kerb Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Ok so a week or 2 ago I got Tiger running on my laptop with Vista on a primary partition, Tiger on another primary partition, and Vista's bootloader with chain0 to boot into Tiger. Everything worked fine. Then I got brazilmac's Leopard disc and wiped out the Tiger partition (reformatted with the same mac journalized settings again), and followed the "3 easy steps" to install Leopard. No errors. Rebooted and I get a blank screen with a blinking "_" cursor. Thinking it was a bootloader problem, I used my Vista disc to fix my boot again and followed the same instructions for adding chain0 to the Vista boot files that I did with Tiger, and now when I try to boot to Leopard I get the chain booting error. Any ideas of what I can try? Am I using chain0 incorrectly? Is it even compatible with Leopard? Does anyone have a working Vista/Leopard dual boot with brazilmac's image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcnor Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I've encountered the same issue. So I'll add my vote to a little help on this. -Falcnor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bu_Kandar83 Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I've encountered the same issue. So I'll add my vote to a little help on this. ME Too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thireus Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Hi, I have maybe what you need: http://rapidshare.com/files/67090217/tboot.html This is a modified version of chain0, replace chain0 by this file and it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerb Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 allright, i tried tboot instead of chain0, but now i get the hfs partition error instead. so i guess i'm looking at some sort of formatting issue, and now the question is why? i followed all the instructions step by step, twice... i guess i'll just have to keep trying different things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VacTacks11 Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 allright, i tried tboot instead of chain0, but now i get the hfs partition error instead. so i guess i'm looking at some sort of formatting issue, and now the question is why? i followed all the instructions step by step, twice... i guess i'll just have to keep trying different things. Give EasyBCD a try. It'll create a OS X (and other OS's entry in the Vista) bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sander122 Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I've got the same problem, I tried EasyBCD and adding the option manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerb Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 i gave easybcd a shot, but still no luck. chain booting error again. it's what i figured would happen, i mean easybcd just adds the same entry that i added manually. i'm pretty sure now that this is not a bootloader issue at all, especially since i tried going into diskpart and making my leopard partition active and still couldn't boot up. so that cuts the vista bootloader out altogether and means my leopard install itself is not bootable for some reason. i checked that the partition has the id type "AF" in diskpart, and then tried booting the leopard install disc again and running "fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0" from the terminal like i read in another post, but that didn't work either. at this point, not sure what else to try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thireus Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Hey guys, maybe you should read it: http://www.digitmemo.com/articles/658/howt...ot-setup-guide/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sander122 Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I can't patch because it does not boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerb Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 thireus, you're awesome! that was exactly what i needed. it's instructions for a different leopard image, so you can't follow all of it, but if you scroll down to the section on "The Bootfix Patch" and you download that patch and put it on a usb drive, and then boot up with the install disc and open up terminal to follow what it says, it works! or at least it worked for me. i've been playing around with leopard all morning, and surprisingly the sound and video worked right out of the box.. i'll try to get the network card working next by the way, using that bootfix patch rewrites your MBR, so it'll kill your windows loader if you're dual booting with the Vista bootloader. i'm going to have to do some searching and find out how to add Vista to the OSX bootloader instead for it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sander122 Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I used the flat image because I don't have dvd's at the moment.. Does anyone have a solution for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerb Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 so i'm writing this post through Safari! my network card works! here's my specs, if it helps anyone out... this all worked with brazilmac's image and patch with nothing extra- toshiba satellite m115-s3094 laptop Intel Core Duo Processor T2050 Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Intel PRO 100 VE Network Connection 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection 3945ABG (not working, haven't tried any drivers yet) about to work on the darwin bootloader to get vista up now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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