Hi guys,




today I installed OS X 10.5.6 for the first time on my PC, and I think I've made a big mistake.

Windows XP was already installed on C:, and I installed OS X on another partition.

Installation went fine, absolutely no problems with my hardware (C2D E6300, MSI P-965 Neo-F MoBo, Geforce 7600 GT), but after installing it came to my mind that perhaps I had forgotten something...

The problem now is, I really do need this particular install of Windows XP, and I have absolutely no clue how to boot XP now.

When I start the computer it boots directly into OS X, no signs of an exisiting Windows XP installation.

I'd really much appreciate your help!

Oh, and sorry for my bad english, I'm from germany.

Thanks alot in advance!

It is simple boot for example with acronis boot disk and make you windows partiton active again then it will boot back in windows.

Thanks, will remember that, robi62.

But in the meantime i lost my patience and formatted my whole computer.

Now i have the following setup: 3 partitions, on the first one is OS X installed.

What do I have to do now to have a working dualboot system with OS X/WinXP?

Any chances that I just have to install WinXP, or do I have to mess around with Linux Live-CDs, Bootloaders, boot.ini and so on?

As usual, your comments are always appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

If I remember correctly simpler way is to add osx to boot ini in windows search for chain 0 in the forum cannot
remember the all string

Yep, read that too.

For the last two hours I've been trying to install Win XP (Home and Pro), but it always kept saying there was a problem with the "hal.dll" after copying all the files to the chosen HDD/Partition.

Don't really know what to do now, OS X is still working fine.

Why did you lose your patience? Which bootloader were/are you using? If it was chameleon 1.0, sometimes the delay is set to zero so it boots immediately to mac os. However quickly pressing F8 a few times after your manufacturer screen goes away (the one that usually says your computer manufacturer's name and lets you either change bios settings or choose what you want to boot from, hdd, usb, CD/DVD drive, etc...)

For me I always always install windows first, then mac os. It's the simple way to dual boot. Because windows takes over the boot loader, so that it automatically boots into windows and doesn't give you a choice. When I install Chameleon 1.0 in mac however, I get a black boot screen which lets me choose whether I want to boot Windows or Mac! My delay is set to 5 seconds, or else it automatically boots into leopard. Press any key before 5 seconds and the menu appears...

If you installed mac first, then after you install windows you need some mac bootloader, on a usb drive or something so you can get back to mac, so that you can install a bootloader over the windows bootloader that will give you a choice when you boot up. If you don't have one, then you could install EasyBCD on windows, it installs its own bootloader to allow you to boot into mac. However It's like a double boot loader which I didn't like, so I wouldn't recommend it.

(For example you get a darwin loader boot menu when you boot up, if you select mac it boots straight to mac after that but if you select windows then it shows you the windows boot loader, which then you select windows again to boot into windows. selecting mac from the windows boot loader brings you back to the darwin boot loader) It works but I just didn't like the double bootloader setup. Prefer to have just one bootloader that quickly boots either one.

I however have done a dual boot setup with Windows 7 and Leopard 10.5.7... So that is the reason why I am using Chameleon 1.0 instead of the latest version. You however are attempting a dual boot with Windows XP and Leopard... The difference is Windows operating systems Vista and after Vista(Vista, Win 7), Require the disk signature to be intact. The latest version of Chameleon ignores that requirement and overwrites it. That screws everything up and doesn't allow your windows to boot.

Since your using XP though where the disk signature is not vital for the windows booting process you could use the latest Chameleon and be fine I would think.

Good Luck, hope you figure it out!

P.S. not found hal.dll? Are you installing from cd? Check for scratches, maybe that is the issue. Hopefully you have made a backup of your install disc so you can burn a new copy

I recently set up a dual boot as well.
I used iATKOS v7 as my hackintosh install and I use windows 7 as my second boot.

Same should apply for xp.

I tried this several different ways for the best bootloader sequence, and when I finally got it right it was way simpler than I made it.

My suggestion is to boot the osx dvd first. Use disk utility to create 2 partitions.
Then install osx on partition 2.(make sure the bootloader to be installed is chameleon v2)

Next boot the windows dvd and install to partition 1.

When windows finishes loading go to run->cmd
In the command window type diskpart, a new cmd window will open for diskpart.
type: select disk 0
hit enter
type: list partition
hit enter
this lists the partitions present on the drive. When I install windows 7 it creates a small boot partition which makes the mac partition number 3.

if 3 partitions are listed type: select partition 3
if 2 partitions are listed type: select partition 2
hit enter
type: active
hit enter
type: exit
hit enter

Restart the machine and mac os should load on start up and as long as you installed the chameleon bootloader when you installed iatkos you'll see the windows partitions.

If you see 2 different windows partitions, i.e. if there were 3 partitions on the drive, load the first one to enter windows.

Works like a charm for me. I would get rid of windows but my wireless network card is an intel 5100agn which doesn't have a driver out yet. So I boot windows for my downloads and most internet usage.

Though I did find a workaround to that as well using my palm centro smartphone as a modem. But its still slower than wifi so I keep windows around.

Anyway, good luck, I'll check back to see if you have any trouble.

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Just got two questions:

1.Is it possible to use the iPC release? I wanted to use that (really kinda noob here).

2. Is it possible to install Chameleon while Im using leopard? I mean, I would choose it during the installation process, but I dont think that its included there.

Im asking because I just tried to install it, and nothing happened/changed when I rebooted.

._.

I'm not familiar with iPC, iATKOS v7 is Leopard 10.5.something and comes bundled with chameleon.
So that made it pretty easy for me.

When chameleon boots you'll see a small loading bar before it goes to the apple screen, if you hit any button before that bar runs out you can see the other boot options.

I know it's a pain when you spent the time to dl the release you have, but I had one that didn't work well at first too and had to suck it up and dl a new version. It's more than worth it to get the iATKOS release v7, that made it really easy for me to get everything situated.

Problem solved.




My solution:




I installed Windows XP on the first partition, and created a second partition.

Then I installed OS X on my second partition, rebooted, started again from the dvd and opened terminal.

In terminal I flagged my XP partition as active, rebooted to XP, added the file "chain0" to C:\, edited my boot.ini accordingly(added "C:\chain0="Mac OS X86""), and now it works like a charm.

Didnt think that it would be THAT easy, and I wonder why I didnt read that solution anywhere on the web, I mean, I literally searched a solution for hours!

But nevertheless, thank you all very much for trying to help me!

cool glad you solved it