OSX MBR Problem?

[simpod]

Havin problems with my OSx86 install..

I have windows 7 installed on one partition and have installed mac osx86 on a second partition (Kalyway).

Did the bippity boppity boop on the windows partition using Diskpart and made partition 1 the active partition.

 

Thing is i seem to have 4 partitions showing in diskpart:

Partition 1 = I assume is the windows installation or other system files?

Partition 2 = Again windows but just my programs nd documents etc

Partition 0 = I have no idea - assuming is the same as 3

Partition 3 = Should be the mac osx86 installation

 

Problem? When i select the mac osx os from the bootloader (EasyBCD) it says: nst/nst_mac.mbr file is corrupt or missing.

I've tried the chain0 method with no luck.

Here is a detailed view of the EasyBCD config if needed:

 

Windows Boot Manager

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identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}

device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1

path \bootmgr

description Windows Boot Manager

locale en-US

inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}

default {899dfc69-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

resumeobject {899dfc5f-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

displayorder {899dfc65-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

{899dfc69-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

bootsequence {899dfc63-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}

timeout 30

 

Real-mode Boot Sector

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identifier {899dfc65-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

device unknown

path \NST\nst_mac.mbr

description NST Mac OS X

 

Windows Boot Loader

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identifier {899dfc69-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

device partition=C:

path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description Windows 7 Home Premium (recovered)

locale en-US

recoverysequence {899dfc61-bea9-11de-b7e5-89d6234cfa32}

recoveryenabled Yes

osdevice partition=C:

systemroot \Windows

resumeobject {82073e13-f953-11de-9863-806e6f6e6963}

 

Any help appreciated thanks

[seangibbz]

It looks like you set up your partition table incorrectly. MBR can either have:

1. Four primary partitions

2. Three primary partitions, with 1 extended partition which can hold an infinite number of logical partitions

 

What you should want is to go into diskpart (or my personal favourite, GParted on an Ubuntu Live CD), delete your extended/logical partitions, and create an unformatted partition in their place.

When you load up the OSX installation disc, go into Disk Utility and format the partition to Mac Jorunaled Extended; install OSX to that partition.

[simpod]

Thanks a lot I will try that now Fingers crossed

[simpod]

okz

good and bad news

The good news - i did what sdbinwiiexe suggested and it worked! yay next step was to get windows 7 working again sooo..

(bad news)

Booted windows 7 disk, went into repair your computer etc, CMD, Diskpart and made partition 1 active. Rebooted and my laptop and the EasyBCD bootloader came up - the windows link worked fine, mac osx didnt (same problem as original). Booted into windows and into EasyBCD, deleted the Mac entry and put it in again.

Still no luck - any suggestions?