Kalyway OS 10.5.1 Installer MBR/GUID issues on SATA drive

[joeydg]

I have scoured the Net looking for an answer to this issue and haven't found one yet (weeks of hunting). My original configuration is shown below.

 

Originally, I had XP and OSX on an MBR-formatted IDE drive. Well, through my school, I got Vista for free - so I went out and bought a 500 GB SATA hard drive with the money I saved. Woot woot.

 

I installed (several times) 10.5.1 Kalyway onto my MBR-formatted SATA drive. It always gets stuck on the grey Apple screen and gives me a "Package 0 didn't get an HPET" error. I tried deleting the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and the extensions.kext (or whatever) and it got rid of the HPET error, but still leaves me with some other errors... to make a long story short, it doesn't work and I don't want to mess with it anymore.

 

Is the MBR issue related to my Mobo or to the Kalyway install? Is there a way to patch or fix it?

 

 

I also used EASYBCD to set up the Vista bootloader. It gives me two options (and I tried two additional):

 

1. Generic X386: (installs a file with a funny name on drive C: that seems to take the place of the chain0 file; it also sets the bootloader to point to the funny-name file; for MBR)

2. iMac/MacBook: (sets up the bootloader, tells you to put a copy of the boot.efi file where the chain0 would go; and rename the file to a weird name; for GUID)

3. I also tried leaving these as the original names (chain0 and boot.efi) and changing the names in the bootloader through BCDEDIT to point at chain0 and boot.efi.

 

If I use MBR as my partition type, I can get to the Apple logo using Vista bootloader, but the OS won't load, not even with all the -s -f -w -blah, blah, blah stuff. If I use GUID, then "Chain0 boot error" is all I can get to happen.

 

What I want to do is to have XP and Vista on the small IDE drive (check), OSX on the large SATA drive (check - using GUID), and boot to any of them from the Vista bootloader (no check). Any ideas?

 

 

 

As side *bonus questions, my hard drives never show up in the "Startup Disk" chooser - not even the OSX disk. Why? My computer doesn't wake up from sleep (had to disable sleep) - well, it might, but the screen doesn't wake up (just the hard drives spin back up). What can I do to fix the issue? All my hardware is listed in my signature below. These are all Qs I've searched for answers to and have spent weeks trying to figure out myself. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

:)

[joeydg]

I tried this: http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1027 with no luck either.