Easybcd

[Crabhunter]

Hi everyone,at the moment I have Vista on a raid0 pair of drives and OSX on an IDE drive.Each was installed with the other unplugged as OSX would keep screwing up Vista.

 

I can now choose which to boot with the bios(F12 during post).

 

I have tried adding an entry using easybcd2(Build60).When I try using this entry it attempts to boot 0x80 and fails, it does give me a 2 second pause to press any key and enter a different number.

 

If I choose 81 OSX boots fine,is there anyway I can make the bootloader use 0x81 as default.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[c0rk007hck]

Hi everyone,at the moment I have Vista on a raid0 pair of drives and OSX on an IDE drive.Each was installed with the other unplugged as OSX would keep screwing up Vista.

 

I can now choose which to boot with the bios(F12 during post).

 

I have tried adding an entry using easybcd2(Build60).When I try using this entry it attempts to boot 0x80 and fails, it does give me a 2 second pause to press any key and enter a different number.

 

If I choose 81 OSX boots fine,is there anyway I can make the bootloader use 0x81 as default.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

You can add an operating system in easybcd.

Choose Mac Os X for general PC, that one should work.

[dt34]

Hi everyone,at the moment I have Vista on a raid0 pair of drives and OSX on an IDE drive.Each was installed with the other unplugged as OSX would keep screwing up Vista.

 

I can now choose which to boot with the bios(F12 during post).

 

I have tried adding an entry using easybcd2(Build60).When I try using this entry it attempts to boot 0x80 and fails, it does give me a 2 second pause to press any key and enter a different number.

 

If I choose 81 OSX boots fine,is there anyway I can make the bootloader use 0x81 as default.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

I'm having the same problem. When I enter 81 after hitting a key during the 2 second option pause my system boots to osx no problem. If I do not enter 81 I get a chain loader error. I am also using easybcd2 and have tried a few different option when adding MacOS without any success.

[Sumo89]

Crabhunter and dt34;

What OSX install method are you using? i.e. a distro or Retial w/boot132?

If using Retail install, did you have to install Chameleon or another EFI boot loader on your OSX hdd in order for EasyBCD to be able to boot OSX?

[Crabhunter]

Crabhunter and dt34;

What OSX install method are you using? i.e. a distro or Retial w/boot132?

If using Retail install, did you have to install Chameleon or another EFI boot loader on your OSX hdd in order for EasyBCD to be able to boot OSX?

 

Hi,I installed 10.5.6 from a retail dvd using boot123 and then used a oneclick boot fix so that I don't need the boot123 cd to boot.I think it is chameleon.

 

I think the problem is that I added my raid setup after OSX, so now OSX is no longer on drive0.

 

I have to do it that way else OSX screws up the raid settings on the raid drives.

 

CG is working on a fix.

 

Mike

[sts00286]

edit: (sorry to threadjack, but for some reason i could not create a new topic, it kept giving me error: You must enter a post... which I did... anyway, my issue is EasyBCD related...)

 

Hey guys, so I have an issue with my bootloaders...

 

I have Mac installed on a seperate HDD from my Windows Vista HDD. They are completely seperated. In fact, I cannot boot into Windows unless my SATA controller is in RAID mode, and i cannot boot into Mac unless it is in AHCI mode. Despite having to change my BIOS everytime i wanted to change OS's, all was fine until tonight.

 

Back when I first intalled OS X, I thought it would be cool to try a dual boot in Vista bootloader, so I tried some method I can't remember which. Anyway, when in RAID mode, the Vista bootloader would display the two options for me, Windows Vista or Mac OS X. Of course, I soon realized that I could not select Mac OS X b/c the SATA controller was in RAID mode. So i lived with having a useless Mac OS X option in my Vista b/l for a while until tonight when I used EasyBCD to reset the Vista b/l, to get rid of the useless Mac OS X boot option. I figured all would be OK and it shouldn't touch the Darwin b/l on my seperate drive, right...? wrong.

 

I restarted into AHCI mode like I always do to boot into Mac, but now, no Darwin... no Chameleon... just a blank "_" like it does when it tries to boot off of a HDD with no bootloader. I tried to boot to the Mac drive directly via the boot menu in BIOS, but still no Darwin.

 

How can I get Darwin/Chameleon back up and running? I heard rumor of one way was to boot into install DVD and run a command using Terminal... Does anybody wanna induldge to me exaclty what to do? I have both LawlessPPCPhenom&AMD 10.5.4 and Leo4All 4.1.1 (yes, patched) if someone needs to know which install DVDs I have...

 

So basically, I just need to reinstall Darwin b/l right? Or chameleon? to my Mac HDD which is disk0s2 (that's how it was displayed in Darwin b/l in the past...would it still be the same?)

 

Thanks in advance for any help

[Evantium]

I have tried adding an entry using easybcd2(Build60).When I try using this entry it attempts to boot 0x80 and fails, it does give me a 2 second pause to press any key and enter a different number.

 

If I choose 81 OSX boots fine,is there anyway I can make the bootloader use 0x81 as default.

 

Edit C:\NST\menu.lst and add biosdev=81 to the kernel line so it looks like this:

 

kernel /NST/nst_mac.efi biosdev=81

 

OS X option in my Vista b/l for a while until tonight when I used EasyBCD to reset the Vista b/l, to get rid of the useless Mac OS X boot option. I figured all would be OK and it shouldn't touch the Darwin b/l on my seperate drive, right...? wrong.

 

I restarted into AHCI mode like I always do to boot into Mac, but now, no Darwin... no Chameleon... just a blank "_" like it does when it tries to boot off of a HDD with no bootloader. I tried to boot to the Mac drive directly via the boot menu in BIOS, but still no Darwin.

I had EasyBCD mess up my OSX MBR on a second drive as well...  I had to restore a Clonezilla image I'd taken of the drive (having Clonezilla images of all my drives saved me from a bunch of cases of unbootable operating systems as I tried to get various boot methods working).

 

 

Anyway, you've probably figured out how to fix it by now, but I also wanted to suggest you can get EasyBCD to boot into OSX by replacing C:/NST/nst_mac.efi with Chamelon 2's "boot" file as described on page four of this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...2582&st=160

 

Using that method, having a messed up MBR on that second drive shouldn't matter.