t1mse Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Hi everyone. Need help to make a SL Master boot record DVD. i have successfully installed SL from a retail DVD 10.6(.0) on a empty hard drive formatted in GPT, on my MSi cx620. then i was trying, but found out that win 7 ultimate doesn't install gpt, only mbr. The i formatted the drive into mbr and installed win 7 ultimate, and now i want to install my SL again. have tried to make an bootable usb, with the osinstall.mpkg file switched with one that allow mbr install, but my com wont boot?? have tried with Netbookbootmaker, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] cd disk, iatkos and many others, you name it! hope someone have the clue to my problem. t1mse Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/237189-sl-on-msi-cx620-mbr/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Hi everyone. Need help to make a SL Master boot record DVD. i have successfully installed SL from a retail DVD 10.6(.0) on a empty hard drive formatted in GPT, on my MSi cx620. then i was trying, but found out that win 7 ultimate doesn't install gpt, only mbr. The i formatted the drive into mbr and installed win 7 ultimate, and now i want to install my SL again. have tried to make an bootable usb, with the osinstall.mpkg file switched with one that allow mbr install, but my com wont boot?? have tried with Netbookbootmaker, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] cd disk, iatkos and many others, you name it! hope someone have the clue to my problem. t1mse Unless "Ultimate" is different to other Win 7 then that is incorrect, it can be installed on GUID partition. See for example http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=169182 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/237189-sl-on-msi-cx620-mbr/#findComment-1583884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
t1mse Posted November 15, 2010 Author Share Posted November 15, 2010 Unless "Ultimate" is different to other Win 7 then that is incorrect, it can be installed on GUID partition.See for example http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=169182 But then why does the win 7 install tell me that it can't install on a gpt disk? i have already tried to make the dualboot that way, and it wouldn't succeed!!?? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/237189-sl-on-msi-cx620-mbr/#findComment-1583917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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