mac_newbie
15th July 2006, 07:49 AM
I just got a 20-inch Intel iMac and would like to have 3 HFS+ partitions and 3 NTFS partitions on the internal hard drive.
Total Internal Hard Drive Capacity: 250GB
Used BootCamp to partition the Mac OS X single volume to have a 30GB XP formatted as NTFS.
I installed rEFIt on the Mac OS X volume with enable-always.sh option and there is no need to press the option key for the boot options to show up. rEFIt loads automatically which is cool but with a issue which I have explained below.
My idea is this:
OS X (40 GB): Running fine.
Windows XP Pro w/SP2 (30GB): Runs fine with this exception* (please see below)
Video (NTFS): 70GB (once I create this, Windows XP is not booting since I guess the partition number got changed).
Mac Swap HFS+ (15GB): Partition is fine
Other HFS+ (40GB): Partition is fine.
Remaining free space for future allocations.
What I did is I tried to create a primary or extended partition after booting into XP on the unallocated portion of the hard drive and when the rEFIt boot loader showed up, it is saying "Boot Windows from Partition 4". But, before I created this extended partition, rEFIt was saying "Boot Windows from Partition 3" and it was booting fine. The moment I created the extended partition, and pressed the Enter key to boot XP from the menu, Windows complained saying "HAL.dll might be missing or corrupt. Please install HAL.dll" to continue. I know why this is happening. The rEFIt boot loader is not seeing the XP OS on partition 3 but looking into partition 4 which is the new non-bootable extended paritition.
Now, how do I make changes to rEFIt boot loader to make it to see partition 3 instead of 4? This leads me to another problem. The rEFIt boot menu is not showing the icon for the EFI shell. Is it because, I ran enable-always.sh instead of enable.sh?
I really want to have several NTFS partitions and should make rEFIt to see the correct XP OS partition and not other non-bootable NTFS partitions.
Appreciate your help.
Total Internal Hard Drive Capacity: 250GB
Used BootCamp to partition the Mac OS X single volume to have a 30GB XP formatted as NTFS.
I installed rEFIt on the Mac OS X volume with enable-always.sh option and there is no need to press the option key for the boot options to show up. rEFIt loads automatically which is cool but with a issue which I have explained below.
My idea is this:
OS X (40 GB): Running fine.
Windows XP Pro w/SP2 (30GB): Runs fine with this exception* (please see below)
Video (NTFS): 70GB (once I create this, Windows XP is not booting since I guess the partition number got changed).
Mac Swap HFS+ (15GB): Partition is fine
Other HFS+ (40GB): Partition is fine.
Remaining free space for future allocations.
What I did is I tried to create a primary or extended partition after booting into XP on the unallocated portion of the hard drive and when the rEFIt boot loader showed up, it is saying "Boot Windows from Partition 4". But, before I created this extended partition, rEFIt was saying "Boot Windows from Partition 3" and it was booting fine. The moment I created the extended partition, and pressed the Enter key to boot XP from the menu, Windows complained saying "HAL.dll might be missing or corrupt. Please install HAL.dll" to continue. I know why this is happening. The rEFIt boot loader is not seeing the XP OS on partition 3 but looking into partition 4 which is the new non-bootable extended paritition.
Now, how do I make changes to rEFIt boot loader to make it to see partition 3 instead of 4? This leads me to another problem. The rEFIt boot menu is not showing the icon for the EFI shell. Is it because, I ran enable-always.sh instead of enable.sh?
I really want to have several NTFS partitions and should make rEFIt to see the correct XP OS partition and not other non-bootable NTFS partitions.
Appreciate your help.