GuitarSoloist Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Right now i have leopard on my external hard drive and i want to make it so that when i load it comes up with the grey screen with the apple logo rather than all those commands. And is there a way for me to get a boot loader so that when the pc starts it loads vaio and then intel then it asks if i want to boot in to vista or mac? I have windows vista ultimate on my internal and mac osx 10.5.2 on my external. Both are always connected. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarSoloist Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-734665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalid Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 For the booting thing, you could make your vista partition active first, then setup the vista bootloader from there using EasyBCD(free program). You will have to add the OSX entry in your vista bootloader. So it will give you a list when u reboot. This should in my opinion be the answer you are looking for. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-734709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarSoloist Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 how would i make it active just set the 1st hard disk to load the internal? cause thats how i get in to vista and then when i want mac i just change it to load from my external Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-734727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalid Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 I use FDisk to make the windows partition active, this is ofcourse assuming you have 1 harddisk and installed two systems on it. IF you have two seperate hard disks, then make the windows one active, and then using EasyBCD, add an entry for your OSX which is on the other harddisk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-734731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarSoloist Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 okay so i installed easybcd right and when i put mac under add or remove entries, i put type as generic x86 PC put a name but when i restart i get the name and vista, but when i select mac it doesnt load cause it needs a directory where do i put that in? it has no choice under mac....and its HFS+Journalednah easybcd i think only works with when u have 2 operating systems on one hard drive partitioned in to 2 sides. it dont work with 1 os on external and 1 os on internal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-734736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khalid Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 There is absolutely no way you can identify the partition to EasyBCD? Check the boot.ini file created. It should list where the entry redirects to... Its from here you can set it to the right partition most probably. Most probably they use partition on disks instead of letters and such... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-734878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarSoloist Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 hm idk....anyone know about the original boot screen? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-735457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sama7896 Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 If you are referring to the verbose startup, remove -v from com.apple.boot.plist from /library/prefferences/system configuration/. As for the second question, why don't you increase the startup delay to say 5 seconds so you have time to choose which partition you have to boot. My advice don't mess with vista bootloader, it sucks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-735481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarSoloist Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 okay sama i did what u said and then i re booted and it did work it came up with the apple logo, but then after that i installed some programs then rebooted and when it went to load from the hd it went directly to vista...what's going on? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-735734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sama7896 Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 ..went directly to vista...what's going on? seems you set the vista partition active, you need to setup easybcd from there, my solution involved using the darwin bootloader,in which case you should have set the timeout to 5 in that plist. You need to make the osx partition active again <key>Timeout</key> <string>5</string> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-736123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarSoloist Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 it was odd after like 40 min in being in vista last ngiht i decided to just restart and boot from the external and wadda u know it loaded perfectly fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103081-getting-original-leopard-1052-boot-screen/#findComment-736716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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