Rox55 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 deleted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Have you tried renaming it in XP? (right click & get "properties") worked for me.. I seem to remember it didn't for someone else.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 if for say, I have the Generic.Install.DVD and i want to use the windows bootloader, and the Mac OS is going to be on my second hard drive (usually D:) do i still copy the chain0 to C: and insert C:\chain0="Mac OS X" or do i enter otherwise?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 chain0 worked for me, i can use the windows bootloader to select between Win and Mac, but i still get the Darwin loader when I select mac, which i don't mind...because I still have the option for diagnostic boot switches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Hi Jalal! I use BootMagic to boot 7 OSs and it works great. I use version 7 not the current version as it still works so I see no need to change it. You can use the advanced options to hide partitions or not, or even to switch the order of the drives in your system. I like the graphic interface. Its easy to set up from XP. Or DOS, or ME for that matter. And it lets you make a floppy to recover from if you screw it up. You can also recover from real mode DOS. It works well with OS X 86. What you do with this is disable the menus in any secondary Bootmanagers. (XP, FreeBSD, GRUB) so you don't have the multistep process you describe. My son uses the FreeBSD Boot Manager similiarly. See freebsd.org. FreeBSD is smaller than Linux, so you might like that with your dialup. Grub works but I never liked setting it up. Its easier now than a few years ago when I did it. If you like GRUB, SUSE is the most complete Linux around. You can get it from opensuse.org At one time I used a shareware program XOSL with similiar features to BootMagic. Haven't tried it with OS X. I know you are/were trying to get OS/2. Don't try its boot manager, it is obsolete. I just got Solaris, so will be trying to get 8 OSs on one PC soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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