Coop5252 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Hi everyone, I am new here and new to OS X, I'll explain my situation. I had installed OS X (Kalyway installation) onto an external USB harddrive of mine with great success and was dual booting Vista & OS X with no problems! So i decided to make it a more permanent situation and install os x onto my second internal hard drive. this is when my dual boot stopped working. so i thought i would format my vista partition and re-install vista, this then made the os x drive completley unbootable. so than i reinstalled os x onto the other drive again. Now as it stands I have 2 seperate drives one with os x one with vista, both bootable however not from the bcdedit menu or the darwin boot loader i have to choose which hard drive to boot from within the bios. both menus will boot their respectable os's (ie Vista boots fine from the vista bootmenu, but os x does not and os x loads from the darwin boot loader no problem, but vista does not)... so as it stands i can get to either OS but not in an easy fashion, any insight to this at all? the error i'm receiving when booting into os x via the vista boot menu is a chain booting error. here is my bcdedit configuration (via easybcd); There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader. Bootloader Timeout: 30 seconds. Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Entry #1 Name: Microsoft Windows Vista BCD ID: {current} Drive: C:\ Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Windows Directory: \Windows Entry #2 Name: NST Mac OS X BCD ID: {711c5096-e4ce-11dd-b57e-001d7d9c9000} Drive: C:\ Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr as for os x i'm not overly familiar with the boot loader and have no idea what or how to show you it. any help on this would be greatful thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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