now2 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hi all, My 60 GB HD in my laptop has two primary partitions - 40 GB NTFS with XP-SP2 and 20 GB 0xAF. I installed OSx86 10.4.3 on the HFS+ Partition - worked like a charm. But: I still have problems with dual-booting. I used the chain0 and edited the boot.ini. When the NTFS-Partition is set active, i see the boot menu. When I choose XP, XP is coming up, so far so good. But when I choose OSX, it just comes back to the boot menu. When the HFS+ Partition is set active, the laptop boots directly into OSX without any choice. I don't want to use third-party-software such as Acronis as a boot menu, so can you guys help me getting the chain0 to work? (my chain0 is the right file, I compared my MD5 to the one in the wiki. Also my boot.ini is correct). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 If I recall correctly, chain0 is for when Mac OS X is on another hard drive, not another partition. Plus Mac has the Darwin bootloader which (should) automatically install itself after you install Mac onto your system. If you get no boot menu while the Mac partition is active, add to your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist: <key>Quiet Boot</key> <string>No</string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>8</string> Where 8 is the amount of time in seconds you want the OS to give you to select an OS. If you want it to wait until you select an OS, make the timeout 0. After you edit it, repair permissions and reboot. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/#findComment-81004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Massman Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 hey, i don't know if this helps but i had the exact same problem and spent hours trying to sort it out. in the end i realised i'd used a forward slash instead of a back slash. don't know if that's your problem as well but thought i'd mention it just incase. good luck... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/#findComment-81006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonohr Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I have kind of the same problem as now2. Now i have my OS X 10.4.5 on an old slow PATA disk, but since yesterday i have got my nForce 4 SATA working. And would like to have OS X on a primary partition on a SATA disk together with Windows XP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/#findComment-81182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 well chain0 method works fine with partitions. I set a parttion for OSX in my laptop, installed OSX in that parttion then on XP I put the chain0 file that I got here and unrar it to c:\ then added at the end of the boot.ini this: C:\chain0="Mac OS X" works great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/#findComment-81190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxic Waste Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 It works just fine with my machine. One thing to note, when I select Mac OSX from the first boot menu, I am dropped to a second one (though the chain0 boot loader, I assume) which also detects both WinXP and OSX. I then have to select OSX there, too, in order to get OSX to boot. I am guessing that you are not selecting OSX for the second time, and so it's dumping you back onto the WinXP (default) boot sequence, which then restarts the XP bootloader. It looks like it's not working, but it is... One thing you can do is rename the XP drive to something obvious (I made mine "WinXP" so that the chain0 bootloader can show you which is which... otherwise you only see the Linux references for the drives, which may not be obvious to choose from. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/#findComment-81359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid_chang Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 chain0 sometimes doesn't work well you'd better install acronis os selector to choose the boot os Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12774-bootini-and-chain0-doesnt-work/#findComment-81414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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