made a guid partition installed sl now what help!

[terramir]

Okies I clean installed sl, and don't panic I left a about 38gb partition at the end of the drive to clone the windows installation back on there (cause I ain't got a compatible wifi card yet) Now I want to use boot camp to create a fake mbr and well and use ghost to reinstall the windows install in the last partition.

How do I do this?

well never mind boot camp it's telling me I have to download a new boot bios lol

Anyways anyway to let chameleon boot load it but the big question is what about not having an mbr :S

help please

terramir

[srs5694]

Are you using OS X on a non-Apple PC? I'll assume you are....

 

My understanding is that Boot Camp won't work with non-Apple hardware. There are other ways to achieve the same goals, though, so this isn't a great loss. Since it sounds like you're using GPT already, I'll direct you to my GPT fdisk program and the hybrid MBR support it provides. (You could also use a utility called gptsync to do the job, but I don't know of a central URL for it.)

 

Be aware that you might or might not be able to get Windows to boot when you restore it; Windows is very fussy about its boot partition.

 

An alternative would be to use GPT directly in Windows, but this will only work if you've got an EFI firmware on your motherboard, instead of or in addition to a conventional BIOS. See this post. for information; but I can't vouch for this procedure, since I've never tried it.

[terramir]

Are you using OS X on a non-Apple PC? I'll assume you are....

 

My understanding is that Boot Camp won't work with non-Apple hardware. There are other ways to achieve the same goals, though, so this isn't a great loss. Since it sounds like you're using GPT already, I'll direct you to my GPT fdisk program and the hybrid MBR support it provides. (You could also use a utility called gptsync to do the job, but I don't know of a central URL for it.)

 

Be aware that you might or might not be able to get Windows to boot when you restore it; Windows is very fussy about its boot partition.

 

An alternative would be to use GPT directly in Windows, but this will only work if you've got an EFI firmware on your motherboard, instead of or in addition to a conventional BIOS. See this post. for information; but I can't vouch for this procedure, since I've never tried it.

I've had windows xp moved from one partition to another on ghost it wasn't much of a problem I partitioned the windows/msdos partition from the SL installer, but I'll look into that utillity your talking about. I just need to repartition the last 40 gigs of my hd to have a small fake mbr and then a nice partition where I can restore windows too, until I find a driver for the ar9285 wifi I'm stuck using windows for wifi.

terramir

[terramir]

okies solved it somewhat it works but it's not a clean install of windows since you got the efi partition and the apple journaled when you do a clean install with sl (HD method and the netbook installer app) already on there if during the install you made an msdos partition (with the disktool in the SL installer) when you use ghost to restore your windows xp partition it will write a bootflag to the partition it just restored so when you reboot you end up in windows (bad osx and bootloader gone)

You reboot from a dos startup disk (win98 will do with partbeta on it) go into partbeta 2.40 http://www.ranish.com/part/ and then you press F5 if your using an external hd or flash drive as C: if your using a floppy you should see your HD map

select the Efi partition and press B to boot flag the efi partition and you should have no problems dual booting with chameleon 2rc3. works for me even though the whole disk shows up as guid in the disk utility. I dunno I think that windows xp needs mbr to install but it doesn't really care how the bootflag is directed to the partition in this case chameleon boots the partition.

terramir