Mariussx Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 I created a new topic about my problem, cause the old one (Mac can't format HDD) was solved. Now I install Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2] and everything goes ok (installed only Intel SSE2 SSE3 kernel (it didn't let to choose which one of them), but when Mac reboots my PC, it just loads Vista. I have 3 partitions on my Sata HDD: primary NTFS for Vista x64, Big one NTFS for all my stuff and a little HFS+ for Mac. Using Acronic OS Selector as my bootmanager. It just don't see any OS on Mac partition (tried to discover manualy as on bootable partition) and boots into Vista. I tried to boot up Mac DVD and through the Disk Utility or similar (don't remember exactly now) set Boot from Mac OS X 10.4.8 HDD (there was boot form DVD with the same name & boot from folder, which I selected) - no changes... Vista still is the only one available OS to boot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My hardware specs: BIOS : Phoenix Award Modular v6.00PG Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-945P-S3 F2 BIOS (updated from F1) CPU : Pentium 4 3.0Ghz EM64T HT OC @3.7Ghz MMX SSE2 SSE3 RAM : 2GB (A-Data 1Gb 667Mhz and Apacer 1Gb 667Mhz) dual channel interleaved GPU : Gigabyte 7300GT 256Mb 128bit HDD : 250Gb Sata2 Sound: Creative SB Audigy SE 7.1 and 7.1 onboard (Ceative I know wouldn't work) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariussx Posted June 10, 2007 Author Share Posted June 10, 2007 Anybody? Please help my, don't know how to solve this problem. Your help would be greatly appretaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolquasar Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Use OS Detector Wizard in Acronis OS Selector to manually detect ur Mac Partition for boot up make it d active partition, am usin quad boot Mac/XP/Vista/Linux usin Acronis OS Selector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariussx Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 coolquasar, I tried to detect manualy, but didn't choose to make Mac primary partition, cause it said, it would change my drives letters... And I'm afraid I'm not be able to boot any OS then... As OS selector is installed on C:\ with Vista. There did you install OS selector? BTW, I heard somewhere that it can be installed on let's say 100MB separate partition, don't know if it's true and for what reason should I do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 coolquasar, I tried to detect manualy, but didn't choose to make Mac primary partition, cause it said, it would change my drives letters... And I'm afraid I'm not be able to boot any OS then... As OS selector is installed on C:\ with Vista. There did you install OS selector? BTW, I heard somewhere that it can be installed on let's say 100MB separate partition, don't know if it's true and for what reason should I do that. I'm not using Vista at the moment, but I am triple booting with ubuntu and winxp. The warning about changing drive letters probably won't effect your vista setup as I doubt it will see your osx partition as a drive. At least it doesn't on winxp. And even if it did, you can simply go into my computer>disk management and change your drive letters back to what you want. I believe osx has to be installed on a primary partition in order to select os. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariussx Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 It is installed on a primary partition. No, I don't see Mac OS X partition under Vista as it's HFS+. Ok, so now I'll try to make it active partition, and do not get the unbootable PC If it doen't work, your help would be needed one more time... Thank you very much for helping me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyKelly Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Download this program call EasyBCD. There's a option let you insert a Mac OS X boot entry to your windows bootloader. Restart the PC and boot in to Mac! Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariussx Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 But I have Acronis OS Selector, which is bootloader... Ok, so should I deactivate Acronis OS Selector if I want to use the Vista's original modified with that program bootloader? Donwloaded and installed the program already, just don't know if I can use both Acronis and Vista bootloaders in case one don't work correctly. Thanx for advise anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariussx Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 The mothod with defaut Vista bootloader modification doesn't work, still boots only Vista. These are my settings: There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.Bootloader TimeOut: 30 seconds. Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Entry #1 Name: Microsoft Windows Vista BCD ID: {current} Drive: C:\ Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Windows Directory: \Windows Entry #2 Name: NST Mac OS X BCD ID: {79ebdb2a-1aa6-11dc-bf13-005056c00008} Drive: \Device\HarddiskVolume3\ Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr Though I noticed, when added Mac OS X in EasyBCD, that it says Mac OS X is on C:\ partition, but it was on other (without letter) partition, while Vista was on C:\. I then changed that not labbeled partition's labbel to G:\ with Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 and then in EasyBCD (in "Configure boot") changed partition where it thought was Mac OS X to G:\ (was C:\) Still doesn't boot Mac, only Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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