Henben248 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 I want to dual boot mac and vista on my dell computer using boot camp. Does this work? Two specific issues: #1 I was wondering if the darwin boot loader would conflict with boot camp. #2 When I tried running Boot camp 1.3 beta assistant, it tells me "You must update your computer's BOOT ROM firmware" (I need to use Boot camp because then I can use the windows partition in parallels.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 You can't use Boot Camp without a real Mac, but you can make Parallels think one of your partitions is a Boot Camp partition. There is a thread in the VMware/Parallels forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 #1 I was wondering if the darwin boot loader would conflict with boot camp. #2 When I tried running Boot camp 1.3 beta assistant, it tells me "You must update your computer's BOOT ROM firmware" (I need to use Boot camp because then I can use the windows partition in parallels.) 1) All Mac's use the Darwin boot loader. 2) It won't install because your PC does not use EFI (something that all standard Mac's have) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henben248 Posted June 10, 2007 Author Share Posted June 10, 2007 Thanks alot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Parallels Desctop. Thats the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-aKy- Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Boot Camp is only for emulating a BIOS, because Macs use EFI, like SABR said. There are lots of Dual Boot Guides that can be found here in the forum or the WIKI. (with windows chain0 method, using the darwin bootloader or a third party bootloader such as Arcronis) Just search for it. Cheers, aKy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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