Hi i have a intel macbook with 80Gb hard drive runing tiger and i dont want to spend the money to buy lepord so i made a partition of my hard drive of 30 GB and installed rEFIT and took my CD of windows XP and installed the set up files on the hard drive. but when i selected my partition of the hard drive with my windows files installed it said i was missing a file: <Windows Root>/system32/hal.dll. and it said to reinstall the start up files again i have done that 3 times and still i have had the same problem if anybody has an ideas please tell me your ideas. thanks
macs use EFI which is not supported by windows xp windows xp requires Bios to run. Bootcamp when partitioning your HD installs Bios emulation allowing you to run XP Vista supports EFI so you dont have to have bootcamp the Best thing to do is set your clocks back to probly july or august of 07 then download bootcamp beta for tiger from a torrent then just partition your disc using that then install xp if you have any more questions feel free to ask i think that sums it up hope that helps The Original Mr PuFiN
okay i just found something that will probly work for windows i have to do it to get linux to run on my macbook 1 download rEFIt iso one 2 extract then mount in finder 3 get a hfs formated usb or a blank cd 4 if using cd burn the image to the cd if using cd skip to step 6 4a if using usb drive copy all files in the image from finder to root of the drive 5 navigate on the usb to efi/rEFIt folder and open enable.sh in the terminal located in /applications/utillities/terminal.app 6 restart computer and hold down alt/option key till you get the list choose the drive you put rEFIt on 7 DONT CHOOSE WINDOWS YET scroll over to partition tool and it may ask if you want to rebuild mbr with y/n type y then press any key it will exit shut down computer remove usb and turn back on 8 choose windows and it should work *note you dont have to use usb since you have refit installed on your mac partition that is just the steps i used for a hd without mac installed on it for linux *also this is untested with windows but have tested it with linux and that works im going to be installing windows on the drive also so i will give you an update if it works or not Hope That Helps The Original Mr PuFiN
i tried refit and all it did was lockout my hard drive. Upgrade to leopard more stable. the bootcamp beta expires so it wont do you much good there.
The boot camp beta is expired but if you download it from a torrent then set your clock back to before the expireation of the boot camp beta But I still recommend that you upgrade to leopard as it I more stable and it not any thing like vista for compatibility and speed it actualy run faster than tiger and runs ppc apps better (assuming your using a intel mac)
If you're gonna put Windows on the thing, do it right. Get Leopard. It's worth it. You get the Windows Support you need built-in, Time Machine for backups (a MUST), etc. etc. (something about 300+ new features or whatever). If you just need windows to tinker around, then I'd also recommend just trying a beta of VirtualBox. Neat.
