Weird Problems

[JustAnotherIdiot]

okay

I am having weird problems

 

FACT:- C DRIVE has Windows XP Installed (NTFS)

FACT:- F DRIVE has OS X Installed (OS X Journal)

FACT:- F DRIVE is Active

 

Now

problem number one is that the OS X doesn't boot without DVD i-e I have to have the DVD in the drive and wait until the installer done its counting (when it ask for f8 and options). Once its done counting it reads a bit of DVD and then start OS X which then work flawlessy

 

now thing is that I cant access my windows because that f8 option (for bootloader) doesn't work :S

and even if I set C DRIVE as active partition then windows doesnt boot and I get error saying "Error loading operating system" (something like that...dont exactly remember)

 

I really want it to go dual boot without fuss and offcourse want to boot OS X without DVD :S

 

any help will be appreciated

pardon me if these questions have been asked before

TIA

[JustAnotherIdiot]

looks like no one's interested in my problem :S

where all the genius ppl gone?

[Orea]

I will help, Use a live linux live cd to set the mac os partition to boot by itself, or ask it to boot windows, and then you can install, acronis os selector, this will then enable you to select which os you boot into!

 

Ok

 

BaYlisS

[JustAnotherIdiot]

thanks alot for your reply

but wouldnt it be nice if you cud tell in detail

TA

[captainsquash]

JAI - Would you mind telling me what you're using for your bootloader? I haven't had the best of luck with the MS win bootloader or the OS X bootloader alone. I used Acronis OS Selector, part of the Disk Director suite, seemed to work pretty well for me. It wasn't an ideal setup, I wanted to get it going with just OS X or windows bootloader, but I didn't really have much luck. I got tired of windows and now I boot only into OS X

 

Perhaps the bootloader is the problem.. I'm not entirely sure. It sounds like it might be the culprit though.

[anitanium]

JAI - Would you mind telling me what you're using for your bootloader? I haven't had the best of luck with the MS win bootloader or the OS X bootloader alone. I used Acronis OS Selector, part of the Disk Director suite, seemed to work pretty well for me. It wasn't an ideal setup, I wanted to get it going with just OS X or windows bootloader, but I didn't really have much luck. I got tired of windows and now I boot only into OS X

 

Perhaps the bootloader is the problem.. I'm not entirely sure. It sounds like it might be the culprit though.

i've used the osx bootloader with no problems (switching between windows and mac)

works quite well

[JustAnotherIdiot]

JAI - Would you mind telling me what you're using for your bootloader? I haven't had the best of luck with the MS win bootloader or the OS X bootloader alone. I used Acronis OS Selector, part of the Disk Director suite, seemed to work pretty well for me. It wasn't an ideal setup, I wanted to get it going with just OS X or windows bootloader, but I didn't really have much luck. I got tired of windows and now I boot only into OS X

 

Perhaps the bootloader is the problem.. I'm not entirely sure. It sounds like it might be the culprit though.

 

 

well i wasnt using anything that time

but I got through that problem now

solution for me was to

set C: active

boot with xp cd

remove OS partition

make a fat32 primary partition

install OSx again

 

now m using Acrnis aswell

but I tried windows bootloader with no luck

when i select OSx it comes back to the menu (dunno y)

but m gonna try Darwin bootloader now

see if works :S

wish me luck lol

[captainsquash]

Well I hope it works for you and I wish you good luck. I'm sure the Darwin bootloader would work, I just didn't want to bother with it, call me lazy

[JustAnotherIdiot]

haha

never came to the point to try darwin loader

apparently

I just changed the letters in boot.ini

like before i had C:\CHAIN0="Os X"

and i just changed them to small letters :S

and it all seems to work

I never thought and I still dont think that this was the problem of case sensitivity

well

atleast its working

BUT (yes another But)

when I select darwin I have to select my drive otherwise if i leave it to count it'll come back to OS selection menu and I THINK it has selects my C drive for darwin by default

so if i can change it to select OS X partition it could work pretty much flawlessy

but as I said

once i select os x and then select my OS x partition it boots without a trouble

and it is working fine with my duo core on :S

 

 

[boot loader]

;timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

timeout=15

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

C:\chain0="Mac OS x86"