scuba Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 OK this is all the wrong way round....I had a perfectly running system Dual Booting X and XP from 2 small IDE Hard Drives. I bought a new Big SATA drive partitioned it into 3 (HFS+, FAT32 for XP and FAT32 for Documents) with the drive setup utility on the MacOS DVD and installed X to it simply and easily with a native install... It even kindly transferred EVERYTHING from my previous install of X, Apps and all. I then rebooted, with the XP CD, went through the standard install procedure, rebooted and it went straight into MacOS..... I thought XP took hold of the system and greedily kept it all to itself!!! so I rebooted with Hirens Disk Tools, sure enough the primary Active partition was the XP partition, I rebooted with the XP CD and did a FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from recovery console, rebooted and got a non system disk error. After changing back the active partition to MacOS I can boot just fine, and even get the Darwin bootloader menu, but selecting the Foreign OS results in just a Non System Disk Error. I've reinstalled XP 3 times now with no joy on reboot, I even removed the SATA drive and installed to another larger IDE, the system refuses to boot. Installing XP is supposed to be the easy bit!!!! What am I doing wrong?? PS I also tried installing Ubuntu and that failed on me too, although that may be a faulty CD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30718-installation-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Windows and Linux use a partitioning scheme called MBR. The BIOS on a PC expects an MBR partitioning scheme. Using Disk Utility on the installer DVD to partition caused the hard drive to be partitioned using GUID - the Apple method for partitioning an Intel Apple Mac. PPC Apple Macs use a partitioning scheme called Apple Partition Scheme. These schemes confuse BIOS on a PC as well as confusing Windows. You should use a Windows/Linux utility to partition the hard drive first. Then format the OSX partition as MacOS Extended Journaled. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30718-installation-problem/#findComment-212887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuba Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Thanks, I just found the same answer on a site instructing how to triple boot using Boot Camp (I realise Boot Camp cannot be used for non Apple systems as they have EFI instead of BIOS) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30718-installation-problem/#findComment-212897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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