The Sexiest OS Ever, MAC OS X Tiger 10.4.6
After waiting 5 days of downloading, I finally got the installation DVD iso of the sexiest operating system ever - MAC OS X Tiger 10.4.6 for Intel with SSE2 and SSE3 patches for older and new processors support. I didn’t waste much time and I burnt the DVD and freed a partition of 6 GB to have the system installed on.
In the past few days I had some reading about this system and its hardware compatibility to expect the types of problems I might face with my hardware. I was dying to see it and finally it’s here on a DVD 
So I rushed and booted the system and I got a nice Apple Icon in the center of the screen and I waited for 5 minutes with complete patience in hope to see the next, the thing which didn’t happen! 
Quickly I started searching on the internet and I found two great website http://www.osxx86.info/ http://forum.insanelymac.com then I started searching for how to get the boot log, I found the -v and -x boot options for verbose and safe mode. I discovered that the installer was printing out a message “still waiting for root device”!, After some search I discovered that I should set the DVD and the Harddisk as Master devices (primary master, secondary master). then quickly I had things working but this time with a new error “Load of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 88″, so again quickly to google and I found that it may have millions of reasons! - I tried a very strange one which is reburn the DVD but using the lowest speed 2.4x and surprisingly it worked!!
The Installation was amazing, I had a partition already prepared with 40GB free space and I started the installation, after a happy journey with the installation I discovered that the boot loader couldn’t be installed and the system automatically boots into my GRUB bootloader to Linux/Windows!
I took me 2 hours to discover why. It was because the partition which I had prepared for the installation was a logical partition, not primary!. I found many bad solutions and tried them all but the best one that worked like magic is to copy a file called “chain0″ that’s founded on the installation DVD into your Linux /boot directory, strange yeh?. then add the following lines to your grub.conf
Title MAC OS X Tiger 10.4.6
root (hd0,1)
chainloader /boot/chain0
while (hd0,1) is your root partition for your Linux Box, if you have a separate /boot partition then you can use it and the path for the chainloader will be /chain0 instead of /boot/chain0 . This solution is very clever and it adds the first stage boot loader of the MAC OS X into a file and the GRUB boots it. Suddenly everything has just worked!.
Amazingly things were working good but I had 2 remaining problems. The Screen Resolution and The System is too damn slow!.
I found how to change the screen resolution through a Boot Parameter which is “Graphics Mode”=”1280×1024x32″ and to make it default Open a Terminal from Finder->Applications->Utilities->Terminal and edit the file in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and add the following lines:
Graphics Mode
1280×1024x32
I used vim to edit the file, and things were going ok till now. I searched for the second problem and I discovered that the MAC is detecting a wrong ACPI version and keeps searching for the correct one continuously!.
The Solution is to set it in the same file:
platform
X86PC
platform
ACPI
Now the MAC OS X is booting in exactly 14 seconds! phew, it’s quite fast!!
I had one another problem that I couldn’t solve till now - The Ethernet Driver…
Let me show you some of my screenshots.
Hossam Brkat said,
May 5, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
It’s a wonderful experiment, I like MAC OS very much and I’ll try it one day .. Thanks for sharing your experiment with us
kamasheto said,
May 6, 2007 @ 2:21 am
I “was” going to install it actually, I came by that version a couple of days ago - now however, I’m not even coming close, lol.
I love the interface though, good job =)
Ahmed El-Sebaey said,
May 6, 2007 @ 7:14 pm
Hello Linuxawy
, how are you man ?
Fortunately I have a Celeron D with SSE2,SSE3 instructions, so I don’t need pre-patched img. just downloading the tiger-x86.tar.bz2 from somewhere
and begin tinkering to see how it’s sexy ? 
Thanks for the guides in your delicious.
Abd El-Rahman Hegazy said,
May 7, 2007 @ 4:16 am
Mabroooooooooook yaprince
i hope that u will show me how u did this sooooooon ?
Mo3taz said,
May 7, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
Amazing Ahmed , really MAC OS have a very beutiful interface , tnx for pictures
mo3az said,
May 8, 2007 @ 12:56 am
tab plz .. ana 3awez a3raf nidos fi eh bizbt el linux wala ni2b mac os . ! looool … really el wa7ed 3ad me7tar …
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
May 8, 2007 @ 1:59 am
Ya mo3az I’m just reviewing and testing the MAC OS X, please remember that it’s not opensource and not free. I’m just testing…I’ll be LiNuXaWy forever isA
Eslam Mamdouh said,
May 10, 2007 @ 12:22 am
lol ahmed
actually i have mac os 10.4.7(.iso) &10.4.8(folder)
but what i’m afraid of is my hardwares especially my video card
fortunately my processor is supporting SEE2 SEE3
i think these to sites may help in this field
http://macx86.net/site/index.htm
http://www.appleapps.net/
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
May 10, 2007 @ 11:17 am
I don’t have a SSE3 processor and things were going fine, but YES about the hardware. The hardware support in MAC is very bad (not as Linux).
Thanks for the link
Neo said,
May 12, 2007 @ 2:03 am
Getting the new as usual
..I loved what you did, you always like to “get you hands dirty” in such stuff 
. Keep us updated with your adventures with MAC 
Ahmed El Gamil said,
July 2, 2007 @ 2:58 pm
Ahmed, Could u please tell me the name of the application you used to take these screen shots
Ahmed S. Farghal said,
July 5, 2007 @ 1:25 am
the screenshots were taken by the system itself, it has a complicated key squenece keda mosh fakro
sekonal said,
August 21, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
farghal basha
ana 3awz astshartak fe 7aga
ana gehaazy intel 2.4 ghz cache 1 mb , 512 ram , 128 mb geforce vga
w 3awz ashtghal macintosh … yenfa3 wla la2??
law yenfa3 yareet te2oly agebo meneen w eh elnos5a elly tenasbny
w thanx
ahmed ramadann said,
September 2, 2007 @ 5:29 am
please , i have “tiger-x86-flat.img” => 6 GB
it is already installed ,
i just need:
- create “hfs+” partition ??
-then copy it this partition
– add it to bootloader of “VISTA” ???
— then boot and i will have dualboot with tiger and vista
hope you help me this time !!!!
please be fast as possible…
thanks..