circus said:
I was having the same issues or similar issues when I used bootcamp and tried
installing XP sp2. I am currently in the process of mirroring my hard drive
and wiping my mac so i can partician my hard drive and install both OS. This
is my second attempt at this. Mac doesn't have any support for their beta
testing Bootcamp. Their suggestions are very basic and even more frustrating
then going at this alone.
If you find a way to get this to work seamlessly. I would also like to know.
It would have been better for you to make a new post with all details
instead of tacking your new question onto this older, closed thread.
I have used Boot Camp on quite a few MacBooks lately and the process has
been easy and seamless. There is no need to wipe your Mac! But of course
there is no way for me to know what you've done or what problems you're
having. The basic process is:
1. If you wish, back up your OS X install onto an external hard drive.
Personally, I use the paid version of Super Duper and use a LaCie
firewire drive.
2. Download and install Boot Camp. Follow the Boot Camp Assistant to
make a partition for XP. The size you choose depends on what you plan to
do with XP. For the MacBooks I was doing (school laptop program), I made
a 32GB partition and formatted NTFS. There was no need to share files
between the two operating systems. If you have a need to do this and
don't want to transfer files with a USB drive or host them on a network
machine/drive, then make the partition for XP 30GB and format it FAT32.
3. Boot Camp will have you make a drivers CD for XP. Do this.
4. Continue to follow the Boot Camp Assistant and install XP. You need a
full version of XP to do this, not an upgrade. After XP is installed,
use the drivers CD you made.
5. After you are finished installing XP, there will be a Boot Camp
Assistant entry in XP programs. Use it to set your boot options such as
default OS, time to wait before choosing, etc.
Malke