Braveheart Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 is there a piece of software that will give me the choice of booting mac or pc. Ive tried gag with no joy. I have two hard drives, PC drive 0 and Mac Drive 1, I would like a bootloader that gives me the choice of whitch drive to boot from, Graphical if possible. Can anyone help? Appoligies i have posted this in the wrong Forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 is there a piece of software that will give me the choice of booting mac or pc.Ive tried gag with no joy. I have two hard drives, PC drive 0 and Mac Drive 1, I would like a bootloader that gives me the choice of whitch drive to boot from, Graphical if possible. Can anyone help? Appoligies i have posted this in the wrong Forum. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yes, wrong forum. grub and lilo work perfectly fine here. there is a guide in the wiki. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-4613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinx Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 yes, wrong forum. grub and lilo work perfectly fine here. there is a guide in the wiki. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> they dont work perfectly for me....... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 they dont work perfectly for me....... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> the reason is sitting in front of your monitor. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmoscow Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 In case of Windows you can copy a file called chain0 from the Tiger DVD to C:\ and add one line in the end of your boot.ini file, e.g.: c:\chain0="Mac OS 10.4.1" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinx Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 In case of Windows you can copy a file called chain0 from the Tiger DVD to C:\ and add one line in the end of your boot.ini file, e.g.: c:\chain0="Mac OS 10.4.1" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> that one doesnt work for me either "Chain boot load error" or whatever it is and what is that supposed to mean, dogbert? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braveheart Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 In case of Windows you can copy a file called chain0 from the Tiger DVD to C:\ and add one line in the end of your boot.ini file, e.g.: c:\chain0="Mac OS 10.4.1" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks for the reply, I done this a few days ago works perfect.... Thanks again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinx Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Thanks for the reply, I done this a few days ago works perfect....Thanks again <{POST_SNAPBACK}> im guessing this only works if the osx partition is sitting on the same drive as windows? because mine isnt and im having problems also had problems loading windows from grub due to different drives Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmoscow Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 im guessing this only works if the osx partition is sitting on the same drive as windows? I personally have two physical disks, one with Windows, another with MacOS. I can boot from both either by choosing the needed drive in BIOS, or by using the boot.ini file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinx Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I personally have two physical disks, one with Windows, another with MacOS. I can boot from both either by choosing the needed drive in BIOS, or by using the boot.ini file. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> this is genuinely odd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braveheart Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 this is genuinely odd <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have went back to having two phisical drives, 1 Mac 1 PC, But when i first done the chain0 boot trick it was on one phisical Drive patritioned PC/Mac. But it definatly works on both... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoebus Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 this is genuinely odd <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have three (parallel ATAPI) drives and a DVD burner, the chain0 method works flawlessly.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mareep2000 Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I use BootMagic, it was easy to setup. All i had to do was choose the partitions and it worked flawlessly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowdiver Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I use BootMagic, it was easy to setup. All i had to do was choose the partitions and it worked flawlessly <{POST_SNAPBACK}> what kind of install do you have? darwin bootloader or dvd-install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/770-boot-loader/#findComment-5942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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