brineskirms323 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 So i had Mac 10.4.8 dual booted with xp. Then i decided it was time to upgrade to leopard. I reformatted my mac partition and made a disc of ATKOS v2.0i. I go through the whole install and everything seems to be going well. then it asks to reboot and when it does it will ask again to install, or if i take the disc out it will boot into xp. I thought it had something to do with the new version so i tried reinstalling the old 10.4.8 and i had the same problem. Anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartus4 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Make sure in your BIOS you have it booting from the right drive if you have installed it on a different drive from XP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/#findComment-813966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brineskirms323 Posted July 10, 2008 Author Share Posted July 10, 2008 i just have my hard drive partitioned using acronis disk director and i was dual booting using acronis os selector... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/#findComment-814030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Your leopard partition must be set to active. And you can install the darwin boot loader from the iATKOS disk instead of using other boot loaders. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/#findComment-814124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brineskirms323 Posted July 10, 2008 Author Share Posted July 10, 2008 Ok first noob question is how do i make the partition active. Then is it possible to just uncheck the darwin bootloader when installing and use the srconis OS selector?Ok first noob question is how do i make the partition active. Then is it possible to just uncheck the darwin bootloader when installing and use the srconis OS selector? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/#findComment-814727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
artrbinfo Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Ok first noob question is how do i make the partition active. Then is it possible to just uncheck the darwin bootloader when installing and use the srconis OS selector?Ok first noob question is how do i make the partition active. Then is it possible to just uncheck the darwin bootloader when installing and use the srconis OS selector? I'd use chain0 instead. It's more simple. You need to get gparted live cd or ubuntu live cd. Here is how to get fully working boot menu: 1.Insert Gparted live cd or ubuntu live cd and open gparted. 2.Right click on windows partition and chose flag management. 3.Check boot option. 4.Save and restart. 5.In windows open My Computer 6.Click on menu bar Tools --> Folder Options --> View 7.Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files", and apply. 8.Set "Show hided files", and apply and ok. 9.Go to drive C:\ (or where your windows is) and open file boot ini. 10.Add C:\chain0="Mac OS X86" and the new line and end of file. 11.Download chain0. Click here! 12.Extract file. 13.Put chain0 in your C:\ drive ( where boot.ini file were) Thats it, now you can boot to both XP & OSX Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/#findComment-814794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartont Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 I plagiarized this from somewhere: This assumes you have two primaray partions. First partition is Vista, second is Mac Step 1: Install osx86 on the second primary partition Step 2: Make the first primary partition active to install Vista Boot up OS X and in a terminal window, sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit reboot Step 3: Install Vista on the first primary partition Step 4: Restore OS X86 in the MBR Boot off osx86 dvd in single user mode (press F8 & type -s). At single user prompt, fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 2 update write quit reboot Step 5: Make the first partition active back to boot up Vista At this point osx86 should boot up and in a terminal window, sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit reboot Step 6: Restore Vista on the MBR Upon reboot, Vista will show “\Window\system32\winload.exe” corrupted. Insert Vista disc & follow directions to recover. Reboot & check that Vista boots up fine. Step 7: Make second primary partition active to use Darwin Bootloader Boot off osx86 dvd in single user mode again (press F8 & type -s). At single user prompt, fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 2 quit reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114926-problem-with-any-install/#findComment-815132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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