Zyphon Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Hey, I got Kalyway installed on the second partition of my hard drive (Vista's on the first), but I can't get it to dual boot. Basically, I installed Kalyway using EFI_MBR and it booted fine. I needed to get back into Vista, so I marked the first (Vista) partition as bootable, but Vista said winload.exe was missing. I started up my Vista install CD, chose repair, and "Yay!" now Vista is booting again. I read that I needed EasyBCD, so I installed it, added an entry for Mac OS X, rebooted, and got an HFS+ Partition Error when I selected Mac OS X. Next, I tried booting via a chain0 file instead of the default EasyBCD one, HFS+ Partition Error. Finally, I installed Gentoo+Grub on a third partition, added an entry for efi boot_v8 according to [How to] Boot OS X from grub using PC_efi - InsanelyMac Forum and I get com.apple.boot.plist not found (no matter which harddrive I choose, even one I don't have). If I hold F8, though, I can use the darwin bootloader to choose whether to boot into Vista or Mac (though for some reason both partitions are identified as Vista). When I choose the Mac partition from the Darwin bootloader, I get, you guessed it... HFS+ Partition Error What am I doing wrong?! Thanks a mucho, Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macshiba Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Common sense. Mark your OSX Partition as active again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairidog Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 I can't say for sure that it'll help, but Easy BCD has a "repair OS X HFS+ Partition Error" option in the Diagnostics Center. May be worth giving that a try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyphon Posted April 26, 2008 Author Share Posted April 26, 2008 Macshiba - Sorry, forgot about that, that was actually one of the first things I tried. Wouldn't you know it, it gives an HFS+ Partition Error. prairidog - I tried the repair (nothing seemed to happen when I ran it, but that might be how it works), grub still gives HFS+ Partition Error, the Vista bootloader now gives Chain Booting Error (not sure if that was the error before instead of HFS+ Partition Error, actually). Thanks for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyphon Posted April 26, 2008 Author Share Posted April 26, 2008 Any other things I can try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyphon Posted April 26, 2008 Author Share Posted April 26, 2008 I rewrote the Vista MBR (no more grub, goes straight to the vista bootloader) and ran the fix HFS+ Partition Error but now I just get a "Chain Booting Error" Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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