harper Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Okay, so I booted from my OSX disk and erased my hdd. I created a 14.5gb partition for Mac and left the rest of the drive as free space, and it installed fine. I was running Mac for a few hours and then booted fom my XP disk. I set up a NTFS partition in the free space and installed XP. XP working fine. I then used a win98 bootdisk so I could run fdisk. I set the Mac partition as the active partition and got the following error message... Error loading operating system. I rebooted and set XP as active and I am now running XP. How can I get into Mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessem Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 i was having this same problem. I'm not positive on the cause (doing a google search didnt give me many relevant results) but what i ended up doing was formatted the drive again only this time using a full format, rather than the quick NTFS format in windows and the quick format in disk utility, and I also used a different FDISK utility to set the partition active although i would assume it was the format. The problem is i believe that error is related to windows and maybe some of your old MBR is still around causing problems. Best of luck, maybe someone else will be able to answer this question more clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightman Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 I got the same error on my system after I installed Xp and set the apple partion as active I no longer could boot into either OS. So what I did was use the release 1 install disk and when it was booted into the setup screen I went to the mac disk utility and told it to repair the disk. It found a couple of errors on it which it corrected. I rebooted and now everything is fine , I have the boot loader again to boot into either mac or XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harper Posted September 13, 2005 Author Share Posted September 13, 2005 I tried the disk repair utility, but it found no errors. I rebooted, and it went straight into XP as usual, no Darwin bootloader... how can I boot to Mac ? Is there no way to just restore the startup files needed, and would reinstalling MacOSX onto ths same partition work? That would obviously restore the boot files, but would it recognise my XP install so I can boot to that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightman Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Yea I Think that would work. On my first build I accidently killed my MAC OS when I changed a file then I could no longer get into the Mac OS but I could still boot into XP. I reinstalled the MAC OS on the mac partion and it restored the boot loader for MAC then I was still able to boot into both OS's as the darwin loader saw the both the mac and XP partions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apple fanboy Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Yeah, I had this same error too. Followed the instructions in the release one guide to the letter (I even dug out my WIN98SE bootable CD and used FDisk from that!!!) Tried to set the active partition a couple of times. Some one on this board suggested going into XP and running command line to fix the mbr. No joy. Finally I popped the OSX DVD back in and booted from it. OSX came up, (albeit in 800 x 600) and I repaired permisions and then I went into System Preferences, Startup Disk, and highlighted the correct disk (the one with osx on it.) Now it should boot into OSX everytime. If you want another op sys, press f8 when the bios screen disapears and you should get a menu with the other options on it. Good luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harper Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 excellent apple faboy - it worked! now to get my wlan card an sound working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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