lonalymac Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Hello. I made a really coragous [or stupid] move: I put my leo4all disc in my optical discs drive and BANG! deleted old windows and installed new Leopard 10.5.2 on fresh partitions.While I was doing that I kept thinking: there must be a way : I will make 2 partitions : on one I will install Leo, and the second I'll leave empty and in the future I'll install windows on it and I will have a dual boot. I would have done that but none of my windows disks was bootable [except for xp but this one is out of game]. Now I'm running Leo 10.5.2. I've installed all the kext beautifully and everything is running really smoothly [ except that my dual core processor isn't supported - shame, isn't it] So my question is this : I left one partition TOTALLy empty. Is there a way, from this point, when I have Leo installed on one partition, to Install WINDOWS on the second one and have a dual-boot PC??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reivan Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Well this is the easiest way. install windows xp on the other hard drive. then download and install a program called acronis disk director (http://www.filetransit.com/download.php?id=3740) i haven't tested this file for virus's or even if it works its just a quick google search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartont Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Assuming the only disk (disk 0), Mac is on partition 1, Winblows is on partition 2 and is formatted as MSDOS in Disk Utility, i do this in a terminal as root: sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 2 quit reboot Boot from winblows dvd/cd and install and setup. To make the darwin boot loader work, you will need to make the Mac partition active. I use DISKPART in a DOS window to do this: DISKPART select disk 0 select part 1 active exit reboot and Darwin boot loader will run. You still won be able to boot windows because the mbr is messed up. Set the Windows partition actives again and fix the mbr: sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit reboot This time boot from Winblows install DVD/CD and use the repair. It should recognize the os repair and reboot. Winblows should boot fine. Again, make the Mac partition active using DISKPART in DOS: DISKPART select disk 0 select part 1 active exit Should boot Darwin boot loader now and you should be able to successfully choose Mac or Winblows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zakfontaine Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 nice tut bartont... I didn't realize it was so simple. I'll be trying this later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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