tpmwr Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 I have been trying several methods for 2 days straight and CANNOT get this to dual-boot. I have 1 60GB drive in my laptop, it is set us like so: Partition 1 (50GB, Vista) Partition 2 (6GB, OSX) Unpartitioned Space (4GB, want to be XP) Vista was already installed, I installed OSX on second partition, OSX Install finished, attempted to boot OSX, then just froze at a black screen. I decided I would come back to that and get the multi-boot working first so I can access the internet to help me fix it. I put the vista disk in, then set the Vista partition to active. Vista boots. I copy chain0 to C: then do the bcdedit stuff. I reboot and the Vista bootloader shows: Microsoft Windows Vista Macintosh OS X I chose Macintosh OS X and the screen goes black for a second then brings me back to the Vista boot loader. I tried everything several more times same issue. So i proceeded to grab EasyBCD 1.6 and I reset my MBR to scratch and tried adding Generic X86 PC under Macintosh. Once again I reboot, once again Macintosh OS X is in the menu, and once again when i select it it flashes black then goes back to the Vista boot loader. Any suggestions? Thanks, Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangoria Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Personally I think using Acronis OS selector is the path of least resistance for multi OS installs, now or for the future. I'm a total noob to technical stuff, but it was easy installing triple OS system on my pc even for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpmwr Posted May 20, 2007 Author Share Posted May 20, 2007 I tried Acrona (version 8.0b) and it recognized Vista as XP and OSX as nothing. Is there a newer version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangoria Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 I'm using Acronis version 8. It doesn't know what osx is -- just that it is some unknown operating system, but it can still boot it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpmwr Posted May 20, 2007 Author Share Posted May 20, 2007 I found the problem is that it is going to the darwin bootloader and darwin is auto-selecting windows because it is the active partition. Any way around this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer Guru Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 You have to edit your Darwin menu file and set OS X as the default or else delete the Windows entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 You have to edit your Darwin menu file and set OS X as the default or else delete the Windows entry. Care to tell us what the Darwin menu file is called? As far as I know, you can set the OS X partition active through the terminal: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangoria Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 First thing I did was make a bunch of partitions on the first booting HD. I set aside like a 200 meg partition at the beginning of the HD as primary, active partition. Then I make partitions for windows, osx, linux, linux swap, etc all of which are primary partitions except swap. Then I installed windows, Then ubuntu with its grub loader. Then I use acronis boot selector to make boot menu for these two OS's. It will ask which OS the first 200 meg partition has or something towards the end. I choose windows xp. Acronis sets up the boot menu accordingly, and all works. Finally I install osx on last partition. After install I use acronis boot CD to update/repair/rebuild boot selector. I think acronis will ask again which OS the first 200meg partition belongs to -- i forget. I say windows xp again. Then I'm done. No editing this or that file or loading up any other {censored} to set this partition that or that partition this. This seems to be the easiest method of doing multiple OS's on the PC of all the methods I've ever read. I could install 100 more OS's on my HD doing the exact same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpmwr Posted May 20, 2007 Author Share Posted May 20, 2007 The problem I am having i from what I have read there is no way to edit the OSes or OS order in darwin through a config file. And if I set the apple partition as active the bootloader is going to start with darwin not vista, bringing me to OSX first, where as I want my computer to boot to vista nativly unless i tell it OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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