How do I dual-boot Mac OS X with other OSes without messing with bootloaders?
Quick and easy, copy chain0 to the root directory of your bootable Windows drive, then add the following the bottom of your “boot.ini” file: C:\Chain0=”Mac OS X86″ this however renders the Quiet Boot option useless, so if the Darwin loader annoys you as much as it does me then add this to the bottom of your “boot.ini” instead: C:\Chain0=”Mac OS X86″ “Quiet Boot”=”Yes” I do not mess about with boot loaders. I run XP and OSX. I boot from pc BIOS F11, which enables boot from any available disk. A lot of PCs are similar. I have dual boot XP and Tiger, on seperate disks. The dd must have the bs=32256 skip=1 or equivalent, to put the boot sector on sector 64, which is where the PC expects it to be. I believe any reasonable MBR will boot as long as disk type is (hex)AF. The byte at offset 1C2 can be changed to AF with a small sector editor, I use Hex Workshop. It is also possible to adjust the boot sector, at offset 17 in the boot sector is byte AF followed by 75 03. overwrite the 75 03 with
