NEW 3/2010! Install Snow Leopard - All Windows, All USB, MBR

[hackthis]

Have you verified that OKR will still work with that method? I'm just curious about what happens if one does hit the OKR button in that case.

No I haven't. My guess is it should still work though, but I don't know to what extent.
Seeing that OKR is at least partially BIOS-based, and the restore partition is proprietary, complete wipe shouldn't be affected. However, I don't know whether the wipe procedure includes any partition table modifications (i.e. whether OSX partition will be overwritten by an XP part restored to its original size, or it's just a format and bunch of files getting copied over). I might test it at some point since I have a suitable HDD, but I need to free it up first, which means someone will likely have to ask me to do it.
OKR also includes a second-stage option to restore user backups, which are stored on that "LENOVO" NTFS partition -- this one should likely work.

I am asking. You seem like you can recover faster from an experiment gone wrong than i can.

[goop]

Hi,

Great Instructions. Worked perfectly on my s10. The first reboot after completing the install didn't work but after powering off/on again it worked fine. The only issue remaining for me is that the trackpad goes haywire occasionally and wobbles all over the screen but I understand everyone seems to have this issue.

Some quick notes on how I added the old windows partition onto my new disk after installing OSX..
- I installed to OSX to a primary partition of a new 320gb hdd. I made the primary 100gb and left the remaining space unpartitioned.
- After OSX installation completed I swapped my original lenovo drive in, connected the new 320gb drive via usb and copied the windows primary partition onto the new hd after the OSX partition as a second primary partition. I think I used a windows app called Acronis for this but something like the gparted live usb should work too.
- I swapped the drives back and booted into OSX. From there I edited the boot.ini of the windows xp so it pointed at multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2) instead of multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) since the XP was now the second primary partition.
- I downloaded a chain0 file and copied it to the windows xp root partition and added an entry into the boot.ini to boot OSX. C:\chain0="Mac OS X86"
- The I used fdisk to set the xp partition active instead of the osx one.

Now it boots windows XP or Max OSX from the windows bootloader. Happy!

[SilverZero]

Hi,

Great Instructions. Worked perfectly on my s10. The first reboot after completing the install didn't work but after powering off/on again it worked fine. The only issue remaining for me is that the trackpad goes haywire occasionally and wobbles all over the screen but I understand everyone seems to have this issue.

Some quick notes on how I added the old windows partition onto my new disk after installing OSX..
- I installed to OSX to a primary partition of a new 320gb hdd. I made the primary 100gb and left the remaining space unpartitioned.
- After OSX installation completed I swapped my original lenovo drive in, connected the new 320gb drive via usb and copied the windows primary partition onto the new hd after the OSX partition as a second primary partition. I think I used a windows app called Acronis for this but something like the gparted live usb should work too.
- I swapped the drives back and booted into OSX. From there I edited the boot.ini of the windows xp so it pointed at multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2) instead of multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) since the XP was now the second primary partition.
- I downloaded a chain0 file and copied it to the windows xp root partition and added an entry into the boot.ini to boot OSX. C:\chain0="Mac OS X86"
- The I used fdisk to set the xp partition active instead of the osx one.

Now it boots windows XP or Max OSX from the windows bootloader. Happy!

I'm guessing the Windows bootloader passes off to Chameleon when you select OSX, correct? I'm pretty sure this would work the same way if you reinstall Chameleon from OSX and set the OSX partition active - it should recognize the XP partition and boot it, so you wouldn't have to go through two bootloaders. Unless something has changed recently, that's how it's always worked for me.

[goop]

I don't think i have chameleon installed. It just goes straight to the grey screen then the apple appears. If I hit F8 it only shows the OSX install. The Splashtop works too since I copied the original Windows C: drive.

[SilverZero]

I don't think i have chameleon installed. It just goes straight to the grey screen then the apple appears. If I hit F8 it only shows the OSX install. The Splashtop works too since I copied the original Windows C: drive.

Chameleon is more than just the bootloader, it's also the EFI emulator that lets OSX boot on PC hardware. If you can boot OSX, you have Chameleon installed. It's just set to go straight through without presenting a selection screen menu. It works either way, obviously.

[Ride2kmax]

I don't think i have chameleon installed. It just goes straight to the grey screen then the apple appears. If I hit F8 it only shows the OSX install. The Splashtop works too since I copied the original Windows C: drive.

Chameleon is more than just the bootloader, it's also the EFI emulator that lets OSX boot on PC hardware. If you can boot OSX, you have Chameleon installed. It's just set to go straight through without presenting a selection screen menu. It works either way, obviously.

How can i set chameleon to show the selection screen menu. I have to press f8 every time i want to log in into windows. It goes straight to osx.

[Ride2kmax]

I don't think i have chameleon installed. It just goes straight to the grey screen then the apple appears. If I hit F8 it only shows the OSX install. The Splashtop works too since I copied the original Windows C: drive.

Chameleon is more than just the bootloader, it's also the EFI emulator that lets OSX boot on PC hardware. If you can boot OSX, you have Chameleon installed. It's just set to go straight through without presenting a selection screen menu. It works either way, obviously.

How can i set chameleon to show the selection screen menu. I have to press f8 every time i want to log in into windows. It goes straight to osx.

I ask after searching for hours and when i finally decide to ask found the answer.
I keep reading that i had to modify the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist but i find out that it was the /extra/com.apple.Boot.plist file.

I finally finish Dual booting OSX and Window7.
Thanks to all the persons who made this posible.

[matt0586]

I've followed all the instructions here but get the message "install failed. unable to copy necessary support files." This happens with ~25 min left in the installation so I don't think it's the fail message that's been described as normal. When I restart with both USB keys in, as instructed, it goes back to the mac os x installation without giving me the option to boot the normal hard drive in chameleon. Here I can try to recover the installation in the mac os x installer but the same error keeps happening over and over again. Help?

[qubit]

For those using NetbookInstaller, there is an updated version (see http://code.google.com/p/netbook-installer/) that fixes sleep not working from the previous version. It also looks like the developer has included Voodoopowermini.kext and thus speedstep should be implemented (or will be soon) though I have not confirmed it's working on my S10 yet.

[SilverZero]

For those using NetbookInstaller, there is an updated version (see http://code.google.com/p/netbook-installer/) that fixes sleep not working from the previous version. It also looks like the developer has included Voodoopowermini.kext and thus speedstep should be implemented (or will be soon) though I have not confirmed it's working on my S10 yet.

RC1 is, as of right now, the current available version, but RC2 is in development and forthcoming in the next couple of weeks, supposedly. RC1 is also 10.6.3 ready, and will now allow NBI to run automatically after an OS update (so you don't need to reinstall it after an update). I'll be testing this myself soon.