jujubeanie21 Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Okay, I have OSX running on this machine. With the disc inside, it boots. No disc = no boot; get "HFS+ partition error" Through search, I tried/concluded this: -partition is AF -partition is active -I tried a few fdisk commands that were suggested to fix the mbr I have vista as part 1 and osx as part 2 on disk 1 (not 0). I really need to get this working, otherwise I can't dual boot since with the disc I won't get to the vista boot manager and without it just loops back. Any clues, please. Thank you very much. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 What is your multi-boot strategy? I mean, how did you plan on doing it? Does Vista still boot? hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-340406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeanie21 Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 I want to use Vista's loader, having added the OSX entry with EasyBCD. And yeah, Vista still boots when active. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-340590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeanie21 Posted April 6, 2007 Author Share Posted April 6, 2007 ...Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-341246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwagon Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 this is what i did, put in your dvd, hit F8 during boot then type -s for single user mode in sing user mode type fdisk -e /devrdisk0 flag 1 (if your osx is on partition 2 then replace 1 with 2) update write quit reboot boot should work fine then go into terminal sudo root fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 2 (windows partition) quit reboot now stick in your windows dvd, when it boots up boot from the dvd, and when it goes to install vista, click on repair reboot with osx dvd hit f8 boot into single user mode again -s fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit reboot worked for me, except i had to swap the 1 and 2's cause i have vista on partition one and osx on partition 2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-342047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujubeanie21 Posted April 8, 2007 Author Share Posted April 8, 2007 Yeah, I did that, but then for some reason I can't go into OSX via Vista's loader... /me thinks this is hopeless... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-342873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Cox Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Why don't you try using Darwin OS X Loader? It works for me with XP and OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-343065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpio123 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I have the exact same problem.. And if you use the DVD, you can't use the Darwin Bootloader..... And without the DVD, I get an HFS Partition error Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-343474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Cox Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I have installed my OS X from a DvD and now I'm selecting with Darwin, pressing F8 at startup, which OS I want to load. The trick that works for me is the partition order on the HD. The first partition is the Windows one and the second one is Mac. But I have selected to start with the Mac partition. :wink2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-343859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Your install of OS X may be too far down the hard drive to boot on its own. I ran into that problem on my install and finally resorted to getting an extra HDD so that I didn't have to fight with partitions and physical positioning on the disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-344071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marliwahoo Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I had the same problem and the below instructions worked for me. Follow EXACTLY !! http://dilnalomo.googlepages.com/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47518-small-yet-troubling-problem-with-osx/#findComment-344110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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