oreoTM Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 sorry if this isnt the right section to post this concern.... i have a vista OS eversince i bought my desktop... lately i want to try mac os x for me to evaluate if i will buy macbook or not, so to have an overview of it i decided to dualboot my desktop... i have kalyway OSX and trying to figure how to install it, i did the partition thing and have a 2 partition i decided to put the OSX in partition 2(named it Mac OS X), i installed OSX and didnt realized that i have to erase the disk in the mac installer using disk utilities and have an error message after the validation "could not create the folder "volumes/Mac OS X/BaseSystem.pkg....."", i deleted the partition and started a new volume using disk manager in vista, did the partition thing again, i install the os for the second time and then i delete the partition(Mac OS X) in the disk utilities of osx installer renamed it Leopard then customized it(i really dont know what to check or uncheck in the customize option(the vanilla kernel and other) so idecided to check them all) the validition has succeeded and the installation started(it took 25 mins to finish i think it should be around an hour so i really dont know) the installation failed and showed an error msg "Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer the installer could not make the computer start up from the volume "(null)". you may need to select your disk using startup disk utility" i open disk utility in osx installer then it searched nothing just the network startup thing(im not sure but its an icon with a computer on it) i reboot osx from dvd and try to install again i went to the disk utility again(prior installation partition 2 has 172gb and after the above error it has now 166) and deleted it and reformat it to "(journaled)" it went fine the installation was succesful, but osx will boot if i osx dvd is on w/o it i'll just have an "hfs+ partition error" or "b0 error" and my vista is all messed up, i repaired it by activating part1(where my vista is) and it worked, but osx didnt, from the command prompt i activated also part2(where my OSX is) it'll only work if my osx dvd is on, but it ruined my vista again.....(i figured out that if part1 is active vista is ok but not osx, if part2 is active osx worked only if booted from the dvd and vista will not worked), how can i fix this problem? thanks guys for helping, and sorry if i posted this in the wrong section! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoTM Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 up! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1346242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmazingDerrick Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Hi, look at this thread http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t153452.html I followed this taranfx.com/blog/install-mac-os-x-leopard-osx86-on-pc-dual-boot-windows-7-vista-in-9-easy-steps and now i have mac osx86(10.5.7) working with windows 7. nb: EasyBCD lets you modify the Windows Boot Manager where you can add OS X's HFS partition. all the best. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1346368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Yeah you can do that. Or you can search for and install a Mac-friendly bootloader like Chameleon. I can't say which is better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1348168 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoTM Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 thx for the reply... but i cant solve the dvd problem it still need the dvd to boot osx, w/o a dvd an hfs+ partition error occur, i tried the cd usr/standalone thing it says succesful but yet i cant load osx w/o a dvd! thanks again for all the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1349532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewill57 Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 When you say you did the partition thing, what exactly did you do? Also, does OSX fully boot with the DVD, like you can get into leo and use it? If so, I'd highly suggest using a bootloader like Chameleon as Jeremy suggested. Once you install that you need to make Vista active again, and then make the OSX partition active and then you should be able to choose which OS without problem. If that doesn't work, try setting a power up password (or somet) in your BIOS. This'll make you enter a password everytime you turn on PC before it starts doing anything, and solved an issue I had with "can't find com.apple.boot.plist" error, may help yours... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1349714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oreoTM Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 i make a partition using disk management in vista, named the partition mac os x, then activated it using diskpart at cmd prompt, installed mac osx then it went w/o errors when i didnt touch the customized panel where vanilla kernel is, i just kept the default option like that. yeah OSX boots perfectly if the dvd is in the tray, if no disk i got hfs+ error, but even though osx loaded perfectly w/ macosx dvd when i try to shut it down i got stucked at the blue screen and it didnt shut down..... thx for the help i'll try chamelion, but is it ok even i cant boot osx w/o a dvd? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1350658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewill57 Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 If you can't boot without dvd, then something went wrong. But, if you are getting full functionality, and you can live with it, it may not be that much of a biggie. For the shut down, maybe try openhaltrestart.kext or one of the other options out there. I noticed that on my system the partition for OSX had to be completely blank and just empty space. Can't do anything to it other than shrink the space in 7/Vista partition, then head into diskpart and do the create part primary for the empty space. Still, if it's booting and working fine w/DVD doubt that's your issue. Make a start up password in BIOS and try the chameleon thing I suggested. Hope it works... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200021-vista-and-osx-dualboot-problem/#findComment-1350727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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