Obsessed with Mac? Install XP with Mac OSX dual boot

This post is dedicated to all those disheartened souls who are very much obsessed with the creativity of Mac but couldn't afford to buy one because of reasons unexplained. Atleast I couldn't afford to by Mac Air inspite of it being the most wanted model. With the launch of Leopard OSX, Apple provides a brief respite for all the Mac lovers. By adapting its software to x86 architecture, Apple thus supports its software to run on x86 supported hardware.

To put it in short, now one can install any kind (Linux/Windows) of OS on Apple Mac Books and install Mac OS X on any kind of hardware with dual boot or triple boot facility.

After much struggle, I put down this guide to for all Mac lovers to install OSX on their laptops.

This guide is strictly for INTEL 32-bit Processors only. I have not tried installing OSX on other processors.

I strongly suggest you to backup your Primary Partition (like C Drive) with some tools like Symantec Ghost before proceeding any further. If you miss any one of the steps listed below you may screw up your master boot record and may end up with two non-working Operating Systems installed on your system.

What all you need:

1) Some kind of Ghost software to back up your primary drive
2) Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD (Either download it from torrents or you can have it from me)
3) GParted Live CD (download the first one)
4) One blank DVD and one blank CD/USB Memory Stick
5) A bootable WinXP CD (only if any thing goes wrong)

Disclaimer: (Pasted as is from wiki.osx86project.org)

I am NOT responsible for anything that happens to your system. This is a relatively easy process, but if you mess up with the partitioning you could POTENTIALLY cause damage to your drive! Follow these instructions to the letter and you should be fine, BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT FILES! Don't mess around with the install!

Don't let that put you off though, having one of these is a great experience.
If you enjoy the final outcome, consider donating to the Kalyway team or even more importantly, buy a license. (Ofcourse we will never do that.. ;))

Note: I did not backup my files, screwed up my MBR and had to format my primary drive. So I strongly suggest you to backup your important files.

Installation Process:

**I assume you have a fully functional Windows XP istalled on your laptop.

**Create a new partition for installing OSX. Make sure the new partition is also a primary partition (primary but not active partition)

**Make sure you are installing OSX on a primary partition but not extended partition

OS X Install

1. Now we get to the cooler part of the install. Put your Kalyway 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.
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 are going to install OS X on. Make sure the partition you select is not your Windows
10. partition. You can make sure of this by checking the file format of the partition in the bottom-left portion of the window.
11. Once you have the correct partition selected press the tab that reads ‘Erase’.
12. 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 &.
13. Press Erase and press it again in the pop-up.
14. Close out of the Disk Utility by clicking on the red button in the top left corner of the window.
15. You’ll now see that you are returned to the Welcome screen. Click Continue and agree to the Licence.
16. In the Installation destination screen select the partition you just made. Click Continue.
17. Now click the customize button.
18. 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!
19. Close the customization window.
20. Click Install. (You can skip the media check if you wish.)
21. At this point depending on the amount of RAM you have, and the speed of your processor, The install can take almost 15 mins.

Boot Loader Configuration

1. After the Installation has completed, restart your computer with the Gparted Live CD in the drive.
2. Press enter for all the defaults whenit asks. (Unless, of coarse, you have a different keyboard layout.)
3. When the graphical interface is done loading, find your Windows partition (it will be formated 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.

Congratulations! You should now see an option to boot XP or Mac OSX 86! Choose which one you would like and boot.

If you are having trouble leave a comment and I’ll help!

For complete details please go through the link pasted below. The credits go to the original content writer.

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