Nik Louch Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 Hi Can anyone guide me through setting up a reliable dual boot (OSX / Win7)? I already have most of it done: 1) Drive partitioned GUID 2 partitons (1 for OSX / 1 for Win 7) 2) OSX 10.6.4 fully updated all installed and working 3) Chameleon Boot Loader loaded, ability to boot into OSX without USB Next steps should be: 4) Install Win 7 5) Return to Chameleon bootloader as primary bootloader and select between OSX and Win7 on boot But it's point 5 at which I'm getting lost. I could really do with some help... Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235172-dual-boot-noob-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Louch Posted October 24, 2010 Author Share Posted October 24, 2010 Anyone? Alternatively I could run win7 as a virtual machine, but would I be able to light game at all, such as left4dead etc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235172-dual-boot-noob-please-help/#findComment-1569587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bird_dog0347 Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I too am new at this and I have it working at the moment but not using a secondary boot manager just yet. I have 2 hard drives and I select them in my BIOS disk boot order, works perfect but I would like to change it to be a little easier. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235172-dual-boot-noob-please-help/#findComment-1570624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
geiman Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 The easier way would be to install Windows first, then install OS X, as Chameleon would recognize that Windows is installed and automatically add that option to your boot screen. If you do not want to reinstall, you basically need to boot your machine back into OS X. I have a thumb drive which I installed Chameleon on, and if my bootloader on my hard drive ever is wiped I can use the thumb drive to boot my machine and fix things. If you have another Mac, you can install chameleon to a thumb drive and then use that to boot your machine into OS X, where you can reinstall chameleon, which will fix your problems. If you don't have access to a Mac, I'd try and get one of the bootable CD's that are out there (I think [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] is the name of the newer more popular one?) and use that in place of a thumb drive. EDIT: Not sure how you installed OS X, but if what you booted from to install used Chameleon, then you could use that. Just interrupt it at the countdown, and it should show your other OS X drive to boot from. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235172-dual-boot-noob-please-help/#findComment-1570652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah101 Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 To be honest, I suggest that you use two separate disk. It is much easier and if anything goes wrong on either disk, the other disk is safe. The way I did it was install OS X with chameleon and then unplugged that disk and plugged in my other disk and installed windows. Then I plugged both disks in and chameleon picked up the windows drive, no problems. I used Snow Leo and Win 7 ~Blah Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/235172-dual-boot-noob-please-help/#findComment-1571947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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