pyrvs Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Hi there everybody! I can boot between PC and Mac only in a very slooow way. I also need to hang around whit 2 DVD's. The only method I succesfully achieved is using Diskpart: My primary disk is Vista. EVERYTHING is in there I open CMD and enter Diskpart I select disk (the only one), and then the Mac partition (the 18GB one) I set it to active I exit CMD and insert my iAtkos 10.5.2 DVD After rebooting, the BIOS automatically detects the DVD and Darwin starts up I don't touch it and OSX starts flawlessly Now, if I want to return to Vista I need to insert Vista's Installation DVD and turn the computer off (I have to force it since it doesn't shut down properly) I enter Repair>CMD>Diskpart Select the only disk and Vista's partition, and I set it to active As I list volumes I find that letters are mixed up (if i don't change them it won't start up) select volume 0 (Recovery=C)assign letter=fselect volume 1 (PC=D)assign letter=cselect volume 1 (Recovery =F)assign letter=d Now I reboot and after 5 minutes I'm finally back on Vista There should be a way of getting a proper multiboot I've tried using BCDEdit, and I actually have a multiboot screen, but it's just decorative If Vista's partition is active, and iAtkos DVD is not in, the multiboot menu pops up: Windows -> it enters Windows Mac OS -> it gives me a HFS error (I use a tboot for filepath) Mac OS X -> it gives me the chain booting error (I use a chain0 for filepath) If Vista's partition is active, and iAtkos DVD is in, it starts the instalation prompt, as if OS X wasn't installed If Mac's partition is active, and the iAtkos DVD isn't in, i get a "NO OPERATING SYSTEM" error If Mac's partition is active, and the iAtkos DVD is in, it enters OS X It seems it doen't have a smooth solution, and I'm definitly not gonna erase the Vista partition. If there's a way, I wouldn't like to erase the Mac partition either, but I will if I have to. Dell Inspiron 1520 iAtkos 2.0i Leopard 10.5.2 Mac partition - type=AF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrvs Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 Oh! Come on! Someone must know how to do a proper multiboot! Pleeeeze someone help me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrvs Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrvs Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share Posted September 3, 2009 Please someone help me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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