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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-26-2009, 12:13 AM

After doing some research (I wiped out my drive to see if the XP-then-OS X install-from-scratch method worked), and you guys are right - the retail disc with DellMiniBoot will install to a GUID partition only, so you must build your OS X setup as normal, then back it up to a DMG, perform the MBR/XP install, then restore the OS X DMG back down and rebuild the bootloader. I apologize if I threw anyone off, but you should equally be able to back up the XP partition, then wipe out and perform the OS X install normally, then start at step 1.

I updated my guide to reflect the changes.


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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-26-2009, 01:14 AM

i reinstalled xp. but still get

NTLDR is Missing
Press any key to restart

error when I try to boot into xp using dellminiboot.

boot into os x is fine.

I will try to send xp partition to 'boot' in gparted.

did anyone actually succeed with this guide?
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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-26-2009, 01:24 AM

I get to this step:


5. Boot to your hard drive with your DellMiniBoot disc. At this point, with the help of the DellMiniBoot disc, you should be able to boot to drive 80 (your hard drive), and select either partition 1 (Windows XP) or 2 (OS X), to which either OS should launch just fine. Repeat this step for each partition to make sure. I notice that my XP partition takes a few seconds before the XP logo shows up – peculiar, but by no means a big issue I can deal with.


But when I chose partition for xp, it says

NTLDR is Missing
Press any key to restart

If I boot from hard disk, it goes directly into xp.... any thoughts?

Also, when I did fdisk -e, even I did sudo -s, it says permission denied.
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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-26-2009, 01:31 AM

OK.

I used gparted to set osx partition to 'boot'. now, finally i can dual boot....

thanks man.
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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-27-2009, 02:18 AM

Before I start over I wanted to see if anyone has any sugguestions. I can boot into XP and OSX when I use my boot123 cd, but when I try to boot from the harddrive i'm getting the following error,

boot0: MBR
boot0: done_

If I set partition 1 back to active XP loads just fine. I didn't modify my OSX installer. I just installed XP to partition 1 and restored my OSX image to partition 2. Both load fine using boot123.

I'm new to OSX. :-)

Thanks in adavance for any help.
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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-27-2009, 02:50 PM

Can you take it from step 5 of my guide to see if it will boot either partition from the 123 disc? If so, all you need to do is set the active partition to 2 and run the DellEFI to recreate the bootloader.


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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-27-2009, 06:49 PM

XP and OSX both load using the 123 disc. Now when I go into DellEFI I have the option to reinstall the bootloader. I've tried that a couple times, but get the same error. Is there a way to remove the bootloader?
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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-28-2009, 12:55 AM

Did you set the active partition using fdisk in Terminal?


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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-28-2009, 01:06 AM

I did.
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Default Re: My XP/OSX Dual-Boot Saga, with a Happy Ending! - 04-28-2009, 01:54 AM

i used gparted to set my second partition to 'boot' and succeeded. i don't know if it's the same as setting it to active in fdisk.

gparted can be downloaded and u only need a usb drive.

btw. I did everything with usb drives. no external optical drives.
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