Install OSX Tiger on Intel Machines (or USB Drives) Using Only Windows Software

Contributed by OSX86

August 14, 2005

Tagged: Apple Mac

Many of the guides for installing OSX Tiger are complicated and use linux. You can install OSX using public-domain free windows only tools. Leopard instructions and links included as well.

If you wish to install OSX tiger to your intel machine or usb drive, you can follow these few steps. Be careful because you can kill your hard drive if you are not careful.

You will need either a seperate hard drive (seperate partition will not do) or an external hard drive. Whatever extra hard drive you use will be completely replaced by osx and you will lose all information on that drive.

1. Authorized users should obtain the OSX files from Apple. It is illegal to obtain them from torrent sites by searching under the following keywords: “VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel”
2. Unrar these files to the root of your C: drive
3. Download Forensic Acquisition Utilities
4. Unzip these files and copy dd.exe to the root of c: drive as well

Note: the dd.exe program is used to write the image to your spare hard drive or external hard drive. The command is the following:

dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDriveSomething

PhysicalDriveSomething should be replaced with your real physicaldrive (PhysicalDrive1, PhysicalDrive2, etc.). What your hard drives or usb drives are labelled is not always obvious. So I use WMI to figure this out. If you don’t need it, don’t get it. It’s free… and it may prevent you from killing your wrong hard drive.

5. Download WMI Tools from Microsoft
6. Open WMI Browser Object
7. Allow block content and click the OKs until it loads
8. Select Win32_SystemPartitions.PartComponent in the left column
9. In the right column right-click on the drive device id (Disk #0, Partition #0, etc) and select Go to Object
10. The device window will open and click the associations tab
11. Exploring with this tool you should be able to match drive letters (Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=”C:”) to each physicaldisk reference (Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID=”\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0″)

Click for larger version:

12. Now that you know the physicaldrive label for your extra internal or external drive, you can drop to the root of your c: drive and run the command. Be sure to replace the physicaldrive text with the physical drive you determined above. If you use the wrong one, you will erase your primary hard drive.

dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDrive

13. The command will appear to hang but you will notice your extra harddrive cranking away. It’s going to do this for 15min to hours. Just let it run.
14. Once it is done, reboot and set the osx drive to your boot drive through your bios.
15. If your hardware is compatable, you should boot to OSX.

If you need to debug, I recommend these forums.

This wiki is also excellent:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Leopard OS X on Intel Install Here:

http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/seamonkey420/2007/10/28/apples-leopard-already-hacked-for-pc/

http://forum.osx86scene.com/

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Anonymous

So far it's the best guide for Windows users I've seen.

dd can be downloaded on it's own: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite...

Looks like concretesurf.co.nz couln't withstand all the trafic and collapsed.

The title is a bit misleading - there's no need for a USB drive.

OSX86

Thanks for the information and the nice comments!

I am not sure how to edit my original recipe, but I give permission to the editors to update the recipe and/or change the title as they see fit.

I believe the forums noted above are back up now.

Anonymous

When I first start up dd.exe within the Forensic Acquisition Utilities, I get the following message:
Copying CONIN$ to CONOUT$...

Then when I try to input the command "dd if=c:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1" (without the quotes of course), I get this message in return:
F:dd.exe: CONIN$ <offset 0xffffffffffffffff>: Bad file descriptor

If anyone can tell me what's going on it would be greatly appreciated =D thanks!

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>oblivinated wrote:</h6>When I first start up dd.exe within the Forensic Acquisition Utilities, I get the following message:
Copying CONIN$ to CONOUT$...

Then when I try to input the command "dd if=c:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1" (without the quotes of course), I get this message in return:
F:dd.exe: CONIN$ <offset 0xffffffffffffffff>: Bad file descriptor

If anyone can tell me what's going on it would be greatly appreciated =D thanks!</ul>

Got the same problem, please help.

OSX86

Are you using the files from the Forensic Acquisition UnicodeRelease folder? Those are the ones that I used... and it worked fine for me.

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>OSX86 wrote:</h6>Are you using the files from the Forensic Acquisition UnicodeRelease folder? Those are the ones that I used... and it worked fine for me.</ul>

I have the same problem. Is the dd-command supposed to show copying CONIN$ to CONOUT$ ? Also, why should the dd.exe by copyed to the C:? Have tried to copy content of the UnicodeRelease folder to C: and run dd.exe from there, but that didn't work either :(.

Please some advice :D

Edit: well I figured that one out pretty soon. I started up ms-dos prompt and changed directory cd c:binunicoderelease. Ran the dd-command from the prompt and things seem to be working fine :)

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>Sheik_YerBouti wrote:</h6>Edit: well I figured that one out pretty soon. I started up ms-dos prompt and changed directory cd c:binunicoderelease. Ran the dd-command from the prompt and things seem to be working fine :)</ul>

still won´t get it to work :x

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>hardheid wrote:</h6></ul><ul id="quote"><h6>Sheik_YerBouti wrote:</h6>Edit: well I figured that one out pretty soon. I started up ms-dos prompt and changed directory cd c:binunicoderelease. Ran the dd-command from the prompt and things seem to be working fine :)</ul>

still won´t get it to work :x

What kinda error you're getting?

Btw..anyone know how to bypass/reset the password for the User?

Anonymous

Is this just a geek thing, or really a practical trouble free operating system for PCs?
I am a Mac geek, and am considering picking up a inexpensive laptop for my son and converting to OSX. Is it easy or troublesome?
Is it stable?
Will we be able to update, or will apple figure out a wat to stop future cracks? - it seems like this will be a major blow to apple if they don't?
Thanks in advance for your feedback,
D

Anonymous

I think did everything to the letter... Darwin loads fine, but when OS X tries to start, it asks me to restart the computer. Did I do anything wrong?

NOTES:
200GB USB hard drive
Found the files here

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>redwood wrote:</h6>Is this just a geek thing, or really a practical trouble free operating system for PCs?
I am a Mac geek, and am considering picking up a inexpensive laptop for my son and converting to OSX. Is it easy or troublesome?
Is it stable?
Will we be able to update, or will apple figure out a wat to stop future cracks? - it seems like this will be a major blow to apple if they don't?
Thanks in advance for your feedback,
D</ul>

The steps that are shown in this instruction worked fine for me. OSX runs very smoothly and stable on my PC (Dell dimension 5000; 3GhzP4; 1Gig RAM) but doesn't install drivers for my GeForce 6800 so I'm stuck at 1024*768 while my display should run 1600*1200. Can't change these display settings either. Safari runs very good but I had problems getting Office 2004 to work, prolly cause it's still PowerPC-based.

So I guess it's kinda a geek thing but I'm sure new releases will fix current issues. I've got 2 Macs so I just wanted to try this out :)

Btw..password for deadmoo is bovinity.

OSX86

<ul id="quote"><h6>redwood wrote:</h6>Is this just a geek thing, or really a practical trouble free operating system for PCs?
I am a Mac geek, and am considering picking up a inexpensive laptop for my son and converting to OSX. Is it easy or troublesome?
Is it stable?
Will we be able to update, or will apple figure out a wat to stop future cracks? - it seems like this will be a major blow to apple if they don't?
Thanks in advance for your feedback,
D</ul>

It is totally a geek thing. Doing this for actual real world use would be evil. Apple designs great OS and hardware... don't rip money out of their pockets.

Anyhoo... even if you get it stable, it's not near as stable as a typical installation of OSX or apple.

Don't get me wrong, it's fun as heck...

Anonymous

It's a geek thing for now. There are no drivers for most devices and no programs compiled for osx x86. There will be eventually though.

I used standalone dd and it worked. It will not work on my computers though cause the processors don't have SSE2, let alone SSE3. AMD have it starting from Venice I believe - so won't work on Athlon XP AFAIK. To check if your processor has sse3 use cpu-z
http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php (look under Instructions field).
I think user password is [edit] "bovinity". Look in the forums that the original recipe linked to.

Anonymous

i have the same problem the other guys wrote about
CONIN$ <offset 0xffffffffffffffff>: Bad file descriptor

i tried changing the cd but it didnt work. :(
please help and thanks in advance

Anonymous

Yep. I tried the cd method, but once I try to input the command I still recieve the "bad file descriptor" error. Can't wait to install this and any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated!

Edit:
I was able to get OS X x86 up and running on my spare machine by following the guide from here (without linux!). Remember to download the dd from the given website and use the cd method to get it to work. Goodluck all!

Anonymous

I also copied the Diskio.dll from dd directory to the C: - it sounds like a possible cause.

"...io" as in input/output I guess.

Anonymous

i was having the same problem... to fix it, i used i did this... first off download the standalone dd at http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.... Then extract the files to C: (and of course make sure that the tiger-x9-flat.img is in there too) after that, open up cmd by going to run and typing cmd... then in cmd type c:dd.exe if=c:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.replace with your physical drive

Anonymous

Ok the recipe worked fine and i have change my boot drive in bios

but when i get to the darwin boot screen i get the follwoing error

Error Parsaing PList fileLoding Darwin/x86

what does this mean is my hardware not compatable or have i done somthing wrong

thanks for your help

treeb :?

Anonymous

Which dd.exe does the author refer to? There are two dd.exes in the folder, one under unicoderelease at 56.0 Kb, and one under unicodedebug at 128 KB. Which one?

OSX86

<ul id="quote"><h6>motleyrik2 wrote:</h6>Which dd.exe does the author refer to? There are two dd.exes in the folder, one under unicoderelease at 56.0 Kb, and one under unicodedebug at 128 KB. Which one?</ul>

unicode release.

Anonymous

Why After I use dd to make the img into a harddisk. When I boot the computer with that harddisk, it said it is not a boot up disk. And in Windows, When I try to click into that harddisk. It said it is not well formatted.

What's wrong with me?

I've followed all the steps in the install tutorial.

Thank you very much.

PS: my comptuer: 2.4 Ghz P4, 768mb ram.

Anonymous

I feel like seriously yelling at the inventer of this GENIUS idea of installing OSX using this method. It killed my 40gb maxtor hard drive. i know it gave me a warning that this might happen... but this is ridiculous. if the risk is that high and 90% of the people are getting the same error and not a single answer has been provided by the website itself, maybe it should be taken off the site as a possible installation method. i got that generic error that everyone has been getting about that "Bad file descriptor" so i looked through the posts for a solution, i found someone who said they fixed the error. it was something about downloading a dif. version of dd.exe and using cmd. so i got past that annoying error and the .img copying completed just like the instructions said. but after a simple reboot the 40gb hard drive sieced to be able to be read by my computer and would of course not boot to the long covetted OSX. i typed this entire thing for you just to give you a scenario of what might happen to you guys. just wait for the real pirated DVD of Tiger for Intel to hit Bittorrent :wink:. so take my advice and dont do this!

OSX86

You haven't lost anything. You can reformat your drive and use it for your windows box again.

If you can't get it to boot using this method, then it is unlikely that the DVD method will work either. The DVD method being developed is to make installation easier. OSX either works with your hardware or it doesn't. The type of installation used doesn't matter.

Now quit whining and go play with your toys.

Anonymous

Where do you go to type the command?

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>motleyrik2 wrote:</h6>Where do you go to type the command?</ul>

Start>Run>CMD

If the default directory isn't C:, type CD
Then type the command

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I have a question for anyone that can help me....

I have gotten it all installed and whatnot, but when I try to boot, it loads to a white screen with the apple logo, and the little circle below the logo just goes around forever( (I left it for 10+ minutes). Does this mean that my hardware is not compatible, or is it something else?

Thanks in advance,
Xboxmodder999

OSX86

<ul id="quote"><h6>Xboxmodder999 wrote:</h6>

I have a question for anyone that can help me....

I have gotten it all installed and whatnot, but when I try to boot, it loads to a white screen with the apple logo, and the little circle below the logo just goes around forever( (I left it for 10+ minutes). Does this mean that my hardware is not compatible, or is it something else?

Thanks in advance,
Xboxmodder999</ul>

When the boot screen comes up, hit any key to show the options. Then boot with -x -v

-x puts you in safe mode
-v puts you in verbose mode (to see why you are hanging)

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>OSX86 wrote:</h6>

When the boot screen comes up, hit any key to show the options. Then boot with -x -v

-x puts you in safe mode
-v puts you in verbose mode (to see why you are hanging)</ul>

Ok, heres what I tried.

If I do both options at the same time, it goes through some data, then at the bottom it says " Configuring kernal extensions for safe mode" then list 6 things, and each says "illegal instruction" After that. it just sits there, never going to the white screen with the apple logo.

If I use just option -x, it does the same thing as I mentioned in my first post(hangs at white screen).

If I use just option -v, it goes through all the data stuff then says "Configuring kernal extensions" and then list's 5-6 things, and each says "illegal instructions". Then sits there, never going to the white screen.

If you need to know exactly what each of the "illegal instructions" are, I'll be glad to post them here.

OSX86

Sounds like unsupported hardware to me.

Try going through your bios and disabling an extras--on-board audio, sub, etc.

Anonymous

Does anyone have a list of which apps are able to run on OSX86?

So far it sounds like Safari.. and.. well, not a whole lot else.

+

Anonymous

Hi All,

I was able to get OSX86 to boot but it stops and asks me to reboot (many of you have seen this) and I tried -x for safe mode, and it doesn't make a difference. I used -v to see what it is getting stuck on, and this is the last thing that loads:

Waiting for remote debugger connection.
kdp_poll: no debugger device

Then it hangs...

I am loading this off of a USB 2.0 hard drive booting from USB in the bios on a Dell XPS GEN2 notebook. Anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks!

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>trait wrote:</h6>Does anyone have a list of which apps are able to run on OSX86?

So far it sounds like Safari.. and.. well, not a whole lot else.

+</ul>

If you visit this site: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/The... You will see that you can patch your SSE2 install to run all programs normally.

Anonymous

I've got a question regarding booting from a usb drive. I have a usb hard drive (maxtor) that has been configured with an osx86 image yet I've run into a problem booting from usb.

I've gone into my bios on both machines (one of which is only 2 months old) and there is no option to boot from USB. I have searched google for a solution and tried using the "ultimate boot cd" to no avail.

Any suggestions?

OSX86

If you bios is really that new, then you are likely just missing it.

Check in your bios under hard drives... many bios systems just read a usb drive as another hard drive. If so, just change the order of your drives to boot to the usb drive first.

Anonymous

I was finally able to get osx runnung, but i'm forced to use safe mode (booting with "-x -v"). How can I find out what is causing the problems. How do I know what patches I need?

Anonymous

I'm also having the "you must restart you computer" issue... I've also tried -x and even -s and nothing works... the 1rst brings me another "you must restart you computer" message, and the 2nd just hangs the computer on a white-text-on-black screen.

Since I'm also installing it to a USB HDD maybe the problem is that tigerx86 does not run from USB HDD...

I have a AMD643000+ with MSI K8N Neo Motherboard, 1024RAM, ATI 9550.

Anonymous

well, tried with -v again and nothing although this time I noticed that my ATI 9550 is recognized as a 9600 PRO with 16MB RAM... could this be an issue?

The -v and -s hangs on something related to remote debug... just after something related to ethernet....

Anonymous

hello,

is it possible to run ie 5.x under OSX/Intel? Has anyone tried it? I need to install it to view and make some adjustments to a web page I created for a client. It doesn't display well in ie5 under MacOS (probably becuase ie5's float bug) and I'm desparate, because I don't have any access to MacOS. :-(

or perhaps anyone's got a better solution to my problem?

thank you and have a nice day,

=tropos=

Anonymous

i installed OSX on a seperate internal hard drive and it installed fine, but im having trouble booting to it.

Is there anythign i can do besides unplugging the 'C' drive so it has to boot of f of the other?

-thanks

OSX86

<ul id="quote"><h6>shriek wrote:</h6>
Since I'm also installing it to a USB HDD maybe the problem is that tigerx86 does not run from USB HDD...
</ul>

Yo. I wrote the recipe using osx on an intel machine USB HHD... it works if you have compatible hardware. Check the forums and wiki listed on the main recipe for debugging information.

Anonymous

Well, I checked th HLC and everything I have is compatible ... then maybe it is my USB Drive that's not working... it is a standard LaCie 2.5" 40GB UBS-HDD, HDD from toshiba.

I tried it on a Athlon XP 1500+ and it boots (rather quickly) but also stops on the "restart your computer" screen...

Is there any "hidden" boot comands I could use to try to get this work?

Anonymous

Wondering if anyhone can help me here.

I loaded the image onto my external USB drive according to the guide. But when I boot with the external drive all I see is a blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top left. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

thanks

Anonymous

Every step goes fine, but i keep getting the reply from cmd "PHYSICALDRIVE1 invalid argument"
can it be my harddrive? it is an old 4 gb quantum fireball se, fat32 formatted... what should i do? please help

Anonymous

Blinky Cursor problem here also... Not sure why... I've checked with a friend of mine... we did the "installs" side by side... the only difference is he is using a drive attached directly to his IDE, and I am using an external USB on my dell 700m. Anyone else come across the "Blinky cursor"?

~Jake

Anonymous

start/run

cmd.exe

enter

mountvol

enter

greets from vienna,
roman

Anonymous

I am unclear as to how this will help me in booting my device. I can't mount this device in windows if i am attempting to boot off it. Please explain...

~Jake

Anonymous

I've successfully installed the image on an external USB drive. It boots into the Darwin system. Then it askes me to enter boot options (like -x, -v)... but if I do like -x then it brings me back to the same darwin system. I can;t pass teh system. -x, -v, -s, -F... Nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?

Anonymous

In order to do this tutorial on using macosx from the pc must i have the original macOSX cd?

Anonymous

Can anyone tell me if windows running throufg MacSX are fast enough!!
What cpu did u use?

Anonymous

When I try to do the command... it does something for a couple minutes then says:

C:tiger>dd if=c:tigertiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive5 Forensic Acquisition Utilities, 1, 0, 0, 1035 dd, 3, 16, 2, 1035 Copyright (C) 2002-2004 George M. Garner Jr. Command Line: dd if=c:tigertiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive5 Based on original version developed by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart K emp Microsoft Windows: Version 5.1 (Build 2600.Professional Service Pack 2) 07/09/2005 02:01:29 (UTC) 06/09/2005 22:01:29 (local time) Current User: NORMDavid Disk: WD 1200BB External (S/N ) Geometry: Cylinders: 79176 Tracks per Cylinder: 47 Sectors per Track: 63 Bytes per Sector: 512 Total Size: 117220824 KB Media Type: Fixed hard disk media Partition Information: Partition Count: 4 Style: MBR Signature: 5C3EA1A9 Partition: 1 Starting Offset: 0000000000007e00 Length: 0000120031478784 Type: IFS Bootable? No Copying c:tigertiger-x86-flat.img to \.PhysicalDrive5... 524156+0 records in 524156+0 records out C:

It doesn't even copy anything to the drive.

Can someone help me? :D

OSX86

524156+0 records in
524156+0 records out

Looks like it is working to me. Remember that this is not in a format readable by windows. You are going to have to boot from that drive to see it.

Anonymous

So what are the steps I take? :o

Thanks! :!:

Anonymous

Installed to a USB drive. Won't boot. either goes to a screen saying reboot or it goes to a line saying no remote debugger found if I use the -v -x -s options. I tried the -f option too. Nothing is working. Took it to a MAC here at work and hooked it up and it saw it. It takes FOREVER on my Presario AMD64 laptop but is very quick on my IBM T42p laptop. Tonight I will pull the drive from the enclosure, mount it in a system as the primary and see if it boots there. If not, I'm just going to load Linux of something else on the drive.

In the meantime, I'm cruising the forums looking for answers.

Anonymous

Hi there,

when I try to copy the image file (from my D: partition on which it is situated as well as the dd.exe file) to my second hard disk i get the following message:

D:binUnicodeRelease>dd if=d:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1
Forensic Acquisition Utilities, 1, 0, 0, 1035
dd, 3, 16, 2, 1035
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 George M. Garner Jr.

Command Line: dd if=d:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1
Based on original version developed by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart K
emp
Microsoft Windows: Version 5.1 (Build 2600.Professional Service Pack 2)

11/09/2005 13:24:13 (UTC)
11/09/2005 15:24:13 (local time)

Current User: MARCtweemeterman

unable to display device infoCopying d:tiger-x86-flat.img to \.PhysicalDrive1
...
D:binUnicodeReleasedd.exe:
\.PhysicalDrive1: Permission denied

1+0 records in
0+0 records out

D:binUnicodeRelease>

Has anyone got an idea how to overcome this problem?

Thanks.

Marc

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>BobsJohnson wrote:</h6>Installed to a USB drive. Won't boot. either goes to a screen saying reboot or it goes to a line saying no remote debugger found if I use the -v -x -s options. I tried the -f option too. Nothing is working. Took it to a MAC here at work and hooked it up and it saw it. It takes FOREVER on my Presario AMD64 laptop but is very quick on my IBM T42p laptop. Tonight I will pull the drive from the enclosure, mount it in a system as the primary and see if it boots there. If not, I'm just going to load Linux of something else on the drive.

In the meantime, I'm cruising the forums looking for answers.</ul>

Well, did just that, same response. Dual PIII 800's in a Tyan MB with an Nvidia 256M AGP 5700 card. It wouldn't work. Same type of response. That makes 3 systems and the same response. It's there, but something needs some fixing. I'm pretty much done with it. When I see a response that looks like it'll fix it, maybe I'll try again... :(

Anonymous

I just did the dd.exe using the uranus program (the forensic file was giving the corrupt file thingy) and i dont hear any activity (or the light flashing) on the external HD (although my main drive keeps flashing lol, and i'm sure i put in physcialdrive 5 which is the m drive for the USB HD...) after i made the input all i got was this

C:>c:dd.exe if=c:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive5 rawwrite dd for windows version 0.3. Written by John Newbigin <jn@it.swin.edu.au> This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details

whats going on?

Anonymous

Everything is flawless with the copy, I have a 40Gig IDE Qautum Fireball as Primary Slave, copies fine, set it to be boot device in the BIOS.

It errors out in the Boot Process, I get the blue cursor up in the right hand corner, and then I recieve the Restart screen like many have reported here. I can't find the list of compat hardware.

It runs fine on this machine when I run it in VMWare, but it mimics and Intel chipset, so I can only assume its hardware incompatibility.

My machine is a AMD Athlon64 3000+ Socket754
Asus K8N-E Deluxe, nForce3-250 Chipset
1Gig PC3200 Ram
ah hell, here http://www.khipset.net/personal/10-26-2005.htm
my system specs.
and yes the processor supports SSE2

Anonymous

Well I finally got it to boot after trying a bunch of options, but none of my hardware was available.
After reading the forum I used the -v for verbose, as I am used to only using Mac keyboard and only knew about Apple-S to boot single user mode.
When I did verbose mode, it stops at an error -
display: vram [e0000000:080000000]

Also, the following extensions fail:
/System/Library/Extensions/Geforce.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResman.kext/contents/MacS/NVDAResman

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/contents/Plugins/AppleACPIDisplay.kext

My failed attempts where passing the following options:
platform=ACPI
platform=X86PC
-s
-F

None of those worked. When I first tried using safemode (-x) it starting going through the boot process, and at some point the hdds shutdown and the machine turned off.

I turned the machine back on on tried using safemode again and it booted fine. Pretty much none of my hardware was available, but is that a safemode thing? The OS was a little laggy aswell.

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>oblivinated wrote:</h6>When I first start up dd.exe within the Forensic Acquisition Utilities, I get the following message:
Copying CONIN$ to CONOUT$...

Then when I try to input the command "dd if=c:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1" (without the quotes of course), I get this message in return:
F:dd.exe: CONIN$ <offset 0xffffffffffffffff>: Bad file descriptor

If anyone can tell me what's going on it would be greatly appreciated =D thanks!</ul>

Grafix

OK. The procedure worked great.
I boot from bios and I get the Mac on my desk.
The only problem is "Restart" and "Turn Off"
On the first point the black screen shows with some routines and then hangs.
On the second the system stops OK but the desktop image stays for ever.
Any suggestions.
Thanx

Anonymous

You can use extra dd options to increase the blocksize to 1MB and show progress

e.g. c:dddd if=d:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PHYSICALDRIVE2 --progress bs=1M

Tony729

I'm also booting TigerX86 off an USB External HD and encounter the same issue.

"Waiting for remote debugger connection.
kdp_poll: no debugger device".

Do anyone have any suggestions?

Anonymous

Great instructions tinstall on my own Intel machine, the best around.

Do you see any way to install to a Live CD that I can carry with me from machine to machine, that would boot (like Knoppix and others) and let me store user data to the XP drive or to a USB memory?
If it has been done I have not found it. Do you know of any?

Anonymous

Hello,

I've only been researching the possibility of doing this mac os x -on-PC thing for a week or so but I haven't seen this even mentioned or asked about any place never mind outlined in a guide: why would it not be possible to successfully install mac os x as per any number of guides to VMWare then use a real bootable Ghost CD to create an image of it to from within VMWare to a new blank DVD, then use this new DVD to restore the image to a real HDD? I assume Ghost doesn't recognize HFS+ (I doubt my version does anyway) but it should just take the entire partition bit-by-bit. With high compression it should fit to one DVD (I think). Anybody know why this is impossible? Or even do a partition-to-partition from virtual hdd-to-real hdd operation with ghost? Am I missing something?

Anonymous

Little question

Everything worked fine, now.... the only problem is that my 120G HD looks like a 6GB (the OSX partition is only 6GB)

Is there a way of using the rest of my HD???

Thanks

Anonymous

Hello !

I have a problem. When I try the command, dd says :
D:>dd if=d:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1 Forensic Acquisition Utilities, 1, 0, 0, 1035 dd, 3, 16, 2, 1035 Copyright (C) 2002-2004 George M. Garner Jr. Command Line: dd if=d:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive1 Based on original version developed by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart K emp Microsoft Windows: Version 5.1 (Build 2600.Personal Service Pack 1) 10/03/2002 17:19:21 (UTC) 10/03/2002 18:19:21 (local time) Current User: TESTMACresa Disk: Maxtor 6E040L0 (S/N 3145324842424535202020202020202020202020) Geometry: Cylinders: 27116 Tracks per Cylinder: 47 Sectors per Track: 63 Bytes per Sector: 512 Total Size: 40146624 KB Media Type: Fixed hard disk media Partition Information: Partition Count: 4 Style: MBR Signature: 1550045E Copying d:tiger-x86-flat.img to \.PhysicalDrive1... D:dd.exe: d:tiger-x86-flat.img (offset 0x7fffffff) D:dd.exe: \.PhysicalDrive1: Invalid argument 524287+1 records in 524287+0 records out

can someone help me ??.. :oops:

Anonymous

ok so the drive imaged correctly, i restarted and went to boot from usb, it would not boot, my bios does support usb booting. I took the external out of the case and installed it into my case with ide. The drive still wouldn't boot. Now i put the osx install dvd into the pc and it booted and the installation procedure started it never did that before i imaged thed drive. First language selection comes up and i pick the language, then the next few screens all work fine unitl i come up to picking the drive to install on. the drive does not appear. So i go into disk utility and the drive is there, but i cant do anythin to it, none of the disk utility functions work on the drive. Is there somethin i am doing wrong as far as installing, the drive has the osx86 image on it, but it wont let me install anythin. i tried safe mode and still nothing, and as far a the hardware compatibilty list goes my my hardware meets requirements.

Anonymous

Ok so I got everything working. OSx booted fine and everything. Because I installed the deadmoo version my cpu's sse3 wasn't being used so to fix that I went through some steps that I found on another website. after going through those steps I went and also deleted the appletcpm.kext thing. I restarted my computer and now it wont boot no matter what I do it just freezes. I figured I would just format my hard drive again and start all over but when I boot into xp it see's the hard drive in the device manager but it wont let me access it so that I can format it. It also says it's working properly but it doesn't show up in my my computer or anything. If anyone has advice please HELP!!!!

Anonymous

ok first off im a teen with windows xp service pack 2
20 gb hard drive

im downloading:tiger-x86.tar.bz2.torrent

is that the correct file??

i have my disk number 1 and partition number 1

ok i downloaded:
3. Download Forensic Acquisition Utilities ''
ok in the commant promt i would type
dd if=c:tiger-x86.tar.bz2 of=\.pysicaldrive1
correct? or wrong please tell me if i make a mistake!!!!

so then you just reboot computer enter bios mode by pressing F1 CORRECT?

then load through my C: drive!!!!

and the OS X menu will appear correct or do i have to have the cd????

and i will be erasing everything correct and if i do this i dont get to install windows xp again CORRECT OR WRONG???

remember just a teen!!!!!

Anonymous

Currently, is there anyway to install the Mac OS on a single drive machine with only one partition. I want to install it on a new laptop with no OS on it

Anonymous

After googling few days I found this website about the mac osx 10.4.5 i found this websiste : http://n0v14gr4-nospyware.blogspot.com/2006_05_... with few links describing how to flash a nvidia with a mac bios and using it on a mac osx intel. I 'm really tempted to test it but I fear a lot the possibility of losing the card cause of bad or wrong settings. Does anyone has tried this trick? it works fine?
Thanks a lot in advance for helping. :D :D :D :D

Anonymous

okay i got a question about this install. will it work with the amd 64 bit? i gots that chip and all iv been reading is "intel" but if someone got it to work with the amd 64 let me know cause im going to try it but if i know it will crash then i might think diffrently. i have herd somewhere else that it will run on amd but didnt mention amd 64. but i dont know about this widows install. thanks in advanced

Anonymous

All links to the download the Forensic Aquisition Utility are null and void - would someone happen to have another link or better yet could you zip and email? I would be most appreciative.

email: blakenstein@gmail.com

Thanks again!

Anonymous

how come when ever i try to open the dd.exe from the root of my hard drive it flashes and closes up.
instead i tryed goting to start>run>command and typed in "h:dd.exe" then it came up wth some text about the creator of the app.
then i type in the folowing"if=h:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive0"
and it responds with this "\.PhysicalDrive0 was Unexpected at this time" what does this mean.
P.S. i also intentionally didnt put dd before the if=h:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive0 like the guide asked cause when i did it would give me this error," DDis not recognized as a internal or extrernal command, operable programm or batch file.
I also tried this"h:dd.exe if=h:tiger-x86-flat.img of=\.PhysicalDrive0"
the error message was that it could not find the file, could it be becuase flat.img is inside the tiger-x86 folder?

Anonymous

If you are really good at this sh*t please add me on msn and help me

abraham_georges@hotmail.com

Anonymous

THIS FREAKIN THING KILLED BOTH OF MY SPARE HARD DRIVE AND WINDOWS XP INSTALLATION. WHAT CAN I DO NOW ? I've got a big problem. I've lost everything. When I load the primary hard drive, it show the windows xp logo for half a second then the Blue Screen Of Death appears :evil:

WHAT WILL I DO NOW ? I'VE LOST EVERYTHING !

!!! H E L P !!!

PLEASE, PLEASE ! I'M DESPERATED ! I'VE GOT ALL MY FAMILY PHOTOS ON THAT HARD DRIVE !

MickeyMouse

You likely made a mistake and installed the mac system on top of your xp system instead of your spare drive.

There is likely no way to recover.

Anonymous

Well, I don't think so because when I unplug the xp drive and boot on the osx drive, it shows the Apple logo and the blinking cursor... What did I do wrong ?

Mike Bell

Mate there are many things you might have done wrong.

Anonymous

I finally got it !!! Windows Vista saved my life !!! You can be sure I will never ever try again to install Mac OS X on my Dell Dimension 8400 !!!

Thanks God.

Anonymous

Hello,

How does one obtain the OS X files from Apple?
Do you mean that one should buy the Mac OS X installation DVD? (will that be in .rar format?!?)
I don't understand which files you're refering to in point 1!

Also, will this guide work for any version of Mac OS X (e.g. 10.4.8) or just the Tiger version?

Last but not least, someone on this forum has reported having a BIG problem using this guide on a DELL Dimension 8400. Do you advise not to use this guide for that computer? I checked the processor and it has both SSE2 and SSE3. The graphics card on my Dimension 8400 is a ATI Radeon X300. Will that be a problem for graphics?

The link for Forensic Acquisition Utilities is dead! I'm assuming I can use dd v0.3 from http://www.chrysocome.net/dd instead. Correct?

Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Olivier.

Anonymous

The darwin screen comes up no problem, but when the grey screen with the white apple comes up and the little circle indicate that it's loading comes up its just keeps on loading for what seems like forever and about 1 or 2 minutes into it a white rectangle with a grey (/) sign comes up (like a no smoking sign, except without the cigarette lol)

hibrad2003

I get the same thing the (/) sign, but i Rebooted and typed -v to watch it boot, and its saying "still waiting on root device" and I tried several methods to make it see my SATA drives, but no go. I have a AMD 4800+ X2 2 gigs of ram, and 2 SATA hard drives, and a BFG7900GT. I have sse3 so it should work, but I was hoping someone knew how to make it use sata drives, without me having to go out and buy a PATA drive. Also , my bios doesnt allow me to set the hard drive as "legacy" or whatever, there are two options, and only two options "Auto" and "Large" and I tried both to no avail.
Thanks in advance

Anonymous

i was installing MAC OS on my usb drive, which had three partitions. i installed it on the first and moved all my data to the other two - it unrared the image just fine then dd ran fine too. now mac os wont boot and it gives me an HFS+ partition error. that problem aside, when i hook up my usb drive to windows it doesnt recognize any of the partitions!!!! it just doesnt show up!!! if i try to unplug attached usb stuff it does show an option to unplug it but i cant see the drives anywhere!! any help please???? had all my pics on there - any helllpppp pleeeeaasseeeee

Anonymous

I'm trying to use it with VMWare 5.5. It's stuck at a black screen with

localhost:/ root#
Can't type or do antyhing. The CD icon keep blinking while HD icon unchanged. I can see my HD icon is blinking. It's been like this for 20 minutes now. Is it working or it's configuring something. My CPU is AMD 64. Maybe it is not compatible with AMD!?

I will report back the result. If you know something right off hand, please let me know.

Thanks,

wfz

Anonymous

It looks like it is compatible with Intel processor only when using VMWare 5. I've installed and running fine on a P4 2.8GB/1GB memory PC. It's rather slow though. Is there a way to speed it up? I can't get it to work with network. So, for now, it's just something pretty to look at.

Thanks for all the info found there.

wfz

Anonymous

Well I I just learned about this whole OSx86 two days ago, and I aqquirced all the nesscary files to begin.
I have the .img file in C: and the dd.exe there as well...
IN the comand prompt I enter
c:dd.exe if c:tiger-x86-flat.img if=

and heres where the problems begin I've put:
\physicaldrive0deviceharddisk0partition1 bs=322256 skip=1 --progress

and i get: Error opeing output file: 53 The network path wasn't found.

and if i put:
\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
it gives me error code 32....can someone please help me.

Anonymous

<ul id="quote"><h6>rcjamck wrote:</h6>The darwin screen comes up no problem, but when the grey screen with the white apple comes up and the little circle indicate that it's loading comes up its just keeps on loading for what seems like forever and about 1 or 2 minutes into it a white rectangle with a grey (/) sign comes up (like a no smoking sign, except without the cigarette lol)</ul>

I get the same thing. I tried option -v, -x, -x -v, but safe mode does the same thing and verbosa mode gets stuck and keep saying "Still waiting for root device." I left my PC on for few hours but it never past there.
Did anyone figure out how to solve this?

Anonymous

When i type it in nothing happens it just repeats what i said and then sits there. could someone help.

Ride on mower dude

Wow, thanks this tutorial will really help me.

andrewstaflin

Does it really worth it that much to purchase Virtual Center? Would it be worth it to purchase Virtual center
If I don't upgrade my VI3 from standard to Enterprise. The post above cheered me up a lot into buying it, but it did not
mention what it will give & not give in standard edition.

http://www.virtualizationteam.com/virtualizatio...

shankyrhodes

Hi,

we are considering to buy a VMware Virtual Center.
We have two servers running VMware Standard edition.
Do you believe it will be worth it? Or do we have to
upgrade our VMware licenses to Enterprise before upgrading
virtual center to make it worth it. I had just read the
following article
VMware virtual center real value

Bill

But why, when you could just buy a used MacMini + Keyboard/Mouse/Display switch, place it on top of your PC case, connect the machines by Ethernet and set up respective shares?!?

So, it costs a couple of hundred euros more, but not only will it be a faster and more stable solution, you save yourself hours of frustration and can utilise the time to find a girlfriend!!!

Xenos Barrett

hi, i really dont understand what im doing wrong!
dd if=d:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2

and i get
Error opening output file: 5 Access is Denied
ive got the source and the destination right, but im trying to dd it straight to a HD as opposed to a partition as i have a spare HD.

Can anyone Help me? Thanks.

theaskanison

What advantages and differences there are between installing OSX on a partition from the main drive to install it to a external HD?

PacMan

I have completed all the steps successfully. When I boot from the external HD, the Darwin prompt comes up. I have tried all options(-x, -s, -F, -v), but it just shows me the darwin loading prompt and it then comes back to the boot prompt. Please tell me how to overcome this problem!

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