mrrrl Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Here is what I did to solve my dual boot problem. I tried several of the boot managers and I could not get one to work. I was looking to boot into the boot manager and then choose to boot in to either XP or OSx86. Most of the time the ones I tried either booted in to XP just fine but then wouldn’t boot into OSx86, or if it did I couldn’t get back into XP. So I tried WinGrub. But it took me a little while, some reading and experimenting to get it to work. When I installed OSx86, I made 2 partitions, installing OSx86 in the first. I then installed XP in the second. I set the XP partition active to check its install. Then made the OSx86 partition action and made sure it booted fine. I then set the XP partition back to active. Boot in to XP. Download WinGrub (http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net ) and install. I then followed this: From http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wingrub_examples.html#q1 “ The example above (on http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net ) shows how to use GRLDR in a NTFS partiton (BOOT.INI), but what if you insist on using GRUB as your primary boot manager ? Here is how. 1. Open WINGRUB, use the "Base Setup" menu item, click the "Copy stage files" checkbox, then "OK". (This step copy the stage files to your base directory) 2. Use "Install Grub", install GRLDR using the BOOT.INI method 3. Assure that there is an tem in menu.lst to boot your Windows NT/2K/XP,it's something like this:(replace (hd0,0) with real deivce name) title Boot Windows NT/2K/XP root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 4. Reboot, when it gets to the grub console, press 'c', enter command mode 5. Type the following command (replace (hd0,0) with real deivce name) root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) 6. If all goes well, GRUB will be installed to MBR (the GNU way), reboot 7. Using GRUB to boot your Windows NT/2K/XP 8. Use "Install Grub", "Remove" grub from BOOT.INI “ At step 4, I rebooted and made sure that I could boot into XP and then continued. I did not do steps 8. I left it alone for now. Once I was sure it booted in to XP just fine I then modified the menu.lst to boot in to OSx86. Below it what worked for me. Remember that I have both OS’s on one hard drive (hd0) and 2 partitions (0 and 1). timeout 10 title Windows XP at (hd0,1) root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title OSx86 at (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader --force +1 Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4119-using-wingrub-to-dual-boot-on-a-single-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4ff3w Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 For me I just shrunk my NTFS partition, then created a new FAT32 partition in the newly acquired freespace. After booting the boot DVD and installing OS X, I just use it's F8 button to choose which OS to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4119-using-wingrub-to-dual-boot-on-a-single-hd/#findComment-26517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A30Guy Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 I use the Acronis Boot Manager. Did the install last night of 10.4.1 onto a spare partition in my PC. Acronis recognised the new OS automatically, so it is now nestled in beside XP Pro, SuSE Linux and OS/2 (and a couple of others). My only problem is screen resolution - 1024x768 looks ordinary on the 17" LCD, but the GeForce card isn't supported, but I'm amazed at how complete it is. Cheers A30Guy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4119-using-wingrub-to-dual-boot-on-a-single-hd/#findComment-26572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeye Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 hello, at first reboot, I can't see grub bootloader. do you know why? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4119-using-wingrub-to-dual-boot-on-a-single-hd/#findComment-659244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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