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GRardB
After hours and hours of struggling, I finally managed to get Kalyway installed on my computer.  It is installed on a partition of a hard drive that Windows is not on...Here's my setup:

Hard Drive 1 - Windows (250GB)
Hard Drive 2 - Windows (250GB)
Hard Drive 3 - Free Space (250GB) / Mac (250GB) - Total: 500GB

If I set up the first hard drive as my primary drive, Windows boots.
If I set up the third hard drive as my primary drive, Mac boots.
In order to boot the non-primary OS, I need to hit F8 on boot and choose a hard drive.

So I have Windows Vista and Kalyway already installed.  How do I set up dual booting?

I don't think I can use any of the boot.ini methods since Vista doesn't seem to have a boot.ini file.
I've tried WinGrub, no success.
I've tried EasyBCD, I got "Windows could not start" errors when I clicked on the Mac option (or something like that)
I'm not experienced enough attempt using GRUB, although I'm not sure it would work.
I'm almost positive GAG won't work.
I've tried rEFIT, that didn't work.

Some people say to use the Darwin bootloader, but that gives me no options to boot into Windows whatsoever.

I've also read about setting it up within the Kalyway install, but I didn't see these options (something about EFI?).  Is there a way to set this up without reinstalling Kalyway?

I'm in a big hole.  Someone help?

Thanks,
Gerard

P.S: I've spent hours trying to get this to work and searching everywhere; please don't get mad if there's another topic about this...
Jingu
Sorry to hear that you are having problems. I have a dual hard drive laptop:

Hard drive 1: MBR formatted with Windows Vista
Hard drive 2: GUID formatted with leopard as primary system and Tiger as secondary system

I use Netkas; EFI v8 and EasyBCD. I can seamlessly boot vista, leopard or tiger without any problems. So it does work. Are you using EFI v8 from netkas?
mj100
I also use different drives for vista(HD1) and leopard(HD2). The way i boot is by using my bios. Typing F12 shows me the boot menu
i select the disk i want to boot from and that's it.

When i choose leopard (HD2) GRUB start up and shows me 2 partitions (Mac and MacTest (playground))

cool thing is, by using vmware fusion i can start vista(HD1) from within leopard (HD2) as a virtual and still boot from vista (HD1) if i wanted to.

GRardB
QUOTE(Jingu @ Aug 15 2008, 11:17 AM) *
Sorry to hear that you are having problems. I have a dual hard drive laptop:

Hard drive 1: MBR formatted with Windows Vista
Hard drive 2: GUID formatted with leopard as primary system and Tiger as secondary system

I use Netkas; EFI v8 and EasyBCD. I can seamlessly boot vista, leopard or tiger without any problems. So it does work. Are you using EFI v8 from netkas?


I have no idea what I'm using (if anything). Do you think you could give me a short tutorial on how you managed to dual-boot?

QUOTE(mj100 @ Aug 15 2008, 04:04 PM) *
I also use different drives for vista(HD1) and leopard(HD2). The way i boot is by using my bios. Typing F12 shows me the boot menu
i select the disk i want to boot from and that's it.

When i choose leopard (HD2) GRUB start up and shows me 2 partitions (Mac and MacTest (playground))

cool thing is, by using vmware fusion i can start vista(HD1) from within leopard (HD2) as a virtual and still boot from vista (HD1) if i wanted to.


Like I said, I can/have to do this too, although my key is F8. I don't like doing that.

What I want is similar to what Linux/Windows users get when they start their computers. My dad dual-boots them and every time he starts up his computers, he gets a nice graphical interface that asks him which OS he wants to boot. He told me that Linux (at least the distributions that he uses) automatically sets up GRUB to do this during the install.
GRardB
Bump/New question

I decided I'm going to install openSUSE on my computer as well (On 50GB of the same hard drive as Mac).

So when I install openSUSE, will the bootloader installed (GRUB) be able to handle the three operating systems for me?

If not, I found a tutorial that will tri-boot the three, but I would rather use GRUB than Vista's bootloader.

Thanks,
Gerard
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