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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101548-dual-booting-problems/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101548-dual-booting-problems/#findComment-724470 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101548-dual-booting-problems/#findComment-724473 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101548-dual-booting-problems/#findComment-724621 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101548-dual-booting-problems/#findComment-725151 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101548-dual-booting-problems/#findComment-725505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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