jarobata Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 The threads seem to be saying you need 64 bit windows to dual boot, does this have something to do with efi or leopard? I had tiger working with 32bit xp dual boot so I assume this difficulty has something to do with a new issue regarding leopard. If I used something like grub for booting partitions could I have 32bit windows? I'm under the impression 64bit windows has lots of problems regarding drivers and what not so I'd prefer to stay away from it and obviously I don't want vista. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Xero Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 No problems here dual booting. I've got one HDD with: 40GB Primary partition - Win XP Pro 32bit 40GB Primary Active partition - Leopard with EFI (MBR) I'm using Darwin to manage my bootloaders, but you can use chain0 via Win XP (but from my experience this drops you into Darwin, which you then have to select which OS you want. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 No problems here dual booting. I've got one HDD with: 40GB Primary partition - Win XP Pro 32bit 40GB Primary Active partition - Leopard with EFI (MBR) I'm using Darwin to manage my bootloaders, but you can use chain0 via Win XP (but from my experience this drops you into Darwin, which you then have to select which OS you want. Interesting, do you have any idea about why all the stickied dual boot threads say 64bit only? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 PROBABLY THEY ARE USING GUID, WINXP 32B DOESN'T SUPPORT GUID AFAIK, BUT XP 64B DOES! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 PROBABLY THEY ARE USING GUID, WINXP 32B DOESN'T SUPPORT GUID AFAIK, BUT XP 64B DOES! Ahh that helps a lot. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KroeT Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 But that should not matter if you're using two seperate disks. Don't trust me on this, this is more of a question than a statement Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Don't want to be responsible for a destroyed system Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 TRUE, IF YOU HAVE TWO SEPARATE DISKS, YOU CAN DO IT EASILY AND SEPATRAELY! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PnP Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Sorry is it possible 1 hd SATA Vista 32 bit mbr and 2 hd SATA Leopard GUID? .. thanks.. If yes how? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 But that should not matter if you're using two seperate disks. Don't trust me on this, this is more of a question than a statement Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Don't want to be responsible for a destroyed system I don't really know what the advantage to guid is... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-574572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajindia Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Read the topic here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=88264 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80983-is-there-anyway-to-dual-boot-with-leopard-efi-32bit-xp/#findComment-629951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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