binacaboy Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Okay i've tried installing 6 or 7 times now and I must be doing something terribly wrong. First off, here are my system specs: Asus P5N-E SLI 650i Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4ghz 4gb Corsair RAM 250 GB WD SATA HD - 2 partitions, 1 xp, 1 vista, vista being my main 80GB WD IDE HD - Reserved for leopard Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 256 First off Some Questions: I originally used this guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=83092 I'm using iATKOS V1.0i R2 EFI: Can I triple boot when using EFI? If thats the case do I use EasyBSD in Vista to do this or use Leopard somehow? Is there any advantage in terms of speed or stability to EFI as opposed to Darwin x86? If I do install EFI there are 3 options below the install, which ones should I check? Right now i have EFI installed on a MBR partition on my 80gb IDE. However when i boot to it it blinks blink the cursor in the top left. I changed the Boof flag to boot in Gparted but it still does nothing. If I try to access it via EasyBSD, it gives me a chain booting error. Do i need to use a different partition type or what? And then if all these questions are wrong or don't make sense i'll try Darwin x86, but what functionality am I losing. I know that was a lot of question, thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 EFi is apples version of the bios. EFI emulation emulated that on top of the bios. Darwin bootloader can run with EFI.. EFI is not a bootloader. With Darwin you choose the partition to boot.. wheter it be XP or Leopard. Once you boot leopard it loads the EFI emulation and boots Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binacaboy Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 does this mean i should install both darwin AND EFI? on iATKOS V1.0i R2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 IDK, can u install EFI on an Nforce chipset. Check it out.. there is a thread floating around for ur chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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