Grama Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 is there a how to for using boot camp and osx86? i am going to be reformatting my hd over the holliday's and wanted to know if i could just as easily use my os x installation instead of a bootloader (i am using bootmagic for xp and osx86.... planning on adding vista and ubuntu) and i am really hoping boot camp can be done via osx... thanks for anyhelp!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36140-boot-camp-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 its impossible. Boot Camp utililizes EFI to partition while osx86 uses a BIOS environment that Boot Camp would not be able to use. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36140-boot-camp-osx86/#findComment-257187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mse Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 i suppose it can't on osx86 until MacEFIx86 is done Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36140-boot-camp-osx86/#findComment-257189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Even then, it's not needed at all to dual boot. All bootcamp does is slice off a part of the HFS+ filesystem and supplies the user with drivers for the hardware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36140-boot-camp-osx86/#findComment-257193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Let me ask the Question why you want a bootloader to emualte a BIOS on a BIOS Bootcamp itself is much more than a "bootloader", ba happy you have Darwin one Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36140-boot-camp-osx86/#findComment-257211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grama Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 semthex u have a good point. does darwin boot loader handle more than 2 os's? i am shooting for 4. os x, xp, vista, and ubuntu or deriviant. so here is wut i am think so far as a final partition table for my 160GB HD (formmatted a little bigger than 150GB) Final Partition Table -20GB HFS+ Journaling Primary Partition for OS X (Dont Have many Progies for OS X Yet ) -90GB NTFS Primary Partition for XP -15GB NTFS Primary Partition for Vista -10GB EXT2 or EXT3 or XFS or Reifer Primary Partition for Linux -13GB FAT32 (or maybe even Ext2 or Ext3 or UFS with appropriate OS X/XP/Vista Drivers) Logical for Shared Files Like Music -2GB Swap Partition And to get there.... -20GB FAT32 Primary Partition -90 NTFS Primary Partition -15GB NTFS Primary Partition -10GB EXT2/3/XFS/Reifer -13GB FAT32 -2GB Swap Then install XP, Vista and Linux first and after that install OS X (and reformat 20GB FAT32 Primary Partition to HFS+ Journaling Primary Partition and then make it active if not already) correct? I am thinking this is the proper order of things to do..... and by doing it this way theoretically i SHOULD have full acces to my other OS's via Darwin Bootloader. if you have any tips, that would be much appreciated.... i love this community and how fast i got the answer i needed!!! thanks guys Grama Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36140-boot-camp-osx86/#findComment-257252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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