Multi / Tri - boot XP OS x86 Vista

[chadwicktr]

I am having issues after installing windows booting into OSX with this release: JaS.Mac.OS.X.10.4. 8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.S SE3.PPF.1.Defiant. diskutil.biker880. ich7-R.patch.Integ rated

 

I booted from the Jas DVD and formated my HD in three partions, first for XP, second for OSX, and third for Vista. Installation went great and I could boot fine into OSX.

 

Next, I installed XP on my first partion and then vista on my second.

 

Then, I booted into XP and copyed chain0 to my root drive (C:) and added C:\chain0="Mac OS X86" to my boot.ini.

 

Now, the vista boot menu as added OSX to the options. However, when I try and select OS X86 my screen just goes black and I return to hte vista boot menu. I am still able to boot into both XP and vista though.

 

I've not been able to find any threads concerning how to go about a multi boot of Vista, XP, and Mac that address this issue.

 

Is there any way I can fix this w/o totally restarting? thanks

[cbmkgd]

When you select osx (from your vista boot menu if i understand), control is given to the darwin bootloader, who will boot the active partition by default.

 

To remedy this you'll have to modify a certain file in osx: the (in)famous com.apple.Boot.plist.

 

First boot to osx: after you select osx from vista menu, press F8 as fast as you can to get the darwin boot menu. You'll then be able to select osx and boot on it.

Then follow the instructions from the Wiki's Tips&Tricks: Messing with the boot options, especially the section "Speed up Darwin's timeout count-down"; set also "Quiet boot" to "No". This will then give you the boot menu automatically to select osx.

Of course there's a redundancy, having two boot menus one after the other. A solution would be to only use the darwin bootloader.

[chadwicktr]

Thank you very much! I knew I had to change com.apple.Boot.plist to allow more time. BUT I didn't realize that was the symptom (going right back to windows boot menu after selecting x86), so I thought I had done something else wrong.

 

As to the redundancy (which isn't a huge deal to me), I assume this guide will work to use only darwin: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...rwin_Bootloader

 

Thanks again!

[BlueAvenue]

Assuming you have desktop tower,here is what the "cool" people do. Buy another hard drive and install it

in your tower.Make a Fat 32 partition and an ext3 partition on the new drive . Install PCLinuxOS 2007 on

the ext3 partition and choose the grub graphical boot loader. At this point you have a computer that boots

to the grub menu where you can choose either PCLinuxOS or Windows. Then install Mac OS X to the

Fat32 partition and choosing a new file system of course.After Mac Os X is installed , boot up into PCLinuxOS

and add this to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

title Mac_OS_X

root (hd1,1)

chainloader +1

(assuming you put Mac on the second partition)

 

So what have you got after all this? A computer that boots into one dive that contains two great operating systems and into another drive that contains two operating systems that are canon-fodder for every hijacker

and trojan on the internet. But heck, you got to have Windows to run DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink,right?

[chadwicktr]

Sorry but I'm running a thinkpad t60 widescreen w/ ATI x1400 and unfortunately the intel wireless that isn't support

 

hum... I followed http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...rwin_Bootloader and now I am getting an HFS+ Partition error...

 

back to searching the forums

[cbmkgd]

You could try reading the section Fix for the dreaded HFS+ Partition Error of that linked thread, following the first part only, making sure you use the right partitions. Like the wiki guide you followed, it sets the osx partition active, but maybe osx's fdisk will give better results.