Arakanis Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 I just installed Leopard on a separate partition on my hard drive, and the installation took place without any problems, but I cannot boot into my XP partition! I know you should press F8 and the darwin bootloader lets you choose which partition to boot from, but it is not giving me the option to boot into XP! How can I make the Windows option reappear? Should I try a different bootloader? Please help, I am at my wit's end ^^; Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141144-booting-problem-with-darwin/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Just try re-installing the boot loader and also check whether your Windows is on primary partition or not, because extended partitions may cause problems with boot loader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141144-booting-problem-with-darwin/#findComment-1000546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakanis Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Just try re-installing the boot loader and also check whether your Windows is on primary partition or not, because extended partitions may cause problems with boot loader. Diskutil gives me this : /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *149.0 Gi disk0 1: Windows_NTFS 134.4 Gi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Leopard 14.7 Gi disk0s5 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme Do I need to make disk0s5 active in order to have both OS options available from the bootloader? Also, how do I reinstall the bootloader if it is located in the install disk? If I tried to boot without the original install disk, I would get a "boot0 : error" message. Although I'll try do my research, I'm sure I'll mess things up if I try to do this stuff on my own Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141144-booting-problem-with-darwin/#findComment-1000764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Diskutil gives me this : /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *149.0 Gi disk0 1: Windows_NTFS 134.4 Gi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Leopard 14.7 Gi disk0s5 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme Do I need to make disk0s5 active in order to have both OS options available from the bootloader? Also, how do I reinstall the bootloader if it is located in the install disk? If I tried to boot without the original install disk, I would get a "boot0 : error" message. Although I'll try do my research, I'm sure I'll mess things up if I try to do this stuff on my own You need to make your OSX partition active, on which OSX has been installed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141144-booting-problem-with-darwin/#findComment-1000877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakanis Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 You need to make your OSX partition active, on which OSX has been installed? Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312579695 sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1: 07 0 1 1 - 1023 254 63 [ 63 - 281828232] NTFS *2: 05 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 281828295 - 30748410] Extended DOS 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused Isn't it the one with the asterisk, *2? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141144-booting-problem-with-darwin/#findComment-1001236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuBmastah Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Diskutil gives me this :1: Windows_NTFS 134.4 Gi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Leopard 14.7 Gi disk0s5 /dev/disk1 hmmm, that seems strange to me : what happened for the leopard partition was in disk0s5 ? as far as i know, if the partitionning was made clearly, it should be most likely in disk0s2 ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141144-booting-problem-with-darwin/#findComment-1002732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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