Silare Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Has anyone tried booting a Hackintosh alongside Windows 7 instead of Windows Vista? Since I prefer Windows 7 over Vista for the time being, I wanted to see if anyone's had any luck with it. The bootloader on the surface of Windows 7 looks very similar to the Windows Vista bootloader, although I haven't tested whether they work similarly enough that I could use EasyBCD to configure a triple boot. GRUB might work, but somehow it seems when I use it it prevents Windows 7 from booting correctly. Can the Darwin Bootloader boot Windows 7 though? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135888-windows-7linuxmac-os-x-leopard-triple-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawley Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 as far as i noticed, windows7 uses boot loader that's placed on efi (200megs) partition which is necessary to be created during windows 7 setup. dfe boot loader can boot it but it must be pointed on that 200megs partition instead on the partition where windows is installed. i use both systems, but on separate drives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135888-windows-7linuxmac-os-x-leopard-triple-boot/#findComment-962874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silare Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 Ah. What is a DFE loader? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135888-windows-7linuxmac-os-x-leopard-triple-boot/#findComment-962877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark couch Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I installed it on a 200gig harddrive heres what i got on my partition windows 200gig and then one other partition that was 700mb and the leopard which was 187gig my problem was it expected me to install all my stuff on the partiton that was 700mb ran out of room quick I need some help i really like windows 7 to even though it still beta its a lot better than vista Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135888-windows-7linuxmac-os-x-leopard-triple-boot/#findComment-962932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silare Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 Alright, here's how it goes so far... /dev/sda1 is my Mac OS X partition. It boots fine. /dev/sda2 is a 200 MB partition made by Windows 7, presumably the bootloader. When I ask it to boot however, it won't boot and instead I get problems with it missing some component. /dev/sda3 is the Windows 7 partition. /dev/sda4 is an Ubuntu partition. If I can use EasyBCD on Windows 7 or configure GRUB to do the job, could anyone tell me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135888-windows-7linuxmac-os-x-leopard-triple-boot/#findComment-962953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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