Wyatt Goettsch Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I installed retail OS X on my Wind using a boot-132 disc and my retail Leopard install DVD, leaving a partition open to install XP on later, and installed Chameleon in order to make it boot without disc swapping... But when I try to install Windows XP on the other partition I get a missing hal.dll error problem after the base installation, rendering the system unbootable. When I installed Leopard I had to format the hard drive with a GUID partition map, since the retail DVD won't let you install on anything else. I thought this might be the source of theproblem, but since I was able to dual boot when I installed OS X with the "WindOSx86.iso" slipstream release (it uses GUID by default) I can't be sure this is the problem. I have heard of at least one other person who was able to dual boot retail OS X and Windows XP on their wind, but now I wonder if they're just full of {censored} and that it's altogether impossible. There are so many results on google about people dual booting with those patched DVDs that it's hard to find what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any actual information of having done this? Dual booting retail OS X and Windows XP? Help is greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PainWarlock Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 ok get your windows cd goto recovery console and do fixboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/#findComment-1028846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Goettsch Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 ok get your windows cd goto recovery console and do fixboot Sorry, that doesn't help at all. So does anyone know how to dual boot Windows with Mac OS X using a GUID partition map? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/#findComment-1030097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smopoim86 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...125739&st=0 I may get around to trying it as I want a dual boot, but right now i do not want to reinstall osx on my wind so i'm procrastinating. I'm looking for a guide on how to do this without reinstalling everything. Daniel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/#findComment-1031735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Goettsch Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...125739&st=0 I may get around to trying it as I want a dual boot, but right now i do not want to reinstall osx on my wind so i'm procrastinating. I'm looking for a guide on how to do this without reinstalling everything. Daniel This is a terrific guide, only I'm still having problems... I followed the guide and everything, and was able to make the install DVD work with MBR partitions. Leopard and Windows XP show up on the Darwin bootloader list, but when I try to boot Windows from this list nothing happens. Even after I set the Windows partition back to active, I get: Error loading operating system Words are inadequate to express my frustration. Please help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/#findComment-1036182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Goettsch Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Bump. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/#findComment-1043037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Bump. i think i had a similar experience recently. i have 2 drives however. but if u use gparted to hide a partition it might work ? main issue i had to boot xp from darwin it seem to not support ntfs? . thats where the osloader came in handy. what worked for me in 2 drive config. 1 GUID and one MBR using dfe-132 bootloader i hit esc 2 times then type 81 and loads second drive shows x partititon 1.1 and the osloader as 1.5 that one loads with error could not bot disk press any key, then xp loads for me lol ( i think if i play with osloader menu i can make the error go away) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144945-dual-booting-retail-os-x-and-windows-xp-from-one-hdd/#findComment-1043192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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