teh_pwned Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 What is required to dual boot vista and leopard. I have a pre existing install of vista and wish to retain it? i have burnt 10.5.1 kalaway to a dvd. So now i need to partition my drive. so first should i do this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253 to partition and flag the hdd then install osx but according to articles i have read i found that i would not be able to boot to vista, is this true thus should i install grub to dual boot first? can some one direct me as i dont wont to screw up vista Q6600 core 2 quad 4gb RAM foxxconn 8800GTS 640mb GA-P35-DS3L mobo 500 GB HDD Netgear wg311t Thanks in Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponduz Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I haven't tried with vista along with leopard, but I've tried with XP. To be honest, the best solution is to install leopard on its own harddrive. Then you won't get problems with bootloader to either of the systems. After installing leopard on its own disk you just set up grub and voila (or a other bootloader) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh_pwned Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Ok thanks for the help, i have two spare hard drives but only have a 430w psu so would i be able to run 2 hdd, the processor, the mother board, dvd burner and graphics card at the same time ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canteli Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 You don't have to install OSX on a different disk...just prepare the partiotion for OSX with the GpartedLive CD, formatting it as FAT32, flag it as a boot partition and bootstrap from the OSX dvd...go through the install process, including the darwin boot loader in the installation....once you are done, boot gparted again and flag back the windows partition as the boot one.. Reboot in windows, download easybcd (http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1) and create a new entry for a "generic osx86 system"....at next reboot, you'll get into the vista boot loader, you select the leopard entry you just created, you'll be prompted with the darwin bootloader...from there, you select the OSX partition, and you are good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 look at my Guide http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83689 i wrote it just for you. I have how to dual boot and install everything for your motherboard specifically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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