I have a 10.5.6 on a 250GB SATA HD and XP SP3 on a 10GB ATA HD on the optical bus. Both are new installations onto single partitions, HFS+ and NTFS. I've been disconnecting cables and only using one drive at a time to avoid boot conflicts. If I were to use Chameleon, how would this work? Do I need to install Chameleon onto both HDs? Does this mean I need and HFS+ partition on the XP NTFS HD? How big (how small)?
I'm a Mac person, I know little about PCs or Windows. Do I need backups of the Master Boot Record partition for these HDs? How do I do that? I'm a little scared to try Chameleon because last time I tried a multi-boot hackintosh, I lost everything and had to start over, a lot of work. Right now, both OS X and XP work perfectly, or nearly so. Chameleon would be really nice if I could get it working without killing what I've got.
Hardware Specifications:
GA-M61SME-S2 NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 405
AMD Athlon 2.4GHz Duo-Core w/4GB RAM
Install Disc: XxX 10.5.6 FINAL
Audio: Realtek ALC883, use OLD ALC88x>alc883 3ports (by Skippy)
SATA & IDE: AppleNForceATA TEST (IDE optical set to MASTER (SLAVE & CS didn't work)
Ethernet: FORCEDETH>Force4ethernet
Kernel: VoodooXNU 9.5.0 RC
Video: PCIe nVidia 7300GT 512MB with patched ROM from
http://nvinject.free.fr/ using NVDarwin 512MB kext. NVinject.kext & NVKush.kext DID NOT work) Full QE/CI support. Sleep not working; NOT using onboard video, disabled in BIOS.