BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> KM> Nope, it's the Hackintosh installer, it's known to be at best
> KM> cranky. Might be a fail in its SATA driver. Will have to try it
> KM> with IDE.
> Possibility is an SATA issue: seem to remember a compatability issue at times.
Standards, so many to choose from...
> https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Hachintosh+S
> ATA&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> Top hit (or at least when I got it) might be an answer:
>
> https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/hackintosh-not-detecting-sata-hds.70848/
Leave it to Apple to be 10 years behind PC hardware. It doesn't support
AMD CPUs either, tho I guess there's now a driver hack for that.
Naturally I don't have IDE and Intel in the same spare box, and
installing it in a VM sounds like Work. For one thing, first I'd have to
install and figure out using a VM. :)
You wouldn't believe how many error messages go by up to the point where
the Mac installer finally spits up a GUI. Literally hundreds, mostly
referencing internal hacks. Never let it be said Apple fixed a bug if
they could paste over it instead!
> KM> Finally got ReactOS v0.4.4 to run!! tho had to install from a CD.
> Must have been and IDE CD. <gg> Hope you weren;t doing something like
> I've tried to do: install a 64-bit OS on a 32-bit system!!
Ooops :)
> KM> Right now I have it set up as a dual boot with WinXP. ROS didn't
> KM> like any of my SATA controllers, but was good with a system with
> KM> an IDE port (that dying but still not needless breed). Not even
> KM> all that old (2009ish).
> Probably has nothing to do with anything but Ubuntu 16.04 (and maybe
> 14.x) have issues with dual-booting with Windows XP.
I stopped even looking at Ubuntu years ago, and will never again do a
Win/*NIX dual boot, so no idea. However, I vaguely recall that you need
to install Windows first, then linux, so GRUB can grab everything.
ReactOS is geared toward being compatible with Windows (right now the
goal is to be byte-compatible with Win2003), and runs on FAT32, so was
treated as a DOS partition. Tho XP's boot loader calls it "Unidentified
Operating System on Partition C" :)
> KM> Had to boot ROS once in "DebugFile" mode to clear some flag that
> KM> got set wrong and made it boot slow after XP was installed, but
> KM> since then it's been perfectly good.
> Good -- maybe the boot from the SERVICE partition flag? (Thinking the
> Ubuntu issue again.)
No idea, but good a guess as any.
> KM> Anyway, lots of stuff still doesn't work, and the file manager
> KM> has Issues (actually I think it's a bug in the FAT) but what does
> KM> work looks and behaves enough like XP that there's no difficulty
> KM> switching between 'em.
> The bugs are starting to seem vary much like the ones I experienced on
> my laptop with XP/Ubuntu!
Well, installing Ubuntu was your first mistake. Next time try PCLinuxOS. :)
> KM> And on the XP side, I'm being treated to the unlikely spectacle
> KM> of fullblown XP Pro SP3 using only 71mb of RAM and reaching the
> KM> desktop in 9 seconds flat. <scratching head>
> Wow!! I haven't timed my Virtual XP boot time on this Ubuntu desktop
> system but it seems to be longer and wanted about 10x that amt of RAM to
> work decently.
This is on real hardware, not a VM. And a rather old HD so not getting
any boost there. For comparison, ReactOS boots in 12 seconds and uses
around 100mb RAM. Normal XP that isn't from another planet does at best
30 seconds and ~350mb RAM. I have no idea why this one is being so
economical; it looks like it's running all the normal stuff, and I've installed
this exact version before without such miracles. No 3rd party drivers installed
and no networking as yet, but even so it shouldn't
make that much difference... even my TinyXP install uses more RAM!
XP64, on somewhat faster hardware, takes about 90 seconds to boot and
uses around <looking> 400mb RAM (tho it has all its drivers and
networking, and has presently been up for about six weeks).
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