mattswell Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Ok, after reading countless forum posts here and elsewhere, I have finally got my pc dual booting Vista and Leopard. First, let me explain my setup. I have 2 sata drives. I have installed Vista and Leopard onto the same drive, leaving the second one unformatted during this process to avoid any confusion. I have an esata drive with Leopard installed. I used this to reapply pc_efi to my internal boot drive. I am using GUID partitions, the first partition is Leopard, the second partition is Vista. I am using PC_EFI v8, and installing from the iATKOS v4 release (works amazingly with my IP35-pro board) OK, here goes: Booted iATKOS dvd Partition HDD using GUID, 2 partitions: Leopard first, Vista last. Formatted vista partition FAT32. Install Leopard onto HFS+ partition, iATKOS does the pc_efi magic for me. Reboot into new leopard install, make sure everything works. From terminal, fdisk /dev/rdisk0 (or whatever appropriate disk#) and make sure that the FAT32 partition is flagged. Reboot, install Vista. You will have to reformat the FAT32 partition to NTFS during install (must do this, vista won't let you install to FAT32) Vista reboots a few times, but once it's done I have a working Vista install. Awesome. Reboot into my esata drive's Leopard install. Used the EFI script pack to reapply PC_EFI v8 to my boot drive. Reboot into my boot drive, it boots Leopard again! If you hit F8 during Darwin's bootloader, you can boot to Vista. You should get the "winloader.exe corrupted" error. Boot your Vista dvd. Click Repair once you have the option. It will automagically notice that something is wrong and ask to be allowed to fix it. Let it fix it for you; it will reboot. Upon reboot, you should be able to use Darwin to boot to either Leopard to Vista. Celebrate! This install process is kind of convoluted, and could probably be slimmed down. This is the first process that actually worked for me however, so I'm sticking to it THANKS to everyone for their posts here. I could not have had this working without your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119153-howto-leopard-vista-using-darwin-bootloader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rashid S. Alkaabi Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Great Tutorial .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119153-howto-leopard-vista-using-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-844211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickhe Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 or do like i did format vista ntfs and use any partitoner to partition to split your HDD or format your other one then boot in vista and use easybcd to add mac partition and now you dual boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119153-howto-leopard-vista-using-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-844244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattswell Posted August 5, 2008 Author Share Posted August 5, 2008 or do like i did format vista ntfs and use any partitoner to partition to split your HDD or format your other one then boot in vista and use easybcd to add mac partition and now you dual boot Can Vista format a drive to GPT? if not, then this would result in MBR partitioning instead of GUID partitioning. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119153-howto-leopard-vista-using-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-845281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickhe Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 i installled windows vista ultimate then i used onboard partitioner and split the HDD and then i used disk utility and formated the splited hdd to guild and installed then i made an other split as FAT32 as shared Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119153-howto-leopard-vista-using-darwin-bootloader/#findComment-845595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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