nekkro-kvlt Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 HI there, I'm planning to install OSX 10.6 on my computer, I saw some guides that I'll get into, but I have a small question: I have 2 disks, I plan to install Windows 7 + Linux on the first one, and macOs on the second one. Will I be able to chainload chameleon using grub, or, using the F12 key to boot from 2nd hardrive, or it'll be a little more complex? Btw, sorry if this has been aborded, but the search function do not work atm. Thanks guys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/211033-dual-boot-with-dual-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
einhornchen Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Chances are the easiest method to doing this will be as follows: Disable all drives which will NOT be used for installing OSX in your bios so they will not be changed when installing OSX. After doing so, boot into your OSX setup program, setup as normal. After completing the setup, re-enable all drives through bios. If your system is like most, there should be a "Press this key to choose startup medium" or something along those lines. Hit that key, and select the hard drive containing the OS you'd like to boot No guarentees as to this working, but it shouldnt destroy your win partition in the process. ## Edit Generally F10 is the boot medium selection key. Just FYI Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/211033-dual-boot-with-dual-hd/#findComment-1412365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekkro-kvlt Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Mine is F12, but I'll try it, as soon as I'll get my new HD, i'll make a fresh install of windows 7, ubuntu, and mac os 10.6. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/211033-dual-boot-with-dual-hd/#findComment-1412567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamaraju Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 I have Windows 7 on one disk and SL 10.6.2 on the other. What I did was 1.Connected the hard drive with Windows 7 already installed to Sata 1 port and Hard drive on which SL to be installed to Sata 0 port 2. Disconnected Win7 hard disk 3. Partitioned the SL disk to GUID partition scheme and installed SL 4. Installed Chameleon 2.0 r431 on SL drive 5. Connected Drive with Windows 7 And everything is fine with boot loader showing all the bootable partitions. Note: When I first installed Windows 7, I got an additional partition created by the OS named 'System managed disk'. During boot with chameleon, you have to select that to boot into windows 7 and not the windows 7 partition. If you have any problem with SL, you can just disconnect that Hard drive and you have your Windows 7 safe and sound. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/211033-dual-boot-with-dual-hd/#findComment-1414351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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