Friday, March 28, 2008

Dual Boot Mac Leopard and Windows Vista (100 % working Guide)

The Following Guide is for creating a dual-boot system using Kalyway’s 10.5.1 or iatlkos ir2 boot DVD with Windows XP install or Vista.I wanted to be able to dual boot the new 10.5.1 install, but most of the tutorials already on the web are for Vista. So here is my Guide for Noobs on how to install 10.5.1 with XP & vista.Materials:

· Kalyway_Leo_10.5.1 DVD or iatkos ir2 DVD
· Windows XP Install or Vista
· Gparted Live CD
· A blank hard drive

Procedure:
Windows and Partition Set-Up
1. The First thing you need to do is install Windows XP or Vista. When asked which partition to install XP or Vista to; delete all your existing partitions (Note: This will erase ALL your data! Make sure you have backups of important files.)
2. Create a new Partition for XP or vista that is more than 10 GB, but also make sure that your drive will have 10GB for the OSX partition we will create later.
3. I won’t sayhow to do the rest of the XP or Vista instal, because I assume most of you know how to already.
4. Once you have a nice good install of XP or Vista open a command prompt by pressing Windows Key+R. Type “cmd” (without quotes) and hit enter.
5. In the newly opened window, type diskpart.
6. type select disk 0 (zero)
7. type list partition
8. You should now see a list that has all the partitons on your hard drive.
9. type create partition primary id=af
10. You should get a conformation that diskpart created a partition succsesfully.
11. type list partition
12. If you see a table that has two partitions, and one says unknown format, then you’re good! (skip to step 14)
13. Now type select partition x Were “x” is the partition that has an unknown format.
14. type active
15. type exit and close the window.

OS X Install

1. Now we get to the cooler part of the install. Put your Kalyway or iatkos disk in your drive and restart your computer.
2. If your computer boots back into XP, change your boot order settings to read from the DVD before the hard drive.
3. When you get to the screen that says “starting Mac OS X installer”, press the F8 key on
your keyboard.
4. Then type “-v” (no quotes) and hit enter. (not mandatory)
5. The DVD will now boot into the Installer for OS X. Be patient as this can take a while.
6. After the installer starts up, hit the arrow and wait for the Welcome screen to pop-up.
7. Now, before you hit continue, at the top of the screen click on the menu that says ‘Utilities’, then click on ‘Disk Utility’.
8. When the disk utility comes up, you should see on the left side of the screen your hard disk.
9. Select the partition that you.partition. You can make sure of this by checking the file format of the partition in the bottom-left portion of the window.
10. Once you have the correct partition selected press the tab that reads ‘Erase’.
11. In the drop-down menu select ‘Mac OS X (Journaled)’ and name it something simple like ‘osx’ or ‘leo’. DO NOT use a “space” in the name or any other special characters such as % or &.
12. Press Erase and press it again in the pop-up.
13. Close out of the Disk Utility by clicking on the red button in the top left corner of the window.
14. You’ll now see that you are returned to the Welcome screen. Click Continue and agree to the Licence.
15. In the Installation destination screen select the partition you just made. Click Continue.
16. Now click the customize button.
17. At the bottom open up the sub-selection menu and de-select the bootloader for GUID. Then select the bootloader for MBR. This is the MOST important part of the entire install! If you do not select MBR, you will be stuck with a non-working install!
18. Close the customization window.
19. Click Install. (You can skip the media check if you wish.)
20. At this point depending on the amount of RAM you have, and the speed of your processor, The install can take anywhere from 4 1/2 hours(512mb ram), to 15 min(1Gb ram).

Boot Loader Configuration for Xp.

1. After the Installation has completed, restart your computer with the Gparted Live CD in the drive.
2. Press enter for all the defaults when it asks. (Unless, of course, you have a different keyboard layout.)
3. When the graphical interface is done loading, find your Windows partition (it will be formatted as NTFS.) and click on it.
4. Now right click it, and choose “Flags”
5. Now place a check mark in the “boot” checkbox.
6. Close the window, and click Exit. As your computer restarts, remove the Gparted CD from your drive and boot into XP.
7. Once in XP open up My Computer and go into your C: Drive.
8. If it says that the fles on this drive are protected, just click the continue button.
9. In the Menu bar click Tools –> Folder Options
10. Click the view tab in the new window.
11. Check Hide protected System Files and Show Hidden Files and Folders.
12. Now Close that window and go back to your drive. Open the file named boot.ini or just boot.
13. copy this into the last line of text C:\chain0="Mac OS X86"
14. Save and close the file.
15. Put your Kalyway DVD in your drive.
16. Copy the file called “chain0″ to your C: drive.
17. Close and restart without the Kalyway in your drive.

Boot Loader Configuration for Vista

1. After the Installation has completed, restart your computer with the Gparted Live CD in the drive.
2. Press enter for all the defaults when it asks. (Unless, of course, you have a different keyboard layout.)
3. When the graphical interface is done loading, find your Windows partition (it will be formatted as NTFS.) and click on it.
4. Now right click it, and choose “Flags”
5. Now place a check mark in the “boot” checkbox.
6. Close the window, and click Exit. As your computer restarts, remove the Gparted CD from your drive and boot into Vista.
7. If vista fails to run (don’t worry than). Than repair vista.
8. Once in Vista open up My Computer and go into your C: Drive.
9. Boot into Vista. Copy the chain0 file from the Leopard DVD to C:Drive
10. Open the “Command prompt” with “Elevated Admin” privileges from the Start Menu.
11. Type the following into the prompt

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”bcdedit /enum activebcdedit /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.
12. 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..
Congratulation (u won this battle)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

um hi... this is a plagerised copy of my guide. with some info added on vista. Can you please take this down, or re-word the tutorial to be your own? thanks.

Jordan Griffith
http://maconpc.distinctlyjordan.com/2008/03/20/how-todual-boot-xp-and-leopard/

Sìlverlake said...

yeah.. that's definitely yours, Jordan. But is that way really work for vista? Because Jordan's guide only in XP, so I need some confirmation..