brandonlouis Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 First of all, this was all done on an Inspiron 6000. I was able to succesfully install osx86 using the patch DVD method found in bender's release, which I am pretty proud of, as I have had exhausted all other installation attempts. I then added Xp to a partition I had set-up during the OSX install. XP loaded fine and booted up. At this point, I was told that all I needed to do was to set my osx86 partition to "active". Not having a win98se boot disk, I used an app from Partition Magic (can't remember the exact name) that allowed me to reboot to the other partiition. I tested out OSX once more, and it fired up right away, I restarted and this time selected the XP partition. After sitting at the boot screen for a few minutes, it gave me an error saying "AUTOCHK not found", then dumped to the BSOD, Any ideas? If possible, I want to try and avoid reinstalling both OS's. as it is a pain in the arse. I have really enjoyed OSX so far, but since it does not yet support wireless, I need a dual boot system. Plus, I don't know if I am ready to go "cold turkey" from Windows. Thanks for the help in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam0r Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Startup using an XP cdrom. Get into the commant prompt and do a chkdsk. That might fix things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonlouis Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 I will try to run the chkdsk. After doing some research, I am starting to believe that when I made the osx86 partition active, I hid the xp partition... The problem is, I don't know how to go from here. Is there a way I can make the XP partition active again using linux or Tiger? If I did that, I think I could get back into XP and then make the switch again, without hiding the XP partition. EDIT: I ended up reinstalling XP on top of it's original partition. Then I went back and used a microsoft utility called BOOTPART to change my active primary partition to OSx86. It was really easy to use, I suggest it to anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucan#n# Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 booting with a live linux distribution (i.e. slackware live) and using CFDISK you can change the activation state of all partitions of your HD without reinstalling Win XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Or you can search the wiki and find the solution. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...le_And_Accurate * In your BIOS set CD-ROM as 1st Boot Device. * Insert your Windows XP Setup CD, to boot from CD. * After the intial loading of drivers is over, on the Welcome to Setup Screen with 3 options; Press R key, to "Repair XP installation using Recovery Console". * On the next screen you will be asked to choose your Windows installation, choose the one that is causing the problem by typing the number beside it. * You will be prompted for Adminstrator account's password. Press Enter if the password was blank. * Type the following commands, and press enter after each one: o Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini (where C: is the partition where XP was installed) o DEL C:\Boot.ini o BootCfg /Rebuild o Fixboot * Reboot your PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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