Hi everybody

I know the exact problem but was not able to find the solution . Here is the scenario

1. 1 hard drive divided in to two partitions.
Partition 1 : Windows Vista
Partition 2 : Mac OSX 10.5.1 (Kalyway)
2. Installed Vista succesfully
3. Installed Mac succesfully (but can only boot with DVD inside the dvd rom)
I tried many forums and learnt different dual boot guides. The problem is

When I make partition 1 active, try to get into Mac OSX it says "chain booting error".
- I have copied Chain0 to c:, done the bcd edit thing correctly and was able to see the dual boot menu, but if I select Mac it gives me the error.
- I also tried the EasyBCD and got the same error

when I make partition 2 active, try to get into Vista it says " No operating System found or similar error"

so the problem is that I cannot make both the partitions active as either if the partitions are getting disabled.

The thing is I goto Leopard and make the vista partition active, that means I cannot get into Leopard after reboot.
I goto Vista and make the Leopard partition active, then I cannot get into vista after reboot.

Also that I can only boot the Leopard with the DVD (Kalyway 10.5.1) inside.

Please help to dual boot perfectly

Vinod

For all those googlers seeing this as the first result

Make sure that you set the last line in boot.ini to this exactly: c:\chain0="Mac OSx86"

Then stick this file in c:

I missed a space and as a result was getting operating system not found errors

Hey Vinni.

I do have *exactly* the same situation and problem (although I am using iATKOS v4). Chain0 is setup correctly but I'm getting "Chain booting error". Besides: this message *is* thrown by "Chain0".

As one can read here

(http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0)

this may happen because of different reasons. I found out that boot sector of my Mac OS X partition was zeroed out. So I manually installed boot1h. After that step Chain0 didn't complain but all I got was a blinking cursor on the left top corner of my screen. No success :-(

But booting must be possible somehow, because it works with DVD inserted. I am not expecting any help but would like to do a bit more investigations on that problem.

Can anybody provide a link to more information about the boot process of Mac OS X? I am just interested.


Thanks
Frank


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