Comments on: Dummies guide to Add OSX into XP,LINUX,VISTA Bootloader’s

By: DeX

DeX — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:07:01 +0000

hi
i have windows xp installed on C drive and windows 7 installed on D drive of my compaq mini 700..i also have a free E drive of 20 GB on my SSD..all are primary partitions.
plus i have an external HDD where i have spared a 10GB partition for OS X.
i wanna know which guide to use to install OS X so that it wont disturb my previous two OS and also which drive to use to install the OS X? can it be the E drive on my SSD or should i use the partition on my external HDD?
also how to configure the boot menu after wards?
thanks in advance.

By: Nader Elkhuzundar

Nader Elkhuzundar — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:06:43 +0000

@Elliott Morgan
there are two easy methods to do that
1. open Command Prompt using administrative privileges and type
bcdedit /delete {enter the alphanumeric GUID of the Mac OS X that DOESN’T WORK}

2. download and install EasyBCD from the web go to Add/Remove Entries and click on the Mac OS X that DOESN’T WORK and click on delete button.
have fun

By: Elliott Morgan

Elliott Morgan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:05:07 +0000

Hey this kind of worked for me, it some how created 2 ‘Mac OS X’ options in the bootloader one of which doesnt work and the other does…can someone tell me what happened or how to get rid of it.

By: Sam Deans

Sam Deans — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:18:37 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH THATS AMAZING!! YOU FIXED MAJOR ISSUES I HAD WITH DUAL BOOTING XP AND OSX!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!

By: EduardoRG

EduardoRG — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:48:46 +0000

I have in my laptop, installed on my first partition Mac OS 10.5.7, I want to install Vista Ultimate in the second partition. How do I do it without screwing the loading of the MAC OS ?????

Thanks

By: UNF

UNF — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:50:35 +0000

:errata:

partition table should read as …

part1. Logical NTFS = Win7
part3. Logical ext4 = Ubuntu 9.04 /
part4. Logical ext4 = Ubuntu 9.04 /home
part2. Logical HFS+ = iPC OSx86 10.5.6

thanks

By: mech

mech — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:27:12 +0000

hey, i tried this method for adding i386 to the /boot/grub/ folder and it gives me the following:

Starting up …

boot1: error

any ideas how to proceed?

By: Online poker

Online poker — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:47:00 +0000

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By: LioNEXT

LioNEXT — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:13:22 +0000

Vinay,

I made a dual boot system a few days ago with OS X and XP. I tried the EasyBCD method (by adding the Vista boot folder in the root of XP) but wasn’t happy that for entering the Mac side, I would have to enter twice to choose the right partition for boot (since partition 1 i.e., XP is flagged, it is automatically chosen as default on darwin screen). So I went with the darwin bootloader where I made the OS X (partition 2) as active, and now at least, I can straightforward go to OS X or hit enter and choose Windows (and it start running directly).

My question is I made this system for my relative. He is not familiar with this stuff and if something happened to the system eventually, I would be able to help and he may lose entry into both OSes. At least if XP is active, if anything happens to OS X on software update, he will still be able to run XP. That way, I can guide him to trouble shoot the problem. So what is your suggestion to run XP and OS X considering any future problems, ease of entering into either OS, and one which can provide some bells and whistles, like in case of Grub installer you can choose a custom picture. (If I am not mistaken, I cannot use Grub without installing linux on one of the partition or can I?)

Thanks for the response.

By: Vinay Prashar

Vinay Prashar — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:29:48 +0000

@ jeffc for a multiboot system you have to mdify the guide according to your system for example XP + OSX or XP than Vista + OSX or XP than Vista + OSX than Linux or OSX + LInux.