paulm308 Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 I have just installed Tiger on my pc...it's running well except the network. I installed it on a single blank ata harddisk, but I have xp and debian installed on my another harddisk which is sata. Everytime I boot the pc, I have to switch boot priority in bios setup. Is there anyway I could just selet the option to boot? I used to use grub to boot xp and debian when I just had a sata harddisk on pc. I have read some postings about grub...but still no clue...can anyone tell me how to achieve this? Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3535-how-to-boot-two-hds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 I have just installed Tiger on my pc...it's running well except the network. I installed it on a single blank ata harddisk, but I have xp and debian installed on my another harddisk which is sata. Everytime I boot the pc, I have to switch boot priority in bios setup. Is there anyway I could just selet the option to boot? I used to use grub to boot xp and debian when I just had a sata harddisk on pc. I have read some postings about grub...but still no clue...can anyone tell me how to achieve this? Thanks!!! You can try using Acronis disk director/os selector...I know for a fact it recognizes OSX and XP, and im pretty sure it recognizes linux partitions too. Give it a shot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3535-how-to-boot-two-hds/#findComment-22408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewxhawaii Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 any free bootloaders that will work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3535-how-to-boot-two-hds/#findComment-22807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 any free bootloaders that will work? Grub works fine. I see postings that lilo should work too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3535-how-to-boot-two-hds/#findComment-22809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Windows NT/2K/XP boot loader works in my configuration, even when I have XP in a SATA RAID and Mac OS X in a PATA HD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3535-how-to-boot-two-hds/#findComment-22866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZX81 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Windows NT/2K/XP boot loader works in my configuration, even when I have XP in a SATA RAID and Mac OS X in a PATA HD. me too, use the chain0 workaround (copy it from darwin cd, you can download darwin from apple) -put chain0 in your xp root directory ( C: for me ) and edit your boot.ini file [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect C:\chain0=”Mac OS x86" the last line is the addition when I boot up I get the choice XP or OSX, when I select OSX the darwin boot loader starts I have 2 internal hard drives in a dell 9300, one for xp with C and D partitions, XP and data; the other drive for osx, with an ntfs partition of xp backup , and a fat32 partition as a swap area for both operating systems Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3535-how-to-boot-two-hds/#findComment-23593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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