HeMP Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Hi, I've installed MacOS 10.4.6 both on my laptop (Acer Aspire 5562WXMi) and PC (Intel Pentium 4, IntelGMA850, 768 MB RAM). On PC it works perfectly - I've got 2 physical drives, NTFS partition with WinXP on the first, and 2 partitions (HFS+ "AF"-type active and FAT32) on the second one. I've created HFS+ partition using DiskUtil under MacOS installation, and I'm booting with chain0. But - on my laptop (1 physical drive, 2 partitions - NTFS (active) with WinXP and HFS+) it didn't work! When I select chain0 on my boot menu, it comes again and again until i select WinXP to boot. And if I change the HFS partition to active, boot fails with the "HFS+ error" message. Could anyone help with that? Please Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 For HFS+ Partition error, boot your install DVD. At the first screen, go to the Utilities menu and select Terminal. Type: sudo fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0 Remove the DVD and reboot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-155705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeMP Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 Ok, I'll try. But will I have my dual-boot? Or I would have to hide the MacOS partition to boot my Windows?? I am not ready to switch to MacOS.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-172776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro_ Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Your Windows Partition start normally? I tryed do Dual-Boot, using this tutorial at Genius Bar, and not had success, but if your Windows partition be start normally you can install Acronis OS Selector and try boot from it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-172788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark.developer Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Hey HeMP, Actually there is no probs in booting there because its obvious when you select the "Apple Mac OSX" from the boot menu it returns to the windows boot menu actually the thing is that when you select the "Apple Mac OSX" option on your boot menu the Darwin boot loader(i.e. Mac OSX bootloader) loads but it quickly selects the "Windows" option in its menu(as the time out for Darwin is set to 0 by default) and you are there again where you started. Inorder to prevent this press "F8" key on your keyboard as you select the "Apple Mac OSX" boot option and after that select the second option that is for your Mac OSX.... Bye for now and if it works please do reply me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-172819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeMP Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 I did the other way: I used Acronis Partition Expert to make a primary unformatted partition, which type I set to 0xAF (ShagOS Warp - as it called in PartitionExpert, but it is an HFS+ type). After that I boot from MacOS install DVD, used DiscUtility to erase this partition. And installed my MacOS to this partition. When the second partition is on the other physical drive, I can set it to active - and chain0 booter works perfectly; but when both partitions are on the same drive, it doesnot boot at all, even if i set the MacOS partition active Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-172830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeMP Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 Hey HeMP, Actually there is no probs in booting there because its obvious when you select the "Apple Mac OSX" from the boot menu it returns to the windows boot menu actually the thing is that when you select the "Apple Mac OSX" option on your boot menu the Darwin boot loader(i.e. Mac OSX bootloader) loads but it quickly selects the "Windows" option in its menu(as the time out for Darwin is set to 0 by default) and you are there again where you started. Inorder to prevent this press "F8" key on your keyboard as you select the "Apple Mac OSX" boot option and after that select the second option that is for your Mac OSX.... Bye for now and if it works please do reply me. Well actually it started happening (two-time selection in the boot menu) after I used Vista for a while and uninstalled it (as you know, there's no uninstaller for MS Vista, so I had to manually delete the partition and erase MS Vista's boot loader). So also when I choose MS Win XP from my boot menu, another (just the same, but a little different) boot menu appears, and I have to choose again. When I choose MS Win XP both times, my Windows start normally. When I choose MacOS for the first time, the same menu appears. When i first select MS Win, and second select MacOS, i return to the first os selection menu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-172851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeMP Posted August 23, 2006 Author Share Posted August 23, 2006 Oh, yeah! I did it! It works! Double-boot with Acronis Boot Manager. =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23457-macos-boot-problems/#findComment-172965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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