chandan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Okay, once i got the Mac installed properly from iAtkos 10.5.6, I went on to complete a dual boot with my existing vista and no probs there. Mac working excellent, no issues, graphics, sound, internet... nothing missing. Then i logged on to Vista, and all was fine. But then i noticed every time i logged on to Vista and then to Mac, the Mac would give me a "Chain Booting Error". I again looked at some solutions online and booted with the Mac DVD in the rom and it worked a couple of times but then even that failed. I decided it must be Vista doing something to the Boot (i really dont know whats happening there) so guess what!! - I decided to dump vista for good and use only Mac. So i erased the Vista partition as well as the existing Mac with a clean install of iAtkos 10.5.7 again and re-installed only Mac. And as before and all's working beautifully again. The only pain in the neck (or lets say, a minor irritation), is that every time the computer starts, i get the Windows Boot Manager now asking me to choose which OS i want to log into, Leopard, or Windows Vista. Choosing Leopard, of course takes me to the Mac without any issues while choosing Vista of course does nothing. Since i want to keep only Mac, how can i get rid of the Win Boot Mngr so the machine straightaway logs into Mac without showing me the OS choices on start. And when i erased the vista partiton while installing Mac, shouldn't the Windows Boot Manager have gone too...? I guess there is an option somewhere from Mac (the terminal maybe, but i dont know the commands yet as i am fairly new to Mac) to do that. Any help would be appreciated. -regards Brainstormer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mija24 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 install a bootloader like Chameleon or BootThink Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/#findComment-1226788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandan Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 install a bootloader like Chameleon or BootThink hi, thanks for the reply.. i already have chameleon... see, when i start my PC, the windows boot manager comes up askinng me to choose between Vista or Mac... when i choose mac, the chameleon bootloader comes up... the progress bar happens and mac boots fine... but since i have removed windows from my machine, and have only Mac running, i now need to get rid of the windows boot manager... so when i start my PC, mac boots up directly... or at least i should see the chameleon boot loader first up... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/#findComment-1226796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonfilio Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Congrats! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/#findComment-1226909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandan Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 Congrats! thanks... now for some help...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/#findComment-1226993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandan Posted August 17, 2009 Author Share Posted August 17, 2009 well.... somebody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/#findComment-1228052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mac Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 well.... somebody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/180002-decided-to-trash-windows-after-i-got-to-get-the-mac-working-perfectly/#findComment-1229058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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