Dual Boot Question

[cocotutch]

Hi There.

 

Yesterday I tried a Dual-Boot scenario with Mac OS X Snow Leopard RETAIL and Windows 7 on my Hackintosh. Windows 7 booted like a charm, but OS X refused to boot (the Windows Bootloader was giving me "Chain Booting Error").

 

How could I go about making a Dual Boot with these two OS's? My Dual Boot technique has worked in the past, except I had Leopard and Windows 7 and that seemed to work just fine.

 

My Method:

 

Open up EasyBCD 1.7.2 and add an OS X option to the Bootloader.

Save.

Install iReboot.

Reboot to OSX.

*Boots into OS X*

 

But this time I was getting:

Open up EasyBCD 1.7.2 and add an OS X option to the Bootloader.

Save.

Install iReboot.

Reboot to OSX.

*Chain Booting Error!*

 

And Chameleon wasn't loading (Chameleon 2.0 RC4).

 

Anyone care to help?

[cocotutch]

Problem Solved.

 

It turned out to be a combination of things, EasyBCD 2.0 beta build 76 may have helped in getting it working, i would not know.

 

Problem 1:

 

EFI and MBR/WINDOWS Hidden Partitions, there were too many, left over from when I last had a DB Setup going.

 

Problem 2:

 

Wrong version of EasyBCD. For Snow Leopard and Windows 7 I recommend EasyBCD 2.0 build 76.

 

Problem 3:

 

Placed interfering files in root of Macintosh HD to try and alleviate the problem (Boot0 and Chain0).

 

Deleting the Windows Partition and extending my Mac side to occupy 100% of the HDD, erased the unnecessary Hidden Partitions, allowing a Dual Boot.

 

cocotutch