Anki Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Ok, I'm new at this but I at least have some common sense to know what to back up and what not. I was just wondering (since every seems to install everything on a partition on just one HD) if I could install os x on a seperate HD from my vista os and boot from there (either in vista bootloader, acronis or easybcd). I haven't installed it yet because my main HD already has a partition but I luckily have a 40gb HD in store. Version of mac os x: leo4allv3 please help me, I'm a noob at installing Os's but I can follow instructions easily, just need to know where to go from here. thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Yes, that's the way I did things (Four Hard Drives in all). It seemed the safest way to me aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Hi, I am having a problem doing this. It tells me Chain booting error when I try to boot Mac OS X. I look in the Windows Partition Manager and the entire disc which I devoted for the installation is not labled as a letter... Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. What I did is I cleared and formatted the hard drive into NTFS and labled it as drive G, started iAtkos v2.0, went into Disk Manager, formatted it again into Mac OS X Journaled, installed Mac OS X on it, it booted and worked great, once I restarted and booted Windows it shows up in the disk management but with no letter or label, just the size and (Healthy, Primary Partition, Active) It is a partition all alone by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Nope. Can't boot into it, bcdedit looks by partition and I have no letter to supply it with because the device manager won't let me assign it a letter and even assigning a letter through the command prompt does nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Hmm okay... And one last question, do you recommend iAtkos or Kalyway in general? Which is closest to the real thing and less edited and modified? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Ah, cool... Hmm.. EasyBCD didn't work for me. I think it would only work if the Mac installation is on the same hard drive as the hard drive responsible for booting. It's not... What can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Same one as before, 'Chain boot error'. When I look at the EasyBCD review of the boot file it shows the partition is marked as C:\ for the Mac OS X boot entry . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I did that before, I also did it now and it again assigned it automatically to partition C:.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Your partition is formatted to HFS which is not supported by Windows and will therefore not show up without a third party app like Mac Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 So is everything running as it should now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Download EasyBCD and add a new OS X entry, you don't need a drive letter for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I've only experienced Kalyway tbh, and it worked pretty much 'straight out of the box' for me. 10.5.2 has very few modifications; just the 'About this Mac' graphic and the 'Computer' graphic, which are easily fixable in core services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 It's not on the same hard drive for mine, What error message to you get when you try boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Have you selected Mac Os X as the type of boot loader? Because it doesn't look like you have... Just go to Add/Remove entries, create a new one, set the type to Mac OS X and Generic OS x86. Should sort it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Right, I'm not sure what's going on at the moment there, but I have to go and get ready for school tomorrow. Message me if you don't get it fixed by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Still doesn't work. But how can it work anyways if the bootmgr is linked to the chain0 file and the partition is linked to C:\ when the installation is not on C:\ and has no drive letter after it was formatted? (Into Mac OS X Journaled) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Do you see the Vista Bootloader at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elad Nava Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Yes, it lets me choose between Windows Vista and Mac OS X. Vista loads fine, Mac says 'Chain boot error'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anki Posted June 11, 2008 Author Share Posted June 11, 2008 The same thing happens to me. When I try to boot using easybcd (with mac os x on a seperate drive) chain_error appears. Does any one know why it's doing that? Anyway, I'll try to experiment with the boot options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anki Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Yes, it lets me choose between Windows Vista and Mac OS X. Vista loads fine, Mac says 'Chain boot error'. Ok, so I checked the other forums and they said that you just need to follow the chain0 method to fix it. The trouble is in finding the ntldr file from the windows 2000 boot disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny V Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I'm in the same boat... I get chain_boot_error when I use EasyBCD. I'm just wondering if the reason for the error is my Leopard drive is not MBR but GUID? I have two hard drives one with Leopard (GUID) the other with Vista (MBR). Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbw163 Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Got the same error. Went to the easybcd forums and supposedly this is a problem which hasnt been fixed yet. So, where should I go from here? I have Vista, XP and Ubuntu running on Easybcd, and only OS X cannot run. Help is greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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