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Hello guys i have the DVD of installation of the Mac OS X x86 10.4.3 8F1111 and the DVD of installation of the Windows Vista 5270 and i would like know if exists a solution for did a dual boot using this two operational systems, and as i can it do this.

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i'm multibooting vista, xp and osx with grub, the vista bootloader is really invasive and i couldn't be bothered with it so i made a grub floppy and use that to boot.

 

the only problem is i have to keep the floppy in or it will boot to vista

 

if you want you can download grub4dos or wingrub which can be installed from windows so you don't have to use a floppy. i haven't used it so i don't know how it's supposed to work or where the files are kept.

 

ps : i'd post you the link for the grub floppy image but it's too late.. i can barely keep eyes open :blink: i'll post in morning...

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http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/grub/grub-0.95-i386-pc.ext2fs

 

use rawwrite for windows to write it to the floppy disk.

Well, at their FTP there is also GRUB 2 in sources. This version is compatible with different partition tables that is it can load OSx86 10.4.4 (GPT partitioned HD) and WinXP (MBR partitioned HD). If smb with strong compiling skills is able to build both diskette and "native" (on boot drive) installers of GRUB 2 that IMHO would likely solve in general the problem with OSx86 and WinXP dual-boot on new Intel Macs.

The next step would be to hack one of those OSes in order to make them recognize an alien partitioning on the same HD...

 

P.S. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub , http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86

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i'm multibooting vista, xp and osx with grub, the vista bootloader is really invasive and i couldn't be bothered with it so i made a grub floppy and use that to boot.

 

the only problem is i have to keep the floppy in or it will boot to vista

 

if you want you can download grub4dos or wingrub which can be installed from windows so you don't have to use a floppy. i haven't used it so i don't know how it's supposed to work or where the files are kept.

 

ps : i'd post you the link for the grub floppy image but it's too late.. i can barely keep eyes open :hysterical: i'll post in morning...

Hi Dragon,

 

HELP Please!!!! Would you please give me a short detail on the order in which you installed all these os's, e.g. which os did you install first, second, etc.

 

I am not having any luck with either when dual booting.

Here's what I attempted to do:

1st attemp:

1. Installed 10.4.3 on part1, success no problems encountered

2. Tried to installed Vista 5270 on part 2, got "Windows setup is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation. I used the custom installation method. I've even tried the advanced option to delete, create, format the part 2 but same error.

 

Thanks,

MacMeUp

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Could always be easier to use multible hard drives to get rid of the wrong format thing. One for Windows One for Mac OS X.

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