Guide+Support; to installing EFI v8+ dual booting(Pics)

[JonZ]

Thanks I am...me for this tutorial

 

 

It took me a lot of patience to achieve it but I have now a EFI working dual boot with Vista x64 (build with Kalyway's 10.5.2)

 

What took me time to realize is I had to format my disk with only 1 partition before continuing installing the OSes. I was starting to build GUID and MS-DOS partition mixing right off start. It was working fine until I finished installing windows. It wasn't recoverable afterward even typing the dd if command with Leopard DVD terminals. I was still getting HFS+Partition error.

 

I restarted over, build only one HSF partition, unmount, execute the bootv8 commands, install the OS , adjusting the partitions, install vista, and reuse the dd command line. Now working!

 

When I came back to the disk utilities after the installation of OSX before installing Vista, I couldn't make the other patition. I had like you told in the guide to reboot in single mode and enter the bash commands to repair the OSX installations. I have to do that everytime I install Kalyway it seems. It was fine after the fix and the installation could resume then.

 

Trying now to triple booting with OSX, Vista, and uBuntu.

 

 

Question here, I used Acronis true Image to make backup of my disk partition, but it appear to be no longer compatible with GUID+HSF partitions... Any alternative to this? thanks.

[karaakeha1]

Thanks I am...me for this tutorial

It took me a lot of patience to achieve it but I have now a EFI working dual boot with Vista x64 (build with Kalyway's 10.5.2)

 

What took me time to realize is I had to format my disk with only 1 partition before continuing installing the OSes. I was starting to build GUID and MS-DOS partition mixing right off start. It was working fine until I finished installing windows. It wasn't recoverable afterward even typing the dd if command with Leopard DVD terminals. I was still getting HFS+Partition error.

 

I restarted over, build only one HSF partition, unmount, execute the bootv8 commands, install the OS , adjusting the partitions, install vista, and reuse the dd command line. Now working!

 

When I came back to the disk utilities after the installation of OSX before installing Vista, I couldn't make the other patition. I had like you told in the guide to reboot in single mode and enter the bash commands to repair the OSX installations. I have to do that everytime I install Kalyway it seems. It was fine after the fix and the installation could resume then.

 

Trying now to triple booting with OSX, Vista, and uBuntu.

Question here, I used Acronis true Image to make backup of my disk partition, but it appear to be no longer compatible with GUID+HSF partitions... Any alternative to this? thanks.

For Leopard install Carbon copy cloner works great ,Just make sure to install EFI instillation after copying

[jivhg]

Would I still have to install the SSE2 and SSE3 kernals?

[Diegus83]

I can confirm this method to work on my setup, and I´m dual booting Leopard and Windows XP Professional SP2 32 bits without problems.

The only thing is after installing WinXP and redoing the last step in the guide (when you copy the boot0) there is now an extra partition named EFI (200Mb, FAT) showing in bot Leopard and XP.

I also have and extra partition after the Windows one which is a backup of my Leopard install done with Disk Utility, but is only 7.2Gb in size so I can copy it to a dual layer disk and erase it.

 

Anyone knows how to set EFI flags to hide the EFI partition?

[i_am...me]

I can confirm this method to work on my setup, and I´m dual booting Leopard and Windows XP Professional SP2 32 bits without problems.

The only thing is after installing WinXP and redoing the last step in the guide (when you copy the boot0) there is now an extra partition named EFI (200Mb, FAT) showing in bot Leopard and XP.

I also have and extra partition after the Windows one which is a backup of my Leopard install done with Disk Utility, but is only 7.2Gb in size so I can copy it to a dual layer disk and erase it.

 

Anyone knows how to set EFI flags to hide the EFI partition?

Did you use GPT sync?

[Stuie]

Hi EFI and Retail Mac OSX DVD User,

 

I have a PC with Intel DG35EC motherboard with a Q6600 and a Sapphire Radeon 2600XT PCIe video card. I can boot the unit with the SATA set to IDE in the BIOS using Kalaway 10.5.2 and Leo4all v3. Must have a PCIe video card on this motherboard to boot. If I try to boot using ACHI I get cannot find apple plist message.

 

I wish to use EFI and install from the retail DVD 10.5.0. (Family pack)

 

On a Mac Book I booted off the retail CD and formatted an external USB as GUID. I ran through the first method in this thread and no errors occur. I can see the EFI partition on the USB drive using diskutil. I then installed the retail DVD onto the external drive using my Mac Book. I could boot my Macbook off the external drive after the installation completed with the retail DVD.

 

I then (ensuring in the BIOS USB booting is enabled) tried to boot off the usb on my PC. It just timed out and said no boot device.

 

After this I then tried to boot off the retail DVD and with the usb EFI drive connected. Again it just timed out and nothing happened.

 

So I am not understanding something. I thought I could boot off the retail DVD once I made a EFI partition.

 

With a EFI partition on a USB drive how can I install off the retail DVD?

 

Do I need to patch the retail DVD? Are there simple instructions anywhere?

 

Thanks

 

Stuart

[Diegus83]

Did you use GPT sync?

 

No, should I try to fix this in a parted live CD or install rEFIt?

I've read somewhere about parted not being aware of flags set by EFI in GUID disk.

 

Thanks

 

EDIT: Well, I used gptsync from an Ubuntu LiveCD and now thing are most messed up than before.

The machine tries to boot into windows, shows an error and can only get to OS X if the installation DVD is on the drive.

Gonna try booting from the WinXP cd, fix mbr, redo the last step of the EFI installation and see what happens.

 

EDIT2: changing the flags with gparted with or without doing a gtpsync after didn't work. Not valid system disk or Windows System errors where all I get.

Finally I did this steps

Boot from Leo4All DVD, completely reinstalled EFI, gptsync.

Leopard boots ok, EFI partition is hidden (appears as Microsft Reserved in Disk Utility)

NTFS partition wouldn't mount, disk utility shows it as Microsoft Reserved.

If i try to get into windows it starts to boot but I get a BSOD with the message UNMMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

 

I think the types of the partitions is wrong but don't know how to change them in GUID, maybe fdisk will do the trick?

This is the output I get when using "showpart" tool:

Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1             40       409639  MS Reserved
2         409640    419577375  Mac OS X HFS+
3      419839520    466901319  EFI System (FAT)
4      467163464    488134983  Mac OS X HFS+

Current MBR partition table:
# A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1              1           39  ee  EFI Protective
2 *           40       409639  0b  FAT32 (CHS)
3         409640    419577375  af  Mac OS X HFS+
4      419839520    466901319  ef  EFI System (FAT)

MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type MS Reserved
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type 0b  FAT32 (CHS), active

Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type af  Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 419839520:
Boot Code: Windows NTLDR
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type EFI System (FAT)
Listed in MBR as partition 4, type ef  EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 467163464:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Mac OS X HFS+

[ABH83]

Hi,

 

I can't seem to get passed the second screenshot. After I click my hard drive then click partition tab, drop down menu, partition 1, options: GUID partition table... nothing happens.

 

As I can tell from your first screenshot at the bottom of the disk utility window it says GUID partition table but on mine it says master boot record. Could this be the issue?

 

i have: Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 + PPF2] - For Intel and AMD/SSE2 or SSE3

 

and i used this howto to install it: http://######.com/index.php?option=...5&Itemid=32

 

 

thx in advance

[i_am...me]

No, should I try to fix this in a parted live CD or install rEFIt?

I've read somewhere about parted not being aware of flags set by EFI in GUID disk.

 

Thanks

 

EDIT: Well, I used gptsync from an Ubuntu LiveCD and now thing are most messed up than before.

The machine tries to boot into windows, shows an error and can only get to OS X if the installation DVD is on the drive.

Gonna try booting from the WinXP cd, fix mbr, redo the last step of the EFI installation and see what happens.

 

EDIT2: changing the flags with gparted with or without doing a gtpsync after didn't work. Not valid system disk or Windows System errors where all I get.

Finally I did this steps

Boot from Leo4All DVD, completely reinstalled EFI, gptsync.

Leopard boots ok, EFI partition is hidden (appears as Microsft Reserved in Disk Utility)

NTFS partition wouldn't mount, disk utility shows it as Microsoft Reserved.

If i try to get into windows it starts to boot but I get a BSOD with the message UNMMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

 

I think the types of the partitions is wrong but don't know how to change them in GUID, maybe fdisk will do the trick?

This is the output I get when using "showpart" tool:

Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1             40       409639  MS Reserved
2         409640    419577375  Mac OS X HFS+
3      419839520    466901319  EFI System (FAT)
4      467163464    488134983  Mac OS X HFS+

Current MBR partition table:
# A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1              1           39  ee  EFI Protective
2 *           40       409639  0b  FAT32 (CHS)
3         409640    419577375  af  Mac OS X HFS+
4      419839520    466901319  ef  EFI System (FAT)

MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type MS Reserved
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type 0b  FAT32 (CHS), active

Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type af  Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 419839520:
Boot Code: Windows NTLDR
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type EFI System (FAT)
Listed in MBR as partition 4, type ef  EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 467163464:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Mac OS X HFS+

Oh no. i was asking if you used it, not telling you to..

 

Im not sure how to fix this now...

Try the commands in terminal again.

 

 

Hi,

 

I can't seem to get passed the second screenshot. After I click my hard drive then click partition tab, drop down menu, partition 1, options: GUID partition table... nothing happens.

 

As I can tell from your first screenshot at the bottom of the disk utility window it says GUID partition table but on mine it says master boot record. Could this be the issue?

 

i have: Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 + PPF2] - For Intel and AMD/SSE2 or SSE3

 

and i used this howto to install it: http://######.com/index.php?option=...5&Itemid=32

thx in advance

Umm you have to click apply ?

[ABH83]

Oh no. i was asking if you used it, not telling you to..

 

Im not sure how to fix this now...

Try the commands in terminal again.

 

 

 

Umm you have to click apply ?

 

 

its grayed out i cant click apply.

[ABH83]

every thing is grayed out. i have the feeling i'm doing something very sill?

[i_am...me]

every thing is grayed out. i have the feeling i'm doing something very sill?

Are you booted off that drive?

[ABH83]

uhmm... lol yes! I must've been sleeping. Gotta get used to the fact that mac os x is running off my external drive!

 

So what can i do instead? I could boot from the DVD but how would access the zip file?

[Diegus83]

uhmm... lol yes! I must've been sleeping. Gotta get used to the fact that mac os x is running off my external drive!

 

So what can i do instead? I could boot from the DVD but how would access the zip file?

Unzip the file in a pendrive or an iPod, in my case I've to boot from the DVD with the pendrive plugged in or otherwise it wont mount.

Then you just open the console an CD /Volumes/NAME_OF_YOUR_PENDRIVE/

Make sure your drive is unmounted before you leave Disk Utility as stated in the first post.

 

Sorry if you don't understand something, I'm trying to help but my english is bad.

[ABH83]

Unzip the file in a pendrive or an iPod, in my case I've to boot from the DVD with the pendrive plugged in or otherwise it wont mount.

Then you just open the console an CD /Volumes/NAME_OF_YOUR_PENDRIVE/

Make sure your drive is unmounted before you leave Disk Utility as stated in the first post.

 

Sorry if you don't understand something, I'm trying to help but my english is bad.

 

thx will give this a try as soon as possible. And don't worry your english is actually quite good!

[i_am...me]

Unzip the file in a pendrive or an iPod, in my case I've to boot from the DVD with the pendrive plugged in or otherwise it wont mount.

Then you just open the console an CD /Volumes/NAME_OF_YOUR_PENDRIVE/

Make sure your drive is unmounted before you leave Disk Utility as stated in the first post.

 

Sorry if you don't understand something, I'm trying to help but my english is bad.

Couldnt have said it better myself!

 

Thanks for helpin

[donmarconi]

Thank you i_am...me for the great guide!

I installed EFI with your instructions, retail Leopard, and Windows XP64.

Question is should I have boot camp fancy screen when I hold option or not. Because I followed your instructions for dual-boot and when I hold option it reports some errors about applesmbios.kext. I've put timeout string in com.apple.boot.plist and when I click boot options in darwin boot screen I can choose to boot into XP.

Is that how things supposed to work with your instructions or I can get Boot Camp screen (despite not having hardware efi)?

 

edit:

I found all explanations on netkas site, sry for bothering:)

[olav]

Hi, I've not been able to install xp x64 or vista x64, both of the installers complain that I have a GPT disk. I installed leopard from a retail image (first EFI v8), and then resized the HFS+ volume and created a windows volume using diskutil. I was able to format the FAT volume to NTFS in the vista installer as well but no install . Can I somehow check if I succeeded and got a hybrid GPT/MBR disk? diskutil list only states Microsoft Basic Data for the new volume. I have used the exact same procedure (except EFI v8 ) on my macbook and it worked very well.

 

Sorry, it works now! my mistake, I forgot to count the EFI partition, so I actually had 5 partitions, and as MBR only can handle 4 primary partitions the install cd didn't find my FAT partition. When I merged two partitions so the FAT partition became the fourth the install cd behaved normally!

[dodo]

after follow this guide

 

on retail install leopard

 

i got the HFS+ partition error

 

please help me fix this

 

i have done the partition active guide but after that i get the b0 error

 

 

this is my system info

 

SYSTEM BOARD : D975XBX2

CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz

MEM : DDR2 800

VIDEO : Nvidia 8600 GT 512mb

HD : 1 Segate 320gb

DVD : LG DVD burner

[jin katama]

hello friend

 

i am totally confused about mac installation may i known what these lines are for

 

cd /Volumes/123/pc_efi_v72
./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1

 

ok what ever it may be please tell me the easiest way to install mac os x leapord my resources

 

(i am new born baby with mac )

 

Mac book pre-installed mac OS x leopard (with Mac OS x 2 DVD)

 

My pc

Configuration

ECS 945GCT-m2 Mother board

Core 2 duo 2.22

1 GB DDR Ram

160 GB HDD SATA

160 GB HDD ATA

 

and i have a 2 GB pen drive

 

please help

 

 

[manutd.vn]

My PC:

CPU: Core 2 Duo E4500

Mainboard: Gigabyte G31M-S2L

Ram: DDR2 800

VGA ATI HD X1550 VRam 256Mb

Sound: Realtek ALC 662 :Work

HDD: Samsung SATA 160Gb

 

 

I have setup Leopard 10.5.5 of iDeneb teams, but when i open System profiler, in Graphic/Display, i see

- CI: Software

- QE: Not supported

When i setup iDeneb, when i costume i don't click any kennel, plz help me

[Iman07]

can someone show me where i can get the 9.6 vanilla kernel? im still running at 9.4. thanks!

[RSN]

Great work!!!

 

One note, for Intel mobo, it appears you MUST flag the partition active or it will NOT BOOT DIRECTLY (can via GRUB). Need to do the boot -s fdisk -e /dev/rdiskxsy f 1 w q drill. Ive done this with 4 different machines Intel (neither booted without the activating the partition) and one laptop toshiba Qosmio(which didnt need it) and Retail 10.5.5 from a Macbook new model (Dec 2008).

 

Great work!!!

 

One note, for Intel mobo, it appears you MUST flag the partition active or it will NOT BOOT DIRECTLY (can via GRUB). Need to do the boot -s fdisk -e /dev/rdiskxsy f 1 w q drill. Ive done this with 4 different machines Intel (neither booted without the activating the partition) and one laptop toshiba Qosmio(which didnt need it) and Retail 10.5.5 from a Macbook new model (Dec 2008).

[buglis]

Can i use this guide to install efi 9?

[mexifelio]

hi guys,

great tutorial!

 

One thing that can maybe be added to the tutorial when using a thumb drive:

I was able to get everything going until I rebooted after the install

I was getting the error saying that there was an error booting from the drive

 

it turns out that there was no active partition set

 

i'm not sure if this is an assumed step, or just something that i had to do (i followed the guide exactly)

 

anyways, these steps worked for me (thank you for poster on earlier pages)

 

restart the computer

boot of dvd with the option -s (to bring up terminal)

 

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX

p (this will show you the list of partitions)

f 1 (activating this partition is what got everything working for me, you may need to activate a different one depending on if you add or changed your partitions, i only made 1 as the guide showed)

w

reboot

 

maybe this can be added to the guide to help other people having the same issues after install?

 

Thanks again!!!