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Glad to hear you like it, enjoy!

Quote from: zero on November 10, 2007, 05:30:17 PM
Thank you so so so much for a fantastic guide. Easy to understand, everything I needed explaining explained.

Everything is working perfectly and it only took a little googling to find an install file for my wireless card. Time to find out why everyone bangs on about how good OSX is!

=)

Hi,

You will need to reburn your DVD, most likely the image is corrupted.

Good luck!

Hello all,
Unfortunately, due to my academic commitment, I no longer have the time and resources to address all the issues here. However, I would still maintain this Forum as well as the Wiki Guide and I encourage everyone who have tried to use my guide to help others out. I would appreciate all of your help.
Please feel free to start a new thread for each question, the FAQ thread is getting a little too long to read from.
Once again, thanks a lot for all the support you have shown to the small Wiki guide that I wrote.

Best of luck!

Not sure as I do not have NVidia Card, anyone has a Nvidia card and would like to help this gentleman out? Thanks!

Quote from: casual_fitzy on September 27, 2007, 01:58:40 PM
Well, I got it up and running great!  Thanks for the wonderful instructions.  I have another question though, is there any way to get drivers installed for all my products?  Like my 6800GT video card.  Nvidia doesn't seem to make Mac drivers for their 6 series.  Anyone know a way to get everything recognized and working properly?

You used Windows Vista? Try to find the newest version of Acronis.

Quote from: casual_fitzy on September 21, 2007, 12:04:39 PM
Hey, I followed your guide exactly and it worked perfectly through the installation.  After reboot however, Acronis loaded and says "Acronis OS selector was unable to load 'UNKNOWN' operating system. The partition required cannot be found."  Do you have any idea what this means?  Thanks.

-Edit- This is what I get now: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/Casualfitzy/ERROR.jpg

Is there any way to tell where the problem lies?  The installation went so smoothly I'd hate to think my disc was messed up.

Use 1024*768, unfortunately I do not think Hackintosh support any higher resolution.

Quote from: chrigi on September 16, 2007, 05:11:50 AM
hy,

I have a problem: When I restart the computer and boot to mac os x,  a "grey colored" page where you see the apple logo at the center and below it is a small gear like circle appears. But after 20 seconds, the display gets black (stand-by-mode).
I think it's a problem with the graphical card (I have a ATI Readon x300/x550 Series)
I have already tried: "Graphics mode"="1280x1024x32" (I have VESA 2)
Then, the installation was in the 1280x1024 mode, but the problam with the black screen remains.

I hope you can help me...
Thanks!

You will need to re-format the partition to MAC OS X during the installation using the MAC OS partition manager that is build in the installation program.

Quote from: joshbergs on September 16, 2007, 01:07:43 AM
Hi,
I am having the same problem as lairusi...

I have set my 10GB partition to FAT32 using Acronsis Disk Suite.
Then when I use the MAC disk utility to change the format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), the name of the volume changes to "disk0s4" and says the format is "Windows_Fat_32"

Then I just assumed it had formatted corrrectly at first so I tryed to continue with the installation but then relised that there was a problem because there where no options for which drive to install the OS to.

Please help 

You can definitely use it, the only thing is that a couple of shortcuts would be out of place because in Macs, there is no such thing as Alt. key and the Control key is instead spelled as "Control", not "Ctrl", and when you need to paste something, instead of using Ctrl+V, you will need Alt+V. That is something you will have to adapt to.
If what you meant is that you can not use the entire keyboard at all, then I am not sure what is going on, it should recognize PS/2 Keyboards automatically.

Good luck!

Quote from: Diezel VH4 on October 02, 2007, 08:20:02 AM
Thanks for that great guide!!!everything worked properly!!
The only prob is that I can't use my typical ps/2 keyboard..this is happening
only in the mac os.The pc I've used to install the os is a simple intel celeron
based desktop computer.Is something that I can do?Or i simply have to buy
a usb keyboard?
THANX

Here is the solution for you:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t30858.html
1 minute of Googling did the trick =:)

Good luck and welcome to MAC world!

Quote from: chrigi on September 15, 2007, 08:59:02 AM
Hi,
After the 6th step (dual boot), i rebooted my pc. and then, i clicked (in the OS Selector) to the unknown os (=mac), But then usually comes an error: "hfs+ partition error"
What can I do?

Thanks.

Another case of corrupted disc, please download the image again.

Thanks!

Quote from: trolley.man on September 13, 2007, 06:05:24 AM
Hi

I have tried several times to install osx using ur dual boot guide.

However, I reach the point after selecting the language where it says "Preparing Installation....", it stays on this screen for a few minutes and then i get a box saying "failed to open OSInstall.mpkg".

The horizontal bar appears at the top, but i am unable to open disk utility.

Any help as to why i'm getting this error message would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Was the partition originally set to NTFS or FAT32, you can only convert a partition that was originally set to FAT32.

Quote from: lairusi on September 12, 2007, 12:48:23 PM
Hi! I have followed the steps indicated in the installation guide and it seems like I'm stuck at the part wherein I have to choose a partition wherein I should install the Mac OS.

I have allocated 10gb and have formatted the partition to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) using the disk utility. After formatting the partition, the said partition won't appear and no drives are showing for the installation of the OS. Can anyone help me out?

I'm using Lenovo T61. (HD is SATA)

Thank you very much! I'm trying this out for the first time. 

I think you were talking about the command key and the ctrl key in this case. For example, in MAC, it is Alt. + V rather than Ctrl + V for paste.
2 way for that:
1. Get used to the way, since that is the way a real MAC would work as well.
2. Try to find some small programs online that will do the trick, I think I have seen it somewhere on my Google search results one day, could not remember the name of the program though.

Good luck and welcome to the MAC world!

Quote from: geinzmrk on September 12, 2007, 09:58:46 AM
Hello it's me again.
Updated to 10.4.9 using the old kernel works. That enables ilife08 installation.
How do you dela with the notebook keyboard? I'm missing keys and some are on the wrong position.
What tools do you use?

Best regards
Markus

No problem, good luck!

Quote from: mechael on September 04, 2007, 02:04:48 PM
Thanks for your quick reply!!  I'll do it tonight.

Unfortunately the information is not sufficient for me to give you a solution, could you please use -v option to see the debugging message first? Thanks!

Quote from: mechael on September 03, 2007, 03:32:34 PM
hi, I followed the method, and when I using the OS selector to boot to Mac, it shows the circle animation and then the screen dim and displayed an error message:

"You need to restart your computer.  Hold down the power button..."

what can I do?

- Did you experience distortion on moving windows in 1400 x 1050 resolution?
    - Yes, I think there may be problem working with any resolution higher than 1024x768. However, one thing I have to say is that the maximum resolution I have is 1024x768, and I've never tried anything more than that.
- Which Ati drivers do you use? Still the ones from the Jas package?
   - NO, my video card (ATI Mobility Radeon 7500) is supported without select the ATI drivers.
- ACPI. Is this possible?
   - Have not tried, anyone else has any idea?
- Did you already upgrade to 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 ? If so, an updated guide would be great.
   - No because the upgrade is only for Intel processor with SSE3, mine only supports up to SSE2.

Good luck!

Quote from: geinzmrk on September 01, 2007, 06:18:20 PM
Hello
Your installation guide works like a charm. A few more questions arise:
- Did you experience distortion on moving windows in 1400 x 1050 resolution?
- Which Ati drivers do you use? Still the ones from the Jas package?
- ACPI. Is this possible?
- Did you already upgrade to 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 ? If so, an updated guide would be great.

Thanks for your efforts so far.
Markus