Re: Dual Booting Vista and OS X Leopard
- From: Dean <de@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:06:14 +0000
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:47:55 -0000, Nick Le Lievre wrote:
"Dean" <de@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:03:42 -0000, Nick Le Lievre wrote:
"Count de Monet" <zenholyman98282@xxxxxxxxx>
In my case I had to place a file from the Kalyway disk to the root of my
Vista boot drive and alter the vista boot loader (via the command line)
to create a menu to choose the OS to boot to at start up, this did not
happen automatically when I first installed OS X.
Thanks at least that gives me some idea of what to expect, and there is no
problem with regards to my Vista install, I have an acronis backup of it,
it
has already been decimated from my drive after I attempted to install MAC
OS
from the iAtkos DVD, I just got rid of it and formatted the whole drive to
MAC, I wanted to eliminate any potential problems with a dual boot
scenario
first to see if I could get MAC OS installed, just had word from my mate
48%
done 12hours to go I should have Kalyway by tommorow morning.
You need to put the OSX bootsector file (chain0) somewhere the XP/Vista
bootloader can access it (say c:/) then create a corresponding entry in
c:/boot.ini or the Vista equivalent if it's different.
Until you've done this you can will need to use the OSX install DVD to
boot
the OSX volume on your HDD.
Copy chain0 (all 512 bytes of it) from your OSX installation or get it
from
elsewhere. This way you won't have to install the OSX boot sector
anywhere
on your drive.
The other way I discovered above is even simpler I think (as long as you
have acronis or equiv) and its all off 1 drive with 2 partitions, it loads
OSX off the hard drive everytime and will load Vista as long as you select
it with the Darwin bootloader, I think the method you use uses the Vista
bootloader instead so the default OS is Vista, I only discovered my way by
accident after trying to install MAC OS on the second partition, this screws
up something with the Vista installation on the 1st partition but a restore
from Acronis or equiv will fix it.
I was quite surprised as I thought Darwin would of left something on the 1st
partition C:\ which would be erased with the restore but then again its an
NTFS partition, strange how it manages to screw something up on it though,
if you tried it without a backup you'd be up sh*t alley.
It seems the OSX bootloader dynamically creates a boot menu having scanned
the other primary partitions of the relevant HDD. Where as XP (don't know
how Vista boots myself) relies on boot.ini to genrate the menu and that
needs to be manually updated.
I guess you could toggle the active partition between the OSX and NTFS
system partition so using either bootloader. However, when I set the OSX
partition active, I just got HFS filesystem error or such like. Probably
because I didn't ask to install OSX bootloader. I could still boot it OK
from the NT bootloader or installer DVD though.
.
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