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Good afternoon,

 

I've been successfully using an inherited Gateway Core2 Duo machine as a Hackintosh running the latest 10.6.8, installed from retail. With just OSX on the machine, I was able to install the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] bootloader to boot into the OSX installation. I had some driver issues, but overall the machine is quite usable.

 

I decided to install the Windows 8 developer preview in a dual boot configuration. Can't find anyone that's tried it yet, to it is slightly uncharted territory. Windows 8 is very close to Windows 7 with regard to the driver model and boot process, so I figured it might work. Here's where I'm at:

 

- I have a GUID partition table with OSX and Windows 8 installed on partitions 1 and 2, respectively. (Partition 0 is the EFI boot partition)

- I have tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and Chameleon to provide dual boot functionality. Both behave the same way. They see the NTFS partition with Windows 8 (listed as FAT32), yet when I try to boot into it, I get an error: "Non-System Disk ...".

- When I issue the Win7/Win8 "bootrec /fixmbr" to restore the Windows boot loader, I am able to boot into Windows 8 just fine. With this configuration, I can use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to access my OSX installation. This is what I'm doing for now.

- I have tried using the Windows based BCD editor to "add" the OSX system via. tboot. When I create the entry by cloning the Windows based entry, I can get to the point where it shows up on the list under the WIndows based boot loader, but when selected, it just gives an error... and "file not found". When I create a new BCD entry (boot sector option), the entry just doesn't appear (this is the most common method I've found).

 

Sorry if this might be vague. So, I have OSX and Win 8 installed, but just can't get a single bootloader to work for accessing both. Any takers? ;)

 

Cheers!

-Sean

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