Starholdest Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Hi. Is there a way to disable the OS X bootloader so that only the Windows one will appear? Or is there a way to skip it? I have made my Vista partition active and it still goes to the OS X bootloader first. Ideas? Thanks, Elliott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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a63falcon Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Hi. Is there a way to disable the OS X bootloader so that only the Windows one will appear? Or is there a way to skip it? I have made my Vista partition active and it still goes to the OS X bootloader first. Ideas? Thanks, Elliott Can you give some more info about your system? Are you running off 1 HD or 2? I've only set up my system today, but I learned a lot in the process. As long as Vista is your active partition, it could have something to do with the boot order with NTLDR. Have you checked that out yet? -Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starholdest Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 Can you give some more info about your system? Are you running off 1 HD or 2? I've only set up my system today, but I learned a lot in the process. As long as Vista is your active partition, it could have something to do with the boot order with NTLDR. Have you checked that out yet? -Jeff I've set Vista as my active partition, but it still loads the OS X bootloader first. I don't know what the NTLDR is so, no, I haven't touched it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a63falcon Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 I've set Vista as my active partition, but it still loads the OS X bootloader first. I don't know what the NTLDR is so, no, I haven't touched it Try this topic to see if it helps: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...54&hl=ntldr -Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starholdest Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 Thanks, but when I try to change the boot.ini, there's nothing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starholdest Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starholdest Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manix Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Vista completely eschewed the whole boot.ini way of doing things. Normally with Vista, to change anything bootloader-related, you'd have to use a cumbersome command line tool (bcdedit), but look for a program called EasyBCD, install it, and changing bootloader options is quite easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tmacfan4321 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I hate to hijack, but I can't even get Vista to install. It tells me that none of the system volumes meet the criteria for an install. I have an OS X partition that is 75GB, and the NTFS partition is 75GB. No matter what I try, it will not install to the NTFS partition. I hope that I am looking something over that is very minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worpx Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I had the same problem. One solution is to boot in iatkos (or kalyway) and make sure you can select Utilities>Terminal. From there... fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (your disk number, usually 0 for the first) p (partition) f 2 (your parition number, master boot record=1, guid=2) write yes exit ripped from molecularmac.com make sure you set your partition # to your windows one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starholdest Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Vista completely eschewed the whole boot.ini way of doing things. Normally with Vista, to change anything bootloader-related, you'd have to use a cumbersome command line tool (bcdedit), but look for a program called EasyBCD, install it, and changing bootloader options is quite easy. I have been using EasyBCD for a while and it was working for me, but after I installed OS X, it doesn't even start up anymore. All it says is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tmacfan4321 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I had the same problem. One solution is to boot in iatkos (or kalyway) and make sure you can select Utilities>Terminal. From there... fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (your disk number, usually 0 for the first) p (partition) f 2 (your parition number, master boot record=1, guid=2) write yes exit ripped from molecularmac.com make sure you set your partition # to your windows one Can't you do this with a Part Magic disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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