Olaw2jr
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It requires patience. I dual booted Windows 7 and Snow leopard successfully. OK so here goes:
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I booted from disc, installed, and many time i got "you have to restart your pc..". This is a kernel panic. Here are steps taken to prevent this and install and dual boot successfully
-BACK UP YOUR DATA !!
-Burn dvd using any iso burner or if in windows 7, just double click and burn
-Boot from CD
-Press any key quick
-Screen goes to apple logo, installation screen appears.
-ON top bar, click utilities and click disk utility.
-click on your hard drive name on left panel.
click partition. Under partition, click drop down list and choose 2 partitions. Type a names for your partitons and size them accordingly. (The 2nd partition is for windows 7).
-Choose 1st partition. under format, choose mac os extended journaled. click options, choose GUID table, click ok.
-Choose 2nd partition, under format, choose NTFS. click options, choose master boot record.
-Finally click erase. This will partition your hdd making it ready for dual boot.
-Turn off pc. i think click 1st tab, exit disk utility. click it again, shut down. or just hold power button 5 seconds.
-Boot from Windows 7 DVD and install to 3rd partition. (Mac created 2 partition for itself, these will show as unknown)
-Pc will now boot to windows 7.
-Power off and reboot from this snow leopard hazard dvd.
-repeat steps to reach installation screen.
-click next until u see the customize button appear on the left. click it too choose various options.
-Now this is the tricky part. ONLY u know what your system specs are. Take note of any IDE drives, ps/2 keyboards/mice, Processors older than Core 2 duos, AMD processors, etc that u have. My only problem was my IDE hdd. Use google to know which kexts u need. The main ones are chameleon etc. NOTE: Dont choose legacy kernel drivers as you may not need them. Also, I have not tried ticking all options but this is corrupt installation as drivers may clash. I cant say which drivers you may need/not need.
-After choosing drivers, OK, Click drive, Install
-Boot from Windows 7 DVD and install to 3rd partition. (Mac created 2 partition for itself, these will show as unknown)
-Pc will now boot to windows 7.
-Power off and reboot from this snow leopard hazard dvd.
-repeat steps to reach installation screen.
-click next until u see the customize button appear on the left. click it too choose various options.
-Now this is the tricky part. ONLY u know what your system specs are. Take note of any IDE drives, ps/2 keyboards/mice, Processors older than Core 2 duos, AMD processors, etc that u have. My only problem was my IDE hdd. Use google to know which kexts u need. The main ones are chameleon etc. NOTE: Dont choose legacy kernel drivers as you may not need them. Also, I have not tried ticking all options but this is corrupt installation as drivers may clash. I cant say which drivers you may need/not need.
-After choosing drivers, OK, Click drive, Install
-Installation takes about 6-10minutes. Pc will reboot automatically.
-You will be rebooted into chameleon bootloader and after 3 seconds it will automatically boot mac. If all went well, you will see an apple with and then mac setup menu appears. If not, you will get the "your pc needs to reboot error" like me many times right after apple.
-Reboot and at bootloader, quickly hit any key to pause timer. You should see 2 options, Snow leopard and Windows
7. Type darkwake=0 and at the bottom of the screen, you will see bootloader: darkwake=0 appear. Hit enter too boot mac. It will boot as normal but instead of the reboot error msg, you will see a kernel panic code. Wait till you see a kernel panic appear. look for the line where it says someting about kernel dependancy and a something.kext.
-how to delete kext: Boot up to bootloader, pause, and type -v and hit enter. wait till you see root# .
-Use google to find a guide to delete the kext in particular.
-Reboot into bootloader and allow mac to boot. hopefully if all went well, you should see account setup screen
Thats all advice I can come up with for now. Please note that this will not be easy. You are installing an OS not made for a PC onto a PC. Problems will happen as apple has not accounted for all the different combination of specs of pcs out there in the world.
Good Luck, I hoped it helped a bit !!!!
Download link
I booted from disc, installed, and many time i got "you have to restart your pc..". This is a kernel panic. Here are steps taken to prevent this and install and dual boot successfully
-BACK UP YOUR DATA !!
-Burn dvd using any iso burner or if in windows 7, just double click and burn
-Boot from CD
-Press any key quick
-Screen goes to apple logo, installation screen appears.
-ON top bar, click utilities and click disk utility.
-click on your hard drive name on left panel.
click partition. Under partition, click drop down list and choose 2 partitions. Type a names for your partitons and size them accordingly. (The 2nd partition is for windows 7).
-Choose 1st partition. under format, choose mac os extended journaled. click options, choose GUID table, click ok.
-Choose 2nd partition, under format, choose NTFS. click options, choose master boot record.
-Finally click erase. This will partition your hdd making it ready for dual boot.
-Turn off pc. i think click 1st tab, exit disk utility. click it again, shut down. or just hold power button 5 seconds.
-Boot from Windows 7 DVD and install to 3rd partition. (Mac created 2 partition for itself, these will show as unknown)
-Pc will now boot to windows 7.
-Power off and reboot from this snow leopard hazard dvd.
-repeat steps to reach installation screen.
-click next until u see the customize button appear on the left. click it too choose various options.
-Now this is the tricky part. ONLY u know what your system specs are. Take note of any IDE drives, ps/2 keyboards/mice, Processors older than Core 2 duos, AMD processors, etc that u have. My only problem was my IDE hdd. Use google to know which kexts u need. The main ones are chameleon etc. NOTE: Dont choose legacy kernel drivers as you may not need them. Also, I have not tried ticking all options but this is corrupt installation as drivers may clash. I cant say which drivers you may need/not need.
-After choosing drivers, OK, Click drive, Install
-Boot from Windows 7 DVD and install to 3rd partition. (Mac created 2 partition for itself, these will show as unknown)
-Pc will now boot to windows 7.
-Power off and reboot from this snow leopard hazard dvd.
-repeat steps to reach installation screen.
-click next until u see the customize button appear on the left. click it too choose various options.
-Now this is the tricky part. ONLY u know what your system specs are. Take note of any IDE drives, ps/2 keyboards/mice, Processors older than Core 2 duos, AMD processors, etc that u have. My only problem was my IDE hdd. Use google to know which kexts u need. The main ones are chameleon etc. NOTE: Dont choose legacy kernel drivers as you may not need them. Also, I have not tried ticking all options but this is corrupt installation as drivers may clash. I cant say which drivers you may need/not need.
-After choosing drivers, OK, Click drive, Install
-Installation takes about 6-10minutes. Pc will reboot automatically.
-You will be rebooted into chameleon bootloader and after 3 seconds it will automatically boot mac. If all went well, you will see an apple with and then mac setup menu appears. If not, you will get the "your pc needs to reboot error" like me many times right after apple.
-Reboot and at bootloader, quickly hit any key to pause timer. You should see 2 options, Snow leopard and Windows
7. Type darkwake=0 and at the bottom of the screen, you will see bootloader: darkwake=0 appear. Hit enter too boot mac. It will boot as normal but instead of the reboot error msg, you will see a kernel panic code. Wait till you see a kernel panic appear. look for the line where it says someting about kernel dependancy and a something.kext.
-how to delete kext: Boot up to bootloader, pause, and type -v and hit enter. wait till you see root# .
-Use google to find a guide to delete the kext in particular.
-Reboot into bootloader and allow mac to boot. hopefully if all went well, you should see account setup screen
Thats all advice I can come up with for now. Please note that this will not be easy. You are installing an OS not made for a PC onto a PC. Problems will happen as apple has not accounted for all the different combination of specs of pcs out there in the world.
Good Luck, I hoped it helped a bit !!!!
