xintel Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 OK, here's the story so far: I needed to test some software under OS X intel so I got my old 10.4.3 CD out and installed it. Install went fine. OS X booted the first time fine and I tried to boot windows using startup disk. That worked to. That's when I started having problems. After that, I couldn't get OS X to boot so I set the active partition using something that came with partition magic to make partition 2 active. I managed to boot OS X but now I can't get out of it. Startup disk only sees OS X, it doesn't see partition 1 - windows. Please help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 set the windows partition active, install the chain0 bootloader and ur set. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/#findComment-190743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xintel Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 Oh, I forgot to say: Whenever I try and boot windows it almost gets to the login screen (or somewhere around there, my XP load screen is broken - long story) and then it resets. I'm guessing this is something to do with the active partition thing. It was working fine before. Anyway, I tried (in terminal): fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0s1 > flag 1 but it doesn't seem to have done anything Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/#findComment-190750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 xp cd...recovery console...fix mbr Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/#findComment-190786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xintel Posted September 18, 2006 Author Share Posted September 18, 2006 Nope. No difference. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/#findComment-191001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 ultimate boot disc, try the boot manager in that....if that can't find it you probably did something irreversible Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/#findComment-191511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicko_029 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 xp cd...recovery console...fix mbr Try "fixboot". I had a same problem, but I was install first chain0, so I had backup... If that's not working, crate partition magic rescue diskettes and set the windows partition active... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/27936-im-stuck-in-os-x/#findComment-192057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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