sraj Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 i have tested installing and booting os x jas sucessfully on single hdd without partitions on vmware server. i also sucessfully tested os x jas installation on partition with following configuartion cases, 1) partition 1 -- primary -- active -- Windows xp partition 2 -- primary -- not active -- Mac os x 2) and also, partition 1 -- primary -- active -- Windows xp partition 2 -- extented partition 2 -- logical -- not active -- Mac os x 3) and re-configuring like this, partition 1 -- primary -- active -- Windows xp partition 2 -- extented partition 2 -- logical -- not active -- Windows server 2003 partition 3 -- primary -- not active -- mac os x my problem is the installation completes sucessfullly in all above 3 cases and also mbr's control is with xp boot menu, therefore i can boot into xp after installation with mac osx on other partition unbootable. i want to dual boot this installed mac os x by add it to xp boot menu (boot.ini). i have tried following methods to dual boot using boot.ini unsucessfully, 1) adding chain0 along with other files in usr/standalone/i386 folder of jas dvd to root of partition 1 where xp and boot.ini are also present and adding c:\chain0="mac" to boot.ini error messages: 1) for case 2 config control is returned to xp boot menu again 2) for case 1 config "Chain booting error" err msg 2) using dd for windows dumped 512bytes/1k/1M, count=1 to bootsect.mac for both mac os with HFS+ and HFSJ error messages: HFS+ partition error 3) using grub for dos and extracting boot/grub and grldr to partition 1's root. and adding following lines in menu.lst title OSX at (hd0,2) root (hd0,2) makeactive chainloader +1 boot error messages: xp boot menu sucessfully boots in grub and lists contents of menu.lst. now when i select OSX at (hd0, 2) i get following error message, Booting 'OSX at (hd0, 2)' root (hd0, 2) Error 19: Cannot mount selected partition Press any key to continue... help me to dual boot mac os x 10.4.6 jas x86 using xp boot menu (boot.ini) i want to boot os x using xp/2003 menu ONLY and not even vista bootloader BCD or EasyBCD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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