stefh Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Ok I took the following steps, starting with an empty HDD: 01. Booted Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD 02. Ran Disc Utility, made three partitions in MBR mode: 80gb MacJournaled (Leopard), 80gb FAT (XP), 80gb FAT (VISTA) 03. Installation of Kalyway succeeded and I was able to boot into Leopard. 04. Installed XP Pro, had to mark the second partition active to continue installation. 05. Installed Acronis Disc Suite on XP and set the MacOSX partition back to active. 06. Now Darwin shows up when booting and I can select XP or MacOSX without any problems, MacOSX loading by default. I can also already see the 3rd partition in Darwin. 07. Next, I installed Vista. Vista also had to set its target partition (3rd partition) active. 08. After installation of Vista, Vista boots automatically, giving no options 09. Marked the XP partition active again which made my system boot XP automatically. 10. Again Acronis Disc Suite and made the MacOSX partition active again. (I thought SAME TRICK, Darwin probably comes up again and now I could choose between the three of them) 11. BUT SCREW ME!!! I get a HFS+ partition error (I can only boot into Leopard, by booting with the Kalyway disc in my drive now...) What to do? Please help. Greatly appreciated! PS: Also having an Ubuntu disc laying around, maybe I could alter things from there? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buppers Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Use Vista's bootloader. While in Vista, download a program called "easyBCD" you can add entries for XP and OSX easily, and everything should work fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/#findComment-730688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquitugu Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I was getting the HFS partition error as well when I set the OSX partition active with windows xp pro installed. I think all three partitions have to be primary partitions then you can set OSX to active again, use the Disk Director to modify this. Also I had so many failed attempts trying to use Darwin as the bootloader so I ended up using Acronis OS selector that came with the suite. Everything works fine now but then again im only dual booting. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/#findComment-730736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfcarbel Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I read recently in some of the Acronis support forums that Acronis DDS 10 does not yet support the P35 chipset. I see you are using that chipset. Any problems with it? Do you need to boot using their Safe mode? Just curious as I have a P35 chipset and wondering whether to go with Acronis, Paragon, or the Vista with EasyBCD route. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/#findComment-731140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefh Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Thanks you guys, I will start over again today! I will try EasyBCD! @jfcarbel: Acronis doesn't have any problems with my P35i chipset, so I don't understand where that rumor comes from... Full functioning over here... I will keep you people up to date, because when everything works, I maybe could do a clean tutorial, as I didn't manage to find one over here within a day Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/#findComment-731215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_Geek Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 If you get a "HFS+ partition error" in a dual boot situation (possibly in the event you had to re-install either OS after setting up your OS selection menu) it is possible that the wrong partition, or no partition, has been designated as the primary partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/#findComment-731275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Dev Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Why don't you boot the kalyway dvd and then in the utilities menu choose startup disk and select your leopard volume. It worked for my Tiger and XP dual boot in VMWare. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102466-triple-boot-leopardxpvista/#findComment-734082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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