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BootCamp/rEFIt Problems...

Asked by alextoft in Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), Apple Operating Systems, Mac OS X

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I have a brand new iMac. I wish to multiboot this machine with an existing 2 partition Windows image. As BootCamp is rather inflexible (and I plan to add Linux later), I plan on using rEFIt to do the booting. I did the following:

1. Rebooted to OSX DVD, and partitioned the drive using:
diskutil partitionDisk disk0 3 GPTFormat "Journaled HFS+" "Macintosh HD" 200G "MS-DOS" "WindowsC" 50G "MS-DOS" "WindowsD" 150G
2. Used NetRestore to restore an existing 10.4.9 image to the HFS+ partition. This boots up fine, so I install rEFIt and do a MBR/GPT sync
3. Take the hard disc from a working Windows XP machine and put it in a USB caddy. Connect to Mac.
4. Boot off WindowsPE disc, then fire up Ghost32 and do a partition-to-partition copy from the USB disc to partition 3 on the disc.
5. Edit the boot.ini file to reflect new partition number and reboot, selecting Windows.

This goes ok to start with, boot screen appears for about 10 seconds, then crashes out with an UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME blue-screen. Look this up, and MS recommend doing a chkdsk on the partition, so I boot off an XP disc and do this. Makes no difference.

Scratching my head a little at the moment, so any ideas welcome. Also, I've spent the whole day trying to google an answer to my problem without success, so chances are if you paste a link I've already read it.Start Free Trial
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Zones: Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger), Apple Operating Systems, Mac OS X
Tags: refit, bootcamp
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