chrisc Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 Hi. I'm trying to install both, XP and X one my harddrive (80gb). I got the bootable patched OSX-DVD. It installs fine. My question: How can I install both operating systems? I read some articles about dualboot but they refer to VM-Ware Install (so those articles do not refer to a bootable OSX-DVD-Install). Who can help me? Thx a lot! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
grockk Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I use the ntldr supplied with XP. Mkae two partitions on your drive for the seperate os's. Install windows on the first. Install OSX on the second. OSX will make itself the boot partition. You can leave that but the you computer restarts into OSX. to get around this. use the XP cd and boot to recovery console. then run fixboot. restart. now how do you get to OSX. download the file chain0. put it on root of the XP drive. in boot.ini type at the bottom chain0="OSx86". then restart. this time you should have a menu and OSX will be a choice. tada. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-19767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 There are so many ways to do this the mind boggles.. install your OS'es as you wish, make sure you use primary partitions for each one. A very good idea is to have a fat32 partition available (either the windws boot partition or an extra) because it is read/writeable from most OS'es. Depending on which OS boots when you are finished installing, set up your booting as follows: If you're in linux: add windows & MacOS to your bootloader. GRUB is covered elsewhere on this forum, I use LILO & set it up with: other=/dev/hda2 label=Windows_XP_Pro for Windows and other=/dev/hda1 label=OSX_10.4.1 for OSX remember to use the correct partitions for your system. If you're in OSX, copy the file /usr/standalone/i386/chain0 to a fat32 partition where you can get it from windows, then use the startup disk control panel to select your windows partition to boot. When in windows, set up chain0 as described above. Remember, you can always use the OSX DVD or a linux live CD or a bootdisk like hiren's to boot up & set partitions active so you boot the way you want to. As a rule there is no boot problem that cannot be fixed if the partitions are set up right. Maybe someone with knowledge of the darwin bootloader can add to this, like I said there are so many ways... Oh, & btw.. if anyone has figured out how to boot from extended(logical) partitions I for one would like to know.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-19771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisc Posted September 30, 2005 Author Share Posted September 30, 2005 Thank You! It worked. But when I boot my laptop and the Windows boot menu appears and i choose OSX i still must choose between XP and OSX (Darwin shows two partitions: first XP, 2nd OSX. Is there a possibility to automize this, so that I don not have to selcet OSX twice? Thx! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-19998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
avioli Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 Thank You! It worked. But when I boot my laptop and the Windows boot menu appears and i choose OSX i still must choose between XP and OSX (Darwin shows two partitions: first XP, 2nd OSX. Is there a possibility to automize this, so that I don not have to selcet OSX twice? Thx! why the hell you did the fixboot option then, when darwin is showing you the option to boot in xp and in osx?!?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-28600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
anakaine Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Avioli The option to boot windows, or mac, is presented by the file Chain0. Which was added AFTER running fixboot. Chrisc was not to know he would later be presented with these options. Chrisc: As an "out there" idea... Can you use msconfig (Start menu -> Run -> msconfig) and edit out the line that starts with multi(0) in boot.ini and just leave the chain0 line? I am *not sure* if this will work. But I'd reason that would just leave you with the menu presented yb chain0, thus leaving you with one choice. I might also be totally wrong. I guess at least you could always run fixboot again to bring yourself back to where you are.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-28771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
klapi Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 I use the ntldr supplied with XP. Mkae two partitions on your drive for the seperate os's. Install windows on the first. Install OSX on the second. OSX will make itself the boot partition. You can leave that but the you computer restarts into OSX. to get around this. use the XP cd and boot to recovery console. then run fixboot. restart. now how do you get to OSX. download the file chain0. put it on root of the XP drive. in boot.ini type at the bottom chain0="OSx86". then restart. this time you should have a menu and OSX will be a choice. tada. I have osx as a choice but when i select it something happens so quick i cant even see, and then its back at the os select menu. i have no idea what it's telling me after i select osx, it's impossible to see. does anyone have a fix for this? :/ someone said "hit f8" but that doesnt work - i think he was misunderstanding the person who asked with "i cant see osx in the menu". anyways, have anyone else experienced this and have a solution for it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-38573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
klapi Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 is there a way to make os x the boot partition again? i've installed os x first, then xp Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3111-xp-and-osx-dualboot-with-bootable-osx-dvd/#findComment-38627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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