gigs Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Hi All, I'm having trouble booting into my MacOSX installation. After installing the Kalyway 10.5.2 and creating the dual boot menu for WinXP and MacOSX with the chain0 file, when i reboot and choose my XP install, windows will boot up fine. However, if I choose the MacOSX boot option, the screen will flicker black and instead of loading the Mac OS it'll redisplay the boot menu selector for me to choose either XP or MacOSX again. No matter how many times I select the MacOSX option, it'll continue to loop back to the selection menu. :censored2: !! My rig setup is like this: ASUS P5B board Intel core2duo 2.4 GHz Sapphire ATI Radeon X 1950 XTX WD SATA HD 3 Gigs of ram The OS's are installed on the same HD but on different partitions. I'm very new at this, and any help would be useful. I don't know how to add kexts to my Kalyway 10.5.2 boot dvd or about kernals so if anyone can provide any insight, please do. I'm open to anything to get this to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121520-kalyway-1052-intel-stucklooping-boot-menu/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetBUG Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 I'm not sure... But i'd like to suggest you to reinstall the loader, only the loader. It may happen that your loader tries to boot the MacOS from the second partition - and loads itself, without passing any parameters... If reinstalling of the loader doesn't work (you can try different loaders, ex. EFI and non-EFI or from different DVDs), please write here the list of partitions on youd HDD (ex.: Partition 1 - Windows/NTFS, partition 2 - MacOS/HFS+/Active, Partition 3 - Extended etc) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121520-kalyway-1052-intel-stucklooping-boot-menu/#findComment-859777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigs Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 My partitions are like this: Partitions Windows XP - NTFS Storage drive - NTFS Storage drive - NTFS Storage drive -NTFS MacOS - HFS+ Using GParted, Partition 1 - Windows XP was set as boot. I'll try different loaders as you suggested and anything else is appreciated by all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121520-kalyway-1052-intel-stucklooping-boot-menu/#findComment-859792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 You havent answered NetBUG's question. What is the type of your partitions (such as primary, extended, logical, etc)?, Because OSX will not work if installed in a logical partition inside a extended partition. It must be installed on a Primary Partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121520-kalyway-1052-intel-stucklooping-boot-menu/#findComment-859835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigs Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 Thanks Gujal. Sorry about the mistake. I didn't know what was the difference, but now that I've done some research, my partitions are as follows: Partitions: Windows XP - NTFS/primary/active Storage drive - NTFS/extended Storage drive - NTFS/logical Storage drive -NTFS/logical MacOS - HFS+/logical Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121520-kalyway-1052-intel-stucklooping-boot-menu/#findComment-859950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Thanks Gujal.Sorry about the mistake. I didn't know what was the difference, but now that I've done some research, my partitions are as follows: Partitions: Windows XP - NTFS/primary/active Storage drive - NTFS/extended Storage drive - NTFS/logical Storage drive -NTFS/logical MacOS - HFS+/logical Yep, that setup wont boot. You need to modify it as follows. Partition Magic is your friend. Partitions: 1. Windows XP - NTFS/primary/active 2. MacOS - HFS+/primary 3. Storage drive - NTFS/extended 4. Storage drive - NTFS/logical 5. Storage drive -NTFS/logical Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121520-kalyway-1052-intel-stucklooping-boot-menu/#findComment-861022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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