Guest Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Lets say i have installed Leopard with XP already installed, i restart after Leopard installation and i want XP to boot as my default (as when Leopard wasn't installed) and then if i press F8, get a Windows XP option of >OS Choices > Leopard (since on the Win XP booting options like Safe Mode etc there is also OS Choices). Is there any way to make this possible without using an external program such as Acronis OS Selector and if yes, then how? Thanks for any help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Nope, the Darwin Bootloader will always highlight the active partition by default (which in the hacks is Leo partition by default). Until someone finds a way to put Darwin Bootloader on the MBR instead of leo partition, it is not possible to boot XP as default through Darwin Bootloader Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/#findComment-707778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabla Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 I have a related question. Is it possible to install xp besides leopard on the same physical hard when using an EFI based installation of leopard? As far as I know it doesn't (except 64 bit version or vista) but I'm still confused about this. If someone could clear this out that would be great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/#findComment-708009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Is there a way through Chain0 at all?Is there a way through Chain0 at all? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/#findComment-708479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 EFI based installation has got no relevance to Windows. EFI emulator is totally self contained in the Leopard Partition. I have XP (32 bit), Leo and Tiger on the same harddisk. First Partition is XP, second Leo and third Tiger. PC-EFI 8 is installed on the leopard partition and that is the active partition. So upon boot Darwin bootloader fires up and if press F8 displays a menu with XP, Leopard and Tiger in that order and default is Leopard. I can select any OS and it boots happily. I have now upgraded XP to Vista (32 bit) and it still has the same behaviour, works flawlessly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/#findComment-708945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyoseki Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 What annoys me is that I have an EFI capable board, but the EFI is emulating BIOS so that Windows will boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/#findComment-708982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 So if i do what you do Ajal Gujal then could i set XP as default and so it would just boot normally... also what is all this EFI stuff and how can i check if i support EFI or is it already supported (don't understand) So literally could i still do your method on my computer but instead keep XP as default? And if i can then how? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/99012-dual-boot-xp-and-leopard-question/#findComment-709817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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