setting or skipped a step. Went through the install again; a-ha! I had missed one crucial step! OSx installs, and I am quite sure it will work now. I wait for the boot,…nothing…then the same error. Soooo, I try installing once more, different settings. Not working.

So now, I’ve given up dual booting by installing Windows XP first. I wiped the entire drive to all zeros to have a clean start. Partitioned the HDD into three again. Installed OSx; might I add, no errors this time? This leads me to believe that Windows XP screwed something up in the boot sequence (thanks Bill). The next thing to do is install XP and try my first dual boot strategy. This time things will go better than the last.

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]]> 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!

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