Dual Booting Windows XP and Mac OS X

[zman7326]

I was wondering how do I dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X with the xp boot loader? I've tried the steps on the wiki site by using the chain0 and I still cannot figure it out. Can anyone help with this?

 

Thanks,

 

Z-Man

[emymrin]

I was wondering how do I dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X with the xp boot loader? I've tried the steps on the wiki site by using the chain0 and I still cannot figure it out. Can anyone help with this?

 

Thanks,

 

Z-Man

 

Looks like you installed OSX before WindowsXP. I did not tried installing WindowsXP after MacOSX, but here is what I did when I installed OSX after WindowsXP to revert to standard XP bootloader:

1. I wanted to have WindowsXP bootloader instead of OSX one coz OSX loader booted OSX by default

2. So I used XP installation CD to boot into recovery console

3. Issued "fixboot C:" command (see http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen....mspx?mfr=true)

4. Booted to WindowsXP

5. Added OSX option into boot.ini so that it started looking like this:

[boot loader]

timeout=5

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)="Mac OS X"

 

I may have missed some details but described sequence solved my problem.

Another solution would be installing alternate loader. As for me, currently I also have FedoraCore6 installed (in addition to WinXP and OSX; in fact all three OSs reside on single HDD) and use GRUB for multiboot purposes.

[emymrin]

Also look at http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...&hl=fixboot