[solved] Dual boot 10.5.6 and XP installed on separate HDD's

[kline_zeus]

UPDATE: found the solution already, it's on my reply to this thread, thanks

 

Hello, I'm new here and the amount of information here really helped me with my install.

 

Now here's what I have now

 

I have 2 HDD's

(160GB) for my existing XP system (reinstall not an option now, if possible)

(320GB) for my osx86, and a partition for shared files

 

Here's what I want to do

 

Dual boot XP and OSX

with existing XP left untouched, the 320GB HDD broken into 2 partitions, 160 each one for osx and one for shared files between OSX and XP (FAT32) pretty easy right?

 

 

Here are my questions

 

1. Is it possible?

2. I have successfully installed the iPC 10.5.6 dist prior but can't boot with it after rebooting to XP and XP made the FAT32 partition into a primary partition. Can I do the setup I like, without XP making the FAT32 partition into a primary one?

3. boot.ini and chain0 good for the dual boot?

 

maybe i'm looking someone to spoon feed me, but it doesn't hurt to try

 

thanks

[rama]

you can install the new chameleon boot loader, works great for me.. i have 2 versions of osx, and 2 versions of vista on 4 seperate drives... i can choose which ever one I like from the boot GUI.

 

or you can do it the other way I used to do it before chameleon 2 came along... when your computer is booting, at the screen where it says 'press del to enter bios' look around for another option it says 'press f8 (or f12 of some motherboards) for boot selection".

My asus motherboards were F8, and my Gigabyte ones are F12.

if you press this you will get a pop up that allows you to choose the physical drive that you want to boot from... If you set up in the bios to boot from a particular drive as default (say winXP if you use that more than osx) and then whenever you want to boot from osx you simply press F8(or F12) at the bios screen during boot and you will be able to chose the osx drive and boot up easily.

 

hope this helps.

[kline_zeus]

you can install the new chameleon boot loader, works great for me.. i have 2 versions of osx, and 2 versions of vista on 4 seperate drives... i can choose which ever one I like from the boot GUI.

 

or you can do it the other way I used to do it before chameleon 2 came along... when your computer is booting, at the screen where it says 'press del to enter bios' look around for another option it says 'press f8 (or f12 of some motherboards) for boot selection".

My asus motherboards were F8, and my Gigabyte ones are F12.

if you press this you will get a pop up that allows you to choose the physical drive that you want to boot from... If you set up in the bios to boot from a particular drive as default (say winXP if you use that more than osx) and then whenever you want to boot from osx you simply press F8(or F12) at the bios screen during boot and you will be able to chose the osx drive and boot up easily.

 

hope this helps.

 

I finally 'cracked the code' hehe...

The problem of my installation is that I have formatted the 320GB in my diskutil that whenever I boot back to XP the 160 shared partition became into the primary partition which made it not boot to osx and further more corrupted the bootloader.

 

What I did was I went back to my XP, format the 320GB by partitioning it initially into two NTFS drives making one into a primary partition (for osx install) and the other one into a logical drive (extended partition). reboot to the installer dvd, then reformat the primary ntfs part into mac extended using diskutil and proceeded to setup.

 

after the install I went back to XP and did the chain0 for dualboot.

 

and right now I'm dual booting flawlessly

 

thanks for the reply

[rama]

you know you dont need a fat32 drive to share files right? there are a few progs you can get that allow you to read/write to ntfs.. look around for 'paragon' 'NTFSforMacOSX'

 

oh yeah, also you can get a prog for reading hfs drives on windows... called macdrive.. look it up, makes life easier