Hackintosh desktop dual boot Windows 7

[applepearpp]

I recently came across This post by lifehacker and since then have been thinking about building my own hackintosh. For those of you have have experience with hackintosh, how do you dual boot snow leopard and windows natively?

any resources/ comments will be much appreciated. Thank you very much.

 

[Hellhammer]

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders

I advice you to go to InsanelyMac Forums or Tonyx86 if you need help with Hackintoshing since they focus on that topic

 

[sbddude]

I recently came across this post by lifehacker and since then have been thinking about building my own hackintosh.

For those of you have have experience with hackintosh, how do you dual boot snow leopard and windows natively? I have looked up similar topics on google and the answers are dated (09ish) and i don't want to risk screwed up the new computer. Any comment/resources will be appreciated. Thank you guys very much.

Leo

I tried to do the hackintosh route with my existing PC laptop, but it was too much hassle. I could not even get it working, so I gave up and I eventually went with a MBP. If you buy the exact components that lifehacker reccomends you will probably have better luck, but I have heard that most people still have issues with sound, sleep, etc.

 

[Mike225]

I just dont see hackintoshes as worth it.

The draw to Apple is the hardware software integration. Apple software without the hardware is lacking IMO. Hardware without the software is nice, but overpriced.

The best part about macs are the laptops because of the battery life and trackpad which both require OS X to shine. Other than that I have no draw to OS X/Macs.

 

[rgarjr]

why is this in the MBP section?

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Let me save you some time. Don't hang around here looking for this kind of information. The trolls on MR will quickly turn it into a mac vs. pc ,overpriced or not, legality thread of the century. Seriously, just walk away.

Now I can't answer your question, but I can point you in the right direction. For reference, I myself run a hackintosh server on a gigabyte mobo (gigabyte mobos are considered the absolute best for this kind of work, as you'll soon find out). I don't have a dual boot config, but I there are bootloaders that allow you to do it. If it isn't a custom build, I think you may have a little bit of trouble getting everything to work properly. My custom build just used a CPU/Mobo combo I got from frys for about 100 bucks. Everything else besides video card doesn't have to be specific.

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Don't let anyone, particularly those who tried it once and gave up, scare you with tales of instability. My box has an uptime of nearly 2 months and I run it headless.

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

The draw to Apple is the hardware software integration. Apple software without the hardware is lacking IMO. Hardware without the software is nice, but overpriced.

How is apple's C2Q more integrated into SL than my C2Q?



OP:
I dual-boot Snow Leo and Win7, its really easy. I have each OS on a different drive, which makes it a little easier.
When you install OSX you'll need to install a bootloader like Chameleon (you cant miss this step, your hack wont boot without it!). When you boot up, Chameleon will give you an option to boot from any hdd or partition on your computer. All you need to do is install both OSs and make sure the OSX partition is active so you boot to Chameleon instead of Windows.

 

[rgarjr]

Don't let anyone, particularly those who tried it once and gave up, scare you with tales of instability. My box has an uptime of nearly 2 months and I run it headless.

I built a small file server with the Intel Little Falls mini-itx board and was running Windows 7 on it. Didn't work that well connecting to my drives on my Macs, so I installed 10.5.8 on it. Has been working great on it.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

I built a small file server with the Intel Little Falls mini-itx board and was running Windows 7 on it. Didn't work that well connecting to my drives on my Macs, so I installed 10.5.8 on it. Has been working great on it.

See, this guy knows 😀