mikemoss Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Okay, I have been lurking here for a while trying to figure out what I should do but couldnt find anything. I am trying to duel boot Windows 7 and iAtkos OS X Leopard I got the whole thing to install but now I am trying to get the duel boot to work. I have used bcdedit to make another boot option on startup but when I choose "Mac OS X" it loads the windows 7 repair console. I have the path on "Mac OS X" set to c:\chain0 and I have the chain0 file in my c drive in windows. I just cant figure out how to make it boot Leopard. Thanks, Michael Okay, Ive now added another boot option using EasyBCD and I used the option that it had to create a generic x86 mac option and when I tried to boot it said Chain booting error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertimyst Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I'm running Windows XP and Windows 7, with OSX on my external drive, here's how I got mine to boot. 1) First, delete your OSX entry in EasyBCD. 2) Download this file: http://www.digitmemo.com/files/tboot.zip, extract tboot to C:\ 3) Go to C:\, right-click on boot.ini, uncheck read-only if checked. 3) Edit boot.ini with notepad, and add this line: c:\tboot="Mac OSX Leopard", save the file. 4) Reboot, and it should work. Note, I don't know if that method works in 7, as I did it from XP, because EasyBCD didn't work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemoss Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 I cant find the boot.ini file in 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhil Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 the way i did it was with acronis operating system selector. its a bit complicated, but basically, install leopard, install windows 7 and then install Acronis OS Selector manually edit the bootwiz.oss to have a Vista entry that refers to the win 7 partition and your mac partition should already have a entry. i cant remember the forums where i read up, but if you give my your bootwiz.oss ill be glad to edit it for you EDIT: this should help you get a windows 7 entry http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=229200 and leopard should already be there just get Acronis Operating System selector from your favorite warez site and all will be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemoss Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Okay, followed all of the steps to find the bootwiz.oss and I cant find it. I didnt do the vista upgrade to 7 I did a fresh install of 7. Ill try to find it. Thanks for the offer hopefully I can find bootwiz.oss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhil Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 maybe this will help you http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_oss_bootwiz.php make sure you have hidden files showing and hidden operating system files showing via the Organize dropdown/Folder Options EDIT: you did install Acronis Operating System Selector first right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemoss Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Oh no I didnt do that. When I used EasyBCD I got a Chain Boot Error so I went on a search for a fix. First I put my iATKOS disk in and pressed f8 at boot then used command -s Then input: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit cd /usr/standalone/i386/ startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsx ./boot dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsx bs=512 count=1 dd if=boot0 of=/dev/rdiskXsx bs=400 count=1 reboot Replacing all of the rdiskXsx with rdisk0s2 bc 0 is my hard disk number that leopard is on and 2 is the partition number. Then I deleted my EasyBCD boot option and remade it, idk if this was necessary but I did it anyway. Rebooted and choose my mac option and it sent me to a screen to choose the partition to load and I just choose the Leopard partition and it booted just fine. I used this tutorial, http://dailyapps.net/2008/03/hack-attack-d...-windows-vista/, but used the above in place of its fdisk stuff and EasyBCD to make the boot option. I wasnt having any success with the one it said to use, it just booted windows startup repair. Another question, should I register the iATKOS Leopard? I know it said not to do updates but didnt say anything about registering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhil Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 so you have the dual boot working? and as for registration, just say that you have no internet connection, fill it out with fake info and delete the "send registration" shortcut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leo71 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I added the file nst_mac.efi in C:\nst folder and it works very well. it will prompt at the boot to choose the OS to start up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemoss Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 so you have the dual boot working? and as for registration, just say that you have no internet connection, fill it out with fake info and delete the "send registration" shortcut yes dual boot works great. Thanks for the registration stuff. Now all I have to do is find out how to make a few things work, like my wired internet, the sleep option, and probably more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhil Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 To enable it you have to edit the Info.plist in /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBEHCI.kext/Contents/You need to add these lines <key>OSBundleCompatibleVersion</key> <string>1.0</string> under <key>CFBundleVersion</key> <string>3.1.5</string> try this for sleep and for the other stuff, just search the forums for drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemoss Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Internet is working now. I tried to do that for the sleep thing but I dont have <key>CFBundleVersion</key> <string>3.1.5</string> mine says 3.0.1 in place of 3.1.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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