Help installing Darwin on x86

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Help installing Darwin on x86

I'm trying to install Darwin 8.01 on my Dell Dimension 8400 Pentium 4 HT, 2 hard drives. The RAID setting has been changed to ATA. I'm using Grub and have Ubuntu 5.10 and Windows XP installed on Drive 1 and I was hoping to install Darwin on Drive 2. I have 8MB bootloader partition formatted ext3 just incase my machine has boot problems of HFS+ as I've heard about some people having. It is set as a bootable partition. Anyway I have to boot the CD into safe mode to run the installer or else I'll get a kernel panic and the installer will not run. Is there any way to change this so I don't have to boot into safe mode?

P. S. I have already tried turning off the USB recognition in the BIOS.

Posted on Oct 27, 2005 1:18 PM

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C Ogle

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Oct 28, 2005 3:48 PM in response to Robert McDra

Your question really doesn't concern macs or OS X in general, so I wouldn't expect much of a response here.

For help on the Darwin X86 projects, you may want to try the following link:

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/

You may need to sign up for the free developer connection ID, if you haven't already, to get access to this page.

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Robert McDra Author

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Oct 28, 2005 4:25 PM in response to C Ogle

I have tried there. The documentation, like most Apple documentation, is either right on target for select topics or completely vauge. I am still waiting to hear from the BSDForum about this question too. I just thought it would be worth a shot to try an Apple forum since Apple produced it and there is no Darwin section in Apple discussions unfortunately. I thought it was worth a shot since Tiger is based on Darwin.

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Oct 28, 2005 4:04 AM in response to Robert McDra

Your drive needs to be UFS format. HFS+ isn't recommended for x86 Darwin from what I've read in the past and Darwin doesn't understand ext3.

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Robert McDra Author

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Oct 28, 2005 12:38 PM in response to Mark Jalbert

Thanks for the advice but you failed to answer my question. How do I boot the install CD without having to go into safe mode?

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