pelayostyle Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I have 2 hard drives, one SATA 250gb NTFS with Windows XP. The other drive is an PATA 80gb with Mac OSX. If it helps, I can have my BIOS give priority to boot the PATA drive first and then use darwin , im assuming, as the bootloader. My question is , what would be the easiest and fastest way to setup darwin so that that it shows the winXP drive as an option to boot. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
spreaderb Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Hi, I have nearly the same setup. One SATA drive with XP and a 2nd Drive with OSX. Look in the wiki for chain0 this is a 512 bytes file you simply have to put in C:\ of your XP Drive and add one line at the end of boot.ini reading C:\chain0="OS X" this gives you an option to boot OSX at startup P.S boot.ini is also located in C:\ but noramlly hidden so you have to set your explorer to reveal it. regards Chris Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-284841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelayostyle Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 Thanks Chris. Ill give it a go when i get home from work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-284872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelayostyle Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 Thanks Chris, i just got it working and all is well in the world. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-285179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) what would be the easiest and fastest way to setup darwin so that that it shows the winXP drive as an option to boot. The easiest way is to just install osx86, windows should show up in darwin, just push F8 Edited January 26, 2007 by joe75 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-285181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailfish Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 The easiest way is to just install osx86, windows should show up in darwin, just push F8 Sometimes it helps to add a litle breathing room for the 'ole F8. Boot Delay 1. Find /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist 2.add/change (for 10 sec delay) <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>10</string> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-285242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spreaderb Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Are you shure that the F8 option of the darwin bootloader also lists bootable partitions of the second drive. It didn't with my installation. Thsis is the reason why I recommended the chain0 approach. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-285342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Snowski Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) Install EasyBCD in XP/Vista http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 and add an OSX86 entry (Platfrom: GenericX86PC) I did this with the Vista bootloader but it should work on XP too. Can't get any easier then this m8 Good luck lad!!! Edited January 26, 2007 by Snowski Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39902-easiest-way-to-dual-boot-with-2-hard-drives/#findComment-285390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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