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Dual Booting Windows XP SP2 on a computer with Mac OS X 10.4.8?


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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!

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