roadmap1234 Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I've installed Kalway osx86 and have with xp allready installed. Bute I made the mistake that I installes the oxs into a extended parition (xp is a primary) so I'm forced to boot into xp bootloader and then chose osx, go into darwin bootloader and choose the again the osx. Is there a way to convert the extended partition with osx into a primary without reinstalling it? My harddiskconfig: 80 GB Winx XP (Primary) NTFS (Boot, Active) 100 GB OsX86 (in Extended Partition) HFS+ 220 GB Data Partiton(also in the same Extended Partitoon) NTFS Any suggestions? I would like to have a system which boots into osx by default and into xp by option! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146610-change-partition-type/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aranius Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I would take a workaround and make Darwin boot in silencemode, so after you selected OSX in XPbootloader it would boot OSX off Darwin but without you having to do anything... Don't know much about XPbootloader, but it should be able to make OSX boot first there, not? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146610-change-partition-type/#findComment-1039616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmap1234 Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 Yeah THAT yould be great BUT howTo?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146610-change-partition-type/#findComment-1039654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmap1234 Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 OK I think I nearly get it. I edit the com.apple.boot.plist. my osx partition is drive 0 partiton 5. So I added this: <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>rd=disk0s5</string> <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>Yes</string> But this ends into a infinite loop booting nothing. Any suggestions?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146610-change-partition-type/#findComment-1040006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmap1234 Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Nobody able to give me a hint, how to enable silent boot into this patition??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146610-change-partition-type/#findComment-1041918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmap1234 Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 OK I found it out on my own. I changed partition type with Acronis Disk Director. Made Partiton active and bootable. Rebootet from Install-DVD and repaired the Volume and voila it works. Also solved Bootloader-Problem by this for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146610-change-partition-type/#findComment-1049970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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