DeathChill Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 Well I have tried at least 20 different ways to dual boot OS X and Windows. Thus far there has been no success, I have even tried the way described for the dev kits with no such luck. So I decided I'd make this topic so someone who HAS succeeded can give us their method and so we can all work on it together rather then doing it all separately. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 I personally haven't tried it, as I have OSX installed on a seperate HDD. I can simply turn off my primary in the Bios, and then I get OSX. But, I have heard that grub works, as others suposedly have trouble booting the HFS filesystem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathChill Posted August 11, 2005 Author Share Posted August 11, 2005 I personally haven't tried it, as I have OSX installed on a seperate HDD. I can simply turn off my primary in the Bios, and then I get OSX. But, I have heard that grub works, as others suposedly have trouble booting the HFS filesystem. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was going to do that, but I have to partition my drive because I don't want to lose 160 GB of space just for OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prog Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 With two harddrives it should be a snap...but with one...heh, this should be fun. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 With two harddrives it should be a snap...but with one...heh, this should be fun. Yeah, just snach up a 40 or 30 GB HD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddkore Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 There is already a guide for doing this that was writen for the dual booting the real Devkit. It's actually triple booting, but it involves wiping your hard drive. If you have an extra drive to dedicate to OSX and Linux you could probably do it with out messing with your windows drive(other then the MBR), but that's just speculation on my part. with two drives, I think you'd want to partition the OSX drive into 2 partitions with disc utility,or maybe darwin, install OSX on the first partition, than set you computer to boot priority to your windows drive instead of the OSX drive. Install linux to the OSX drive, but tell it to put grub on the Windows drive. But like i said that just speculation on my part, and I take no responsibility for how badly you {censored} your computer up. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Multibooting Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prog Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 Well...I can't try right now because I don't have the proper "tools" yet, and I'll be gone for a few days, but when I try to put OS X on my system, I'll let you guys know the results as far as the booting thing. I already have Windows XP on it's own hard drive, and Ubuntu Linux on another harddrive that is partitioned 10 gigs to ext3 for Linux and the other 64 gigs to NTFS for windows. I'm going to take the rest of that space for Windows and try to throw OS X on it. If that doesn't work, I have one more 80 gig hdd in my computer that I'll try to put OS X on. I don't have a lot of experience with trying to make GRUB boot into OS X :cough cough, since it hasn't been possible in the past...: but I will certainly try. If it's not automatic, GRUB's menu.lst file is editable so you can try to make it boot other OSes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 It looks like MacGirl may figured this out: http://www.concretesurf.co.nz/osx86/viewtopic.php?t=450 You go girl...! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-1519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraSkuzzi Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 The most luck I had was installing VCom's System Commander 7 on my Windows HD (Primary Master) and putting my OSX HD on the Primary Slave. Works like a charm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-7616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Well this is about the right thread to keep eyes on. I'll be picking up a 40 tomorrow and partition it 2 ways. one for windows and the secondary prt. for mac. If that dont work, I might try DSL (Damn Small Linux) insteadof other bloated distro. 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-7625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacFeast Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Try to DD the image onto another drive (not partition), e.g. dd if=tiger-x86.img of=/dev/sda then dd back the partition, e.g. dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/hdaX That worked for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-7756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcruzlara Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Don't know if it only works for me or if you guys don't know about it but you can dual boot for free. You just click enter when it saiys to if u wanna enter the setup. Then you select Windows NTFS and then press enter. It boots up great and yea... So anyone tried that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-7872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauge Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 works fine for me... install OSX first then win xp .... both on 1 HD on two partition.... after installing XP, boot up with a knoppix or gentoo live cd and change the boot partition to the OSX partition and voila! OSX recognizes the windows partition and you get to choose which partition to boot up by pressing Enter in the boot screen going to try triple boot soon! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-7910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowdiver Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 bootmagic works. simple. clean. useful. install. configure. run. no copying etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-8552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
makatak12 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 How Do you change the Boot partition using a linux cd? What are the commands? i'm a nooB Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-9409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emm Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Acronis disk director also has a boot manager that works with OSX. I would rather use simple screen like XP's and chain0 but I can't get it to work after doing a native install from DVD. Emm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-9528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Nightmare Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Being too lazy to read your post, I can safely say at least my method; I use two hard drives, and all I do to boot into OSX is hit F8 during POST, then choose the hard drive that OSX86 is on. Darwin then comes up, and two hits of the enter key and I'm logged in. Extremely simple and easy method. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-9542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insertnamehere Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 i use Smart Boot Manager because the chain0 file wasn't working for me, it's pretty simple just stick in the floppy and choose the partition you want to boot from. I remember it saying you could boot it off an hd without making another partition to. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-9791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazykula Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I followed the steps here :http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Install_On_A_Partition_Simple_And_Accurate for install and dual boot. Used widows only, and the boot.ini + chain0 setup. Works great. backup oyur boot.ini 1st Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-9890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdull Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 My steps for OSx + WINXP OSX first using Generic DVD native installation Create 2 partitions, one for osx, another ... well.. prepare for xp (actually I have created 3.. one for data exchange) the first 2 format to OSX format and last one FAT32 After OSX installation, Start XP installation, at this point I delete the last 2 partition because XP recongize the last partition as C: I set up a new partition and leave around 15G free space there After installed XP, I create the last parition as FAT32 (all primary) Then I use some third party tool to set the first partition active.. and it is done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-24289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogles Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Being too lazy to read your post, I can safely say at least my method; I use two hard drives, and all I do to boot into OSX is hit F8 during POST, then choose the hard drive that OSX86 is on. Darwin then comes up, and two hits of the enter key and I'm logged in. Extremely simple and easy method. I don't understand what you are saying here. Hit F8 like entering safe mode? When I do I don't get an option for the other HD, just Windows options. Please clarify. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-24807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1r3f1ght3r Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I don't understand what you are saying here. Hit F8 like entering safe mode? When I do I don't get an option for the other HD, just Windows options. Please clarify. A feature with his MOBO allows him select boot device at POST time (before any OS is loading... not the F8 you are thinking of) My dells are F12 for the boot menu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-24808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doogles Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Don't know if it only works for me or if you guys don't know about it but you can dual boot for free. You just click enter when it saiys to if u wanna enter the setup. Then you select Windows NTFS and then press enter. It boots up great and yea... So anyone tried that? Can you ID your setup a bit more? Are you booting to one or two HDs? Whic OS is booting when you enter setup? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/148-dual-booting-natively/#findComment-24810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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