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Hello,

 

I'm dualbooting Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.4.6.

 

I'm trying to get the Darwin Bootloader into the MBR with the command:

 

"sudo fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0" and to the question ''Updating Master Boot Record?" I type yes en hit enter.

 

But when it boots, nothing is happening. In Windows I got the message "New Hardware installed"

 

What I'm doing wrong? I've tried it for 5 times now, but nothing.

 

Is there another good bootloader? Chain0 and GAG don't work.

 

(sorry for bad English)

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Hello,

 

I'm dualbooting Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.4.6.

 

I'm trying to get the Darwin Bootloader into the MBR with the command:

 

"sudo fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0" and to the question ''Updating Master Boot Record?" I type yes en hit enter.

 

But when it boots, nothing is happening. In Windows I got the message "New Hardware installed"

 

What I'm doing wrong? I've tried it for 5 times now, but nothing.

 

Is there another good bootloader? Chain0 and GAG don't work.

 

(sorry for bad English)

 

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Hello,

 

I'm dualbooting Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.4.6.

 

I'm trying to get the Darwin Bootloader into the MBR with the command:

 

"sudo fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0" and to the question ''Updating Master Boot Record?" I type yes en hit enter.

 

But when it boots, nothing is happening. In Windows I got the message "New Hardware installed"

 

What I'm doing wrong? I've tried it for 5 times now, but nothing.

 

Is there another good bootloader? Chain0 and GAG don't work.

 

(sorry for bad English)

I don't know about MBRs but I do know that by installing OS X second (after XP) OS X because the active partition. And therefore that kick started darwin bootloader which should recognise your XP partition (it does for me). If you have any problems hit F8 and see what it gives you (never had problems so never needed to hit F8)

 

As to other bootloaders.

There the chain0 method too - which is easy to do)

you could also install Acrons bootloader and use that - looks good but takes a few extra seconds on startup for the OS options to show, also has a few problems ever few weeks but they're quick to fix... just annoying.

Install a Linux OS and use Grub - like this for some reason but it look a little like the darwi/chain0 bootloader.

 

 

This should be posted in Post-Installation Discussion: OSx86 10.4 (Tiger)

 

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