stigma Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 Hi Guys, I have been trying to get dual booting with VISTA and OS X on my new setup (Gigabyte P35 DS4 + Intel q6600). I was trying to use Acronis, but after I install OS X, I no longer get the boot loader come up and it goes directly into OS X. Is it possible to fix the MBR and bring back the Boot loader? *note OS X works fine. My Partition looks like this C: - VISTA (NTFS) D: - OS X (was FAT32 Primary, now MAC Journaled after install) E: - Files & docs (NTFS) Installed OS X using JaS OS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 PPF2 Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imgeorge Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 I don't think you'll have to do anything to MBR. I think you have to modify com.apple.Boot.plist to set a timeout. In that way you should be able to see the option to boot to Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 I was trying to use Acronis, but after I install OS X, I no longer get the boot loader come up and it goes directly into OS X. Is it possible to fix the MBR and bring back the Boot loader? Try to see the darwin bootloader menu by pressing F8 as you boot in OSX: you might see a menu item (something like "other operating system") in the list, which could be your vista. If that works, do as the above user said so that you don't have to always press F8. More details here in the osx86 wiki. Otherwise, you could use the Acronis bootable cd (that you wisely created after you installed Acronis disk director) and reboot on it; then chose to reactivate OS Selector (aoss). You'll then have AOSS back, with osx as a boot option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneck Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 i would do a repair with vista so it boots.download "free' easybcd 1.6, run in vista then you can add systems you want to boot . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinK Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Hi Guys, I have been trying to get dual booting with VISTA and OS X on my new setup (Gigabyte P35 DS4 + Intel q6600). I was trying to use Acronis, but after I install OS X, I no longer get the boot loader come up and it goes directly into OS X. Is it possible to fix the MBR and bring back the Boot loader? *note OS X works fine. My Partition looks like this C: - VISTA (NTFS) D: - OS X (was FAT32 Primary, now MAC Journaled after install) E: - Files & docs (NTFS) Installed OS X using JaS OS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 PPF2 Cheers just like the guy above me said, you should use the vista install disk to get a command prompt, then using DISKPART just set the Vista partition as 'active' and vista should boot. if you created a multi boot file you should see the options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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