DuBmastah Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143645-trial-boot-osxwinxpwindows7/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Stark Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 just go into the OSX boot menu an select the windows 7 partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143645-trial-boot-osxwinxpwindows7/#findComment-1022142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuBmastah Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 just go into the OSX boot menu an select the windows 7 partition 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143645-trial-boot-osxwinxpwindows7/#findComment-1023241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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