hardware Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Dear all, I am a newbie, I would like to ask a question. Is it possible to use EFI on a machine and still be able to boot into Win XP ... Doing a dual boot or even a triple boot into linux ? Is this possible ? Hope to hear from you soon. Hardware Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77237-is-it-possible-to-use-efi-and-still-be-able-to-boot-into-winxp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
limini Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Is it possible to use EFI on a machine and still be able to boot into Win XP ...Doing a dual boot or even a triple boot into linux ? Is this possible ? Yes. I set up a triple boot system with XP, OSX and Vista using the Vista bootloader. I installed the EFI patch (version 0.8, which works on mbr partitions) on the OSX partition and used an original plain vanilla OSX update without issues. It hasn't changed the Vista Bootloader or the way I boot into OSX. Everyone seems happy. Since you're not using Vista, you probably will have to use Grub as a bootloader, but I'll defer to my Linux indulging brethren since I don't use Linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77237-is-it-possible-to-use-efi-and-still-be-able-to-boot-into-winxp/#findComment-546413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibrudiiv Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 I'm currently using EFI, and the Darwin Bootloader shows my Windows XP partition. I can boot just fine into it. I don't have a GNU/Linux distro installed atm so I couldn't tell you if it would show up in the Darwin Bootloader list. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77237-is-it-possible-to-use-efi-and-still-be-able-to-boot-into-winxp/#findComment-546425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Dear all, I am a newbie, I would like to ask a question. Is it possible to use EFI on a machine and still be able to boot into Win XP ... Doing a dual boot or even a triple boot into linux ? Is this possible ? Hope to hear from you soon. Hardware It is incredibly easy to do this with grub. The readme in pc_efi gives explicit instructions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77237-is-it-possible-to-use-efi-and-still-be-able-to-boot-into-winxp/#findComment-546449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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