Easy Installation Guide: Dual Boot Windows Vista and MAC OS X 10.5 .. Real quick and fool proof
DISCLAIMER:
This guide is for information purposes only. The author of the blog is not responsible for any of the unforeseen damages that may result to your system/PC or data after following the instructions on this blog. Also Leopard 10.5 is registered trademark of Apple and for legal usage please obtain a Leopard OS X 10.5 dvd from www.apple.com
Acknowledgements:
This guide wouldn’t have been possible, if not for the following great sites, which I read for almost a month to get this guide up. Not in any particular order
- Uphuck Forums
- InsanelyMac Forums
- OSX86 Wiki.
- Dailapps.net
Things you need
- Desktop/Laptop running Windows Vista. (May run with XP..but not tested.)
- iATKOS v1.0 DVD image available from any popular torrent site or google it.(Approx size 2.16 GB)
- Windows Vista boot DVD
- Optical DVD drive
Before you start…..
- InstallWindows OS on your C drive. (primary partition 1)
- Create an empty primary partition to use for OS X (Say Partition 2)
Steps : (Follow these steps exactly..in the same order..)
- Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.
- Make sure that the partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step.
- Now restart the machine and boot into the Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.
- Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.
- You should see scrolling text on the screen now. If it stops anywhere then drop a comment and I’ll try to help you out.
- After a while you should be looking at the Leopard Installer. Follow the instructions on Screen.
- Once the Loading Bar vanishes Select Utilities -> Disk Utility .
- Select the Volume you created previously and format it as MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation.
- Now Close Disk Utility and Select Utilities -> Darwin Boot. Type Y at the prompt.
- At the prompt when it asks for the Disk Number enter 0. For the Partition Number if your Leopard Partition is 2nd on the disk, then enter 2 and so on.
- Accept the following prompts and you should see a success prompt saying that so many block of data were written successfully.
- Now get back to the Leopard Install Screen. Choose the partition that you made in the beginning and follow the instructions on screen.
Please don’t select any patches etc during the installation, this is normally the reason for most failed installations. Just the plain install would do.
- Once the Install is done, reboot with the DVD in the drive. Press F8 at Darwin Boot Loader and type -s and press enter.
- Execute the following commands :
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot
- Now before the PC restarts remove the DVD. At this point you should be able to boot into Vista normally.
Note: If you are unable to log into windows, because there is an error which says “winload.exe” corrupted.! Relax. Just insert the Windows VISTA boot DVD into the drive and restart. Click on “Repair computer” once you are inside the DVD and it will automatically detect if a problem exists and suggest “Repair and Restart”. Press the same, and remove the DVD once the PC is about to restart. You should now be able to log in to vista without any problem.
- Now that we have almost everything running fine, lets proceed with the dual boot setup.
- Boot into Vista. Copy the chain0 file from the Leopard DVD to C:
- Open the “Command prompt” with “Elevated Admin” privileges from the Start Menu.
- Type the following into the prompt
bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0
In the first command type {current} as it is, literally..nothing else..just {current} with the brackets. In the 3rd command however, replace the {GUID} with the alphanumeric GUID you see in the enumerated list under MAC OS X. You can see this list on your terminal as soon as you type the 2nd command above.
- Close the Command Prompt and Restart Vista.
- You Should now be looking at a screen with two options to boot into Mac OSX or Vista.
- Select Mac OSX to see if you can boot into it. You should see the familiar Darwin boot Loading screen with the timer going down. If you dont do anything, then it counts to zero and again shows the menu screen with Vista and MAC OSX options. Dont panic!
Again select MAC OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the partition with MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER.
- Voila!! your Mac should be booting up as you read this..
See it was that simple. No more HFS+ and Blinking Cursor errors. Just follow this guide step by step and you should be able to dual boot Windows Vista and Leopard in no time. If you have any questions just drop in a comment, I’ll reply at the earliest.
For Drivers and Patches I suggest you look at the InsanelyMac Forums.
hi guy
thats very nice guid, i was waiting for it since it was disapeared from earlier page. congrate
i have installed as per your guide but at last at the time of booting osx from dual boot window, i get “chain error”
vista starts normally, i have copied chain0 file to C: where my vista is installed. I have used seperate partition D: for OSX instead of shrinking.
pls guid me
Denny
April 5, 2008
i tried to install mac os x
after loading all the kext files it stopped at one place showing
“root device not responding”
mayur
April 5, 2008
i tried to install mac os x
after loading all the kext files it stopped at one place showing
“root device not responding”
my config:
cpu :core 2 duo 2.2ghz
gpu:nvidia gf8600
hdd:sata 320gb
mayur
April 5, 2008
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April 6, 2008
OK followed the instructions, but every reboot it always asks for the MAC partition. Is there any way to auto select?
mfleigle
April 6, 2008
after all the text is done scrolling, I get to the installation of leopard and it just freezes at the preparing to install leopard screen
zach
April 11, 2008
Thanks for the guide, but after doing this I get a “Chain booting error” when selecting Mac OS X… I have no problem booting Vista from my D partition and Windows XP from my C partition… Do I have to do a different BCDEDIT setting? Hope you can help!
Kind regards,
Dennis Schoenmaker
Dennis Schoenmaker
April 13, 2008
thank you for this,
when i boot from DVD, i only get as far as an apple logo with spinning wheel at the bottom, the after 1 minute, a small image of a circle with a cross pops up at top and i have waited for hours.
could you tell me how to solve the problem? all my hardwares are listed compatible
charles
April 14, 2008
Hi,
I had problems tipying the line: bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0
Could you tell me what shoud I type on it ? The dual boot is not working; even if I choose OSX goes to windows.
tks
Norman
April 14, 2008
Norman,
I had issues too - the bootloader wouldn’t stay open. Try adding this:
bcdedit /timeout 8
To give you time to pick MACOSX instead of Windows.
Other thing is, make sure you put in the GUID for that partition, not your Windows one.
Hope that helps.
Josh
April 17, 2008
I can’t locate the iatkos download. Is there any other location?
immadmacs
April 17, 2008
I am stucked where you type bcdedit. It always say the boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied.
Can anyone help?
mixi
mixi92
April 18, 2008
my problem is there is no option for the Darwin boot loader in the utilities dropdown menu.. I can select the Darwin boot loader in the customized section of the install but then there is no option to enetr any disk or partition number.. I have tried this install which proceeds successfully but then os x will not load..and nor will vista..
Any help here
using iATKOS v1.0i
Thanks
Mrgee
April 18, 2008
After I hit F8 and enter -v, it does start scrolling text, it says something about loading hfs files, but on the third one it just reverts to the “press any key to install Darwin/OSx86″ screen. It just does this forever. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
David
April 20, 2008
I Followed the old guide you had here a while ago, how does one go about getting rid of it? i’m assuming its not as simple ad deleteing the new volume that was made for leopard?
Jamie
April 21, 2008
Hi
I have tried install leopard on my XPS M1330 laptop
but when it hits IOAPIC: Version 0×20 vectors 0:23 it stalls
It does tell me MAC Framework Successfully initialised.
Laptop had Intel 2 Duo Core
2 GB Ram
Integrated Webcam and Biometric finger print
250 GB of which 50are unallocated for Leopard to use.
Thanks in advance for any advice
Mohammed
April 22, 2008
After I enter the -v option, I do see scrolling text and after the second line of “loading HFS+ /System/Library/Extentions.mkext” is posted my machine reboots.
Any ideas
Andy
April 22, 2008
my configs are geforce6200 intel 3.0
had raid zero on it but thought it was the prob so removed it
when pressing -v my machine reboots without showing any darwin boot menu watsoever..
can u help?
slyfer
April 22, 2008
bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0
i have a problem with the third command or i think its with the first, im not sure. i can’t find the guid of the mac installation…all it shows is the windows boot manager and windows boot loader…there’s no MAC OS X..help..thnx
Carlo
April 27, 2008
ok, done with the three command lines..now i have a bootscreen with mac and vista, but when i choose mac, windows still boots up…thanks in advance
Carlo
April 27, 2008
i’ve figured it out with the boot up.i was able to boot to mac but i ended up having a grey screen with an apple logo…stuck for a couple of mins…the thing with the spinning wheel has already stopped…any work arounds?
Carlo
April 27, 2008
hi,
thanks for this guide.
i’m wondering if you could help me with a problem.
when i type -v to boot from the dvd, i get the error message that it can’t recognize the firewire security mode, and then i get the following message: “still waiting for root device.
thanks for all and i’ll appreciate it if you could answer me.
Marios
April 28, 2008
after darwins boot i get this error msg
System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found
please help
digiguy
April 28, 2008
i tried doing this and did everything the guide said and made sure i got iatkos v1.0i. so i followed the guide and installed it and i noticed 2 problems. Everything went fine till i did the command prompt where i do “bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0
when i did this it didn’t give me a GUID number under Mac OS X. instead there were 2 different GUIDS and i picked the one that was most likely the Mac OS X one, which i got it right. so i finished this. anyways i got almost everything working. the dual boot screen comes up too and shows vista and mac os X. i tried to boot into Mac OS X though and it gave me “chain booting error”. i don’t know what to do to get mac os X working. i’m pretty sure i got everything right in following the guide. i’ve done this about 3 times over(wiping the partition out each time before trying again though) and i always get “chain booting error”. What should i do to get OS X up and running? Oh, and i deleted the OS X partition for now, and took it out of the booting entry so my computer just boots into vista now. so whenever i get info on how to get mac OS X to work with the dual boot, then i’ll install it again. any help?
dude
May 1, 2008
Carlo,
just thought i’d tell you… i had that happen before once too. You probably entered the windows GUID number when you were setting up the dual boot. just go into the command prompt and do “bcdedit” and it should list what you have. if you have 2 of the same GUID then enter “bcdedit /delete {GUID}” (GUID being the number). You might need to delete the OS X partition first to get your windows boot loader to just boot into vista. Then reinstall mac os X like you did before, and when it comes to setting up the dual boot setup, do like you did before except put in the Mac OS X GUID. when you restart there should be 2 options… 1 to boot into windows, the other to boot into OS X. good luck getting OS X to boot though. i did like the guide said and i’m getting “chain booting error”. something to do with vista boot loader not recognizing OS X as a bootable partition i think. i don’t know what to do about that though
dude
May 1, 2008
I did every thing and then when i go to the OS
selector i select the Mac OS X and then follow
the instruction but then it shows the Apple
icon and then automattically restarts PLZ HELP
MATTT
May 2, 2008
Every time after I typed ‘-v’ and press enter then there have short, five lines of scrolling text on the screen then restarted automatically… It kept restart before enter the OSX setup. What should I do to solve this issue? Thanks!
adealg
May 2, 2008
Dude,
Try to Load which iatkos install disk, and do the darwin boot steps again, works for me.
Serjoint
May 3, 2008
Yes I was using iATKOS v1.0 on DVD. I have follow everything exactly as what it said above till the point to entering the OS installment, it kept restart automatically after I type in “-V”. The DVD is works like I pressed ‘F8′ when it start 8 seconds counting. I have also tried just press ‘enter’ to install instead press ‘F8′ and it just restarts automatically without completed anything… Thanks for the quick response!
adealg
May 3, 2008
i got a “still waiting for root device” message about 6 times at annoyingly slow rates. im guessing that would of ended at root device not responding
jeffster
May 4, 2008
jeffster;
Waiting for root device means you have non-conpatiable hardware.
Try using the commmand cpus=1 at the boot menu after hitting F8
TJ
May 4, 2008
Hi! I installed ToH 10.5 Leo and it worked. It doesn’t have Darwin boot under utilities so I didn’t install it. When I boot my PC I choose Mac …. and the screen becomes black, after a few seconds it returns to the main boot screen. Where is my problem, please?
Bill
May 5, 2008
I dont seem to find the file the dvd am using seems to be encrypted
Abbati
May 5, 2008
i am using the kalyway 10.5.2 am not sure if it applies?
Abbati
May 5, 2008
How to uninstall it?
Ch
May 5, 2008
hmm… it still won’t boot from the dvd and hangs at “still waiting for root device” i tried using “-v cpus=1″ at the boot prompt and it still wont work.
CONFIG:
Core 2 Duo E8400 3ghz
PNY Nvidia 8600gt 256mb
Gigabyte P35-DS3L
Samsung 320gb. Spinpoint T-series(SATA,AHCI not on)
jeffster
May 9, 2008
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May 9, 2008
i boot to the disc, press f8, -v, enter… it loads a few lines and then it restarts
specs:
ASUS p5n-e sli
intel e8400
EVGA 8600 GT
2 x 74GB SATA HDD (RAID)
500GB SATA HDD
DVD-RAM drive SATA
betzster
May 10, 2008
I am hung up on the darwin boot loader, says “Still waiting for root device” please help
Alex
May 14, 2008
I entered cpus=1 after hitting F8, now i do not have a disk listed in the Disk Utility…Please help
Alex
May 14, 2008
OK, so now I get this once I enter the “-v” command after pressing F8. “SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0×06, ASC = 0×29, ASCQ = 0×00″
“Still waiting for root device”
I am in desperate need of some help please
Alex
May 14, 2008
Same problem as Mohammed on 22 April 2008
Richard
May 16, 2008
“ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security mode: Defaulting to full-secure”
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Still waiting for root device
Would like some help here.
I have read that this issue can be fixed with and external dvd rom drive connected through the usb. Can someone verify this and let me know.
Joe
May 18, 2008
the OSX disk wont support the nForce SATA drivers, only PATA. try an IDE harddrive
betzster
May 21, 2008
After pressing F8 and either typing -v or -v cpus=1 is see an error about FireWire being set to full-secure and then the following text:
syncing disks… Killing all processes
continuing
done
MACH Reboot
This is followed by the PC rebooting. Can anyone help me?
tonyp2005
May 23, 2008
Hi there! Nice tut! Just wondering, is it the same to download the iAtkos v1.0i, iAtkos v1.0ir2, iAtkos v1.0ir3 or the iAtkos v2.0i? Which one should I install?
I’ve got an HP Pavilion dv6379us, Intel Core 2 , T7200, 2.00GHz with 2GB RAM.
Please, just throw me a few lines.
Thanks!
Sebas
May 28, 2008
@sebas go with iatkos v2.0i it’s the newest one and it has the most patches.
betzster
June 2, 2008
@betzster thanks, i’m downloading that one, but meanwhile i started with the installation of the iAtkos v1.0r3. everything went fine until i got to the part when i had to format my new partition. i opened the Disk Utility, and guess what? there were no drives! it was like i had no HDD! plz drop me a few lines, thanks.
Sebas
June 2, 2008
very nice guide.
my only problem is that my keyboard does not work once the installation process begins. any clue?
yumsz
June 5, 2008
Hello, I did “Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter”, and then I see scrolling text on the screen, but soon it stops, the stuff I see is “NO such file or directory” and unknown SIGSEGV code 0, then it doesnot go any further, please help, thank you very much
yuri
June 7, 2008
First off, thanks for the great guide!
That having been said, I am a little stuck. I finally properly shrunk my drive using the Vista utility, and have a 9.5 gig partition unallocated. Unfortunately, this partition doesn’t show up in the Mac OS X disc utility. I have partition 1 (the restore partition for my computer) partition 2 (the main vista partition) and then nothing. Each has the correct size (after the unallocated partition was created) but I can’t see the unallocated partition! Any suggestions?
jon
June 12, 2008
Can I use iAtkos v2.0 instead of v1.0, because I can’t find a good v1.0 download?
Thanks.
Ramy
June 14, 2008
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June 16, 2008
I have a question about it:
I’ve followed your steps and everything goes good, but when the installation prepares I’ve have to select in the Disk Utility a drive where I want to instal it but it can’t find any drives :(. Please help; thanks
Caryntjen
June 19, 2008
your step by step worked just fine for my hp laptop. But v1.0 doesn´t run very well on my dv9730. it runs very jumpy. I was wondering if you know how to do this same thing with iatkos v2.0. I have tried following the same instructions for v2.0 but it doesn´t work. I get kernal panic while its booting up in the grey screen with the apple logo. Maybe the steps would have to be different. Thanks
gjbrewer
June 19, 2008
Hi, i am trying to install iATKOS 1.0i but installation get stuck when i have to choose the hard disk. There is no hard disk showing and also, there is no Disk Utility in Utilities menu.
Please help !
AD
June 24, 2008
Hi
I have tried install leopard on my XPS M1330 laptop
but when it hits IOAPIC: Version 0×20 vectors 0:23 it stalls
It does tell me MAC Framework Successfully initialised.
Laptop had Intel 2 Duo Core
4 GB Ram
Integrated Webcam and Biometric finger print
320 GB of which 34 are unallocated for Leopard to use.
Thanks in advance for any advice
The Man
June 30, 2008
Hey thanks for the guide but do i have to do a clean install of vista or can i just partition the harddrive with the vista i already have installed
Khalil
July 6, 2008
i already have a dual boot of vista and ubuntu installed using the vista bootloader (with the help of EasyBCD) and i was wondering if id just follow these instructions and then at Leopard in EasyBCD, or if this would mess up my ubuntu boot
(vista takes up one drive, and i was planning on installing leopard on the same drive as ubuntu)
bob
July 6, 2008
When the “scrolling text was suppose to appear it stalled at loading HFS+ file: [System/Library/Extensions.mkext] from 4230450 then after about 20 seconds it displayed and repeated EBIOS read error something about media and repeated it 3 times, it then went to another screen saying bsd process name corresponding to current thread: unknown, mac os verson: not known yet, Kernal version: darwin kernel version 9.1.0: date made by so and so and so what do i need to do to resolve this?
Clark
July 9, 2008
Cool. Thanks!, This guide works!
pdvdw
July 11, 2008
Gust A Notice… iATKOS v2.0i is out! Its much better and squashes most bugs!
Get it from any torrent
pdvdw
July 11, 2008
does this also work with iAtkos v2.0i ?
aegis
July 14, 2008
using iatkos v.0R2 type -v get scrolling text and stops at
Extension “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin” has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components use only one style
Help Please?
Specs:
Asus G1S
Intel Core 2 Duo @2.2 Ghz
Nvidia 8600m GT 256 mb
Wolfdemon
July 14, 2008
dear when i m installing iatkos when i click on utility -then disk utility-.but it does not show any drive from which i can select any drive un which iatkos can be install.what is the problem.
chandra bhushan
July 19, 2008
Guys:
@aegis
@Wolfdemon
@chandra bhushan
Here is a complete guide with the FAQs and latest bugs. Its for version 2 (iatkos) and its a great guide theat works!
Site: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1478492/1550444/
but if you want to download the torrent from their site then you need a account
Hope this helps!!!
pdvdw
July 22, 2008
hey there, thanks alot for this, i followed all the steps u said but i dont get the prompt that asks the disk number and partition number. i choose the partition i formatted by using the mouse, however, after the installation is complete, i boot into darwin and type -s but it stops at a command and the keyboard does not work all the time… please help
i run a 2.16 centrino duo with 1GB DDR2 ram and 512MB VGA atiX1600… its a LG S1 laptop…
thanks again
MReda
July 23, 2008
Hi… I downloaded the iATKOS V4i and also verified that the MD5 checksum is correct… Now, when i boot up from the DVD, i get the Darwin boot loader and after that, the white/gray background with the Apple Logo on it… The problem is, after a while i get a small “Not allowed” symbol in front of the apple logo (a small white circle with a slash scross it, like the ghost buster icon).. all this while there is small spinning “wait sign” running at the bottom… even after waiting for a long time, the screen does not progress to the next one… just remains at that white/gray bg with apple logo and the small not allowed symbol on top of it…
The following are my system specs:
System Manufacturer: INTEL
System Model:DG33FB
System Type: X86-based PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz, 2997 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date: Intel Corp. DPP3510J.86A.0293.2007.1002.1519, 10/2/2007
SMBIOS Version: 2.4
Total Physical Memory: 2,037.01 MB
Is there some setting i need to adjust (like in my BIOS)? Please help as I am completely new to this thing….
regards,
Chandan
July 24, 2008
after installation, I try to boot vista with the dvd drive empty, and it says hfs+ partition error. can i somehow bypass this to get back into vista, because i really need some stuff on there. Thanks alot
Allan
July 29, 2008
@MReda
Your keyboard hardware may not be detected by iAtkos.. I recommend you contact the official iAtkos team at their forums.
iAtkos rarely works on hardware, the problem is compatibility (I have a website all about the latest software and technology. believe me, I know.). If it does work then your damn lucky.
That goes for everyone having some sort of problem (google iatkos official forum) search for the forum and ask the software creators theyre selfs. I only helped with the coding, the hardware is not my strong point.
If your having a problem with your BIOS (or you think you are) then check out YOUTUBE.com there is a lot of vids related to iAtkos and they might help you out ;-)!
Thanks and sorry I can’t help MReda.
P.S. I have been having problems downloading iAtkos v4i. If someone can post it to me or if we can work something out then it would be much appreciated! (bogus internet!)
pdvdw
July 30, 2008
By the way…. You can always Format your PC, install iAtkos (if you can) and then use Apple Bootcamp to Install Vista/XP (i’m not sure if you can install vista with Bootcamp) but try apples website. Search for Bootcamp and install or whatever.
pdvdw
July 30, 2008
Dears,
People who had problems with mouse or keyboord may be you are using PS2 devices try to use a USB.
Thomas
July 31, 2008
Worked for me ok?! Thanks
Thomas
July 31, 2008
sorry i have the mac os mac-os-x-10 4-tiger-on-disk-image-with-pear-pc-sak so i burn’t on dvd 8.5 gb and its done .i put this dvd in my dvdrom and i open it on the vista windows but i found nothing in the and in the same time i look to back of the dvd i see that its full :S i cant understand , may the vista doesn’t see the mac files or what
jack
August 7, 2008
I am able to get to the boot screen where I can choose either Vista or OS X. When I choose OS X, I can then select NTFS or OS X. I select that and it looks like its going to boot into Leopard then it reboots my computer. This happens every time. Lil help….
socloseithurts
August 7, 2008
After reading that TimeMachine will not work in this environment, I wonder if it is worth the effort. Anyone have TimeMachine working?
John Wilson
August 8, 2008
hi, I successfully installed leopard but after it boots, it boots directly to vista and i have no idea how to boot to leopard can anyone help pls?
infected
August 14, 2008
Hello,
there is just one thing to add. After creating a new volume in Windows, “Disk Utility” does not recognize the volume. After i have formatted it to FAT32 it works.
But now everything is working finde on my Sony VAIO SZ2XP, except sound. Now i try to figure out to fix this.
Thanks for your great guide and keep up the good work.
sophisticated
August 22, 2008
Hello,
I need some urgent help here as I don’t get computer access easily now that my Dell m1530 keeps rebooting right before I see the Vista loading screen. I installed it using the iatkos v4i downloaded from Demonoid. And then I followed through the steps but after the step where I have to flag to 1 then type quit and enter, I instead flagged the HFS and quit. And then it tried to boot in to Mac OSX, but the screen stuck at the grey background with an apple and a spinner wheel. Then I hard shut down the computer and use the iatkos dvd to do the flagging again, this time I flagged the vista partition. So I restarted the computer, but then it goes in to ever restarting without even showing the progress bar where it says Microsoft Corporation.
I then tried the Vista installation CD but it says that this problem cannot be fixed automatically.
Please any ideas?
Nik
August 23, 2008
Hey!
Thanks a lot for this tutorial!
Btw. this tutorial works also fine with the iATKOS v4i Version with OS X 10.5.4 =)
chep
August 30, 2008
I installed iATKOS v1.0i on my Windows XP Laptop successfully. My laptop is:
- Intel Core2 Duo 1.66 Ghz
- RAM 1GB DDR2
- on 20GB unallocated partition
The above steps were very helpfull while installing iATKOS. But after the installation the above steps are not compatible with Windows XP.
As bcedit is not compatible with Windows XP, I add following line to the boot.ini file:
C:\chain0=”Mac OS X”
Now when I rebooted, I got two options at boot. One is Windows XP and other is Mac OS X.
Windows are working fine, but if I click to select Mac OS X at boot screen, it does not do any thing and takes me back to the same boot screen.
Does anyone from you have ever faced the same situation?
PLEASE help me on this..
I am desperate to see the Mac OS that I have installed successfully.
Richard
September 1, 2008
just hit any key and choose the drive you installed leo on
then it should boot w/o any problems
bombaaa
September 4, 2008
Hi. I installed iATKOS v1.0, did it according to the guide. I read somewhere above, someone had the same problem, but fixed it and didnt say how he fixed it. After reboot, I select the OS, I pick OSX, but it still boots into Vista. How do I fix that? Thanks
Graveworm
September 5, 2008