What to do if you followed the "Other" dual-boot instructions?

"And then it just went bleep bleeep bleeep... and my paper was gone. It was a really good paper. It's kind of... a bummer"

Miss Feiss, will you ever stop having the right word?

I, like you, jumped at the winonxp solution, however I followed instructions over on osx86project.org on disabling the earlier xom which enabled me to install the latest firmware upgrade without trashing the existing OSX install.

After screwing around for some 4 hours I realized that there was no way to take advantage or in fact delete the existing partition created by windows during the earlier install process (winonxp). My solution ended up being to create an image of my osx via another machine, with my MBP in Firewire Mode, delete the existing parition structure, restore the image and only then run the bootcamp partition manager. Many hours later (still maybe less than the winonxp option) I had the new partition and OS installed.

Why? Heaven knows the answer. I use windows maybe once per month. It's cost me more in virus scanning software, macdrive compatibility and
more time than I care to think about. Just makes me a hateful person. I LOVE OS X and would rather never have to use Windows, period. I rely on OSX, I can't say the same about XP.

The end result, I have to agree. Moving to Bootcamp is worth the experience and, in my shallow opinion, will position me better for virtualization and leopard, when it arrives.

we'll call this
cross-switching.

I thought I'd bricked my mac when I repartitioned using the Restore disk trying to switch to Boot Camp from XoM on my MBP.

I ended up having to do a command-line GPT repartition, but that was the most terrifying Mac hour of my life! Thank goodness for the onmac.net community!

I installed the OnMac solution on my 20" Core Duo iMac and unfortunately the solution suggested in the article did not help me with getting the firmware to work again correctly. In fact, since I installed 10.4.6 on the iMac the OnMac bootloader no longer works. The firmware restore CD only works if your firmware is completely screwed, otherwise it doesn't work at all. For the time being it looks like I am stuck. No problems though, I have a nice 250GB Lacie hard drive I can back everything up on before I repartition.

I used the original boot loader, and now i have boot camp on my macbook pro.

I have to say, Boot Camp is far better, far far better. For one, you can set a default os to boot to. for two, its more stable. sometimes the boot loader woul 'crash' and give me a command line interface and i had to type "g" to get it to work.

lastly, boot camp firmware update gives us a LOT! it unlocks the virtualization build into the yonah cpu, without the update, VT is dissabled on the intel chips.

I installed the OnMac way a few weeks ago, so I was also a bit bummed that an easier way showed up. But all is cool now, because here's what I did: using Pacifist, I pulled the file "DiskImage.dmg" from the BootCamp installer. I burned this onto a CD using Disk Utility. Then, I booted up into Windows and used that disc to install all the drivers that Apple provided!
Now my Windows installation is working just like Apple's BootCamp allows -- eject button, sound, display -- all stuff that wasn't working properly using the OnMac solution.