I haven't found anything definitive of booting more than two operating systems on the same pc within the parameters I'm looking for.
I'm interested in running winXP, win7 and OS X on AMD architecture. I found specific instructions on loading linux, OS X and win7 albeit, within very specific parameters unsuitable for my desired outcome. For one, I have no interest in linux. I see no benefit to running it.
Up until I read that, I was still unsure whether or not you could boot OS X without some sort of apple specific hardware - (seeing as how they are famous for propriety and likely will be heading to antitrust court next).
My desired setup:
1. Each of the opsys's on their own disk
2. Minimal nitpick install - in other words - I just re-installed win7 on my primary drive and spent a week organizing the drive and getting updates. I have no desire to go through that again.
I really don't see why I can't simply load the additional opsys's on their respective hard drives and use a bootloader program. I need to know which one and how/where to load it. I'd prefer a default win7 bootup with a counter I can set (say, to five seconds) where I'd have that time to choose an alternate boot up OS before it default loaded win7. If not that then a default win7 boot up with a bios interrupt to select an alternative system or something of that nature.
I don't expect to be using XP or OS X all that much. I want XP because it's the last OS that carries legacy api's necessary to run circa 1999/2000 games and I want OS X because I'd like to get a look at and play with game salad. The creators have seen fit to make it compatible with only OS X and smartphones - of which I have neither. I can't say I understand any part of a decision that doesn't support the most widespread computer platform in the world but I'm sure they have some reason for it...
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