I would also like to thank tonymacx86 for iboot, multibeast and the guides found on the blog, as none of this would be possible without that. Requirements and Specifications. I am also going to list my hardware specifications. If you have a different type of CPU eg. Also, this guide covers nVidia 9 series graphics cards. Step One - Booting iBoot. Before you continue please ensure you have anything you need on your computer backed up, as this process will erase everything on your hard drive!
This will allow you to select the CD, rather than the hard drive to boot from. After selecting the CD, iBoot should begin to load. Step Two - Preparing your hard drive.
The next step is to run Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard install screen. We are not installing Snow Leopard at this stage!
Select your hard drive from the list along the side, and then click the partitions tab. From the drop down menu, select two partitions. Name the first one 'Snow Leopard' and give it an appropriate size. I chose 40gig, which is plenty for developing, but I certainly wouldn't choose anything below 20gig as an absolute minimum.
Next, select your second partition and rename it Windows 7. Step 3 - Installing Windows 7. I am not going to go into a great amount of detail in this step, suffice to say you must select and format the Windows 7 partition we created earlier in the Disk Utility. It should be the third partition on the list. Allow the installation to complete and you should have a bootable Windows 7 install. Step 4 - Installing Snow Leopard. The next step is to install Snow Leopard. Once the DVD has finished loading, click select a language and click continue to begin the installation process.
You may want to customize your installation and remove extra features like languages, fonts and printers that just take up space. Once thats done, select your Snow Leopard partition and click Install. Once the Snow Leopard install completes, you should be greeted with a nice message saying its successfully installed. You should now be able to see your Snow Leopard installation in the iBoot bootloader.
Select it and hit enter to boot Snow Leopard. Once Snow Leopard is booted, download the Multibeast and Combo Update listed in the requirements section. Unfortunately because Wifi is not currently supported, you will need to use an Ethernet cable to connect to the internet or alternatively boot into Windows 7 and download the software and copy to an external hard drive, USB stick or CD.
Run the Combo Update but do not let it restart the computer. Once the upgrader has finished run Multibeast. Multibeast allows you to select kernel extensions for your specific hardware, and I will list the ones I used for my laptop. Yours may vary, but if you have similar hardware to mine, it should work perfectly. Once you have selected all the relevant kexts, install multibeast and restart your computer, with iBoot in the CD tray. Chameleon is a boot loader that allows you to boot multiple operating systems.
It basically replaces the iBoot CD we have been using and boots directly from your hard drive. Although Multibeast is supposed to install Chameleon automatically, for some reason with my set up it did not work. This means we are going to have to install it manually. Boot Snow Leopard once again from the iBoot boot loader. Once Snow Leopard has booted, download the Chameleon boot loader using the above link and extract the folder to your desktop.
Open a terminal window and type: diskutil list. This will list all your hard drives and partitions. Next, type: cd and drag your Chameleon folder from the desktop into the terminal window and hit enter. Next, type: cd i and hist enter. That should have installed Chameleon.
Remove the iBoot CD and restart your computer. You should be greeted with the Chameleon boot loader screen similar to iBoot and be able to select from either your Snow Leopard or Windows 7 partitions.
Step 7 - Turning off sleep. For some reason, whenever the laptop enters sleep mode, it fails to reboot. For now the only option is to prevent it from sleeping. Go into system preferences and click Power Saver. In Power Saver, move the toggle all the way over to 'Never' for the sleep mode in both the 'On Power' and 'Battery' tabs.
If I am able to solve this problem, I will post an update. All done! Labels: dual boot , snow leopard , windows 7. Unknown June 28, at PM. Unknown July 2, at AM. Aug 14, 5 0 0. Boot windows first, use EasyBcd to add mac to the windows startup. Have mac os boot first. You need Chameleon rc2 rc3 is out too and you need Win7 64bit.
Note: Chameleon Bootloader is not compatible with Windows 7 32 bit edition. Only 64 bit. Here is the ultimate question. Jared- MDL Novice. Jul 30, 9 0 0. You need to login to view this posts content. Oct 24, 2 0 0. Jul 21, 86 Feb 20, 40 7 0. Morriswald MDL Novice. Dec 14, 1 0 0. I find it very hard to find any decent information about if there are any idea, even trying to install it on my computer spec. But I am not sure about my hardware. How is it possible to make the videocard work properly when no-one have made any drivers for example the gtx?
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