mdpauley Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 I have a dual boot setup with XP MCE and 8f1111. I just did a fresh 8f1111 after deleting my old deadmoo installation. I have chain0 in my boot.ini and now selecting OSX does not wrk anymore. I have to insert my bot disc and enter d=disk0s2 @ boot. Any ideas on how to get my system dual booting again? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdpauley Posted December 5, 2005 Author Share Posted December 5, 2005 Anyone? Do I need to include more info? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-34262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaiOSX Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 can you copy/paste your boot.ini content here ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-34265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WauloK Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 i had same problem worked in the 6gb partition restored that to a 16gb partition and repaired that one rebooted and darwin bootloader would boot either one deleted the 6gb one and now grub (which was booting darwin bootloader) says it doesnt know what to do with a partition AF (hex) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-34266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdpauley Posted December 5, 2005 Author Share Posted December 5, 2005 can you copy/paste your boot.ini content here ? [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect C:\chain0="OSX86" Also, my deadmoo install was dual boot also. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-34442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 Did you try to activate your OSX86 partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-34445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdpauley Posted December 6, 2005 Author Share Posted December 6, 2005 Did you try to activate your OSX86 partition? By activate to you mean make it the bootable partition? I did that and I don't get the option to load windows or OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-34461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rblissitt Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 (edited) OK, my AMD system was dual-booting just fine using chain0 in the boot.ini... OSX 10.4.3 was installed in the second (primary) partition on my PATA drive with XP on the first (also a primary). Then today I booted it in VMWare 5.5 from within XP (like I did to install it in the first place and run it the very first time) and now I can't boot native anymore. I don't know what I did, but all I did was run diskpart (without making any mods) and ran the installation in a VM. Now my AMD system does the same as my Intel: Whenever I'm in the XP boot menu and I select the chain0 entry created in my boot.ini, it just hesitates and returns me to the XP boot menu again. I suppose I could set the active partition to the OSX one, but I'd rather use the XP boot loader. Anyone know how I might get OSX back? I'm running 8f1099. Bollocks... -kat EDIT: If I select the OSX entry in my XP boot menu then immediately press F8, I access the OSX boot loader and then I can select and boot OSX. Trouble is, I want to give my mother the Intel system to get her exposed to OSX and she's not going to be able to move that fast. All she wants is a newer Windows box 'cause that's what she knows how to use, but I thought I might be able to tempt her to try 10.4.3 occasionally on the PC I'm giving her in the hopes she'll get an actual Mac next time, complete with software updates and relative safety from worms, viruses, etc... Edited December 12, 2005 by katapaltes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-36010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevesumner Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Sounds like I also have similar problems to the above. I basically followed Profit42 guide and installed Mac OS X86 to my second hard drive. Booted to Mac, did a restore, repair etc then rebooted and started OS X then in Darwin typed: "rd=disk(disk#)s(partition#) (in my case rd=disk0s4, and again: add -x if it doesn’t boot)" (Profit42 guide). I was able to boot into the new bigger drive so I then deleted the 6GB partition and could then no longer boot into Mac OS X. ( I guess I shouldn't have deleted the 6GB partition, eh ;-) but then I don't want to lose the space). One other thing was I was never able to use the Chain0 thing. I got Acronis OS Selector to work but now I have deleted the 6GB partition I can no longer boot Mac OS X. Does it make any difference if the temporary 6GB partition is not deleted but formatted to FAT32? or would this still stuff up the boot info? I will try to use diskpart to make my bigger partition with Mac OS X "active" and see if that helps tonight after work. Would still like some help with the ChainO thing if I can't get Acronis OS Selector to work again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-36024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
firehearth Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Nah, none of the Acronis, Grub or Boot ini work, I tried all of them, and had to reformat and start from point 0 on my deadmoo, does anyone know if we can move the apps and user folder to another partition? another BIGEER partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5379-chain0-problem-with-8f1111/#findComment-51017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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