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Sep 2, 2011 4:12 PM. Running SL partition after installing Lion. I have a macbook pro 2010 and upgraded to lion. Then i made an extra partition with disk utility for snow leopard. I had some problems with installing snow leopard, so I put my Macbook pro in Firewire mode and used another macbook to install Snow leopard on my macbook pro.
When you install Windows on a hard drive, it automatically sets the partition scheme of your hard drive to MBR (Master Boot Record). Unfortunately, Mac OS X doesn't support that partition scheme, so you usually have to erase your entire hard drive, including your Windows install, before you can begin Hackintoshing with it. However, it's possible to install OS X on a hard drive without erasing Windows, by using., a popular alternative to iBoot, modifies parts of the retail Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD so that you can install custom Hackintosh tweaks from within the Mac OS X installer, just like Mac 'distros' (except that ModCD is legal).
This includes changing 'OSInstall.mpkg', the installer inside the Snow Leopard DVD, so that it supports hard drives with a MBR partition scheme. This means that you can install Mac OS X on a hard drive that already has Windows on it.
Requirements:. A compatible computer: Not every computer will work with Mac OS X, even with the help of tools like ModCD and Multibeast. Be sure to read the very carefully, to check whether or not your computer qualifies.
Enough hard drive space: Though most Hackintosh guides recommend using an empty hard drive, for this guide, you can use a hard drive that already has Windows installed on it. Just make sure there's enough empty space in the hard drive to fit Mac OS X. I personally recommend at least 100 GB, though 20 GB is around the bare minimum. ($20): The method used by this guide requires the retail DVD for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. (Free): ModCD is a boot CD that allows you to boot the retail Snow Leopard DVD. To burn ModCD onto a CD, you need an empty CD and a CD/DVD/Bluray drive that can burn CDs (just about every drive can burn CDs nowadays).
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(Free - 500 MB): Optional; you can update Mac OS X after you finish the initial installation with ModCD. Your Hackintosh probably won't have internet after your initial installation, so you probably want to download this update onto the extra USB drive. (Free - 22 MB): Multibeast is a collection of that your Hackintosh will need to run properly, after the initial installation. Download it onto a USB drive, along with the combo update. You need to register an account on tonymacx86.com to download Multibeast. Be sure to download the Snow Leopard edition, not the Lion edition.
Create a hard drive partition for Mac OS X Boot into Windows Vista or Windows 7, and type 'partition' into your Start Menu search bar. Choose 'Create and Format hard drive partitions' to open the Disk Management utility in Windows. You will see a bar displaying the partitions in your hard drive.
Right-click on the emptiest partition in the hard drive that you want to install OS X on, and click 'Shrink'. This will allow you to shrink the size of that partition, so that you have extra space on your hard drive to create a new partition for Mac OS X. For details, check out. Using ModCD to run your Mac OS X Retail Installation Disk You will need to burn ModCD onto a CD. On Windows 7 and Mac OS X, burning capabilities are built-in to the operating system- just insert an empty CD into your DVD/Bluray drive, right-click on the ModCD file, and burn it.
If you're using Windows XP or Vista, you will need to use a program such as. It's time to begin. Turn off your soon-to-be Hackintosh. Insert ModCD into the DVD/Bluray drive, and boot the computer. You should come up to a screen with the nawcom logo on top. Don't do anything yet. Once ModCD detects the DVD, press the enter/return key on your keyboard to select the installation DVD.
Some new text will appear on ModCD screen. Press any key on your keyboard to continue to the next step, where ModCD will start the Mac OS X installer (this could take a while). In the worst case scenarios, instead of loading the Mac OS X installer, you may end up at a dark gray screen that tells you to restart your computer (a kernel panic), or you may end up with a small crossed-out sign (a loading error). If you get a kernel panic/loading error (or if the Mac OS X installer simply won't start within 30 minutes), you'll need to enter some boot flags. To enter boot flags, first put ModCD back into your Bluray/DVD drive and manually restart your computer by pressing your computer's power button. Then, once you're reinserted the Snow Leopard install DVD and pressed F5 to refresh the ModCD menu, try before pressing the enter/return key.
Check out this list of for reference (PCIRootUID=1 -v -x is one popular combination of boot flags). Installing OSX Normally, the installation screen will be loaded within a few minutes (5-10 minutes for me). You will eventually come up to a page that asks you for a 'destination' for your Mac install. Oh no, the page is blank! We'll have to fix that. To do this, start up Disk Utility (located under the Utilities menu in the top bar). On the installation page for Mac OSX, the hard disk partition that you erased should now be showing up (if you hadn't used ModCD, the hard disk partition would have been marked as unavailable).
Select it and continue to the Install Summary page. Click the 'Customize' button on the bottom left of the Install Summary screen, and uncheck everything under the CUSTOMOPTIONS section.
These are extra drivers and configuration files that are added by ModCD. Unless you're 100% sure that your Hackintosh will need these, it's simpler and easier just to install this stuff later on in the process, with Multibeast. The only exception is if you are using an AMD processor (in which case, install the Legacy Kernel). Install OS X. The process takes me 20-30 minutes. Once done, the computer will reboot. Place ModCD back in the DVD drive. This time, instead of ejecting ModCD and inserting the Snow Leopard DVD, use your keyboard's arrow keys to select your hard drive with Snow Leopard installed, from the ModCD menu.
Press the enter/return key to boot the hard drive. If the installation doesn't boot within 30 minutes, try (you may have to enter different boot flags this time). Post-Installation: Updating and Multibeast You have now installed Mac OS X.
But you're not done yet. In order to get everything working right on your Hackintosh, you'll have to do some post-installation, by updating Mac OS X and installing some extra drivers and configuration files with Multibeast.
For more details, check out.
6.1.0 / August 10, 2016; 2 years ago ( 2016-08-10) for Website Boot Camp Assistant is a included with 's that assists users in installing on computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive (including resizing of an existing partition, if necessary) of their or and installation of Windows for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a for selecting the boot operating system. Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for, the utility was first introduced with and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since. Previous versions of Boot Camp supported,. Boot Camp 4.0 for up to version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7.
However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for in version 10.8.3, only versions of and are officially supported. Boot Camp 6.0 added support for. Boot Camp 6.1, available on and later, will only accept new installations of Windows 7 and later; this requirement was upgraded to requiring Windows 10 for. This article's may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( January 2019) Setting up on a Mac requires a USB flash drive and the of Windows 10 provided by Microsoft. Boot Camp reformats the flash drive as a Mac bootable install disk, and combines Windows 10 with install scripts to load hardware drivers for the targeted Mac computer.
Boot Camp currently supports Windows 10 on a range of Macs dated mid-2012 or newer. Startup Disk By default, Mac will always boot from the last-used startup disk. Holding down the (⌥) at startup brings up the, which allows the user to choose which operating system to start the device in. When using a non-Apple keyboard, the usually performs the same action. The boot manager can also be launched by holding down the “menu” button on the at startup. On older Macs, its functionality relies on emulation through and a partition table information synchronization mechanism between and combined.
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