Instructions on Creating a Dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OSx86 System Assumptions: User has a copy of Mac OSx86 (I used

JaS 10.4.7) User has hardware requirements to support Mac OSx86 Two paths: 1) Brand new system with no OS installed a. Insert Windows XP media and let it boot into the setup screen b. Create a partition for Windows, leave the rest unallocated (I have a 80 gig HD, I used 60 for Windows and 20 gig for Mac I also have an external drive thats formatted FAT32 that they both share) c. Install Windows (took about 15 minutes on my laptop) and let it boot into the desktop. Now we can assume you have an existing Windows XP install. So 2) Existing Windows XP install a. Create a new partition using diskpart, PartitionMagic, etc. Im not going to explain how to use them do a Google search if youre not sure. Make sure the partition is something other than NTFS (Mac can read, not write to NTFS). Make sure the partition is > 6GB and that its a PRIMARY partition. b. Boot your computer with the Mac OSx86 DVD. Hit F8 when Darwin comes up and type -v to see the verbose mode of startup. OSx86 will take a little while to boot up into the install mode (I have a Duo Core 2.16 processor it took about 5 minutes) c. Once youre into the install wizard, accept the User Agreement. d. On the top of the screen, click Utilities Disk Utility

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Once it opens and reads your disks, select the partition that you created back in step A. Click on the Erase tab and select Journaled Mac OS format for your drive. MAKE SURE YOU DONT ERASE YOUR WINDOWS PARTITION. DOUBLE CHECK. Close the Disk Utility program and continue with the install. Make sure to select Custom and select the custom features for your hardware (SSE2, SSE3, Intel, AMD, etc). Install will start (took about 15 minutes on my laptop) and then reboot the system. OH NO!!! Wheres my Windows XP boot screen! All I see is Darwin!! i. NEVER FEARIll help you fix that. ii. Let OSx86 boot and do all the initial setup stuff. (Hint: you dont have to register with Apple, hit Alt-Q to bypass) iii. Once OSx86 finally gets you into the desktop, open a terminal: 1. Type: sudo s (gives you warning about being root user) 2. Type: nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist (all one line) 3. This opens the nano editor. Add these lines to the file: <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>15</string> 4. Save the file and reboot you should get the Darwin bootloader with a 15 second delay. Hit any key to get a list of the operating systems. Select Windows XP or MacOSx86 YOU NOW HAVE A DUAL BOOT SYSTEM using the Darwin bootloader!