maly00 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I got it working now. I didn't know that my C drive has to have boot flag, mac partition was booting first before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colaly Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Colaly: Manually keying in the drive number works? Manualy keying? EasyBCD use select drive 0-9,not work. Manualy Menu.lst edit 80-89,not work. sorry,my english very poor. Grub-dfe.iso using,darwinbootloader Type 2digits. type 80 show FirstHDD Vista partition appear,select boot OK type 81 show SecondHDD Leopard Partition appear,select boot OK New select drive feature work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gipo Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 So.. i installed beta52. I tried to select, as i could understand, various disk numbers but without success... This is my system... is it right to give drive number 3 in this situation? And in global settings on mac entry drive must to be C and neogrub must to be mbr even if disk is guid? Thanks computer guru for your work and attention... Edit: It worked for me if i select as disk number on boot instead of 80 or 81 number 82... then system start and boot from osx bootloader. Is it possible to force this entry (82) directly from easybcd gui and select only osx entry from bootloader on restart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 OK, manually pre-selecting the drive when adding the entry clearly isn't working... Give me a day and I'll have a new build that does it differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Will this latest version give Windows 7 back its normal boot screen? I tried to reinstall the bootloader to get it off a partition I dont want to use anymore and it gave Windows 7 the old Windows Vista boot screen with the green loading bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 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? Genius! I'm writing this from my sata mac thanks for the help Computer Guru! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 OK guys - the select a drive feature isn't wholly broken seeing as it works for some people but not others... looks like a bug in the Chameleon/PC_EFI v9 bootloader. No worries, I have a couple more tricks to try - I'll have a new build up soon. idividebyzero: Currently, no. But it's planned for an upcoming build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 OK guys, new build (54) in the OP. Appreciate if you could give it a try and see how it goes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 pre selecting still doesnt work on the build 54 Still getting "com.apple.Boot.plist not found" Manually keying in the drive number works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Still not working, I am getting the same thing. Vista on Drive 1 which is 1 NTFS partition OSX on drive 2 which is 1 GUI HFS+ partition When I select the OSX drive in Vista's boot manager this is what happens. For a split second after selecting the OSX drive it switches to a black screen and there is a reference to (0,0) NTFS which I can't see exactly what it says but there appears to be one word in front of (0,0) NTFS, directly after this it goes to NeoGrub screen where I have to select nst_mac.efi when I select nst_mac.efi I get the 2 second countdown, I hit any key and manually punch in 81 to get it to boot from the 2nd drive. my menu.lst: swap (hd0)(hd1) swap (hd1)(hd0) title nst_mac.efi find --set-root --ignore-floppies /NST/nst_mac.efi kernel /NST/nst_mac.efi boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Ok tried copying my boot-munky-turbo.bin into /NSTand renaming it to nst_mac.efi Now it appears to start booting off the correct drive however I get a cursor in the top left and it just shuts down seconds after. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 New build up, hopefully a nice number like '55' will do the trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Will soon find out if 55 is the magic number, will setup and reboot. Be right back with the outcome! Can I ask what was changed? Nevermind... Map instead of Swap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Sad to say, but still the same issue. EDIT: Just wondering... doest it have something to do with JMicron stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Well i am not getting the Neogrub screen now so there is progress however I get an error about not finding com.apple.Boot.plist. Does it make a difference if I used the the guide that boots from the EFI partition instead of the OS X partition? could that be why this is not working properly? and if so is there any way to dual boot by using this method of install. Could I just swap drives and make the OS X the primary drive and Vista the secondary drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colaly Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Today,I tested Build54&55. Select drive new swap method not work same error. Booting EFI Mode Giveup. Old Manualy chain0 mode change. First test /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0 1: Windows_NTFS 40.0 Gi disk0s1 2: Windows_NTFS 200.0 Gi disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk1 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS Leopard 149.0 Gi disk1s2 3: Apple_HFS Work 148.6 Gi disk1s3 Copy chain0 From Leopard to /NST/,and rename. After,chain0 error. umm Second test Split disk1s3,2partition(Add FAT32 MSDOS Partition) Disk1 Hybrid GPT/MBR change. After list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0 1: Windows_NTFS 40.0 Gi disk0s1 2: Windows_NTFS 200.0 Gi disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk1 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS Leopard 149.0 Gi disk1s2 3: Apple_HFS Work 116.5 Gi disk1s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data SHARE 32.0 Gi disk1s4 Copy chain0 From Leopard to /NST/,and rename. Chain0 good work. Once EFI Mode challenge！ ……not work..... I use manualy chain0 method,back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I'm giving up too. Thank you computer Guru for your efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gipo Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Computer Guru: If at this point i put 82 instead than 80 or 81 boot goes on and my osx start perfectly... how to add this in easybcd gui? No chance for me to use chain0 method... only bios bootloader works. Thanks for your great work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Okay so I just downloaded build 55 from here. When adding a Mac entry I leave it in EFI mode and tick Use custom drive number and change it to 83. The number I found to be my sata mac install. When I click Add Entry I noticed the custom drive number changes to 9. So when I reboot to shows the Boot device as 0x80. After the two seconds are up to goes to Calling chainbooter BOOTMGR is missing. But if I press a key before the two seconds and press 83 it boots fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Lets give Computer Guro all the time he needs to fix this issue. he don't own every computer/configuration in this world. And he has also other work/job to do. I will be with you in Beta thru Final Release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyseOne Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I will check back often to see if there is a new build to test however swapping drives in my HP Pavilion that does not have BIOS support for manually selecting it's internal second drive as the boot drive (don't ask me why) is working fine. For now I have to boot the OSX drive and use GRUB to select the Windows drive to boot. I would rather use the Windows boot manager since it is a simpler approach that requires less steps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Lets give Computer Guro all the time he needs to fix this issue. he don't own every computer/configuration in this world. And he has also other work/job to do. I will be with you in Beta thru Final Release. No rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheapskate Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Running Vista and OS X on separate drives, I couldn't boot to OS X with EasyBCD 1.7.2 but I can with the 2.0 beta. Thanks! I still have to enter a drive number (81) but it's faster than switching boot drive order in the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onixs Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 cheapskate That is the issue Computer Guro is trying to fix. (Manual Keying). Should be Automated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Thanks for your support & patience on this matter, everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts