maly00 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I get the following message when I try to open the EasyBCD: EasyBCD is unable to access BCD store Problem details The boot configuration data store could not be opened. Running this on Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 maly, did you use the latest build (46)? what's your configuration? standalone windows 7 or do you have anything else installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maly00 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Yes built 46. Windows 7 and iDeneb 1.4 installed on different partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Please run "bcdedit.exe" in a command-prompt window and paste the results here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maly00 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Sounds like your bootloader is fsck'd up... Please post a screenshot of your disk layout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maly00 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I dont understand what you mean. What screenshot do you need? Of my C drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I dont understand what you mean. What screenshot do you need? Of my C drive? He means to download a partitioning software and take a screenshot of what it shows. Happy 1234567890!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyber_tods Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Hi, I have the same problem as the guy above. EasyBCD is unable to access BCD store Problem details The boot configuration data store could not be opened. bcdedit.exe doesn't exist. However, I went to C:\Program Files\NeoSmart Technologies\EasyBCD\bin and tried to run bcdedit.exe in command prompt and it gives the same error. The unknown parititon is my osx. I just reformatted and is doing some tests. It doesn't matter if I mess up everything. I'll just reformat again if needed. What I'm trying to do is searching for the best bootloader and it would be ok for me if you instructed me to do dangerous stuff just to make EASYBCD work. ATM, I'm just trying to make WinXP and OSX dual boot. Tnx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gipo Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Computer guru... Is it possible to boot from an efi partition (M) situated on a sata disk partitioned in GUID, this is not the same phisycal disk where is installed XP on partition C and Vista (D). OsX is 10.5.6 and bootloader is PC_efi v9. This is the result of bcdedit from cmd... C:\Programmi\NeoSmart Technologies\EasyBCD\bin>bcdedit.exe Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {ntldr} displayorder {ntldr} {ab808fb6-e4ec-11dd-a717-f4d708f57618} {5233cbc8-fa90-11dd-8fd1-001060a6f61c} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 5 Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device partition=C: path \ntldr description Windows XP Professional Edition Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {ab808fb6-e4ec-11dd-a717-f4d708f57618} device partition=D: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows Vista locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice partition=D: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {ab808fb7-e4ec-11dd-a717-f4d708f57618} nx OptIn Real-mode Boot Sector --------------------- identifier {5233cbc8-fa90-11dd-8fd1-001060a6f61c} device partition=C: path \NST\NeoGrub.mbr description NST Mac OS X At the moment i can boot osx only throught bios boot with F8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 14, 2009 Author Share Posted February 14, 2009 EasyBCD Build 52 uploaded. See first post for download link New feature: select drive to boot from in EasyBCD instead of keying it in yourself. Gipo, you should be able to with the latest EasyBCD build. Just select the right disk number from the EasyBCD "add a mac entry" tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 EasyBCD Build 52 uploaded. See first post for download link New feature: select drive to boot from in EasyBCD instead of keying it in yourself. Gipo, you should be able to with the latest EasyBCD build. Just select the right disk number from the EasyBCD "add a mac entry" tab. I guess my solution worked then! So what process does Build 52 take in order to set the boot device? What about my little "About" mentioning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colaly Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Question New select drive 0-9,What's mean? select0 no add select1 add biosdev=82 select2 add biosdev=83 (Skip) select8 add biosdev=89 select9 add Biosdev=810 ???????? Bug? select1 add biosdev=81 (Skip) select9 add biosdev=89 MyPC have 2HDD. First HDD 2partion MBR partition0 Windows Vista partition1 data only Second HDD 3partion GPT partition0 EFI partition1 Leopard 10.5.6 PCEFIv9 partition2 data only FirstHDD BIOSDEV 80,SecondHDD BIOSDEV 81 Use EasyBCD2.0 Build52 select drive 1,menu.lst title nst_mac.efi find --set-root --ignore-floppies /NST/nst_mac.efi kernel /NST/nst_mac.efi biosdev=82 boot In this case,Boot select title nst_mac.efi. Boot not find com.apple.Boot.plist,get chain0 booterror edit biosdev=81,save&restart In this case,same error howtoFix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 The 810 thing is incorrect, and will be fixed. The number is the number is the number of the drive. EasyBCD, like Windows and Linux begins counting drives at 0. So 0 is BIOS drive 81. 1 is BIOS drive 82, and so on. The next build of EasyBCD forces the 81 even in the case of 0. Selecting a different drive won't get rid of the com.apple.Boot.plist error if that file isn't there. What OS X distro did you install? Sounds like it didn't set up your menu correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilight.lee Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Hi Everyone, ....... EasyBCD 2.0 features automated dual-booting between OS X, Windows 7/Vista/XP, and Linux.... and in this build has 100% one-click installation of pc_efi and chain0 OS X loaders. ........ I am very interesting about how can Install pc_efi under windows os. Is there a way to install Chameleon under windows os too? My purpos is in this post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 Just use EasyBCD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I seem to be having problems getting OSX to boot from a SATA drive. I have added two entrees to EasyBCD (I have the latest version) MacOSX and MacOSXTest I have osx installed on my IDE drive named MacOSX and it boots perfectly. But easybcd won't boot the SATA drive named MacOSXTest. It shows the entree I added but when I select it and click enter it goes to the MacOSX entree and I boot my IDE drive. The sata drive is marked boot and the drive I'm trying to bot from is my 74gb Raptor. Specs in Sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gipo Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Wow... thanks Computer_Guru, i'll try soon as possible when i'll be home from work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 I am having the exact same problem as Colaly. 2 HD's 1st drive has 1 partition for Windows 7 2nd drive has 2 partitions, 1 for EFI and the other for Leopard. No matter which drive I select 0 or 1 I still get the boot menu and have to manually select 0x80 or 0x81 (in my case 0x81 for second drive) I too noticed option 0 sets up as BOOT and 1 sets as 0x82 Manually editing Menu.lst to devce 0x81 does not work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 lateralusman, please try the latest build of EasyBCD and manually specify a drive number when adding an EFI entry. WyseOne, Colaly: Are you saying the "force a drive" feature in EasyBCD isn't working in the latest build? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 lateralusman, please try the latest build of EasyBCD and manually specify a drive number when adding an EFI entry. WyseOne, Colaly: Are you saying the "force a drive" feature in EasyBCD isn't working in the latest build? That is correct, after selecting my OSX from windows dual boot screen it boots to the GRUB where I have to select /NST/nst_mac.efi from there I have the 2 second countdown to change my boot device to 0x81. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 Weird. That means that it's not seeing the menu file. Can you please post the contents of C:\NST\menu.lst here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Here is my Menu.lst as requested. title nst_mac.efi find --set-root --ignore-floppies /NST/nst_mac.efi kernel /NST/nst_mac.efi biosdev=81 boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colaly Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 lateralusman, please try the latest build of EasyBCD and manually specify a drive number when adding an EFI entry. WyseOne, Colaly: Are you saying the "force a drive" feature in EasyBCD isn't working in the latest build? "force a drive" feature in EasyBCD isn't working. Use GrubDfe.iso,check my biosdev. SATA0Port FirstHDD MBR Vista biosdev 80 SATA1Port DVD-Writer biosdev fe SATA2Port SecondHDD GPT Leopard biosdev 81 Leopard Install Retail10.5.4+10.5.6ComboUpdate+Universal OSX86 Installer(Custum plugin&PCEFIv9 Install) EasyBCD 2.0 Build52 Use MACOSX entry add. Use select drive 1,menu.lst biosdev=82,restart com.apple.Boot.plist not found NTLDR ChainError change select drive 0,menu.lst biosdev no added,restart same error change menu.lst biosdev value,myPC secondHDD=81,same error GiveUp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Colaly: Manually keying in the drive number works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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