Dual Booting Vista & OSX86 - Active Partitions

[alieas]

Hello, I have been multi-booting OSX86 with xp and various *nix OS's for some time.

 

I have recently installed Vista. For the Vista installer to work correctly, I needed to change the active partition from OSX86 to Vista.

 

I have not yet tried to reboot into OSX (as my LILO is currently shot after the Vista install), but I am curious if I will be allowed to be into OSX without the partition being set to "active".

 

More importantly, I am wondering if there is a commercial bootloader (as opposed to Lilo) that will set the partition as active just prior to booting it. Has anyone heard of a product like this?

 

 

Thanks much,

 

-Joe

[cbmkgd]

After installing Vista, you could make the osx partition active again, using darwin bootloader to chose between osx and vista.

 

There's grub that can make a partition active before booting on it; standalone version is wingrub for example (tho never used it myself).

 

There's also Acronis OS Selector, non-free, with appropriate hack to make it recognize and boot vista.

 

I'd try darwin booloader first.

[alieas]

Ok cool, I'm sure its possible. I will try it all out tonight and let everybody know the solution!

[DS]

I've been using Smart BootManager since the beginning of all this, never had any problems with it. Works great with Vista, auto active settings, auto hiding if you want that, etc.

 

http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html