Chain0 not booting os x

[Gooly]

Hi

I installed os x 10.4.3 via vmware & tried to change it to native mode. If i have my osx partition active it works. else chain0 boots into windows xp bootloader. Is there anyother way to edit chain0. or Is there any alternate bootloader for the same.

I am unable to use wingrub(quite difficult to configure)

[planetbeing]

It sounds like chain0 isn't working. At all.

 

When you set your OS X partition active, chain0 (which resides on your Windows volume) is naturally ignored. The system goes straight to OS X. When you set your Windows partition active, chain0 doesn't do its work, and the system continues booting into Windows. The whole editing boot.ini trick never worked for me.

 

Did you follow instructions like this? Add the line

 

C:\chain0="Mac OS x86"

 

Into boot.ini?

 

That never worked for me. I find those instructions extremely dubious, since to boot into Windows, boot.ini uses the format <description>=<file name> in the boot loader section. Why would it use something like <file name>=<description> for OS X?

 

I'm using the Windows Vista boot loader now and it works fine, but you might want to change the line to:

 

"Mac OS x86"=C:\chain0

 

Or

 

"Mac OS x86"=multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\chain0

 

Whatever is more similar to the line for Windows, if you put the chain0 file in the same partition as it.