dual boot beyond boot camp
After lots of testing and rebooting I have found that any (primary) hard drive partitioning beyond boot camp is not really trivial.
My experiment:
- Create a "normal" boot camp setting (OS X & Win XP)
- Modify the created partitions in order to boot another Tiger (true OS X dual boot)
- Re-instate the former setting of an HFS+ partition and a FAT32 partition without complete repartition
After extensive testing of virtually any OS X programm and command I've found that there is one very important thing: boot from another drive. OS X doesn't allow such modification as described above on the primary hard disk. If You've once booted from an external (or secondary) drive, You can use the following command:
diskutil eraseVolume [format] newName <nonbootable>
i.e. diskutil eraseVolume "HFS+" SecondOSX disk0s3
or diskutil eraseVolume "MS-DOS FAT32" Win disk0s3
I'm not really sure whether You ought to use sudo or not, so if it won't work You know what to do. And don't try to use these commands when booting from Your primary hard disk – it might not tell You that the command didn't complete successfully, but it really won't work.
Oh, I almost forgot: I'm back online again! What a luxury to have internet at home! But, as always, You don't know what You've got until it's gone...
