Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 hello! i want to dual boot vista and leopard this is what I did already: 1.Vista was already installed 2.made a filesharing partition on the same hard drive vista is installed on. 3. created a leopard and a timemachine partition ON ANOTHER HARD DRIVE. 4. Installed leopard. So, right now I have vista & leopard, but when I boot, it boots Vista How do I make a Dual boot? please help! thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigtwenty Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I have been wanting to do this as well, the only thing i think you can do, is somehow modify vista's bootloader which is nolonger the boot.ini file it is this whole advanced thing. Google it. But i think it would allow this, so that when vista boots, you could select it from a list. I have really no idea how you would boot back into osx. I wish there was a boot camp in the Kalyway. I wanted to email him, but my french is really non existant. Unless there is some unix/linux/grub/openbsd third party bootloader that you could configre to come up with a menu and choose the bootloader locations. What you need my friend is a genius, well we all do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-732977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Petrus Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Have you tried Easy BCD? http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 It makes adding additional OSes to the Vista bootloader very easy. I have it booting Vista, Xp, OS X and Linux. - Joe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 EasyBCD worked well for me when I did it, I'd highly recommend it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSCXP2005 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 does EasyBCD work with XP? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 No, because it modifies the Vista bootloader. XP uses a different loading method and therefore does not work. If you have Vista AND Xp, you can use it, but only then Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSCXP2005 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 ok cheers mate, any ideas which would be the best method to use for xp and leopard dual boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Try a bootloader like Grub or similar, that would be best Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSCXP2005 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 ok, will try it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 hmm.. it doesn't seem to work how can I select the partition containing mac os X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Is this in EasyBCD or Grub? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 eacyBCD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Then it SHOULD find it automatically. It did for me, have you got 'Generic x86' selected? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 jep, I did I have leopard installed on a different hard drive though.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 My set up involves each OS on a different HDD. What message do you get when you try booting with Mac OS X selected? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 My set up involves each OS on a different HDD. What message do you get when you try booting with Mac OS X selected? let me check, please wait Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Okay, because it could be an EasyBCD error or a Darwin error Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 It says "Chain boot error" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Right, that sounds like an EasyBCD error to me. Can you boot OS X from Bios? (By that I mean launching your BIOS's boot menu and selecting your secondary hard drive to boot from) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 Yes i can Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Okay, that means it's definitely EasyBCD that's the problem then... Try configuring GRUB to load your OS, and see if that yields better results Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extracht Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 Okay I will thank you very much! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I'm not sure I've been that much help, but You're welcome all the same Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSCXP2005 Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I am also trying to do a dual boot on VMWare, any ideas if this can be done? i.e dual boot XP or Vista & Leopard? NSCXP2005 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102839-dual-boot-vista-leopard-kalyway/#findComment-733219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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