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Hi all.

 

I have 3 partitions, 1st is Window XP(installed), 2nd is for Mac OS X installation and 3rd is (FAT32) for data sharing.

first,I boot from Mac OS X Leopard DVD.I install Mac OS X on 2nd partition(Mac OS Extended Journaled).

I have choose Customize install with option Drivers and Useful Tools and leave Bootloader and Patches Kernels uncheck,because i not sure about it.

Next i get successed installation system ask for restart.

After restart i get the Massage "MBR Error 3" and "MBR Error 1" Please boot from Floppy disk.

 

Have anyone meet it before?

 

I use BootCD Utilities with Partition Magic to active my 1st partition ,to boot winXP.

Now, I can boot only WinXP.

 

I want to Dual boot XP and Mac OS.

Please, someone kindly solve my problem

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Boot off the dvd and run this script.

 

Use mbr not guid.

 

Or reinstall from dvd and choose mbr efi. This may be easier.

 

If xp is already installed then it should show up at the boot menu.

 

If you use the script method make sure you unmount all three partitions in diskutility. This you can do from the dvd by choosing utilities from the menu bar.

 

Link to script http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry677531

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Thanks you timewise.

Mac OS X Leopard is new for me.

Can you tell me what is different between Darwin X86 bootloader and Darwin EFI bootloader?

Which one is best for me?

 

How to use your attached file?

 

Have you got any good idea to install Mac OS X Leopard?

 

My spec:

ASUS P5WD2-Premium

Intel Pentium 4 (540) 3.2GHz

2GB DDR2 RAM

350GB Seagate SATA

ASUS 7600GT 512MB PCIe

 

Thanks

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basically EFI is the apple bios. efi bootloader simulates EFI ( which is a hardware chip on original apples)

so with efi you can run apple stock kernel ( besides a few extensions) which makes it faster, better to update, etc.

 

for multibooting i recommend a second hd ( that doesnt rip the paints off)

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Thank you westwaerts.

Yes,i used 2nd partition for Mac OS X.

I'm still not clear about Darwin X86 bootloader and Darwin EFI bootloader.

You mean,Darwin EFI is use with Apple BIOS? or what?

 

 

sovan

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