malaka000 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 OK, first off, I hope I will not get flamed with replies telling me to search the forums, because I've searched and I can't seem to figure out how to fix my issues.Im running a Dell Inspiron e1705.Windows XPSSE2/SSE3Partitioned the HD with a 20gig drive for a leopard install with partition magic.Installed Leopard with Kalyways latest installer.Everything installed perfectly. Reboot, I get the b0 error.Reboot with DVD and I load up Leopard and it runs BEAUTIFULLY!When I reboot, I still have the b0 error, i have no choices of windows/leopard.If I try to load up with the DVD again, it goes into the installation, not into Leopard.I reinstalled, same thing happened. Got into it, loved it, restarted, dead.Where am i missing the part in the installer to activate the bootloader.Where am i missing the part in the installer where it lets me boot without the DVD?I've been messing with this for a week now and I'm getting frustrated, i would really appreciate a little help here. I'm still new to this scene, and I would love to learn more.If you have any questions for me about my setup, ask, ill be checking this often.UPDATE:fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (enter) update (enter)f 1 (enter)w (enter)q (enter)got me back into my windows partition. leopard is still installed on the other partition, i just need to be able to boot to it. how?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 i have that same lappy, got that same problem too.. i just gave up and install tiger. it worked with both jas and uphucks 10.4.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David86 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 95% sure you drive isnt set as active and bootable, inert the kaly cd and unmount the leopard disk the run these commands in terminal fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (enter) replace 0 with your drive number, unless it is 0 update (enter) f 1 (enter) replace 1 with the patition leopard is being installed or already installed on, if its not 1 w (enter) q ( enter) Remember this only works for mbr, and it will set the drive active and bootable ok didnt realize you already did this lol, where you type f 1, are u sure the 1 is for leopard or windows, and if the install is on 2 diffent drives set the leopard drive to boot in your bios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaka000 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 um. dont know why my post was squished into a paragraph...it was spaced out sorry for wall of text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaka000 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 david i typed f 1, actually it was flag 1, which set my active partition to my original (xp) partition, which allowed me to boot back into windows. 2 is leopard, but if i set it to that, i get the HFS+ Partition error. i just wish i could get darwin bootloader to work. doesnt seem to want to work for me. again, the leo install isnt working. its there. it should work, but doesnt. so irritated . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaka000 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 ok so after reinstalling a few times, and not knowing what the hell i was doing...i probably still dont i realized in the customize install option, you have to choose either MBR or GUID. i tried GUID and gave me the same issues. i tried MBR and it boots into osx without the dvd in the drive. now i just need to get into windows AS WELL!. getting closer!@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 ok Here is one method that will work: Make it so that you can boot into windows (not leopard). do the chain0 method: chain0 is a file located in /usr/standalone/i386 containing the x86 bootsector for Darwin. If you copy it over to the root of your Windows system partition (usually C:), it can be used to boot Mac OS X through Windows XP's boot selector by adding a line to boot.ini:C:\chain0="Mac OS X86" chain0 will locate the HFS+ partition and will proceed to boot from it. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malaka000 Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 everything works. didnt realize you only had like a split second to hit f8 to load up the darwin bootloader. both partitions boot! wooot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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