Swad Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 So everyone knows that you can use OS X to dual boot Windows Vista. But how many of you have done it the other way around... booting OS X from the "doesn't play well with others" Vista? This guy has (and he mentions our site!) and he shares his story: Windows Vista comes with a new boot manager, that is very flexible. I thought it would be nice if I could use that to specify an entry for Mac OS X. However, the technology is new and I cannot find many documentations about it. The FAQ in Microsoft’s web site does not tell you how to create a boot loader for Mac OS X. It only tells you how to create a boot loader for legacy systems like Windows XP. I then found out that people are using a chain0 file with Vista’s boot manager to dual boot OS X and Vista for the OSx86 project. I tried that, but it did not work. The problem is that the chain0 file is not for booting Mac OS X on MacBook. What I really need is already on my MacBook. It’s called boot.efi and it’s under /usr/standalone/i386/ . The file is hidden from Finder. You will need to use Terminal application to copy it. Here are the steps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 That's awesome! Good find Mash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i1sam Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Nice find Mash.... hope someone can do it in some of our ???? insanelymac hardware.... i have no success on chain0... ON my triboot system... hope this will progress... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 mm, wonderful. Although, i dont use vista anymore.... But probably will when it comes out for real, if it comes out for real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 That is very nice. I wonder if this will help us boot os x (on hackintosh) without needing all these efi implementations and darwin bootloader. Will this be of any use to the mac efi project? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360mods.net Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 This only works on a MAC. If using OSx86, you still have to use the Chain0 file. Which still loads the Darwin bootloader as well. So really, this isn't any good news for the PC people. One thing that you can do though... All the XP/OSx86 dual boot tutorials tell you to use the chain0 file as a copied ntldr entry in the Vista Boot Menu. The bad part about this is when you select "Previous Version of Windows" it will also add your "Mac OS X" entry in their as well. I figured out a way to get rid of that entry but keep it so that the "Mac OS X" entry in the Vista main bootloader still works. So now, when I hit "Previous Version of Windows" it boots straight into XP instead of an XP/OSx86 submenu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The VeeMon Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 hey friends....i was able to boot mac from my vista pc....all anxious can vist my blogs: my windows live blog my blogspot blog both blogs contains same info...ur wish whichever to choose... Actually what i did , is set vista's loader to boot xp's loader ...i mean ntldr and then redirected from there to mac's loader darvin.. it was damn easy and working quite fine... for details go to my blog page... feel free to contact.... for all this you'll need ntldr and boot.ini in your vista which can be copied from any xp running pc or can be downloaded from this page itself...i have attached...both zipped in a folder boot.zip...In the attatched boot.ini you need not to make any entry..it's all done..just unzip to C:\. If your native windows drive isn't C:\ then i am afraid to say that please edit boot.ini. hey!!! these are protected operating system files..hidden !!! so don't forget to 'show hidden files' and unclick 'hide protected operating system files' in 'folder options' menu before moving on otherwise you won't be able to see anything. enjoy!!! boot.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 The ntldr is also in the i386 folder of Win2K/XP/2K3 install cds. I posted a similar method a few days ago , but to let Acronis OS Selector detect Vista (which explains the different boot.ini file). I thought the file ntdetect.com was also needed, but you showed me it wasn't: Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 By the way Vikrant, you mention in your blog: First of all copy the Mac OS X 86 image to one of ur harddisk partition (...) I'm sure you meant to install osx on the partition. Unless of course you're talking about the quite old deadmoo image... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The VeeMon Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 By the way Vikrant, you mention in your blog: I'm sure you meant to install osx on the partition. Unless of course you're talking about the quite old deadmoo image... actually it doesn't matter.... i mean whatever image/installation u are using it works great!!! and abt my installation ......m using the latest mac...and even the beta of leapord is being downloaded on one of my friend's PC.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Well, I know it doesn't matter; was just wondering about the wording. People might think simply copying the image, as you state, is sufficient. It was (somewhat) true with the deadmoo image, but nowadays the install dvds are the most available and stable out there. "latest mac" You mean latest osx version? or using a mac (hardware)? Good luck with your Leopard.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The VeeMon Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Well, I know it doesn't matter; was just wondering about the wording. People might think simply copying the image, as you state, is sufficient. It was (somewhat) true with the deadmoo image, but nowadays the install dvds are the most available and stable out there. "latest mac" You mean latest osx version? or using a mac (hardware)? Good luck with your Leopard.. oh...buddy why do u go so hard on wordings...well i meant OS X....as m using it on PC!!! hope evrything clarified!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifelonglego Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 if only i could find a osx86 download that isn't a :censored2: torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashish Patil Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hey i cant download boot.zip hey friends....i was able to boot mac from my vista pc....all anxious can vist my blogs: my windows live blog my blogspot blog both blogs contains same info...ur wish whichever to choose... Actually what i did , is set vista's loader to boot xp's loader ...i mean ntldr and then redirected from there to mac's loader darvin.. it was damn easy and working quite fine... for details go to my blog page... feel free to contact.... for all this you'll need ntldr and boot.ini in your vista which can be copied from any xp running pc or can be downloaded from this page itself...i have attached...both zipped in a folder boot.zip...In the attatched boot.ini you need not to make any entry..it's all done..just unzip to C:\. If your native windows drive isn't C:\ then i am afraid to say that please edit boot.ini. hey!!! these are protected operating system files..hidden !!! so don't forget to 'show hidden files' and unclick 'hide protected operating system files' in 'folder options' menu before moving on otherwise you won't be able to see anything. enjoy!!! boot.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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