CrAkD Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Ok so I have Snow leopard running all updates up to date with internet, sound, video (dual displays). Everything is perfect except that I have to change a bunch of bios settings depending on which OS I want to boot. here is the setup. 1st 640gb hard drive partitioned in 2. with Windows 7 64 Ult. and TinyXP 2nd 640gb hard drive partitioned in 2 with Snow Leopard on one and the second partition is a NTFS Audio drive. is there anyway to multiboot these without formatting the windows drive? As I really dont want to put together 2 windows setups all over again. all 3 will boot fine if I choose the boot drive and set the bios settings to either IDE and HPET 32 for windows or AHCI and HPET 64 for OSX. If I try to boot to windows by hitting a key before OSX loads it brings up the windows animation then a quick BSOD and the computer reboots. I've tried EasyBCD and when I choose the Snow Leopard selection in the boot menu I get pushed to a Grub prompt.......So I dont mind changing all the bios settings and switching boot drives but I figure there has gotta be a better way.... Thanks in advance for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-†Krad†- Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Well, let me try to help you. 1) Have you tried chameleon? 2)Are both of your hard disks connected by the same type of connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrAkD Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 I used kakewalk to install OSX. When I boot I see it says Chameleon RC4 so I imagineits installed. I tried to follow a tutorial on using chameleon and after performing the terminal commands the guide asked for to make the SL partition active. SL would no longer boot I had to reinstall it. Both of the disks are both WD Caviar Black SATA drives. So yes their both connected via SATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-†Krad†- Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 That's odd....he reason why I find it odd is that your drives are sata yet you have to set ide to boot windows... Well, the odd thing is that there is no linux, so I have no clue where the heck the grub bootloader came from. Perhaps you chose linux instead of osx86 in the easy bcd menu? I'm just throwing out ideas here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrAkD Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 well I did a search and others have gotten the grub prompt from easy bcd doing the same thing. No definitive reason tho. Well in the gigabyte bios there are only 3 choices. IDE, RAID, AHCI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-†Krad†- Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Are you sure you can't boot both with AHCI? It should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrAkD Posted May 19, 2010 Author Share Posted May 19, 2010 I fixed it! I just had to enable the AHCI drivers within windows 7. I havent tried tinyxp yet but I can boot into windows from the mac bootloader. Is there a way I can set the mac bootloader to automaticly ask me rather then me have to hit a key within the 3 seconds before it boots? Also is there a way to have it load the GUI by default rather then just a text list of the seperate boot drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-†Krad†- Posted May 19, 2010 Share Posted May 19, 2010 Hah, thats great! I know how it feels to be successful. Well, if you installed chameleon 2.0 rc4, then you should have a gui interface. If you didn't, then install it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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