Solidcell Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 I have OSX86 as the only OS on my HDD and I recently bought another HDD to put Windows on (again, because OSX needed to be on its own drive to have the audio work and I've only now bought another HDD since dedicating the old Windows one to OSX). So now I popped in the install DVD for XP and after selecting the new HDD to put the partition on, XP wants me partition part of the OSX HDD to put startup stuff on, but I don't trust XP with stuff I don't want it screwing up (the OSX HDD or on the off-chance, my music slave). So I decided to try it a different way first, just in case. I retried the install after unplugging the other two HDDs and after installing I plugged all the drives back in to see which bootloader would take charge (I hoped it was the XP so that i could edit the boot.ini and put the chain0 in C:), but Darwin came up instead and it didn't recognize any other bootable OS (although it recognizes both other HDDs once into the OS). The only problem with getting XP to do anything regarding both HDDs though is that if both are plugged in at startup, I can only boot OSX. I just want to know if there's some way to set it up so that either Darwin or XP can boot both OSs. If not, I an always reinstall and have XP partition part of the OSX HDD like it wanted, if that's a safe method, I just wasn't sure at the time. Thanks in advance for any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solidcell Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 bump ^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-42275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 Swap the drives in your system. Make your new XP disk the master disk on your primary controller. Then the XP bootloader (which has to be MBR of 1st disk) will not affect your OS X disk. You can attach the other 2 disks after installation if you want. Just be sure you have jumpered your drives correctly. OS X doesn't like cable select. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-42319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solidcell Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 Thanks for the reply wmarsh, I just came back to say that I had got it working. Just so you know, the new one for XP is SATA and the older 2 are EIDE. I unplugged the OSX and Slave and went to the BIOS, under Hard Drives I selected the new one (XP) to be the HDD that boots, and then under Priority I made sure that the newly selected HDD was 2nd only to the DVD Drive. I went back into windows, added the chain0, modified the boot.ini and before booting up again, I plugged in the other drives. The only thing now that bothers me, and its nothing vital, just a little unnessesary, is that when I select OSX to boot, it takes me to darwin where i have to press enter to get to where I can choose the drive, and then press enter again to choose and boot it. Is there anyway in OSX to have it skip this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-42424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Pwns Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I am now debating whether to just plop a 7 GB HD in my computer, and just let it go would that be okay? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-47122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solidcell Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 You mean you have XP and you want to throw in another HDD to install OSX86? That should be fine. I'd have the XP HDD unplugged when installing and then after installing, plug them all in, have XP set to boot in your BIOS, and in XP, set up the boot.ini with chain0 and you're good. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-47156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 i dont know if this is helpful. but the BEST bootloader around and the easiest to use is acronis bootloader. very simple. boots my osx and windows perfect. by the way try changing the active partitions. also the bios will load the active part form the primary master or secondary master................btw if u noticed i was toolazy to read ur post. just wanted to give my two cents Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-47459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyash Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 i dont know if this is helpful. but the BEST bootloader around and the easiest to use is acronis bootloader. very simple. boots my osx and windows perfect. by the way try changing the active partitions. also the bios will load the active part form the primary master or secondary master................btw if u noticed i was toolazy to read ur post. just wanted to give my two cents Yeah I use the Acronis boot loader. Have xp and osx86 installed on 2 pc's, one with 2 hard disks and the other with one hd (2 partitions) Acronis works sweet with both configurations. Although installing both operating systems on a partitioned hd is a little more complicated. You must install osx86 first using the disk utility at boot to create 2 partitions. Then install xp on the spare partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-47804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcimmino Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 That's not true. I installed 8f1099 on a spare partiton on my T41P even if WinXP was already installed on it. Trick is to have a bootcd with partition magic on it then make the partition you'll install OSX on made active and reboot from the install DVD. That will install correctly. After OSX in installed boot again from the partion magic cd swap the active partition to the WinXP one, boot in windows and trough Acronis Boot Loader install the boot sector for having both working at once. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-48079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 i dont know if this is helpful. but the BEST bootloader around and the easiest to use is acronis bootloader. very simple. boots my osx and windows perfect. by the way try changing the active partitions. also the bios will load the active part form the primary master or secondary master................btw if u noticed i was toolazy to read ur post. just wanted to give my two cents Why paying for something you can have for free, Grub is more powerfull (for different Linux FS) as bootloader and is open-source. For only OSX86 and XP you don't need a third party bootloader, this can simply be done with Darwin bootloader or the boot.ini. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6792-trying-to-set-up-a-dual-boot/#findComment-48087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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