Kinseek Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 I`m having some trouble configuring my triple boot. My HD is partioned as following: 1. Windows XP 2. Windows Vista 3. Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Leopard would not boot until I ran a script from the install DVD, which deleted and rewrote the MBR. After that Leopard would boot nicely. I figured I could simply restore windows functionality by running the Vista install DVD startup repair, but that would not do anything. I manually ran diskpart from the DVD and set "active" to partition 1 (the windows XP one, which has the boot files proper). I rebooted but got a file missing error from all three boot options, tried the vista startup repair again, which did some tinkering and then I could boot up Vista, which was a jumbled mess of DLL error since drive letters had been rearranged and I was pretty much forced to reinstall windows again. Basically Vista had become D: while first time around it was C. When you install Vista after XP, it will normally configure itself to be C:, so that both OS` are C: when booted, the way it should be. Upon reinstalling both windows` again, I used EasyBCD to add a boot option for leopard, but it just instantly reboots back to the vista bootloader (which was different before I launched the script from the leopard install dvd, where beforehand i would get the chain error). Anyone know whats up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72725-problems-with-triple-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpr1011 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 hit f8 right after selecting leopard then move down. you probably can edit the darwin bootloader to fix this problem. I`m having some trouble configuring my triple boot. My HD is partioned as following:1. Windows XP 2. Windows Vista 3. Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Leopard would not boot until I ran a script from the install DVD, which deleted and rewrote the MBR. After that Leopard would boot nicely. I figured I could simply restore windows functionality by running the Vista install DVD startup repair, but that would not do anything. I manually ran diskpart from the DVD and set "active" to partition 1 (the windows XP one, which has the boot files proper). I rebooted but got a file missing error from all three boot options, tried the vista startup repair again, which did some tinkering and then I could boot up Vista, which was a jumbled mess of DLL error since drive letters had been rearranged and I was pretty much forced to reinstall windows again. Basically Vista had become D: while first time around it was C. When you install Vista after XP, it will normally configure itself to be C:, so that both OS` are C: when booted, the way it should be. Upon reinstalling both windows` again, I used EasyBCD to add a boot option for leopard, but it just instantly reboots back to the vista bootloader (which was different before I launched the script from the leopard install dvd, where beforehand i would get the chain error). Anyone know whats up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72725-problems-with-triple-boot/#findComment-528492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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