Mjolniir Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Ok, so here is my situation. I am running a dual boot system with Vista on an IDE drive and OS X on a SATA drive. The board considers the IDE channels 0 and 1 and the SATA channels 2 and 3. The machine used to automatically boot the Vista partition and if I wanted the OS X partition I would hit f12 during the BIOS loading and select that drive to boot from. It worked fine for me although I would have rather it defaulted to OS X and Vista were the wicked stepchild but whatever. Recently I had to reinstall Vista and ever since the machine doesn't boot a default AT ALL. If I leave it alone at boot it will simply hang at "verifying dmi pool data." The BIOS boot selector still works fine so I can boot into Vista or OS X, but I am thinking I would rather have the whole thing setup to give me a choice at boot and to default to OS X. PS, when I select my OS X SATA drive, chameleon 1.0.12 shows up just fine and offers me a choice between the two different partitions of that SATA drive (NTFS and HFS+, the NTFS is for storage and has no OS). I would like to install some sort of bootloader that would load at boot by default, and give me a choice between OS X and Vista. What should I do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/194983-dual-booting-issue/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Try EasyBCD, Grub or any other boot loader. My personal preference is Grub, as I use Linux. As far as you don't have a Linux install, there are no limitations on the choose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/194983-dual-booting-issue/#findComment-1315091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjolniir Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Try EasyBCD, Grub or any other boot loader. My personal preference is Grub, as I use Linux. As far as you don't have a Linux install, there are no limitations on the choose. I tried EasyBCD, but it did not help. I was able to add an entry to Vista's bootloader, but the machine would still not boot past "verifying dmi pool data". I did some more searching and tried Acronis's OS selector. Before I booted, on a whim I went through my BIOS settings again and saw that my hdd boot priority was in completely the wrong order, it was looking first to a drive with no OS on it to boot. Now I am thinking this is probably why it was sticking. Anyway, Acronis works, so I'm good. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/194983-dual-booting-issue/#findComment-1315554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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