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Yes. there are a number of multiboot tutorials already on the forum.

( http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=3111 for instance )

Try searching for "dualboot"

 

or on the wiki

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...uides#Dual_Boot

 

for your booting convenience, use the "chain0" method,

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0

 

Good Luck.

I have two partitions on 1 SATA drive and had WinXP on the 1st. I installed OSX86 from the genericDVD on the second partition expecting to going to have to reinstall winXP back onto the first. I thought that the OSX install would overwrite the bootloader.

 

It did. BUT it also left the option of booting back into WinXP. When it says press key to see boot options (where you enter -v and all that, it has two options 1) Windows NTFS and 2) OSX86 (or whatever youve called your installation). 2 is highlighted by default.

 

 

I dont know if this will happen the same on different systems but hope it helps.

 

P4 3.2E (prescott SSE3)

Asrock P4-dual915GL

1,280MB PC3200 RAM

GMA900 graphics (QE and CI working)

i am in the same boat, but i have two questions/problems.

number 1, what is a good program to use to create disk partitions and 2, will it be possible for me to install as a dualboto, not vmware if i do not have a dvd burner, but only the dvd image?

Well, i installed in my HD (ATA 120 GB) without DVD, i used tiger-x86.tar.bz2 image, this one runs without any VMWare so i recommend you that you get it, read this link click here! is a good tutorial. Partition Magic 8 is an excellent tool, i did use it to create several partitions on my HD without to erase any previous. Good luck !!.

ok, that guide is pretty damn ahrd, i avhe the tiger-flat image, i also have an iso of the dvd. i also created a 7 gb partition from my hd with partitionmagic. i ened to know how to install it as a dual boot, but without burning the dvd, since i don't have a dvd burner. please help me.

ok, that guide is pretty damn ahrd, i avhe the tiger-flat image, i also have an iso of the dvd. i also created a 7 gb partition from my hd with partitionmagic. i ened to know how to install it as a dual boot, but without burning the dvd, since i don't have a dvd burner. please help me.

That guide explain how to install without to burn any DVD. Are you sure that you did read that link that i posted ?. The partition for to install osx86 is created with diskpart, the guide explain thus. I partitioned my HD using Partition Magic 8 for to install other OS different of osx86.

ok, following the guide i get this error:

 

D:\INCOMP~1\TIGER-~1\TIGER-~1>dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskVol

ume2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

dd: Invalid number of arguments.

Copyright © 1991 by: Michael L. Hasenfratz - WA6FXT

usage: dd drive file

dd file drive

dd drive drive

 

this is my diskpart setup:

DISKPART> list disk

 

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---

Disk 0 Online 279 GB 0 B

Disk 1 Online 19 GB 2753 MB

 

DISKPART> select disk 1

 

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

 

DISKPART> list partition

 

Partition ### Type Size Offset

------------- ---------------- ------- -------

Partition 1 Primary 9 GB 32 KB

Partition 2 Unknown 6668 MB 9 GB

 

 

If anyone can see why it doesn't work please let me know

ok, following the guide i get this error:

 

D:\INCOMP~1\TIGER-~1\TIGER-~1>dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskVol

ume2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

dd: Invalid number of arguments.

Copyright © 1991 by: Michael L. Hasenfratz - WA6FXT

usage: dd drive file

dd file drive

dd drive drive

 

this is my diskpart setup:

DISKPART> list disk

 

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---

Disk 0 Online 279 GB 0 B

Disk 1 Online 19 GB 2753 MB

 

DISKPART> select disk 1

 

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

 

DISKPART> list partition

 

Partition ### Type Size Offset

------------- ---------------- ------- -------

Partition 1 Primary 9 GB 32 KB

Partition 2 Unknown 6668 MB 9 GB

If anyone can see why it doesn't work please let me know

What kind of partition is mounted your Win XP (NTFS or FAT32) ?. This's really important, because i got that error until that i did reinstall Win XP.

it's ntfs, i'm guessing it hast to be fat32, can i just convert it w/ partition magic or reinstall xp?

No, NTFS is the right one. Well, sometimes this error happens when the partition of 6 GB (created with Diskpart) is created without reboot. So i recommend you, that due to you already created your partition, then now you must to reboot for to let that Win XP recognize it (you don't need to recreate it). Then better shut down your Win XP, put your 2nd HD as master and the other as slave and apply these instructions:

 

C:\>diskpart

 

...

 

DISKPART>select disk 0

 

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

 

DISKPART> list partition

 

Partition ### Type Size Offset

------------- ---------------- ------- -------

Partition 1 Primary 9 GB 32 KB

Partition 2 Unknown 6668 MB 9 GB

 

DISKPART> exit

 

Leaving DiskPart...

 

C:\>cd {Put here the folder name where you stored your tiger image & dd files}

 

C:\{your folder name}>dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

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