Dual Boot Partitioning Question

[jthunder]

I have a quick question regarding the best approach to take.

 

I have 2 partitions currently under a windows 2000 install.

 

In order on the disk:

 

An 8 GB NTFS partition, marked active with windows 2000 system files.

An 20 GB Extended NTFS partition, mostly empty.

20GB of free space.

 

I'd like to dual boot Windows 2000 and OSX86.

 

This is what I was thinking would work:

1. Boot OSX install DVD

2. In the install use disk utility to partition the 20GB free space at the end of the disk for OSX

3. Install in the new partition

4. Reboot - and use the OSX boot menu to start either win2k or OSX.

 

Questions:

1. After the install, will OSX boot? or will windows 2k boot?

2. If I wanted to start Win2k by default using the OSX boot loader what would I do?

3. If I wanted to start Win2k by default using the Win2k boot loader what would I do?

 

Thanks

 

JT

[RAF2]

I'd like to dual boot Windows 2000 and OSX86.

 

This is what I was thinking would work:

1. Boot OSX install DVD

2. In the install use disk utility to partition the 20GB free space at the end of the disk for OSX

3. Install in the new partition

4. Reboot - and use the OSX boot menu to start either win2k or OSX.

 

 

I'd say to previsouly partition your drive as FAT32 with any Windows partitioning tool (Partition Magic for example).

So on the Disk Utility during installation you just choose this FAT32 partition and click on the ERASE button to make it HFS+ and proceed with installation.

 

 

Questions:

1. After the install, will OSX boot? or will windows 2k boot?

2. If I wanted to start Win2k by default using the OSX boot loader what would I do?

3. If I wanted to start Win2k by default using the Win2k boot loader what would I do?

 

Depends on your bootloader.

 

Chain0 method is the most safe and easier IMHO. It loads Windows bootloader, which reads boot.ini.

On the boot.ini there's a reference to the file chain0 on C:\, which boots up MacOS X.

 

I'd do the chain0 method, get the chain0 file and put it on your C:\, then edit your boot.ini. Do it before you install/start Mac OS X... just to avoid troubles. I did this here and worked like a charm.