kalaj Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I have 2 sata disk and install the Windows Vista and Xp in disk 1,Linux and Mac installed in disk 2.I use GRUB to boot the Linux and Mac,but I find it seems impossible to boot Vista by using GRUB (rootnoverify (hd1,0),chainloader +1),when boot the Vista the computer auto-restart. Any ideas?Thanks for any replies. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Dont use grub and stick with darwin, it will see all your installs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-259206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 Thnaks,I'll tyr it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-259210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 Can't work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 i suggest u to try a bootloader utility named BCDEasy 1.5 its freely available to download.. it can easily solve ur problems in minutes.. i mean it has the options to add the boot entries for Linux, older Windows OS and the Mac OS X... just an awesome utility.. just give it a shot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Dont use grub and stick with darwin, it will see all your installs. Odd... it never saw any install except for OS X for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I have 2 sata disk and install the Windows Vista and Xp in disk 1,Linux and Mac installed in disk 2.I use GRUB to boot the Linux and Mac,but I find it seems impossible to boot Vista by using GRUB (rootnoverify (hd1,0),chainloader +1),when boot the Vista the computer auto-restart.Any ideas?Thanks for any replies. For vista:rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 (if vista is on first disk, it should be (hd0,0); if your pc sees this as disk #2, then it's (hd1,0); make sure and find the one that works). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 I tried EasyBCD but it does not fix this. And I tried: rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 the screen turn into black and restart the computer without any error message. any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 to load vistas bootloader (Windows Boot Manager) u should have a NTFS active primary partition containgi a folder named " Boot " with the BCD data and other tools Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Odd... it never saw any install except for OS X for me. I have used Darwin loader to start Linux for as long as I've been installing natively and I can always boot to Windows from Darwin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 24, 2006 Author Share Posted December 24, 2006 I switch the disk I installed Vista as the boot first disk and I can boot in Vista.I want to make GRUB to boot the Mac ,Vista,and my Linux systems. Thanks for any ideas. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-260996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 So, ok, vista is installed on the second disk. So try mapping the drives in grub, so that vista's disk is like the first: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Read here about the map command. I hope this will help. Otherwise, would be good to give us the content of your menu.lst (at least the good parts) for your OS's. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-261015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 25, 2006 Author Share Posted December 25, 2006 Thanks for your everybody's help. map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 can not work too,with I boot,it fade black and restart. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-261325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Give us: 1) partition information of your disks (order of partitions, type of the partitions (primary, logical...), etc); 2) grub's menu.lst content (or grub.conf). 3) order in which you installed your windows (vista after or before xp?) (in particular, in which partition are vista's boot files?) [Regarding (3): if vista installed its boot files in xp's partition, then you'll need to direct grub to that partition to boot vista] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-261460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 29, 2006 Author Share Posted December 29, 2006 This is my "fdisk -l" command output: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2677 21502971 7 HPFS/NTFS *****************************(Installed Vista) /dev/sda2 2678 30514 223600702+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 2678 3982 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS ***************************(installed Windows Xp) /dev/sda6 3983 5287 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda7 5288 7837 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda8 7838 8474 5116671 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda9 8475 9749 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda10 9750 11699 15663343+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda11 11700 15651 31744408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda12 15652 19603 31744408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda13 19604 30476 87337341 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda14 30477 30514 305203+ b W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/sdb: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 1305 10482381 af Unknown *****************************(Installed Mac) /dev/sdb2 1306 19928 149589247+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 1306 2325 8193118+ af Unknown /dev/sdb6 2326 3727 11261533+ 83 Linux *******************************(Insatll linux) /dev/sdb7 3728 3885 1269103+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sdb8 4253 6524 18249808+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb9 6525 8436 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb10 8437 12005 28667961 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb11 12006 19883 63280003+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb12 19884 19928 361431 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdb13 3886 4252 2947896 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Grub install in MBR and set the /dev/sdb as the boot first disk in my BIOS.I isntalled the Vista after XP. Here is my grub.conf: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,5) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb6 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sdb default=0 timeout=500 #splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS-up (2.6.9-42.EL) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img title MAC Tiger rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Windows 5.1 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,5) savedefault chainloader +1 title Windows 6 root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your kind help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-263942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Where is vista's bootmgr file and boot folder? In vista's partition, or xp's? You said that if you boot from disk sda first, you can boot in vista (without grub). Which partition was active on that disk? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-264146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 29, 2006 Author Share Posted December 29, 2006 Vista's bootmgr file and boot folder in dev/sda1(vista's partition),boot vitsa,the dev/sda1 active. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-264261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 (edited) Right now, don't know what else to suggest. Check Linux forums elsewhere, there might be better suggestions/explanations. I had this problem once (vista beta), and the makeactive and map thing had solved it. [i shouldn't have asked you were your bootmgr and boot folders were: there was nowhere else for them to be ] Edited December 30, 2006 by cbmkgd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-264840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 (edited) [never mind] Edited December 30, 2006 by cbmkgd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-264849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalaj Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 Thanks cbmkgd all the same. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-265261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellius Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 So, after all is it possible to tirple-boot Vista, XP and OS X? I plan on installing Vista on my PC but your posts like killed my enthusiasm. I planned to do the following but don't know will it work? Mac OS Partition 1 - primary, active XP Partition Vista partition I want to use Darwin's boot manager as I find it perfect for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-276243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 His problem might be grub-specific (or not). Triple/multiboot has been done extensively by many here. Mileage vary. The plan you laid out above, with darwin loader, has been done. You'll only know if it works for you by trying. If you have problems after vista's install, there's a specific thread in the GeniusBar to correct it. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-276773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dash21 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 try using vistabootPRO it supports vista well, and i havent had a prob with it since Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36440-grub-boot-the-vista/#findComment-284505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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