jgrimes80 Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I don't know about everyone else, but I'd like to be using seperate HD's for both the Os's... So here what I thought up... Plug in a external HD Update Mac OSX and Firmware Burn Drivers ReBoot Now boot the XP disk Go through the {censored}...(it may not even get this far) Think it would recognize the external disk as a potential directory? Just a thought, I'm going to tinker with it the coming week... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I think you're supposed to use a partition on the main drive to install XP on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-92754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 9, 2006 Author Share Posted April 9, 2006 I know what you're supposed to do but I don't intend to use bootcamp simply boot via install CD after the update... it's a thought, it can't hurt to try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-92795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDragon Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 as far as I'm aware XP doesnt support booting off removable media, without hacking anyway, so probably not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-92845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqualeviathan Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 as far as I'm aware XP doesnt support booting off removable media, without hacking anyway, so probably not. It does with some hacking. You can either clone the partition onto the drive (requires an intall onto the main HDD first) or us a PE edition of windows. People have even gotten XP to boot from usb thumbdrives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-92858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 Okay, first off, It doesn't work smoothly during installation as previously stated... BUT!!!! I simply used boot camp-partition-installed xp- booted osx... And went to disk utilities and mounted the NTFS partition... Connected the MBP to a PC via LAN and the external drive to the PC via firewire. Formatted the drive to NTFS, then copied the contents from the partition to the extended HD through the PC. Afterwards, I disconnected the hard drive from the PC and connected it to the MBP (OSX) went to start-up and it shows as a bootable start-up disk as well as the original partition and OSX... holding down the option key however, yields only two options... the last thing I do will be deleting the partition and reinstalling OSX+updates and seeing if it works then... tomorrow, its my buddies turn to play with it I'll post any progress If anyone has any suggestions, ideas or even solutions, please post them. I've read about ppl booting via usb drives... if you come across a site disclosing any progress, please post that too! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-92989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 i believe that windows usb or firewire drivers take over the driver, which is why it wont boot standard. i think i read somewhere that that needs to be prevented. if you google it you should find the necesary information. however, most of it will probably be about usb installs. good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-93003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 double post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-93754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 Okay, We've referred to a few expert peers and concluded we have a flaw in our setup... Firewire! (We've decided to pull this off on an older PC first) According to these gentlemen, BIOS does not support booting ieee 1394 devices... the only way to possibly aviod this is via a custom bootcd that can recognize the firewire disk then praying it works(completely)... in addition, they suggested we opt for a powered device to simply avoid any complications there. however, newer BIOS more commonly support booting off USB devices (which has to be enabled and prioritized)... First we are going to pursue the possibility of BIOS being compatable with USB devices... if it is, we're going to ditch the firewire and pick up a USB drive. If BIOS isn't, then the bootcd will be our next feat. So the battle continues... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14499-an-idea/#findComment-93755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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