EasyBCD and Guid Options

[Antonius138]

Hello all,

I just recently installed the Kalyway distro of Leo and afterwards I installed Vista to dual boot. I installed EasyBCD 1.7.1 and choose to add the OSX entry, but on closer inspection the Booter loader path is: Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr

The difference is that I formatted the hard drive with guid and used the EFI vanilla to load my Leo. Now I get the HFS+ error when I try to boot into Leo. Any ideas on what the bootloader path should be for a guid install?

Thanks,

A.

[karishbhr]

I too am looking for the same thing. Any help would be appreciated

[Daryll]

I don't think it works with GUID.

I have 2 hard drives, both MBR, one with Vista(NTFS)/Storage(FAT32) and other one with Leopard(HFS+). I already have Vista installed, so before installing Leopard, I set hdd to FAT32 (to make sure it's MBR) and flagged it bootable with GParted Live CD, later formatted it to HFS+ with Disc Utility & installed Leopard. On this stage I could select which hard drive to boot pressing F12 during start up. Since it's not very convenient, I installed EasyBCD. Then I added entry for Leopard in Mac OS X (generic x86) and manually selected drive number 1 & partition 1 (since it uses second SATA port & only has 1 partition. Everything is working great, by default my computer automatically boots into Leopard; however, if needed I can boot into Vista.

[macgirl]

It could work if you install NeoGrub, then inside of menu.lst add the following lines

title Mac OS X Leopard on GUID
kernel (hd0,0)/NST/boot_v8


in the first line you can anything you want to display in the boot menu.

on the sencond line "(hd0,0)" could be different, "hd0" = first disk then the other "0" is the first partition.

[karishbhr]

macgirl. when I tried your solution I got an error saying I had an invalid partition table. Any ideas?

[macgirl]

Post your disk and partitions.

[karishbhr]

Vista = Disk0s1
OSX = Disk1s2

[macgirl]

So Vista is on a MBR Disk and Mac on a GUID Disk?

I guess that menu.lst has this:

title MacSomething
kernel (hd0,0)/NST/boot_v8


Dou you copied the boot_v8 into the NST folder?

[karishbhr]

Should I use the one I have installed or just redownload it? Does it make a difference? And can you please tell me what my menu.lst should look like?

[macgirl]

menu.lst should lok like this:

title Mac
kernel (hd0,0)/NST/boot_v8

But you need to EDIT it, when you install NeoGrub it is empty.

You can also put more OSes there, read GRUB manual.

[karishbhr]

I did everything you said... when I chose OSX in Neogrub I got this message (or something close)

-Going with default HD at 80
When I did that it looped back and took my back to the BCD load... so I chose Neogrub again
-Went with second HD at 81 as it suggested
When I did that it said it couldn't find my apple.boot.plist

Any ideas?