fullmtlblanket Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Well, I installed OSX but I don't know how to boot up windows. the windows partition is still there. I just need a boot disk or something that I can do through OSX. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13345-setup-boot-manager-from-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Have you a Windows XP CD? Then you can boot from it, select to repair with the recovery console instead of to install Windows and type in the console: - fixboot + INTRO - fixmbr + INTRO - exit (reboot) But when you want to boot again Os X, you will not be able except booting from the Tiger DVD and selecting the Mac OS X startup disk at the beginning of the installation. XP and Tiger are installed into the same disk? You must read the dual booting subforum to look for a solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13345-setup-boot-manager-from-osx/#findComment-84937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fullmtlblanket Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 Have you a Windows XP CD? Then you can boot from it, select to repair with the recovery console instead of to install Windows and type in the console:- fixboot + INTRO - fixmbr + INTRO - exit (reboot) But when you want to boot again Os X, you will not be able except booting from the Tiger DVD and selecting the Mac OS X startup disk at the beginning of the installation. XP and Tiger are installed into the same disk? You must read the dual booting subforum to look for a solution. Thank you! I will do this! I will figure out a dual booting solution from within windows Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13345-setup-boot-manager-from-osx/#findComment-85151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Here in the forum some people has solved this problem with Acronis OS Selector. Others use the boot manager of Windows XP (chain0 method), or Grub (Linux boot manager), but many people are in troubled about this. I've tried a lot of solutions (chain0, Grub, MBRMenu, GAC...) without success, at last I've got an internal case for hard disk and into the case a SATA disk, the case has a front switch to turn on/off this device that contains Tiger, this hard disk is plugged into the first SATA connector of the board and the disk with XP is plugged into the second connector, so, if I turn on the Tiger disk, the PC boots with Tiger, otherwise, boots with XP. Another way: to get an external case for SATA disk (this case that have both interfaces in the back panel, USB2 and SATA), to take out from the PC a SATA cable through any back hole, all this cases have a switch to turn it on/off and to select what hard disk to boot by turning on/off the external disk before pressing the power button of the PC. More: it's posible to plugg the external disk through the USB2 interface and to use Tiger from that, the time the system take to start is a bit annoying but afterwards the system is almost fast as from an internal disk. Here you can see the time taken by XP and Tiger in my PC: - Tiger x86 / SATA disk: start 25" / stop 6" - Tiger x86 / USB2 disk: start 65" / stop 8" - Windows XP / SATA disk: start 45" / stop 10" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13345-setup-boot-manager-from-osx/#findComment-85174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphinx Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 i made two primary partitions and installed winxp first and then tiger 10.4.5 on the other. the darwin bootloader was automatically loaded and gave me the choice of which partition to boot from. maybe the darwin bootloader works if both partitions are primary. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13345-setup-boot-manager-from-osx/#findComment-85232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 "...two primary partitions and installed winxp first and then tiger 10.4.5 on the other...." This schema is valid for many people that use the Darwin boot loader, press F8 at startup if necessary to show the boot loader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13345-setup-boot-manager-from-osx/#findComment-85344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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