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Snow leopard Guid Advice

To be specific I am installing snow leopard on current GUID formated drive with kalway leopard install on first out of 4 partitions. i have choose the second partition to be snow leopard with chameleon rc3 boot option but i am little…

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@sumair Published 2009-09-27
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To be specific I am installing snow leopard on current GUID formated drive with kalway leopard install on first out of 4 partitions. i have choose the second partition to be snow leopard with chameleon rc3 boot option but i am little curious if snow leopard will be able to boot itself because there is already old efi darwin bootloader by kalway installed on my current leopard.

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Author Update #1 @sumair 2009-09-27

More simplify..

will snow leopard need a empty GUID spare drive to run or is it possible to run both leopards on single GUID scheme with partitions because in the end it will boot only one.

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Field Note #1 @thorazine74 2009-09-27

You should be able to do it, I've installed it in a GPT partition and its booting from chameleon installed in a different hd (old leopard partition). If you have it installed in the EFI System Partition it would be straight.

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