Torretto Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I am trying to set up a dual-boot on my laptop with Kalyway 10.5.3 and Vista. They are both installed fine, and i can boot them each by setting the active partition. However, i can not get vista's boot loader to boot OS X using EasyBCD, and in Darwin Boot loader if i select Vista, the machine just reboots. Currently the only working way to change the boot OS is to boot to a boot disc (OS X, Linux, etc.) and manually change the active partition, which is a huge major pain in the ass. If anyone knows how i could get any bootloader to work for both OSes, please let me know. Thanks, Torretto Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144338-darwin-cant-boot-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Install darwin boot loader or Chameleon. Make Vista partition active. Use Vista Install disk to repair Vista Startup. Once done make OSX partition active again. Reboot. Your dual boot is ready. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144338-darwin-cant-boot-vista/#findComment-1024540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torretto Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 Thanks, but as i mentioned above, if i make Vista's partition active, it's boot loader works fine, there's nothing to repair, so i'm not sure how i would do that. EDIT: Well i feel like an idiot, i installed Ubuntu and it wouldn't work either, so i did as mentioned above and now works fine Now i wish there was a more Mac-ish boot manager instead of the plain text mode Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144338-darwin-cant-boot-vista/#findComment-1024661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
french squared Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 ho do you make windows partition active? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144338-darwin-cant-boot-vista/#findComment-1025076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torretto Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Boot to OS X disc in single user mode (at darwin boot prompt press F8 and then type -s and hit enter). When it's finished loading, type all of the commands within the quotes (dont type the quotes): "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" "print" (this will show you all of the current partitions on the hard drive, make not of the partition number that windows is installed on, it will be type NTFS) "mark x" (replace x with the partition number on which vista is installed) Boot to OS X disc in single user mode (at darwin boot prompt press F8 and then type -s and hit enter). When it's finished loading, type all of the commands within the quotes (dont type the quotes): "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" "print" (this will show you all of the current partitions on the hard drive, make not of the partition number that windows is installed on, it will be type NTFS) "mark x" (replace x with the partition number obtained from last step) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144338-darwin-cant-boot-vista/#findComment-1026983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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