rschultz101 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 how do you add an new boot entry for the startup ? could not find the file ? also forgot how to use the command line for the boot, boot /dev/disk1s0 ?? something like that.... I have 1 disk with osx,... and second disk with old osx and windows, what I recall,... even with manual typing in the boot disk, it will try to boot from second disk, then revert to first,... so it did not work,... think first disk is with efi entry, second with mbr old setup,... thanks for tips / help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted June 1, 2008 Author Share Posted June 1, 2008 think the right command is bless can you use the command, to add bootable partitions ? or does it overwrite the current startup ? expamle i found bless --mount "/Volumes/(name-of-OSX-partition)" --setBoot --verbose bless -info -plist gives Can't access "efi-boot-device" NVRAM variable Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-766710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 bumb,... really discouraging,.... nobody boots an windows of a second disk ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-769854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alien2xx Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Hi, Not sure if this helps or not, I have a laptop Pavilion dv5224nr with the main hard drive dual booting Vista and Server 2008, I added a second drive which I have installed Mac OS 10.5.3 previosly... now I had 2 drives and I wanted to do a full dual (triple-boot) on this machine.... This is what I did.. I installed Mac os on one drive (with no other drives at this point) and made sure it boots up properly. I took that drive out and installed Vista and the Windows server, these 2 create the appropiate entryes on windows boot manager. I installed the second drive with Mac OSx. I could not boot from both drives so I had to install VistaBootPRO_3.2.0 on Vita, this alows me to add an entry to windows manager, select "Legacy" when adding mac os. I copied "ntldr" and "boot.ini" files from a windows XP machine (these 2 files are not in Windows Vista and above). I changed the contents on the ini file to run mac os from the boot manager. I took the file "boot0.guid" from the Leopard DVD located in /usr/standalone/i386/... something I placed "boot0.guid",, "boot.ini" and "ntldr" on the Windows vista root c:\ Rebooted and boala!, I have triple boot... (I attached the files I used just in case), these instructions were for chain0 file but I was not able to make it work so looking around I found that the file "boot0.guid" did it.. Good luck! You use VistaBootPRO to change the default option on the windows boot manager. Dual_Boot_Needed_with_Vista_OSX.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-769909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tmacfan4321 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Just pop the Vista install disk, select your language, and select the Repair option. This should repair the Vista bootloader. Now boot into Vista, and download a tool called EasyBCD. This is my favorite program for modifying my bootloader. You can add and delete entries from the Vista Bootloader from there. If you are on a PC, this should work, it has for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-769972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 currently have xp, and like to add an entry to the osx loader and don't want to add vista to the mix,... there should be an way to add an entry for another boot, osx disk 1, win xp disk 2 boot of disk1,... with osx loader Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-772876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpatel91 Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Step 1. Download the chain0 file from the attachment that I uploaded with this post. Step 2. Copy the chain0 file to the root of your windows drive - C: (ie c:\chain0 ) Step 3.Right click on My Computer, Select Properties, then Advanced tab, and then the settings button for Startup and Recovery. Click the Edit button to edit boot.ini Add the following code to the bottom of the boot.ini code C:\chain0="Leopard" --- INCLUDE the 2 quotation marks you see here When you are done, the code in the boot.ini should look something like this [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect c:\CHAIN0="Leopard" *****NOTE - YOU HAVE TO MARK THE XP PARTITION AS ACTIVE - google this if you dont know how. it is very easy**** However, there is a slight annoyance. When you start up you will come to the XP bootloader, which will give you two options XP or Leopard (xp being the default if you dont select anything). If you choose XP you will boot right into windows. If you choose Leopard, it will take you to the Darwin Bootloader, which will defualt to XP also (this occurs because XP is the active partition) Anyways, if you want to boot into leopard you have to select Leopard in the XP bootloader, and then select Leopard again in the Darwin bootloader before the timeout. Its not that bad if you are going to be using XP as your primary OS. If you are going to use Leopard as the primary OS, then you should stick with just using the Darwin bootloader (to just use darwin, mark the leopard partition as active, which will skip the XP bootloader and will make Leopard the default OS in darwin) If you get a Chain boot error of HFS error just message or email me and I can help you with that. CHAIN0.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-774247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted June 8, 2008 Author Share Posted June 8, 2008 thanks vpatel91,... but that's windows,... another example, have another disk, with a leo test install,... like to boot that, and add an entry in the osx startup,... it can't be that hard? just don't know where to look, I mean in windows, you got the bootloader, you add entries, even grub in linux , ain't that bad, syntax is different,... in osx, there is the startup tool, but it ain't showing the current boots, so that's not working, and there got to be a way to add an entry manual. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-775646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 still can't boot from second disk !? disk 1 osx 2 partitions disk 2 osx windows data since it's the family computer, switching in bios is not an option, and I don't particular like to install, 2 or 3 os on same disk, and trying to make it boot,... is 'nt there a way , to boot from one boot loader and point to the disk / partitions you want to continue ? how you do that in darwin ? aka osx ? thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-993402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
planlos1 Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Hey, this worked for me but when i choose MAC OSX at startup he says "NTDLR is missing Press STrg+Alt+Entf for Reboot" ?? Whats the problem ?? Thx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108018-how-to-add-boot-entry-for-windows/#findComment-1055334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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