tony74 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 I have a setup now of a tri-boot Windows 7 x64, (1st HD) windows XP x32 (2nd HD) OSX 10.5.7(3rd HD). The windows 7 boot loader comes up with choice of where to go. The winxp and OSX are using the chain0 file FYI. If i install SL based on guides here, they all say to install Chameleon Boot loader. What will happen when i install SL, and boot? Will chameleon take over and offer choice of OS? i don't want to trash any installs if i can avoid it. thansk in advance! Tony Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony74 Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 bump, anyone???? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1319321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalel83 Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 only one of your partitions on a single drive can be marked as the active partition. and with what is set to active, that partitions boot loader will be used first, and will load up the bootloaders from other partitions when you select them. with windows and osx, it is fine. with osx loading another osx partition, I am not sure so in theory, install snow to a new partition complete with bootloader and all. then set that partition to active. it will allow you to boot to both windows partitions. with the leo partition from snow I am not sure. I assume it will let you load that as well, with snow set to active and booting leopard with its boot loader. worst case scenario is that either osx partition needs to be set to active and can only load osx that is on itself and the two windows partitions. I saw this because I am having some weird bugs that might be due to booting snow with a boot loader from a different snow partition(I have snow on two partitions, since if you want to install snow from inside osx, you should do it from leo, then from snow(permission issues)) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1319375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony74 Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Thank you so much for the informative post. I appreciate it! How did you do your SL install? from within leopard, then blow away the old leopard? I think this is the route i may go down. I may just take out the WIN7 HD and try this first. Thanks again!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1319636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Thank you so much for the informative post. I appreciate it! How did you do your SL install? from within leopard, then blow away the old leopard? I think this is the route i may go down. I may just take out the WIN7 HD and try this first. Thanks again!! See my Snow Leopard Install Guide for nForce + Intel CPU MOBOs thread Post #1 Section I., which details my procedure for booting SL from a Leopard volume Chameleon bootloader screen...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1320289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony74 Posted November 5, 2009 Author Share Posted November 5, 2009 This is from Verdant, hope it helps some others too! I am using Windows 7 64bit and Vista Ultimate 64bit on one HDD, with EasyBCD 2.0 Beta (latest build) set up on Vista........with OS X Leopard on another HDD......OS X Snow Leopard on another HDD......and Ubuntu 9.10 on another HDD....... What I find is that EasyBCD picked up Windows 7 (installled after Vista) and the Leopard HDD but it cannot boot Ubuntu 9.10 (which is using GRUB 2 rather than GRUB)...... The Leopard HDD and OS X Snow Leopard HDD have Chameleon 2.0 RC3 installed...... My system works as follows......when I boot up, I first get the EasyBCD bootloader screen with Windows 7, Vista and Leopard options.....if I choose Leopard, I then get the Chameleon bootloader which allows me to boot into all OS X volumes (Leopard 10.5.2, 10.5.5, 10.5.6 and Snow Leopard 10.6.1), Windows 7, Vista, and Ubuntu 9.10...... I hope this helps...... BTW by having your OSs on separate HDDs gives you protection because you can always boot direct to each HDD via the BIOS boot menu (or at least, I am able to by pressing F8 on bootup....) Cheers verdant Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1320361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalel83 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I installed snow off of an 8gb guid partitioned flash drive, from withing leopard. Then I installed snow to a different partition, from withing snow. (to clear up permission, and other issues). I have windows 7 on the 3rd partition. I use the bootloader of cham rc3 + pe efi 10.5 on the snow partition on partition 1, to boot windows 7, and snow. He is right in that having osx and windows on separate hard drives is best. I have only one hd, which is 1tb so that wasn't an option for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1321547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony74 Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 well no love for me with SL..... it installs, then reboot, and the dreaded Still Waiting for Root Device..... I've used 3 different guides for this and for starters none are the same. And none have given me a bootable SL. Regular Leopard is fine, and untouched. I've tried everything i can to resolve the error. Nothing works. As a side note i was able to get it to at least boot when installing it to my USB stick. But way to slow to be usable. I think it has something to do with the 2 on different partitions rather than different drives. I was under the impression this would work, and from reading hundreds of posts it should. Thoughts? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195507-add-snow-leopard-to-existing-multi-boot-system/#findComment-1322220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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