sam_the_killer Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Hi there, Has any1 tried installing Vista in the first place it means they have placed Windows Vista as their primary OS. If its yes, then u might be facing a problem of Dual boot with Mac OS X. Here i m not talking about "Third Party Tools" available for the Dual boot purpose like Acronis Disk Director, etc. But a stable and simple solution with the same chain0 file that we previously used with Boot.ini. Can any one guide me thru a process of adding chain0 in the BCD(boot Config. Data) in Windows Vista.. Hope u understand.. By the way Mac OS X is in my second hard disk.. Hence this should not be problematic to dual boot.. Any help will be greatly appreciated Thanx Sam Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 anyone ??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-134021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoseph Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 i have the same problem Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-134611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogman Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 quote...Has any1 tried installing Vista in the first place it means they have placed Windows Vista as their primary OS. If its yes, then u might be facing a problem of Dual boot with Mac OS X. Here i m not talking about "Third Party Tools" available for the Dual boot purpose like Acronis Disk Director, etc. But a stable and simple solution with the same chain0 file that we previously used with Boot.ini. Been there done that! Reinstall Acronis Disk Director with os selctor in your vista os. Reember to start up installer by right clicking the setup.exe file and use "run as Administrator". After reboot go to program folder where Acronis disk Director is installed and look for Os Selector installer. again right click and use "run as Administrator" to install. reboot. quick note: My system. First partition is Mac OSX 10.4.6 set as active Second partition is Win XP SP2 Third Partition Fat32 Forth Partition Vista Beta 2. All Partition are boot from OS Selector. This works for me! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-135664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 quote...Has any1 tried installing Vista in the first place it means they have placed Windows Vista as their primary OS.If its yes, then u might be facing a problem of Dual boot with Mac OS X. Here i m not talking about "Third Party Tools" available for the Dual boot purpose like Acronis Disk Director, etc. But a stable and simple solution with the same chain0 file that we previously used with Boot.ini. Been there done that! Reinstall Acronis Disk Director with os selctor in your vista os. Reember to start up installer by right clicking the setup.exe file and use "run as Administrator". After reboot go to program folder where Acronis disk Director is installed and look for Os Selector installer. again right click and use "run as Administrator" to install. reboot. quick note: My system. First partition is Mac OSX 10.4.6 set as active Second partition is Win XP SP2 Third Partition Fat32 Forth Partition Vista Beta 2. All Partition are boot from OS Selector. This works for me! Thanx 4 the advice, but i think u have not done thing the way they were expected to be, u did not installed Windows Vista as the primary Operating System i.e. On the first partition. Here the problem remains that Windows vista's Bootloader does not takes any input frm the boot.ini(coz u dont have any).. And u have tried installing Mac OS X at the first and r only involving a single HDD for booting multiple OS. The setup i describe below just gives u a simple solution and u dont need to install Acronis OS selector either.. just install Windows XP at first partition, then add the Chain0 entry in boot.ini file, then install windows Vista, it takes all the inputs from the boot.ini file in the BCD bootloader and hence providing the option to multi-boot.. But this too doesnt solve our problem either since, we r not installing the Vista as primary OS, then ther r no inputs frm boot.ini file and hence we need to add entries into BCD or Boot Config. Data.. which is the base problem...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-135766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I just installed Vista, and it automatically saw OS X, added it to its boot menu, and it works great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-136495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted June 28, 2006 Author Share Posted June 28, 2006 I just installed Vista, and it automatically saw OS X, added it to its boot menu, and it works great. Did u had a previous version of Windows... i mean a boot.ini file already existing?? coz Vista searches for Boot.ini file and it adds all of its contents into the Boot Config. Data.. The problem arises when u dont have any previous version of Windows (boot.ini).. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-136530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 I do also have XP installed.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-137517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 I do also have XP installed.. Thats y my friend the boot loader with BOOT.ini is easy to add up new OS, but not 4 direct BCD... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-137553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarist Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 So would the sequence be 1. OSX 2. XP 3. Vista? or has this been explained elsewhere already? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-137723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 So would the sequence be 1. OSX 2. XP 3. Vista? or has this been explained elsewhere already? Thanks. If u have any problems setting a boot loader to boot all three of them, just provide me details about how many HDD u have with operating System Loaded on them..and which r those. if ur one of those having two HDD with one having Windows XP and the other one having Mac OS X.. Then my suggestion: Install Windows XP on the one u want to keep primary then install Mac OS X on then Next HDD in the primary partition and make a dual boot already by using chain0 method with Boot.ini file and that to Install Windows Vista at the last and not on the primary partiton on which u already installed Windows XP, but on a separate partition..so that Windows Vista takes input from the Boot.ini file and makes a perfect Triple Boot... Thanx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-137731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacBookJoe Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Hi, Hoping you can help me. I have one SATA2 drive split into two partitions. one XP64bit and the other Kalyway 10.5.1. I installed XP first, then installed OSX the darwin bootloader worked for entering both OS's untill i had to reinstall my XP. now it boots into XP everytime. how can i change the XP Boot.ini to incompass OSX or set my 2nd partition (OSX) as my primary so i get my Darwin boot back. cheers Joe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20104-scope-for-dual-boot-with-mac-os-x-under-native-windows-vista/#findComment-611374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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