IMac running 10.6... I can boot into XP no problem, but Mac partition and Boot CD/DVDs will not go
Have an iMac running 10.6... I can boot into XP no problem, but although the mac partition shows up at (alt key) startup, it just spins for about 5 minutes then restarts. Also, it will not boot from any bootable CD/DVD at all (same spin cycle occurs). Tried about every trick I could research. No warning at all regarding this. Everything was going just peachy then pow... out of nowhere she won't boot. Any ideas
I sugggest you backup the windows xp and start from scratch. This means your disks partition is MBR and not GUID so the mac partitions cant effectively communicate with the EFI partition (bios) and boot.
So boot up using ur mac DVD.
Choose ur language
at the top of the screen, go to tools and open disk utility
highlight your hard drive and hit the partition tab. select 1 partition and make sure its set to format it as GUID and mac HFS+ file system
Reinstall mac os x do all ur updates
use boot camp utility to make a new windows xp partition and installation.
then to select between os's hold down option during startup
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To fix the MBR, in OSX Terminal
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
setpid 4
07
flag 4
p
w
y
q
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sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
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