FedeV60 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Hi, I'm new to this forum, my name is Federico and I'm from Italy. I installed leopard on my pc (kalyway 10.5.1) and everything went perfectly (leopard is great) but now I cannot boot my XP installation. at boot I select to boot "windows ntfs", but then it stays there and doesn't do anything. my partition scheme is as follows: a 150gb raptor with xp installed (and hd-intensive apps), and a 320 gb maxtor with a 15gb partition where I installed leopard. is it safe if I run a fixboot and fixmbr from the xp recovery console or I will brick my OSX installation? have you got other suggestions? thanks to everyone, and sorry for my bad english edit: and if you know how to make my x-fi platinum working under OSX (maybe even only 2 channel sound) that would be great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93150-leo-installed-xp-not-booting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie11c Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 load back into leopard and open up terminal. diskutil list ## get your windows disk and partition numbers fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX ##X is the disk number U F Y ##Y is your windows partition number W ## press Y if it asks Q then reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93150-leo-installed-xp-not-booting/#findComment-664372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ongeloof Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Why do you want XP? Think Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93150-leo-installed-xp-not-booting/#findComment-664379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FedeV60 Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 this is what I get Last login: Wed Mar 12 20:27:22 on ttys000 fedes-mac-pro:~ fede$ sudo su - fedes-mac-pro:~ root# diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0 1: Windows_NTFS 282.7 Gi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Leopard 15.3 Gi disk0s5 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *139.7 Gi disk1 1: Windows_NTFS Raptor 139.7 Gi disk1s1 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *186.3 Gi disk2 1: Windows_NTFS IOMEGA_HDD 186.3 Gi disk2s1 fedes-mac-pro:~ root# fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory Enter 'help' for information fdisk: 1> exit fedes-mac-pro:~ root# fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory Enter 'help' for information fdisk: 1> exit fedes-mac-pro:~ root# I suppose there's a problem Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93150-leo-installed-xp-not-booting/#findComment-664384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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