carlos618 Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 My computer originally had Windows XP installed, but i did a native install of Mac OS X. What would be the easiest way to dual boot Windows XP without killing my existing Mac OS X. Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 There is a freeware bootloader called WinGrub. It is a GUI for Windows for the GRUB bootloader and can be used to dual boot Windows and OS X. You can download it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104188 and a good example guide is here: http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wingrub.html All you have to do is install it in XP, tell it where OS X is, and it does the rest for you. What it does is once you tell it where "X" is, it will put a small file on your C:\ drive ("grbldr"?) with a few bites of code so that Grub can pick it up and boot it. Then it will update the NT bootloader (boot.ini) with the correct entry. It's really that simple. I prefer this method over the Darwin bootloader because it only takes a few minutes to set up and you're done. Some harddrive location examples are: hd0,0 = Primary drive, first partition (Usually Windows) hd0,1 = Primary drive, second partition hd1,0 = Second drive, first partition hd1,1 = Second drive second partition and so on. As long as you don't mess with the entry in boot.ini that points to XP, you should be able to play with it untill you get it right. Just read the guide at the link above before you do anything and you will be dual booting before you know it. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l3opard Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Can someone suggest a good way for dual booting linux and osx. I originally had debian on my box then installed osx. Now it boots directly into osx, and does not show me the partition where debian was installed. Can someone help!! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) L3opard, Go to this site: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_dual...x_mac_os_x.html It has links to online material that tell you exactly how to fix things. Good Luck! P.S. This is off-topic for this thread. You should start a new one.... Edited February 19, 2007 by SnowHow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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