iPc 10.5.6. boot0 : error

[jamba77]

I istalled 10.5.6. on my Acer Aspire 5610 before and it worked, testwise.

As I want both, XP and Leopard, I made 3 partitions under XP, with Acronis disc director.I format the second and third as fat32.

when using disc utilities for installing OSX on the second partition, it showed me the XP partition as ´fat32´(not ntfs)..

ok, finish install..and on the first reboot..boot0 : error.

nice.

 

I read the tutorial for that problem, but got stuck at point 4..:

 

 

 

"Setting Your Partition "Active" Using Fdisk

 

Words in bold below are things you must type (followed by Enter).

 

1. Boot your Mac OS X install dvd

2. Once the installer is running, go to the Utilities menu and open Terminal

 

3. Determine which disk your MacOSX partition is on

 

 

Type diskutil list

 

Verify which disk number holds your partition (disk0, disk1, etc.)

 

 

 

4. Start using Fdisk

 

 

Assuming the MacOSX disk is the first disk ("disk0"), then

type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 <== use "rdisk" with your disk number here !!

 

Ignore the error "fdisk: could not open MBR file ..."

 

 

 

5. Determine which partition for MacOSX needs to be set "Active"

 

 

Type p

 

Verify which partition is for MacOSX (1, 2, 3, etc.)

 

 

 

6. Set the partition "Active"

 

Assuming it is partition 1, then

type f 1 <== use your partition number here !!

 

 

 

7. Save and exit

 

 

Type write

 

Type y (yes you are sure)

 

Type exit (to quit)

 

 

 

8. Remove the install DVD and reboot

[jamba77]

solved..I used UBCD to activate the osx partition..under Acronis disc manager I only activated XP as ´primary´..

now it works..

[dtrobson099]

Can you be more specific?

 

I'm a bit new to this - but I've tried the aforementioned guide and still get the boot0: error upon startup.

 

Some things I should note:

 

I'm attempting to sextuple boot my machine. I've got 6 partitions on the main hard disk, with successful installations of XP Professional, XP Media Center, Vista Ultimate, 7 Ultimate, and Ubuntu Linux.

 

Along the way, I made some mistakes, thus the disk0s2 and disk0s3 slots do not exist. The OS X partition is at disk0s8. I've read in some places that nothing can boot from slots higher than disk0s3, but I'm quite sure that Ubuntu boots just fine from disk0s9, and some versions of Windows are booting from disk0s4, disk0s5, and disk0s6. I think it's Windows 7 booting from disk0s0, but I'm not entirely sure as I'm away from the PC at the moment.

 

System specifications:

 

Intel Core Duo 3.00 Ghz

ATI Radeon X600 256MB

Sigmatel Audio - Not quite sure on that.

Intel 10/100 Pro Ethernet

 

It's a Dell Dimension E510. I'm not really sure about the "guts" of the machine. Above is what I know. I'm new at this, but I'm willing to learn if anyone has the patience to help me through this process.

 

I know it sounds crazy, but I cannot boot to a command prompt. The options on my screen upon BIOS startup are:

 

Boot from Hard Disk

Boot from CD

Boot from USB device

 

And 3 other options that are essentially Disk Check and gateways to system options. Nothing in the system options seems to allow booting to a command prompt

 

The above options appear when I hit F12, not F8. F8 does nothing. F2 boots to system BIOS options. The only way I've been able to boot to a prompt is using the iPC install CD, booting to that CD, then hitting F8. But at that point, when I try to boot in verbose mode, it simply boots the CD in verbose mode and not the actual OS X installation I had just completed.

 

I think I've mentioned all I know. Please help.

solved..I used UBCD to activate the osx partition..under Acronis disc manager I only activated XP as ´primary´..

now it works..

[jamba77]

hmmmm, I really dont know how to make Multi-Boot, sorry..I only have XP and OSX 10.5.6...download Ultimate Boot CD, it works in DOS, with many good disc/Boot/erase/partition tools..then you can activate a Windows partition. works!

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/