drummerdb Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 OK, i must not be doing something right. I have spent a lot of time in these forums and I currently have a great hackintosh setup. I originally had it to where I would boot to the HDD with OSx86 and type in '80' for my mac or '81' for Windows 7, but it wasn't very user friendly for my wife. Now I just have it boot to windows 7 and if I want to use my hackintosh I will hit f12 at startup and choose my mac HDD. I felt pretty good about having taught myself to install OS X on my PC (auto update works as well), but I can't seem to get any clean dual boot option to work for me very well. EasyBCD doesn't seem to find the hard drive with OSx86. I'd love to use chameleon as it would be a very user friendly solution for my wife, but there is little to no documentation on it, and I ran the install and nothing really happened (i'm currently using the old chameleon to boot without needing a disk). Anyone have a similar situation? Is there a tutorial i have missed that someone can point me to? Hard drive 1 - Windows 7 Hard drive 2 - OS 10.5.8 Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181719-windows-7-and-osx-boot-123-on-seperate-hard-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestorm88 Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Download Chameleon 2.0 to OS 10.5.8 HDD Install Chameleon 2.0 RC2 Set OS 10.5.8 HDD as the first boot device in BIOS settings Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181719-windows-7-and-osx-boot-123-on-seperate-hard-drives/#findComment-1235737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
torifile Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 OK, i must not be doing something right. I have spent a lot of time in these forums and I currently have a great hackintosh setup. I originally had it to where I would boot to the HDD with OSx86 and type in '80' for my mac or '81' for Windows 7, but it wasn't very user friendly for my wife. Now I just have it boot to windows 7 and if I want to use my hackintosh I will hit f12 at startup and choose my mac HDD. I felt pretty good about having taught myself to install OS X on my PC (auto update works as well), but I can't seem to get any clean dual boot option to work for me very well. EasyBCD doesn't seem to find the hard drive with OSx86. I'd love to use chameleon as it would be a very user friendly solution for my wife, but there is little to no documentation on it, and I ran the install and nothing really happened (i'm currently using the old chameleon to boot without needing a disk). Anyone have a similar situation? Is there a tutorial i have missed that someone can point me to? Hard drive 1 - Windows 7 Hard drive 2 - OS 10.5.8 Thanks. As the previous poster suggested, use Chameleon RC2. It works great. Just make sure you install it on your primary drive (in your case OS X). It'll boot to that and you'll be given a bootloader option. For Windows 7 make sure you select "System Reserved" and for OS X, select the Apple. I've got this set up and it works perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181719-windows-7-and-osx-boot-123-on-seperate-hard-drives/#findComment-1235870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummerdb Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 Thank you for the reply. I previously installed v2 rc1 but it didn't work. Perhaps I didn't set OSX to the default boot HDD. Anyways, everything is working great now. I even got some nice themes for the bootloader. Thank you for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181719-windows-7-and-osx-boot-123-on-seperate-hard-drives/#findComment-1235947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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