[Kadosh]

Originally Posted by OmgFriday

Kadosh, thanks for the nice work.

Did you get boot-issue resolved from windows side? I saw the name easyBCD in some other treads, but I am not sure it works or not.

EasyBCD looked promising and I gave it a try. However, I kept getting an error when I was running it. I don't know if it works in XP. I think EasyBCD is key. If someone can suggest how to get it working, it would be highly appreciated. After that we would just switch the XP partition to be the primary and we will get our desired outcome.

[IDKwutName]

Originally Posted by Kadosh

EasyBCD looked promising and I gave it a try. However, I kept getting an error when I was running it. I don't know if it works in XP. I think EasyBCD is key. If someone can suggest how to get it working, it would be highly appreciated. After that we would just switch the XP partition to be the primary and we will get our desired outcome.

i dont like easybcd, if u want xp to be your primary, theres a command somewhere on this forum showing how to do it using chameleon

and if u want mac os x to be ur main os, theres a post in this thread showing you how to via chameleon, that us what im currently doing

[Jeffu]

Guys, believe it or not, i have been trying this for more than a month on 10V. I have got OSX - single OS running nicely, and backup into image. But dual boot no luck. One silly question, i am using Gpart and how many exact partition should i create? Just 2 i.e. HFS for mac and NTFS for XP? My friend keep telling me is 3 partition and the 1st partition is 200MB unallocated, which is the approach i am working on.

[IDKwutName]

Originally Posted by Jeffu

Guys, believe it or not, i have been trying this for more than a month on 10V. I have got OSX - single OS running nicely, and backup into image. But dual boot no luck. One silly question, i am using Gpart and how many exact partition should i create? Just 2 i.e. HFS for mac and NTFS for XP? My friend keep telling me is 3 partition and the 1st partition is 200MB unallocated, which is the approach i am working on.

2 partitions, first for osx partitioned as journaled, seconf for xp partitioned as fat, when loading into xp install select the 2nd partition and select format as ntfs(quick)

[Kadosh]

Originally Posted by Jeffu

Guys, believe it or not, i have been trying this for more than a month on 10V. I have got OSX - single OS running nicely, and backup into image. But dual boot no luck. One silly question, i am using Gpart and how many exact partition should i create? Just 2 i.e. HFS for mac and NTFS for XP? My friend keep telling me is 3 partition and the 1st partition is 200MB unallocated, which is the approach i am working on.

If you don't mind having Chameleon's default boot to SL, use this method to setup the dual boot. Only 2 main partitions are needed. I think NBM creates the 200MB partition for Chameleon. I didn't use GParted. I just used SL's Disk Utility to create the second partition.

I haven't had much time to try to figure out how to use Window's boot selection and to default to Windows. I'm moving to a new city, and once I get settled in I'm try to get back to it.

[Jeffu]

Originally Posted by Kadosh

If you don't mind having Chameleon's default boot to SL, use this method to setup the dual boot. Only 2 main partitions are needed. I think NBM creates the 200MB partition for Chameleon. I didn't use GParted. I just used SL's Disk Utility to create the second partition.

I haven't had much time to try to figure out how to use Window's boot selection and to default to Windows. I'm moving to a new city, and once I get settled in I'm try to get back to it.

Thanks guys. What is SL? And i should format the drive as MBR or GUID if i follow this method?

[sylmini]

Originally Posted by IDKwutName

2 partitions, first for osx partitioned as journaled, seconf for xp partitioned as fat, when loading into xp install select the 2nd partition and select format as ntfs(quick)

I currently have XP, OSX (10.5.7) and Ubuntu running on a MBR. I'm having problems trying to install SL onto the OSX partition as it's telling me I have to convert my hard drive to GPT. If that's the only way to do it, then I am willing to do it, but can someone tell me the order in which to install the 3 OS's ? OSX, XP then Ubuntu ?

[IDKwutName]

Originally Posted by Jeffu

Thanks guys. What is SL?...

sl is snow leopard

[Kadosh]

Originally Posted by sylmini

I currently have XP, OSX (10.5.7) and Ubuntu running on a MBR. I'm having problems trying to install SL onto the OSX partition as it's telling me I have to convert my hard drive to GPT. If that's the only way to do it, then I am willing to do it, but can someone tell me the order in which to install the 3 OS's ? OSX, XP then Ubuntu ?

I don't know if you can't simply convert to GPT without a fresh install, but give it a go if you don't mind experimenting. Anyway, I suggest you start with OSX, run NBI for Chameleon, Ubuntu, run NBI for Chameleon, XP, run NBI for Chameleon.

No reason for my particular order. OSX for the primary and Ubuntu and next fun thing and XP last for the oh the regular Windows restorations

[Digitaldr]

Originally Posted by IDKwutName

i dont like easybcd, if u want xp to be your primary, theres a command somewhere on this forum showing how to do it using chameleon

and if u want mac os x to be ur main os, theres a post in this thread showing you how to via chameleon, that us what im currently doing

After a bit of googling I found out how (couldn't find answer on this forum though!) If you followed the instructions earlier in the thread your hard disc will be 0 and your XP partition will be 3.