Purple Puppy Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I had Acronis OS Selector installed originally. However, after I installed OS X Tiger 10.4.8 (JaS Intel SSE3), somehow the windows bootloader and acronis os selector disappeared and I booted straight into Mac OS X. Now, how do I edit the boot loader from OS X? Either the Darwin Bootloader, Windows Bootloader, or Acronis OS Selector would work fine as long as I can dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X. We'll talk about Windows Vista later once the 4-6 weeks of shipping time is over. Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 (edited) if your MS install is on the same drive as mac edit your com.apple.Boot.plist in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ drag to the desktop and open in textedit: add this: <key>Timeout</key> <string>XX</string> (XX being how many seconds you want at boot selection screen) save it then drag back into /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ authenticate and replace when prompted. now open disk utility and repair permissions on you mac partition. now reboot and when wout get to the promt press any key now select your windows partition then ress enter and you should boot into windows. and if you select your mac partition and press enter you get mac. hope that helps. Edited February 13, 2007 by DiaboliK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-301502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 I appreciate the help, and I wish I could say that it worked, and I really was going to say that it worked, except that when I chose the partition on which Windows was installed, the Windows Vista bootloader (I have long, long ago formatted the vista partition but somehow the bootloader's sitll there) said that it could not find windows, whether I chose "earlier version of windows" or "windows vista"... I was wondering if it were safe to delete the Windows Vista bootloader, and if so, how? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-301532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 Is it just that nobody understood that previous post, or is nobody going to help me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 http://www.hmug.org/man/8/fdisk.php http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=148239 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 I don't see how that relates to the problem. I can boot into mac, but I cannot boot into Windows XP. I set the timeout for Darwin bootloader to 30 seconds, and during the timeout it lets me choose the Windows partition or the OSX partition. When I choose the Windows partition, the Windows Vista bootloader comes up and asks me to choose Partition C or D. I know that the path for D doesn't work (I formatted it long ago), so I select C. Then, it says that it cannot detect an OS in C:\. What the heck do I do now? Do I look at a guide telling me how to get 10.4.6 bootable on my computer? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan0204 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 (edited) I had the same problem with Acronis bootloader disappearing. If you have access to another computer, put Acronis on there and run bootable rescue media builder. It will create a boot cd that will let you re-activate the bootloader that you had installed before. Edited February 14, 2007 by ryan0204 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 Problem being I don't have another computer. Got another solution? Or at least a way to solve the corrupted boot path in the Windows bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan0204 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 are you able to burn a cd when you're in osx? if so I can upload the acronis boot cd image somewhere. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 (edited) The System Profiler says that the dvd burner's burning support is this: Burn support: Yes (unsupported) I assume that means it cannot burn a cd since it is not compatible with osx. BTW, it is a LG GSA H22N 18x burner. Got any drivers for that? Edited February 14, 2007 by Purple Puppy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-302459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 Nevertheless, could you send me (or upload) the cd image? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) Load your Vista or XP install disk and do fixboot or bootcfg from command prompt. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 Edited February 15, 2007 by joe75 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 will that prevent me from booting into osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova-prosp3kt Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 No, because when you rewrite the mbr with that method, you can boot into windows and reinstall acronis, or wingrub, or use chain0 or something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 I'll try that... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) It will probably break your mac boot, but you can then run osx install and do fdisk in terminal, use the links I added before Edited February 15, 2007 by joe75 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 ok. thanks everyone for the help and support! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-303457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted February 16, 2007 Author Share Posted February 16, 2007 I tried using the Windows XP disc, and unfortunately did something bad so that I couldn't boot to anything at all, hence I had to install Windows XP and Windows Vista over again. Luckily no data was lost. However, I had to delete the partition on which OSX was installed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-304755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard! Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Do you have anything for linux? I cannot make this group to find my Hackintosh partition. If linux (ubuntu) could find my Hackintosh partition, then I would be multy booting. Can someone post a tip? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-304762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dox Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Hi all @Purple Puppy maybe your problem was the active partition. simply download "ultimate boot cd", burn it, and boot from that, then select file system tools, then select the first tool you see (sorry, I don't remember!) and set your windows partition as active (or whatever you installed the boot manager in). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42169-boot-loader/#findComment-305560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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