Motive Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 ok-- so I have both windows xp and osx installed and functioning and they live on separate hard drives- the problem is that I cannot boot into either without changing the boot order in the bios- I was wondering if there is a way to bring up a screen to select which hard drive to boot into - kind of like they way that you can with bootcamp on tiger (hold alt while restarting- then choosing the disk you want). I had heard that there was a function like this on leopard, but I am not sure how to set it up or what the process is any help is great! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108620-booting-between-two-separate-hdds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 you don't have the Darwin bootloader installed? You should do a search on that, maybe there's a way to install it after you've installed your OS. That should do what you're talking about, but as you'll see from my own post, I'm a LITTLE hazy on the details. best of luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108620-booting-between-two-separate-hdds/#findComment-770391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartango Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Bios should have a startup disk key prompt, but if thats not good enough, Use EasyBCD or Darwin boot loader or grub and all that matters is (hd0) vs (hd1) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108620-booting-between-two-separate-hdds/#findComment-781046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
estebanrao Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 You can also try adding CHAIN0 line in windows XP bootloader and leave XP Drive as the default one Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108620-booting-between-two-separate-hdds/#findComment-781056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Yes, chain0 method can boot Mac Partitions even on other disks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108620-booting-between-two-separate-hdds/#findComment-782398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusofu Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Yes, chain0 method can boot Mac Partitions even on other disks. MacGirl, Intersting. Can you tell me more since in earlier post you mentioned Darwin won't boot to other hdd. OK-this is serious, I have 2 Leopard on disk0s1 and s3, plus another Leo on disk1s1. Where do I tap-in the chain0? - XP/Vista doesn't show partitions in other disk but only a drive letter - then Darwin only understood partitions not the drive letter. Graci Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108620-booting-between-two-separate-hdds/#findComment-822226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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