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crabhunter

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XP
« on: October 28, 2010, 11:15:21 AM »
It appears that chameleon can only boot XP if it is on the first drive in the bios to boot.
I've read that you can overcome this by having a small mac partition on this drive to hold chameleon.
I have a drive I don't mind re-partitioning and formatting so what is the best order to do things?
I thought.

1. Partition hd from OSX disk utility with small partition for Chameleon ( mac osx extended journaled) and the second FAT32 for XP.

2. Install XP re-formatting the FAT32 partition as as NTFS.

3. Installing Chameleon from OSX then change boot order to the XP hard drive.

Is this the best way?
Mike

Azimutz

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Re: XP
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 12:16:01 AM »
Yep, that should do it, but i would place the Chameleon partition in second place; it would make it easier to do any future change without messing with the system. Just make sure you set the booter partition as Active.
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crabhunter

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Re: XP
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2010, 07:28:59 AM »
Yep, that should do it, but Just make sure you set the booter partition as Active.

So far I have partitioned a drive in two (I had to use MBR as XP wouldn't install to a GUID drive)
I have installed XP and then installed Chameleon to the second partition.
However booting from this drive just boots XP, how do I set the Chameleon partition active?
So far I have tried Disk Utility from OSX and XP's disk program but neither seem to give the option of making the Chameleon partition active. XP's option to make active is grayed out.
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Azimutz

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Re: XP
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2010, 11:43:18 AM »
Well, these days you can also use boot0hfs instead of boot0 installed to mbr, which will look for a hfs partition instead of an Active one. That will allow you to keep windows partition Active, which in the case of XP it's not that useful (i think?!).
Or you can use another partitioning tool to mark the partition active... GParted live is usually the main suspect.
Terminal and "fdisk" are also a choice, from an OS X installation or install dvd.
Last but not the least, Disk Utility likes to mark as Active the partitions that it creates or changes file system in certain circumstances; try formatting the partition as fat and back to hfs, install Chameleon again and try it...
most probably it will do the trick :)
« Last Edit: October 30, 2010, 11:45:17 AM by Azimutz »
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