ddggttff3 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hi, I Am looking to get OSX installed to my current Duel XP/Vista Boot. What I Currently Have Is three Diffrient HD's. One With Vista (With boot manager), One With XP, and the other for, hopefully OSX. I HAve my system to start from the vista's boot manager, and from there, you select the OS. I used vistabootPRO to set up my current multi boot. Thans for the hepl, any questions, just ask! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Hi, I Am looking to get OSX installed to my current Duel XP/Vista Boot. What I Currently Have Is three Diffrient HD's. One With Vista (With boot manager), One With XP, and the other for, hopefully OSX. I HAve my system to start from the vista's boot manager, and from there, you select the OS. I used vistabootPRO to set up my current multi boot. Thans for the hepl, any questions, just ask! Try EasyBCD 1.7.2......In EasyBCD your BCD entry for OS X will not be pointing at the OS X HDD but at the OS X boot file location, i.e. Darwin EFI bootloader (which then points to the OS X system......so, try 1. Partition (MBR) and format (HFS+) the required OS X volumes on your intended OS X HDD 2. Boot into Vista....go to EasyBCD.....then to Bootloader Management....and choose to “Reinstall Vista Bootloader” 3. Install the Darwin EFI bootloader/OS X setup 4. In EasyBCD add a new OS X entry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shavex Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 You are a noob for sure having 3 different hard drives for 3 operating systems when you could have spent SOOO much less money on getting a nice big hard drive and just partitioning it. I have XP x64, Linux (Ubuntu), and Mac OS X Leopard all on 1 500GB hard drive and i use GRUB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 You are a noob for sure having 3 different hard drives for 3 operating systems when you could have spent SOOO much less money on getting a nice big hard drive and just partitioning it. I have XP x64, Linux (Ubuntu), and Mac OS X Leopard all on 1 500GB hard drive and i use GRUB. IMHO I have to disagree there.....if your bootloader (GRUB) gets corrupted you are stuck until it is sorted.....having a separate HDD for each OS means you never lose productivity.......farsighted rather than noobish....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddggttff3 Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 ok, il try that. thanks, will post back how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddggttff3 Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 thank you so much!!! it worked!, oh and btw, i got a 500gb vista, 200gb xp, and a 250gb OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddggttff3 Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 um, my XP drive wont boot now. it uses a legacy boot driver, but im getting a file is missing hal.dll error. i think somthin is wrong with my boot.ini any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 um, my XP drive wont boot now. it uses a legacy boot driver, but im getting a file is missing hal.dll error. i think somthin is wrong with my boot.ini any ideas? Look here for booting XP via EasyBCD..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddggttff3 Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 thanks asgain! got it working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 thanks asgain! got it working Glad to help..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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