qyron Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Hi, Here is my osx86 experience: I have single hard drive and I want to have MacOsX and Vista on it. I formatted the disk using GUID partition table with this scheme: 1: EFI partition (created automatically) 2: FAT32 (windows partition) 3: HFS+ (macosx partition) 4: FAT32 (misc data) Then I installed Vista 64-bit (as it supports GUID partitions) onto 2nd partition and OsX (from retail dvd) to 3rd partition. In order to boot retail OsX I chose munkey's excellent guide which allows to use this 1st EFI partition (which is otherwise unused) to store the loader. But now I have a big problem: I can't use neither bootloader (vista's and osx's) to dual-boot both OSes. Vista's bootloader can't boot darwin bootloader from the 1st partition (even using boot0 file) and darwin bootloader don't recognize vista installation (as I know it isn't supposed to do it). Though I can boot both OSes using "f 1" or "f 2" in fdisk but that isn't solution. Now I have to ruin my setup and install everything from the scratch because I really need to use both systems very frequently. So here I got some questions concerning MBR and GPT: 1. Is there still any way to dual-boot Vista and OsX on single GPT-partitioned drive? GPT is technologically superior and I'd like to stick with it... 2. As I understand the only advantage of GPT over MBR is ability to resize partitions without data loss. But PartitionMagic/Acronis programs can do this also.. So wha't the point? 3. rEFIt's "Myths and Facts" section mentions that if I choose "MBR" on partitioning (Disk Utility on retail DVD) I won't even be able to install OsX there. Is that true? What is the best solution for my case? Any help appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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