CrazyPigeon Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I've just gotten into this whole OSx86 thing on your pc, so first I installed 10.4.1 got it all up and runnning and then was notified that it was an old release and no universal binarys were working on it, so I updated to 10.4.3 with the patched dvd. Reboot, "System disk missing, press enter to boot from cdrom". I messed around with the hd arrangement for an hour, and was just about to reinstall windows using my 8-in-1 compilation, when I noticed that if I pressed esc which is boot to 1st hd, it works, and shows the windows xp bootloader and I can boot osx86 off of there. My questions is, how do I make it so that I don't need that disk to boot up every time? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9543-1043-windows-xp-boot-woes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
corneliousjd Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 under the system settings in OSX you can choose your windows partition as your startup disk... and/or once in windows you can Install Acronis Disk Director Suite, install the OS selector. Start OS selector, configure (follow on screen steps) it and restart your computer. After the last reboot you should see a nice dual boot menu and should be able to boot OSX (and windows). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9543-1043-windows-xp-boot-woes/#findComment-59508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BebopBlues Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 under the system settings in OSX you can choose your windows partition as your startup disk... and/or once in windows you can Install Acronis Disk Director Suite, install the OS selector. Start OS selector, configure (follow on screen steps) it and restart your computer. After the last reboot you should see a nice dual boot menu and should be able to boot OSX (and windows). many thanks for the OS selector tip. I tried and it works well. I can now dual boot OSX and XP. I basically boot from the OSX DVD, use Disk Util to make 4 partitions: 20G for XP (Fat32 but became NTFS - formated later in XP install) 20G for OSX (Mac Extended Journaled) 35G for Data (Fat32) 500M for Boot Drive (Fat32) I quit OSX installation afterward. Put in the XP CD and installed XP on the XP partition. Then installed Acronis OS Selector and told it to use the Boot Drive as the boot partition. Then I restarted and placed OSX DVD in and booted it up and installed OSX on the OSX partition. Then rebooted and configured and labeled everything correctly in OS selector. Thats it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9543-1043-windows-xp-boot-woes/#findComment-62334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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