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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101034-os-x-working-on-hd1-best-method-for-xp-on-hd2/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101034-os-x-working-on-hd1-best-method-for-xp-on-hd2/#findComment-721066 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101034-os-x-working-on-hd1-best-method-for-xp-on-hd2/#findComment-721115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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