Booting problem for Tiger and Win XP on same HD

[puffo26]

Hello all, I have succesfully installed the last version of Tiger for Wintel on a Sony Vaio 10.6 inches Centrino 1Ghz portable PC. I have used Partition Magic 8 to create 2 partitions for the internal HDs, one with the native Windows XP Pro and the second HD where I have succesfully installed Tiger for Wintel.

 

I have noticed that if I boot the PC the first time using Tiger, all will be fine. If I select, afterwords, the first HD (with Win XP) as bootcd, from Tiger startup utility, I will NOT be able to run Tiger again after the reboot! In fact now, Tiger DVD startup will try to install Tiger from scratches again.

 

I guess I have to tell Windows XP bootcd the correct root/string, where Darwin will find the Tiger OS system.

 

Anyone has a clue?

Hope I have been clear enough.

Thanks for your attention!

[moonislune]

Your problem is not with the bootloader. It is a timeout problem. On 10.4.1 there wasnt a boot problem because it allowed you 10 seconds or so after pressing F8 to select the correct Mac OS partition to boot. To fix this problem do the following ( I found this on another website and it solved the problem you descibe:

 

Boot PC, select OSX, edited /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

add these lines

 

1. open teminal and type:

sudo -s

nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

2.add

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>No</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>10</string>

 

quit and restart

normaly you shoul have 10s to press F8 and then you got your Darwin bootloader

Edited December 17, 2005 by moonislune