Why Me Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Make sure to remove the entry created with the old version of EasyBCD first. When adding a new entry with EasyBCD, keep the default "Mode: EFI" option set... then add the new entry. Upon selecting the entry at reboot, you will have the option of keying in the drive to boot from (verses booting from the default drive) since pc_efi v9 lets you pick what drive to boot OS X from. That my problem starting up with the the other disk in the bootloader seems to mix up the kernels. starting 10.5.5 with the bootloader on the 10.5.6 gives a kernel panic the other way around also. Thats why I was trying to make a triple boot with EasyBCD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dette Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 This is nice! Good work! I dont have to go through steps to get into OS X now! Just choose it and darwin opens it rather then trying to boot vista again and looping back Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pere Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Vis: Vista cannot be installed on a GUID partition normally - though Vista x64 technically has EFI/GUID support. The best way of doing it is installing Vista first to an MBR disk keeping one partition free. Afterwards use any OS X distro installation disc to put OS X on the second partition *of the MBR disk* and use EasyBCD thereafter to facilitate the dual-boot. I don't know if the IM community has developed a way to install Vista on a GUID disk. First, thanks for your good work!! Vista can be installed (and XP also) on a GUID (GPT) partitioned disk using the hibrid partition scheme OSX provides. This is the way: Use disk utility to partition the disk as GPT using 2 or 3 partitions, format first one as mac os journaled and second (or third) as MSDOS, that will create a hibrid GPT/MBR partition table. (In fact, this is the way OSX uses when you use bootcamp to install windows). OSX is installed on first partition and XP or VISTA on second (or third) after format the volume as NTFS. I have used chain0 and boot.ini edit to dualboot OSX/XP this way and EASYBCD to dual boot OSX/W7. Chameleon/DFE 132 and netkas PCEFI V9 tried sucessfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Vis: Vista cannot be installed on a GUID partition normally - though Vista x64 technically has EFI/GUID support. The best way of doing it is installing Vista first to an MBR disk keeping one partition free. Afterwards use any OS X distro installation disc to put OS X on the second partition *of the MBR disk* and use EasyBCD thereafter to facilitate the dual-boot. I don't know if the IM community has developed a way to install Vista on a GUID disk. Vista Home Premium x64 installs perfectly fine to a GUID partitioned disk for me without any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vis Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 First, thanks for your good work!! Vista can be installed (and XP also) on a GUID (GPT) partitioned disk using the hibrid partition scheme OSX provides. This is the way: Use disk utility to partition the disk as GPT using 2 or 3 partitions, format first one as mac os journaled and second (or third) as MSDOS, that will create a hibrid GPT/MBR partition table. (In fact, this is the way OSX uses when you use bootcamp to install windows). OSX is installed on first partition and XP or VISTA on second (or third) after format the volume as NTFS. I have used chain0 and boot.ini edit to dualboot OSX/XP this way and EASYBCD to dual boot OSX/W7. Chameleon/DFE 132 and netkas PCEFI V9 tried sucessfully. Thanks Pere, but I still have a problem with this. Lets say I have one hard drive, partitioned into two volumes. osx 1 and Vista. It's a GUID partition. The problem is, when I select the Vista partition in the Disk Utility, the format area is set to Max OS Extended (Journaled) and is grayed out, so I have no option to set it to anything else right now. OSX is already installed on the OSX partition (I'm in it now). Is the Hybrid partition only available during OSX setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 Thanks for your explanation, pere - that clears up one of my few remaining questions pertaining to Windows/OSX dual-boots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stibra Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Download link does not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedracerX Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Doh! FTP appears to be down. I downloaded it last night and it worked, but I had to re-install and when I came to pull it down again, link was dead. Could someone post a link to it. Thanks, and Merry X-Mas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 Our ISP for the dev server was down, I've switched the beta builds over to the main NST server. Link updated, see first post. Sorry about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 ..first ,If I don't remember wrong for installing vista on a guid partition scheme , u need SP1 for Vista. Second , If I'm using EFI9, and regularly deepsleep , when it's wake up from hibernate, I need to choose on the Easybcd menu ? Or Can I get a "Quiet Boot" as with Darwin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graebags Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 OK, very cool!! ...and very timely (for me). I have it installed on Vista64 and am now using it to multiboot between Vista64 on hw raid partition, Win7 prebeta 64bit on a seperate pata drive and Leopard 10.5.6 on a third GUID (pata) drive with pc_efi v9 courtesy of the Universal Installer. It works, which is great. Its replacing the Easybcd 1.7.2 install which ceased to work once I used the UI to upgrade to 10.5.6 with efi v9. Fisrt thing I noticed is it seems to want to boot OSX on the Vista drive... Vista and Win7 will always make their drive "C" at boot, and if it fails to find 'chain loader' then requires a ctrl-alt-del reboot. Two seconds to hit a key to get a choice of hdd to boot is a bit mean, but works. Having it fail-over to try HDD 2, if OSX isn't on HDD 1 would be nice. Good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedracerX Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Thanks for this APP, I was finally able to get Tiny Vista (vlite) to install on my MBR 1 partition and OSx (MSIWINDOSX) on my second partition. I'm going to play with deep sleep (hibernation) I hope it works with my config. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fb* Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Is it possible to use this in conjunction with the VistaLoader vista hack? (It modifies the bootloader to make the OS think it's running on an OEM PC) I'm getting a Valid BCD Registry Not detected error. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedracerX Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Yeah, I got it to work with the boot loader my Vista, so my notebook boots Vista and does not need to be Activated. If I were you I would try another version of the Vista hack you are using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 With regards to the fallback to a different drive - I'm fairly certain that the Chameleon team has this fixed now that the 64kb barrier has been broken... As soon as we hear from them and find out what goodies they have in store, I'll update EasyBCD with the changes It looks like EasyBCD is working great for everyone? No problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graebags Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 With regards to the fallback to a different drive - I'm fairly certain that the Chameleon team has this fixed now that the 64kb barrier has been broken... As soon as we hear from them and find out what goodies they have in store, I'll update EasyBCD with the changes It looks like EasyBCD is working great for everyone? No problems? Thanks Computer Guru, I'm using the EFI Bootloader, PC_EFI v9 (Chameleon 1.0.12), installed by the new Universal OSx86 Installer tool, http://######.com/index.php?option=...9&Itemid=48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 It looks like EasyBCD is working great for everyone? No problems? Hi Computer Guru, great work by the way. Do you think I would be possible to make EasyBCD compatible with munky's boot method (using the 200MB EFI partition used by GPT) ? Thanks, R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark couch Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 windows 7 and iatkos 10.5.5. works like a charm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyguy Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 The only thing i dont like, is that if i switch back to using efi v9 as the primary bootloader, i cant remove the osx enrty from BCD menu without having the vista partition active Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fb* Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Ok I can confirm that this works with VistaLoader 3.0.0.1 I had to reinstall VistaLoader after using EasyBCD, as EasyBCD wanted to rewrite the bootloader. Thanks for your great software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charon123 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Hi, I'm quite new to this, but I thought, let's give it a try... Basics: Vista on HD0 (device80), OSX (iPC10.5.6/EFI9/MBR) on HD4 (device84). Run BCD Edit on Vista, selected OSX/EFI, nothing else. Restart: Bootmenu appears, I can choose between Vista/OSX (as it should be) I choose OSX: no bootloader found..... (I have the option to press a key within 2 seconds; when I do, and I choose device #84 (i.e. my HD with OSX on it), OSX starts. Sounds very well, but how can I start OSX without the annoying delay of pressing a key and entering the devicenumber? Shouldn't be to difficult, one should think....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Wolverine_ Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 does it work with multi hds? for example: 1hd: Vista 2hd: Mac 3hd: Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colaly Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 does it work with multi hds?for example: 1hd: Vista 2hd: Mac 3hd: Linux Look post#40 in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luiz Costa Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Just installed,and works nice! dual boot with Vista and Mac, best of all I don't need use 132 boot cd anymore!!!Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dette Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 I had this working fine but then I re installed Mac and now when I boot I have to choose the Mac partition on the darwin prompt... before I didnt have to.. I tried messing with EasyBCD and the settings and re installing the Vista Bootloader but I am not sure what to do with this.. Its annoying to have to choose the partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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