tha_toadman Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 OK, can someone point in the right direction here? I have a 1TB HD. I have 2 x 500 GB partitions, OS X on one and Win7 on the other. I installed Win7 first (2nd part.) and then installed OS X second (1st part.). I installed the latest Chameleon RC5 pkg installer and when I went to reboot, I just got a "Loading Operating System ..." followed by about 20 periods...and no nothing. Now, I can boot either OS, with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Supported but the bootloader isn't loading. I went into fdisk and made the OS X partition "active" and still... nothing. Obviously, I am missing something. Can someone fill me in on what I'm missing? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I might be wrong, but shouldn't Windows always be on the first partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1547496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 As far as I know, it doesn't matter. I can boot with the boot CD but if the hard drive tried to load Chameleon...it never starts and therefore, it just hangs. Some people feel comfortable with the Windows boot manager and others use Chameleon. What I'm trying to avoid altogether, is booting with the Windows boot manager, then selecting OS X, and then being taken to the Chameleon boot loader, in order to launch OS X. There has to be a way to do this but I'm just missing some steps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1548394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Maybe this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=165878 will give you some ideas... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1548424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 Maybe this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=165878 will give you some ideas... I'll try that tonight. Thanks for the link. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1548439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 I might be wrong, but shouldn't Windows always be on the first partition? It doesn't have to be. As long as Windows is on a primary MBR partition (on BIOS-based systems), it should be able to boot. I've never had problems booting it on any primary partition. That said, I have seem reports from people who claim that Windows is finicky about which partition it's on. Most of these, however, seem to be from people who are using hybrid MBRs, which most people don't understand. IMHO, it's likely that problems in the hybrid MBR setup unrelated to the position of the Windows partition are at fault in such cases. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1548558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Well, after about 2 weeks or so days of waiting patiently for my Corsair PSU to be RMA'ed, I have a machine again! I've decided to say 'screw it' and will wipe the primary drive and will install both OSes on their own HD's this week. Win 7 (first) on the 2nd drive and then OS X on the 1st drive and then Chameleon bootloader. We will see what happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1559074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 Finally, success! I have Chameleon 2 RC4 running fine and Windows 7 on the other drive they both boot now! All I need to do now is hide the 'system reserved' partition from OS X and I'm good. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/231825-dual-boot-vanilla-osx-and-win7/#findComment-1564734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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