Ahh! Last step, need help.

[zacharyy]

Okay, this is my first post here but I've been using InsanelyMac and a few other places as a guide to help my Leopard install go well.

 

So, after a weekend+yesterday of thousands of failed Leopard installs, I finally got it to install. Well, the first discs weren't burned at 4x and they were scratched up, but this time it installed right. I'm dual-booting, btw. Anyways, I installed iATKOS Leopard v1.0R2 and then when it rebooted I typed -s at the prompt and did the commands that allow me to boot into Vista again, like the guide says.

 

I booted successfully into Vista, copied the Chain0 file to my Vista partition, C: . The I opened cmd with Administrator rights and typed the first command. It said it successfully registered to "{whatever the GUID was}". Then I typed the "/enum" command so it showed me the entries like the guide said it would. I noticed that the first one, Windows Bootloader, had a different GUID than the other 2, Vista and "My MAC". Those two had the same ones. I thought it might've been a bit odd but I went ahead and typed the last command. Which I don't think worked like it was supposed to.

 

I got an error, something about the "bcdedit" command not being right? But, I went in and skipped the first command just now, and the 3rd said it completed successfully so I'll try right after I post this. But I noticed that the CMD shows that they [supposedly Leopard and Vista] all boot from the same place and file, so did I do something wrong?Help is GREATLY appreciated as I have been dying to get this to work. Thanks in advance.

 

EDIT: I just tried all of the boot options I made in CMD [i made 4 or 5 because I thought trying the different GUID's will lead to the right one], and every one of them booted Vista. I figured out that they all have the same GUID, so while Leopard's installed on the other partition, I can't boot to it since I don't have the right GUID. Any thoughts?

 

Also, my setups are

 

Dell XPS 410, 2.13GHz Intel Core Duo

160GB HD, 2GB RAM

 

and

 

Dell Inspiron 1520, 2.00GHz Intel Core Duo

100GB HD, 2GB RAM

 

They both get the same problem, not being able to find the right GUID.

[zacharyy]

Now, earlier I needed help on a dual-boot thing but forget it. I decided to use an old hard drive on my laptop that has never had Windows installed. So it was partitioned to GUID, then formatted to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). I installed Leopard successfully, now I'm at the blinking cursor.

 

I understand what I'm supposed to do, but I have no idea how to do it. Will someone please actually answer this time and tell me, step-by-step, how to flag the OS X install using GParted Live CD.

 

Also, when I tried this, it says it was unable to do it since I was in single user mode [-s at iATKOS v1.0iR2 DVD boot]. How do I enter these without being in single user mode? :

 

 diskutil list
## write down the volume name and disk identifier info example: (disk1s1)


## unmount the disk that needs the boot loader
## remove quotes if you do not have space
diskutil unmount "/Volumes/volume name"

## replace out 1s1 with your disk# and partition #
## this installs boot1h in the 1st 512 blocks
dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s1 bs=512 count=1

## replace out 1s1 with your disk# and partition #
## this installs the 2nd stage boot loader to the target disk
/Applications/Clonetool/sbin/startupfiletool /dev/rdisk1s1 /usr/standalone/i386/boot

## bless the target device
sudo /Applications/Clonetool/sbin/bless -device /dev/disk1s1 -setBoot -verbose

## replace out 1s1 with your disk# and partition #
## note this entry is NOT a raw disk
## mount device
diskutil mount /dev/disk1s1 

## remove quotes if you do not have space
## Bless the mount
sudo /Applications/Clonetool/sbin/bless -mount "/Volumes/volume name" -setBoot -verbose

 

 

Please, someone write back this time, you do not know how relieved I would be. Thanks

[lord_muad_dib]

why didn't you just post into the original discussion?... merged...