i_am...me Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 Personally i find it easier and more convenient to have the systems on there own drive tbh is less hass less chance of things getting broken Not really an option on a laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
more or less Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 That actually spounds like a useful suggestion.. what does a hybrid GPT/MBR disk look like & how would one go about making one? Interesting reads... http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2006/04/0...mp-shenanigans/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Must admit i only made 1 drive guid the other day to try pc_efi 7.2 before they were both mbr and everything was same as it is now on on pc_efi 6.0 i dont know the benefits really off guid as opposed to mbr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
more or less Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Must admit i only made 1 drive guid the other day to try pc_efi 7.2 before they were both mbr and everything was same as it is now on on pc_efi 6.0 i dont know the benefits really off guid as opposed to mbr Well, when I started apparently I had a hybrid drive that was GUID with an MBR bootwrapper to make XP happy. That made booting into XP an easy default, and using XP booting to select the Mac OS to reboot. After I changed the timeout on Darwin its really not so big a deal. Also, each format just essentially work more natively with the OS system. Apprently GUID is more UNIX friendly and povides shorter drive/path and HD sector addressing. In other words, its potentially faster than MBR, even when in partitions on the same HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 i read some of those and it seems that boot camp makes a hybrid MBR which is what we need! i keep trying to get it but it still says i need to update. Any one know how to alter the Boot ROM version so it shows up in the IOTree, where boot camp checks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper X Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 So rEFIt wont work even though its not based on anything to do with the EFI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 i dont think so. i cant test since its not in an ISO, its only in a .DMG and .CDR EDIT tired rEFIt on an external drive. didnt work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 With V8 i can dual boot successfully, so im going to give up on cracking this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Reeves Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 With V8 i can dual boot successfully, so im going to give up on cracking this So are you able to use Boot Camp Assistant and Boot Camp using EFI V8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 No, but with Vista x64, you can boot from a GUID-partitioned HDD using EFI v8, which is also what I'm doing (which is actually less messy than MBR; installing Vista didn't kill Leopard to the piont you had to rewrite the MBR because there isn't one anymore). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Reeves Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 No, but with Vista x64, you can boot from a GUID-partitioned HDD using EFI v8, which is also what I'm doing (which is actually less messy than MBR; installing Vista didn't kill Leopard to the piont you had to rewrite the MBR because there isn't one anymore). Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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