trav1085 Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I used to use Ubuntu with GRUB so I can easily boot into any OS I want to. But I recently removed linux as I don't need it as much. I have Vista Build 6000 and OS X86. Everytime I boot up It just goes to vista! I can't find any boot.cfg (even if logged in as admin). I don't know how to use bcdconfig.exe as it's very confusing. How do I manually edit the file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Welcome to Vista Hell, there's no more boot.ini and as you have said bcdedit is extremely hard to configure so what you can do is use your windows xp CD then when asking about enter to console shell for fix go ahead, then to FIXMBR, then reboot, now use your ubunto live DVD and fix your osx partitions and set this as booteable, then you should be able to use osx as bootloader for both Vista and OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I guess u ppl shud try BCDEasy 1.5 available for free just google it around.. this is the best BCD tool.which has capability of adding Linux and Mac partitions to the boot loader of Vista.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 BCDEasy 1.5 is a good idea, or you could use your osx install disk to get to terminal and do a fdisk, that should bring darwin up as your main menu and you can choose Vista or Mac. Since your using RTM you shouldn't have any problems with Vista by running fdisk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted November 24, 2006 Author Share Posted November 24, 2006 What? BCDEasy on google gives me 6 results of mostly {censored} sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=33624&st=0 , look to post 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 I tried BCDEasy, in Add/Remove Entries I added Mac OS X as Generic x86 PC but when I reboot it gives me the options, but choosing Mac OS X just goes back to the bootloader. The screen goes black for a second then loads the bootloader again. Also, everytime I choose Vista it goes in the smallest resolution available (640xsomething). Which I have to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 Something is screwing this up. I have just lost both of my optical drives, which are sonys (or sonies). They say there is a conflict with the drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 trav1085, whats the status Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 Both drives aren't detected, and I still can't get into OS X 86. But I decided that I'm going to format my drive, install Vista, then install Mac OS X86 again and use the darwin bootloader as I'm getting a new graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Good Luck, shout out if you have trouble's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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