f^sh Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Hiya. Can I get some prompting on how to get this triple OS system going. PATA (160gig) = OSx86/AMD 10.4.9 Working, stable, beautiful. <-- Primary OS SATA1 (80gig) = WinXP. Previously only OS on this computer. <-- to be shelved SATA2 (80gig) = WinVista <-- Secondary OS So they are all installed at present and working. If I plug in the PATA then it boots to OSX. If I plug in the WinXP HD into SATA1 it boots, but have to remove the PATA disk. If I plug in the Vista HD while the XP HD is in, XP boots. Pull out the XP HD, Vista Boots. If I plug the VISTA HD into SATA1, blue screen. Plug it back into SATA2, all is good. I'd like to have all the disks plugged in at the same time , der, and will migrate my XP to the Vista segment (mainly used for games). Cheers for the following help. (EDIT: Looks like Windows boot loader may do it. But if anyone has a how-to on the Darwin loader then I would appreciate that. Or what works best) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63511-3-hard-disks-3-oss/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Since your drives are physically separated, you can use your BIOS as a boot manager. Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63511-3-hard-disks-3-oss/#findComment-449403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
f^sh Posted September 17, 2007 Author Share Posted September 17, 2007 That's too fiddley. Better way is a boot loader that you don't miss and only have to up-down arrow > enter = boot. Rather than, DEL find boot order etc, save reboot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63511-3-hard-disks-3-oss/#findComment-449414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Usually there is a button you can press at startup to open the BIOS boot menu. No need to actually GO INTO the bios configuration window. On my system it's F11. Check you BIOS manual since you may also have one. Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63511-3-hard-disks-3-oss/#findComment-449420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
f^sh Posted September 17, 2007 Author Share Posted September 17, 2007 Oh. I see. Cheers. Will look tonight. Socket AM2 Fatal1ty AN9 32X Yep. Sorted. Didn't see the HD priority list until last night. Using Vista bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63511-3-hard-disks-3-oss/#findComment-449427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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