win7 and Osx 10.6.5 on 2 separate hard disk / boot

[Mikux]

Hello,

 

I find tons of threads for dual booting on 2 partitions.

 

but how to manage to boot when having 2 hard disk, 1 with OSX10.6.5 and the other with win7.

 

could someone send me the link to do it, i'm sure it was done before.

 

thx a lot

M

[Mikux]

nobody can help me on this?

 

is it possible to make it with chameleon or GRUB2 ?

[zuz_242]

Hello,

 

I find tons of threads for dual booting on 2 partitions.

 

but how to manage to boot when having 2 hard disk, 1 with OSX10.6.5 and the other with win7.

 

could someone send me the link to do it, i'm sure it was done before.

 

thx a lot

M

 

Well, it is even more easy that way because you can consider these two drives as totally indipendent from each other, eg each with its own bootloader.

switching between them can be done via bios boot menue (F12 on my gigabyte board), here i chose the disk to boot from (even osx from a usb medium works).

 

One step further would be booting from the osx disk and then using chameleon to boot into either osx or win on the other disk. here i am stuck at the moment as windows wont boot this way for me this way as there seem some bootfiles missing. but i have not searched for a solution yet ..

[Gringo Vermelho]

One step further would be booting from the osx disk and then using chameleon to boot into either osx or win on the other disk.

 

Booting Windows from a disk other than the one it's installed on will break hibernation.

[Mikux]

Thanks for replying.

 

I have the 10,6,5 on one disk with chamelon RC5 (i think it's this one)

on the other disk i have windows7 64 bits

 

I boot on the osx drive, and on the chameleon screen i can hold the process by touching one key and it shows me the Windows 7 disk, and I can boot it from there.

 

The thing is, that on my MB (Gigabyte X58 UDR3 rev2 bios: FB) i put the Apple system hard disk on Ahci mode and i put the Windows hard disk on IDE.

I think this is needed to have a good behavior of Windows and Osx

 

so this is, if I understand well, what you want to do zuz_242.

 

cheers

[Gringo Vermelho]

i put the Apple system hard disk on Ahci mode and i put the Windows hard disk on IDE

 

There's no need for that.

 

There are several guides and tutorials out there on how to switch Windows over to AHCI mode after it has been installed.

[mulcyber]

I installed SL first on one drive and then Win7 on the other drive. If you are primarily a Windows user that works because you can download free Easybcd and then add the OS X drive. If you are not used to doing this it is recommended to pull the power plug on one drive while you install to the other which requires opening the computer. Then pull the power plug after the Mac OS is installed and then install Windows. Then connect both drives and run Easybcd to add Os X. If you are careful you don't need to unhook any drives, but you need some experience to do it that way. If you get around to triple booting (Linux) install the grub to the boot sector not the MBR. Otherwise grub will overwrite your other boot loaders. I put SL and Ubuntu on the second hard drive (but I installed there first), because Windows likes to be on the first drive. Also I have all OS 64-bit and I installed them using AHCI; that works, I don't know if you must do it that way, I think the guide I used said to do it that way. Also you have to change HPET in bios. This is for more than 4GB or ram, otherwise 32 bit is Ok.

Read a couple of guides first.

[Crishbk]

I didn't want to create a new post so I'll ask here, sorry if this isn't the proper place to post it.

 

I have done the same as Mikux. I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu running on 2 partitions on 1 hard drive. I have another drive devoted to media and on the third drive I have Mac OS 10.6.5 with Chameleon RC5. I know I have to switch windows 7 to AHCI (maybe even ubuntu?), but I would like to know what is the next step when I plug in the Mac drive? I use GRUB2 as the bootloader for Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Do I just go into Ubuntu and upate GRUB? Or is there an extra step I need to take in order to make all 3 bootable?

 

Thanks for any answers and I apologize if this was the incorrect place to ask.

[Greenmead800]

I didn't want to create a new post so I'll ask here, sorry if this isn't the proper place to post it.

 

I have done the same as Mikux. I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu running on 2 partitions on 1 hard drive. I have another drive devoted to media and on the third drive I have Mac OS 10.6.5 with Chameleon RC5. I know I have to switch windows 7 to AHCI (maybe even ubuntu?), but I would like to know what is the next step when I plug in the Mac drive? I use GRUB2 as the bootloader for Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Do I just go into Ubuntu and upate GRUB? Or is there an extra step I need to take in order to make all 3 bootable?

 

Thanks for any answers and I apologize if this was the incorrect place to ask.

 

 

See the post above by mulcyber. He is sending you in the right direction. I also am running Tri-boot. I didn't need to unplug my drives or do anything of that nature but make sure that you install GRUB (I am using GRUB 2) to the partition that contains linux only and not the MBR. If GRUB is already installed on the MBR then you will need to remove/overwrite it and use the live CD to install on the Linux Partition only. You have to go into advanced options. (When I first set my system up I was booting all three through GRUB2.) Ultimately I changed things so that Chameleon now boots all three. (I changed because GRUB2 worked fine if I booted Snow in 32 bit mode but when I tried it in 64 it simply would not load up, perhaps there was another issue or a workaround.) Apparently from researching things, GRUB cannot load OSX64 properly only 32 bit. Anyway, Chameleon loads all three in 64 no troubles. (I am also running Linux64). With my system I set all drives to ACHI mode. Let us know how it goes for you.