stinger44 Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 I have researched galore and cannot find the solution to my problem. I have xp pro and installed 10.4.7 via vmware. Everything installed fine (chose the right opatches and stuff) and then installation completed and prompted for a reboot. At this time i figured it was necessary to actually boot osx. However I cannot??? I have installed acronis boot selector and only xp shows up???? I also have vista insalled on a seperate hd and that doersnt show up either. I have tried to add both the osx and vista partitions but acronis just says that no operating system was found. Thus I cannot boot into OSX any ideas? I have amd dual core 4600 ecs kn1sli 1gb ram geforce 7600gt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30045-dual-booting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Try this in Acronis: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=206477 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30045-dual-booting/#findComment-207919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Try this: Go to the Acronis boot window. Right-click on the Windows icon and select Copy. Right-click on this new copy and select Properties In General Properties, give the icon a new name In Partitions, click on the OSX partition and then click the Active box. Save it. Then double-click on this new icon. as per ramjet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30045-dual-booting/#findComment-207939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger44 Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 I did as you guys suggested......seemed a little weird because when i selected my xp and copied it the copying process took almost 15 minutes. After that I made sure that the OS X partition was selected as active and changed the name and icon. I booted from this new OS and it went to the same windows boot loader and thus win xp. I dont know if something may be wrong with my acronis??? Beacuse as i stated earlier I aslo have vista installed and it does not get detected by acronis either. The harddrives are detected obviously in the acronis menu and acronis denotes them as have a flag (which means that it detects some type of OS). However whenever I try to add a new OS thru the os detection wizard all i get is a message saying that no new os's were found.......? I just need a way to boot the parttion that OSX is installed on.....but sincce it is a diff partition on the same physical hd as my xp i cant just say to boot from primary HD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30045-dual-booting/#findComment-208064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Quick way: boot the install DVD. When it asks you to hit Enter or F8, press F8. Select your OSX partition and hit Enter. Slower way - set your OSX partition active. Use any Windows/Linux disk/partition utility or use Fdisk built into OSX: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30045-dual-booting/#findComment-208088 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 I myself am doing this at the moment installing 2003 server i dun wanna use fat32 cuz this is something I plan on using, so NTfS it is...... when its done next up to bat is resizing the partition or creating a 20gb partition for OSX I will update and let you know how it goes stinger Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30045-dual-booting/#findComment-208513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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