deskBound Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Hope I can get some help with an issue I have... I have XP and OSX installed nicely on the one HDD and it's working well - thanks in part to all the great help from this community. Trouble is, the HDD is getting filled up. I'd like to move the OSX to its own HDD so the operating systems are on seperate disks. I have used Disk Utility to make a copy of my OSX partition on this new HDD, but I can't see it when I boot. I also can't boot this HDD from BIOS. Is the issue that this new partition isn't a primary partition? I use Boot INI and Chain0 as way of selecting what to boot too. I'd prefer not to have to use BIOS to select this second HDD. Thanks for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163632-osx-on-second-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Hope I can get some help with an issue I have... I have XP and OSX installed nicely on the one HDD and it's working well - thanks in part to all the great help from this community. Trouble is, the HDD is getting filled up. I'd like to move the OSX to its own HDD so the operating systems are on seperate disks. I have used Disk Utility to make a copy of my OSX partition on this new HDD, but I can't see it when I boot. I also can't boot this HDD from BIOS. Is the issue that this new partition isn't a primary partition? I use Boot INI and Chain0 as way of selecting what to boot too. I'd prefer not to have to use BIOS to select this second HDD. Thanks for your help. If memory serves me it should be a primary partition so you may want to re-partition then use diskutil to copy again then once done get either the chameleon installer run it then select the new install as the destination or you can use the older PC_EFI and run some commands in Terminal to put its boot loader on the partition. Once your done putting either boot loader install on the new drive you should be able to select the drive to boot from, you have a Gigabyte board/BIOS like mine so you have a key (F12) you can hit to get a boot menu to select which device you want to boot from this will save going into it every time to change the boot order. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163632-osx-on-second-hdd/#findComment-1141540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuma Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 well, I wouldnt assume everyone is using a gigabyte board and hitting F12... so i guess there was no help in that last reply, so I'm going to bump the thread. I too am looking for a way to dual boot on seperate drives, OSX and XP - let me say again... on different drives. (i have read so many threads about this where someone says its so easy, but they dont really read that we're not doing this on the same HD). So, in my findings - Chameleon is unable to do this, as is chain0 or tboot on the XP drive, and I even tried rEFIt and Acronis... nothing works. I guess I'm going to have to dump a drive and put XP on a fat32 partition on my OSX drive.. that just seems really stupid that that is the only way to dual boot OSX and XP... You can't use NTFS? Also, before anyone says use Vista... no.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163632-osx-on-second-hdd/#findComment-1146486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 the new Chameleon 2 allows you to select which drive you want to boot from... works great for me with 2 different drives with Leo on them, and another drive with vista. Dont see why it wouldn't work for xp. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/163632-osx-on-second-hdd/#findComment-1149526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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