thebeephaha Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I had XP Pro on my first partition, osx86 on my second partition. I just had to reinstall windows and I realized after I formatted the partition that I killed my boot loader. How do I get the darwine boot loader back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 You can boot with the Installation DVD, then go to Terminal mount your partition and Bless it. Search in the Tutorials Forum for bless command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 (edited) New screenshot , hope you enjoy it boot.xpm.gz Edited January 28, 2007 by svens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennny Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 cant get the dual boot to work what can i do mac os works but cant get to windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svens Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Which Partition is active? Use Fdisk to look for this information.First you should have installes Win than change active partition to the 2nd part of the harddisk and install osx , in the most cases you get an functionally osx bootloader (darwinloader) with entry of windows. If this dont work you read the common steps If you have Windows on FAT you reinstall it,use Wingrub as Bootloader.(download and install the Software) I hope i can help you to fix your problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennny Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 thanks i just install win again and try to fix with the os selector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennny Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 got it working reinstall window and os selector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAvenue Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 PCLinuxOS 2007 on hard drive 1 using grub bootloader. Mac OS X 10.4.7 on hard drive 2 . Add this paragraph to menu.lst file in grub folder: title Mac OS X root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 Easy as can be,no muss,no fuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumix Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 (edited) I have a quick question.. I can't seem to get that darwin bootloader working. Is it because my windows partition is using NTFS and not FAT32? Quite a problem, because OSX86 works fine, but I can't boot XP (even if I set the XP partition back to the active one in disk utility). My XP boot just hangs at "verifying dmi pool data". Help help I followed this guide http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Simple_Dual_Boot edit: using one physical hard-drive, two partitions. Edited January 29, 2007 by skumix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvavd Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 its time for my story of success: i several times reinstalled different releases of macos to 2nd partition with same effect - Error loading operating system. to fix it i installed acronis os selector and then deactivated it since i actually dont need it as daily routine. it seems that acronis, apart from deactivating itself, also fixed MBR.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sid013 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I installed xp then vista then osx and then linux .. and used grub for bootloader and i can boot into xp vista and linux but i get HSF+ partition error when i try booting osx .. i tried everything from chain0 to editing menu.lfs and all .. can anyone please tell me how to run osx without installing it or any other os again . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmw Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 does going into bios and selecting the hard drive the windows/linux/ whatever count its what I do since i cant really do it any way going from windows to linux works good for me diffrent windows on one hd os x on another and select the hd I kno its on to boot first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jthunder Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Question related to dual booting and using a usb drive as the OS selector - I have not seen this covered in this forum yet. I am aiming to use a bootable usb drive as the OS menu using GRUB. I am aiming to partition my hard drive into two partitions (NTFS - Windows 2000 and HFS - OSX). The NTFS partition already exists and Windows 2000 is installed. I would like to leave the first partition as active and if the usb drive is not booted from, Windows will boot by default. With the usb drive connected, I would like the option to select with of the OS's to boot from using GRUB. I was thinking this would be the process: 1. Boot from a linux livecd and partition the drive (create a primary partition of type af after the primary and active ntfs partition). 2. Boot from the OSX DVD and use disk utility to create the HFS partition and install to it. 3. Boot from a linux livecd and use parted to set the NTFS partition back to active. 4. Install and edit the GRUB menu on the USB drive to allow the selection of either of the partitions on the harddrive. 5. Ensure the bios is set to boot from the USB drive first, cd/dvd second and hard drive third. Has anyone done this, or does this sound realistic before I spend time and screw up my laptop? Thanks JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naplo Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I'm new to Hackintosh and I want to use both Windows and Mac OS X. Whats the best methode for dual booting Windows and Mac at the moment? I'm not very experienced with bootloaders yet, so a guide would be very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Naplo: I suggest using the boot.ini and chain0 method. Its very clean and you don't need to install third party applications! Don't forget to put a longer wait period on the OSX boot menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naplo Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 @ ciper Thank you very much for your answer, but can you give me little more information or a link, were this method is explaned? I have only Windows installed atm and I have no bootmanager yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Easiest, most straight-forward, is using the darwin bootloader. Once you've created a primary active partition for osx (before the extended partition, if there is one), and you've installed osx on that partition according to guides, you'll have the darwin bootloader that will take care of booting both osx and windows2000/xp (you didn't specify which windows). Then go to this wiki section, Tips and Tricks, under the Speed up Darwin's timeout count-down subsection, and change the com.apple.boot.plist to get proper time to chose in the menu. As for install guides for osx, there are many in the GeniusBar subforum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naplo Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Ok, I created a 20Gb partition for Mac OS X as a 3rd primary partition. Now I will install Mac OS X on it. And then I will need the chain0 file, right? Were do get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 If you want to use the chain0 method instead of the more direct darwin loader method, then you can simply get the chain0 in the root of your osx dvd. In the GeniusBar subforum, you'll get many guides on how to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naplo Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Ok, I read some Guides and I am wondering if I can install Mac on my Lenovo N100 with a Sata HDD? Or do I have to use VMWare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naplo Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I have installed Mac OSX now and it even starts up on my notebook. But when I want to shut down Mac, the Notebook is hanging up and I only see the "waiting-circle". What can I do to solve this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adbradwell Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 now I have 2 harddisks with each different OS. one is vista and other maOSx 10.4.8. Is there any way I could dual boot without formating and installing again? Or should I just use the "chain" way? thx in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naplo Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 After installing Mac OSX the System always boots Mac. How can I boot Windows again, so I can change the boot.ini to choose which system to boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxonmylaptop Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hi All, Following this and other instructions, I did the following: 1. I created a primary partition (without formatting) on the free space using Disk Management in XP. 2. I MADE A BACKUP MY XP DATA. 3. boot from OSX 10.4.7 JAS DVD 4. In Disk Utility Erased (formatted) that partition to HFS Journaled and it magically appeared as a valid destination drive. 5. It installed smooth and quick 6. I have Darwin boot loader menu pressing F8 with XP and OsX options. But I have problems with video driver (Intel 945GM) but if boot in safe mode (-x) works great! I've read that there is Intel GMA support in the DVD but mine doesn't have... Bye. Acer TravelMate 4220 Centrino T1350 1.86mhz Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Family TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632D Realtek High Definition Audio Agere Systems HDA Modem Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izlude Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hello Everyone. I have created a small guide on how to dual boot Vista and OS X 10.4.8 using a Master and Slave configuration. This will also work if you already have Vista installed on your master drive. This guide was modified from the original one found here: http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/12/...ot-on-intelamd/ Here is my guide: http://www.freewebs.com/izludetingel/OS/VISTAOSXDUAL.html Graphical Guide coming soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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