Cosmin Petre Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Hi, I've been reading the forums and need a little clarification as to whether this is the correct way of setting up a dual boot on my setup... I have 10.5.2 installed on 1 SATA hd and have time machine on another 250gb SATA drive that is partitioned 50/50. I would like to install XP on the partition on the second hd. As I understand the best way to do this is to: 1. unplug the Leopard disk 2. install XP 3. Reattach Leopard 4. Set correct boot drive in BIOS At boot I should be able to press F8 and select the required OS. Is this correct? If not could somebody please give me some pointers - thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 That should work from the instructions you've posted... but I recommend using a bootloader like GRUB rather than pressing F8 each time, It would really save you time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmin Petre Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 That should work from the instructions you've posted... but I recommend using a bootloader like GRUB rather than pressing F8 each time, It would really save you time thanks levkovski, What would you advise as the preferable method; chain0, Grub or the other one (name escapes me) bearing in mind my setup. I dont want to have to reformat my Leopard drive but I am happy to change the time machine drive which is currently formatted HFS+ with 2 partitions (time machine and the space reserved for XP). Do you know of a suitable guide that would help me set up the bootloader (there are so many it gets confusing)? thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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