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Got a 60GB hard drive, vista installed first on 40GB, then install leopard on the 20GB partition. Install went well, rebooted and it will not boot OSX without the DVD in. I booted into vista and used easybcd to set up the dual boot. Also in easybcd I did the repair for Hfs+ partition. Which I got that error if I mad the OSX partition active via the terminal.. I boot the machine, get the dual boot screen option, but no leopard, unless the DVD is in. I am so close, can someone please help me. Also I used iAtkos v1.0i. Machine is a Dell Latitude. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

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Got a 60GB hard drive, vista installed first on 40GB, then install leopard on the 20GB partition. Install went well, rebooted and it will not boot OSX without the DVD in. I booted into vista and used easybcd to set up the dual boot. Also in easybcd I did the repair for Hfs+ partition. Which I got that error if I mad the OSX partition active via the terminal.. I boot the machine, get the dual boot screen option, but no leopard, unless the DVD is in. I am so close, can someone please help me. Also I used iAtkos v1.0i. Machine is a Dell Latitude. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Did you install the darwin boot loader?

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From all i know is you need to set the LEOPARD startup disk as active from the Utility menu.

 

I am not sure I understand, I went through the Darwin bootloader during setup and installed the preinstalled compiled EFi? Is this the same thing you are talking about wigworm?

 

Skyper When I do that and reboot, it gives me a HFS+ partition error...

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You're missing the bootloader code in the boot record of the OS X partition, so BCD has nothing to chainload to, if that makes any sense. (terminology may be off, I'm talking about the secondary boot thang :censored2: )

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You're missing the bootloader code in the boot record of the OS X partition, so BCD has nothing to chainload to, if that makes any sense. (terminology may be off, I'm talking about the secondary boot thang :censored2: )

 

 

How do I go about getting bootloader code in the boot record? Any ideas? I am very new to OS X..

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anyone?

 

Skyper and I were talking about two different things. But make sure you got both working before you can boot Leopard successfully.

 

I assume you know the installation procedure for iATKOS. When you install the darwin bootloader, make sure you give correct disk number and partition number. Your disk number should be 0 and your partition number should be 2 (Because you have one disk only and it's the second partition with Vista being the first).

 

Also, to flag your partition bootable, run this in terminal:

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX (where X is your disk number, here should be 0)

update (here update your MBR table)

flag 2 (flag your partition bootable, "2" means it's the second partition)

w (write the boot code)

q (quit)

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