Win 7 dual boot

[jujetto]

I wish install my first osx86 in my dell 9400 with windows 7.

I will partition the hard disk in two, I will install ideneb and I will have a new bootloader, Chameleon.

If the osx86 doesn't work or I will erase it because it is slow or something else, how I can return with to the windows 7 bootloader?

[M_97]

I prefer use the windows bootloader from the beginning, so you will not have problems with Chameleon.

 

When you boot in the Mac OS for the first time, reboot, insert a Windows 7 instalation disk and select "Recover computer", then "Command Line".

 

Then, use the following command: diskpart (yes, just this...just to start the diskpart application)

 

And THEN, use this commands:

 

DISKPART> list disk (displays the available HDD)

DISKPART> select disk n (select the disk which has windows installation)

DISKPART> list partition (list partitions on the selected disk)

DISKPART> select partition n (select the partition number where windows was previously installed)

DISKPART> active (sets partition active)

DISKPART> exit

 

Replace the "n" for the correct number.

 

This is the tutorial I've followed: http://www.taranfx.com/install-mac-os-x-le...s#ixzz1KO4IeO3G

[mulcyber]

I wish install my first osx86 in my dell 9400 with windows 7.

I will partition the hard disk in two, I will install ideneb and I will have a new bootloader, Chameleon.

If the osx86 doesn't work or I will erase it because it is slow or something else, how I can return with to the windows 7 bootloader?

 

http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/

Download choices are towards the bottom of the page. This is for Windows 7.

 

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vist...-disc-download/ This is for Vista, both x32 and x64.

In both cases use the command prompt for: bootsec.exe /fixmbr (and then enter)

 

Easybcd, the free Windows bootloader is flawed, it doesn't load all of com.apple.Boot.plist

That is your changes made to it in the /Extra folder, like adding <key>Default Partition</key>

 

If you start with Chameleon (your second partition), and boot Windows from Cham, then

hibernation for Windows doesn't work properly, but this is the safer method.

 

If you had two drives, the better way of doing this

In your Bios you can set it to boot from your first drive or your second and this method

has no flaws except it's time consuming. Many newer Bios use the F12 key or maybe another

to choose either of the drives to boot from. It gives you a screen where you can arrow down to

hard drives, and you pick the drive and thus the OS, first Windows, second SL.

 

http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6327&page=3 also page 2.

This is for the curious who haven't discovered the Easybcd limitation.

 

frbowen: "Computer guru, thanks for the updates! I look forward to rc5 integration, but for some (like myself), the default configuration of chameleon will not boot (hardware issues) so specific kexts, etc are necessary. Any possibility of that functionality finding its way into easybcd?"

 

Computer Guru responded: "frbowen, believe me, I would like nothing more. However, I have never received *any* help from the OSx86 community whenever I bring this topic up.

 

I have no problem writing the code to make it happen. I just need to know HOW to configure their bootloaders to look where I need them to. __________________

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, Director" [a developer for Easybcd]

 

Mulcyber: It took me two weeks to discover that the reason why my changes to com.apple.Boot.plist

weren't having any effect was because I was booting from Snow Leopard from the Easybcd menu. Once

I tried booting from the second drive/partition where/when Chameleon is installed to the MBR, boot0, the

changes to com.apple.Boot.plist all worked. If you read webpages 2 & 3 of the thread above, you can see why.

So you can try Easybcd later to see if it works; on some more apple compatible systems, it won't matter much.

But I suggest first getting Snow Leopard to work properly with Cham in the MBR. It should still have an option to

boot Windows; you can turn hibernation off. Oh, and download the repair disk before, in case you don't have one.

[jujetto]

Amazing answers! thanks!!