Sky Bot Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I managed to get rid of the boot problems very easily. I just found a very nice free program "xfdisk", started up from a 3.5 inch WinXP boot-up diskette with that prog on it, typed in "xfdisk", named one partition "Win XP", another "Mac OS X" (these names do not matter - name your startup choices whatsoever), chose "Install Bootloader" from menu and rebooted when asked to. That's all! NOTE: Both OS's were installed on the same HDD (2 partitions). but I was able to see my other drives and you could set them up to!!!(I didn't need to though) NOTE: keep in mind the first named partition will appear the first in the boot-up list. I Have attached the file it is also available at: http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.phpxfd093en.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Bot Posted November 2, 2005 Author Share Posted November 2, 2005 by the way all the boot up crashes stopped weired but i will take that! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-26076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Easy Boot Manager is superior. Take a look at it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-26083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Bot Posted November 3, 2005 Author Share Posted November 3, 2005 thx i will check it out i checked it out, it looks good, but XFDisk is free of charge!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-26094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilhood Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 thx i will check it out i checked it out, it looks good, but XFDisk is free of charge!!! heh Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-26102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 thx i will check it out i checked it out, it looks good, but XFDisk is free of charge!!! Is anyone developing XFDisk? Currently nobody maintains XFDisk development. Lilo & Grub are free, open source and people are still working on it: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-26182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Bot Posted November 3, 2005 Author Share Posted November 3, 2005 no development as of now, but we for sure can pick up the project, i think i will start a source forge project for this, hope will have time for this next week, functions are great, but some work to match the high quality mac graphics would be nice, and a solid documentation, the source is available! let me know if you are intrested! I program c, c++. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-26240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitephyre Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 I'm running BootIT NG and it's great.. it also has a useful partition utility built into it. It installs into it's own 8MB partition on you hdd, sets up what it calls an EMBR, is graphical, mouse driven and gets my nod Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4039-the-ultimate-boot-loader-for-os-x/#findComment-27013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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