kookitan Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 i was dual booting vista and xp... got osx on my 3rd partition.... it worked properly, i also could fress f8 and boot into xp... but vista never booted..... so i used my vista recovery disk and clicked on start up options. now i tried easy BCD, got the chain booting error... replaced the chain0 file and modified the boot.ini and still the same chian booting error. what am i doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kushaltan Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 i dunno what im doing wrong. im sure its a simple trick im missing out on.... vista and xp work perfectly bythemselves... osx works perfectly byitself. when i press f8 with the darwin bootloader. i can boot up only xp, vista gives me a booting error. i used windows recovery to get the vista bootloader. easy BCD keeps giving me a chain booting error. ive added the chain0 file to the root drives of c:(xp) and d:(vista) someone please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNZ Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Does chain0 also need to be on your D: drive? Since your startup drive is C: (by default), then chain0 should be there I would think. Have you amended boot.ini to include win on D: as an additional entry? I'm actually guessing here as I don't run Vista on my setup, but Mac OS X86 only has an entry in the boot.ini file on the C: drive (boot drive) of my PC and that allows me to access it even though it's on an entirely different drive (USB external). However, I'm not sure of my ground - I can't see the harm in modding the boot.ini file to include a phantom OS but I'd hate to hose your system. I hope this bumps your query so that somebody who knows what they're talking about will step up and answer your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts