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lo there,

 

i want to trial boot osx, winxp and win7

 

i installed win7 the last and after that i restored the mbr to a previous state to get back chameleon (and be able to boot osx).

 

then chameleon leave me the choice to boot osx or xp : win7 boot option does not launch the os, chameleon sees the third partition, but when you choose it, you're stuck on a black scrren as if the partition was not bootable.

 

i guess win7 uses the same boot system as vista and would not boot whithout its own bootloader somewhere.

 

unfortunatly, i used easybcd to try to remove the win7 bcd loader and it worked perfectly, that's why i'm not able now to boot win7

 

previously, i was able to boot win7 when choosing win xp in chameleon : win 7 installed his own bootloader on the xp partition also, so the trial boot was almost ok.

 

in chameleon when i choosed leopard (partition 1) it was working direct to osx, and when choosing xp (partition 2), it went to a win7 bootloader asking me if i want to boot in win7 or old version of windows (win xp then).

 

at this stage i'm searching for a solution to make my third partition (win7) bootable so i could launch the os from chameleon.

 

any idea to edit the win7 bcd whithout having the possibility to boot in a vista compatible os ?

 

many thanks in advance.

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just go into the OSX boot menu an select the windows 7 partition :D

 

Thanks for helping, but can't really understand your point ?

what do you call OSX boot menu ? Darwin bootloader ?

 

 

at least i finnaly found a solution, i posted it in this thread :

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=144153

 

hope this helps.

 

peace,

 

DuBmastah

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