Talk:Dual Booting
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as far as i understand you made it booting on the same hd on a separate partition. i made my partition hda3 type af, dd'ed the stuff and use grub like you do, but after grub prompt it gives a black screen then loads windows ;)
have you set rootnoverify to ur hd? it shd be (0,2) on hda3
[edit] image offset
What benefit comes from not copying the master boot record of the tiger image to the new partition? Will grub be able to load it both with or without it?
If you copy the MBR as well, by dd-ing the flat image file to a partition, grub will not be able to boot that partition. In my experience, after grub starts the chainloader, the drive-activity led lights up, and nothing happens. By mounting the image in VMWare, or skipping the first 63 sectors, you eliminate the MBR, and you copy just the partition, which is bootable by grub.
[edit] hmm... still waiting for root device
Image works great in vmware, however durring native boot on second partition with -v I see:
Still waiting for root device...
Still waiting for root device...
Still waiting for root device...
Still waiting for root device...
It waits forever. I'm using a SATA drive but that shouldn't make any difference should it? I mounted the physical partition in vmware osx and ran repair disk on it using disk utility. It corrected something but it didn't seem to help. Anyone else having this problem?
--205.211.50.10 05:45, 14 Aug 2005 (CDT) This happened to me, but in a different situation. I got these messages during a pearpc install of the Tiger for ppc. I was not able to fix it. Try passing different options to Darwin at boot, specifically, try rd=yourRootDevice. Hope this helps!
--still waiting for root device Seems Nforce4 SATA is unsupported :( borrowed a PATA disk and everything works fine now. The SATA disk does not show up in the device list at all.
[edit] Root device issue
How can I get the RootDevice? Thanks Bye!
type ? at the darwin prompt for syntax, but you have to specify the partition that osx is installed on.
My question is how can I know on which partition is OSX installed.
