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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181696-dual-boot-vista-osx-1052-using-diskpart-and-bcdedit/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181696-dual-boot-vista-osx-1052-using-diskpart-and-bcdedit/#findComment-1236564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrvs Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181696-dual-boot-vista-osx-1052-using-diskpart-and-bcdedit/#findComment-1239222 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181696-dual-boot-vista-osx-1052-using-diskpart-and-bcdedit/#findComment-1249604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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