King George Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hello, Dual-booting seems to be an issue for lots of people. Here's one solution that is often forgotten: IF your operating systems are all on the same drive (different partitions but same fysical drive) you can just use the macintosh bootloader for dual-booting. So no need here for the slow acronis bootloader or the chain0-method (which never worked for me). To do this: Just set the macintosh partition active (using fdisk or acronis disk director) This will boot standardly to macintosh, if you want vista or XP, just press F8 when the bootloader loads and select the other partition. As far as I know, this only works if all operating systems are on the same fysical driven. If you want windows as standard first boot, just set its partition active, but then macintosh is unavailable. Life is all about choices... Note: to have some more time to press F8, you can add a timeout to the bootloader by typing in terminal: sudo -s (password) nano /Library/Preferences/Systemconfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist add here, at the bottom: <key>Timeout</key> <string>§</string> (where § is a number of seconds, 5 eg.) type ctrl-o to writeout and ctrl-x to exit exit terminal (search terms: dual boot vista xp OSX bootloader darwin timeout partition active) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Well-written. By the way, the word is "Physical". Not "Fysical". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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