"Chain Booting Error"

[SRASC]

I think my laptop's OS install history. I had Windows Vista & Mac OS X 10.5.4 installed. EasyBCD I believe managed that fine. Then a couple of months later I updated Windows Vista Home Premium into Windows 7 Ultimate. Didn't touch the Mac, never affected it, could still boot into it (using Chameleon now) all was good.

About 2 weeks ago after installing AVG 9, Windows 7 could not boot without getting a BSOD, so I eventually installed Windows Vista back on, but after seeing Vista eating away at my hard drive's memory I tried to reinstall Windows 7 Ultimate. This time however I formatted the then Vista drive completely & then installed Windows 7 Ultimate. Got back my space & everything was good (at least on the Windows side).

Now I am trying to regain access to my Mac OS X 10.5.4. I tried using EasyBCD again & followed the instructions given. However now I am only getting a "Chain Booting Error" & despite reading numerous webpages talking about that problem have still not been able to solve it.

This is the current configuration as EasyBCD shows it:

There are a total of 2 entries listed in the bootloader.

 

Default: Windows 7

Timeout: 30 seconds.

Boot Drive: C:\

 

Entry #1

Name: Windows 7

BCD ID: {current}

Drive: C:\

Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe

 

Entry #2

Name: Mac OS X

BCD ID: {4d961d6f-e826-11de-8eab-a963dd1dedb8}

Drive: C:\

Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr

 

Right now the Windows 7 partition is the active partition, however as I remember up until my Windows 7 problems, the Mac OS X partition was the active one (everything worked fine).

 

Any help?

 

Thanks.

[Iyerit]

I've never been able to get BCD to boot to Chameleon/OS X. GRUB2 can do it, though. Or you can just install Chameleon.

If you want to try setting the Mac partition to be active, click start menu, right click computer, and click manage. Click the disk management tab. Right click the partition, click mark as active.

[cocotutch]

You need to DELETE the Windows Partition from Disk Utility.app on the OS X Boot DVD. Stretch the OS X partition to occupy the FULL HDD, then Partition it. After that, make a new Windows Partition and install Windows 7 and EasyBCD, that will work.

 

It's how I fixed the Chain Booting Error that I had. It seems there is too many EFI/MBR Hidden System partitions that are confusing the Windows Booter giving you that error.

 

Hope it helps,

 

cocotutch