kchase Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 i just built my new hackintosh (see sig.). i had two 250gb sata drives and the plan was to create a master boot record on each drive one for mac os and one for vista, and change the boot order in bios on my (again see sig.) d975xbx2. i first got mac os installed 100% working and then got vista installed and 100% working (kind of funny that it took more work to get vista working due to problems with raid drivers lol). durring setup since i use identical drives i only had one connected at a time, now when i plug them both in it boots windows no matter what order i select in bios. i really wanted to avoid using a 3rd party boot manager (aka acronis) because on my last hacintosh it killed the boot record and killed my install. i am looking for the most stability and i will spend about 95% of my time in mac os and use parallels to run windows off the second drive. does any one know why this method didnt quite work like planned? now what should i do? i would like to not have to reinstall the os'es oh and if i unplug the drive (ie. the os i dont want to boot to) it boots no problem to the native os on the drive. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malf Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Do you by any chance have a USB drive plugged in? On two of my computers if I leave a USB pen drive plugged in, it ignores my choices for boot order in bios. I know it's a long shot, but my only experience with bios not booting from the drive you selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kchase Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 no i dont but thanks that is something that could easily be overlooked. i am thinking of using easyBCD now...can i set this up with two drives that have master boot records? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justvisiting Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 i just built my new hackintosh (see sig.). i had two 250gb sata drives and the plan was to create a master boot record on each drive one for mac os and one for vista, and change the boot order in bios on my (again see sig.) d975xbx2. ... now when i plug them both in it boots windows no matter what order i select in bios .... and if you swap the sata cables on the drives, does OSX always boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kchase Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 just tried that, nope. for what ever reason vista always boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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