peterno3 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Hi. I'm trying to dualboot mac on my vista computer. After I'm done installing, mac will only boot up if the cd is in the drive. Otherwise it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left. I previously installed chain0 (and dont know how to get rid of it), if that could be causing the problem. Could someone help? thanks Intel® Core2 Duo CPU T7300 @2.00GHz NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlith Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Same prob here. I originally installed it with my vista laptop and was dual booting great. Then I mucked with a driver I shouldn't have and pooched the install and when I reinstalled it I developed this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish909 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Install leopard, then boot into Windows and use Acronis Disk Director Suite, then convert leopard partition to 'Primary', then set the Leopard partition as active, then in BIOS boot from the Leopard hard disk, then it should be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlith Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Install leopard, then boot into Windows and use Acronis Disk Director Suite, then convert leopard partition to 'Primary', then set the Leopard partition as active, then in BIOS boot from the Leopard hard disk, then it should be OK. Been there, done that. That ends up not being the prob. The prob it turns out is the 1st sector of the disk is data damaged. Simply use the disk utility to run 0's. You can cancel after a minute or 2. Then repartition and re-install. This is also confirmed by Dune31 (-DUNE-) Just found this This is what you get without the DVD inserted. Should work QUOTE(Dune31 @ Dec 23 2007, 11:19 PM) *For those with "blinking cursor" at boot.this is due to a damaged first sector on your HD (don't worry it isn't physical)I recomand you to erase the disk with zero(with diskutil). No need to wait to the end, just the first sector of the diskneed to be erased. after that , redo your partitions whatever GUID or MBR, and reinstall.Just found this This is what you get without the DVD inserted. Should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterno3 Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 so would that mean that i have to reinstall vista too, or am i just getting rid of the mac partition and zeroing that? i dont really want to have to redo windows if i dont have to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlith Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Considering it's part of the boot sector, you're running vista and osx on the same drive, you're gonna have to kill the whole drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterno3 Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 oh well, that stinks. thanks a lot though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshT Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Boot With Vista Install CD Choose Language Select Repair your Computer Your Vista Instalation will probley not be in this list clisk Next Now Select Command Prompt For Example My Vista Disk 0 partition is 1 OS X Disk 0 Partition 2 Type Diskpart Type list disk Type Select Disk 0 Type List Partition Type Select Partition 1 Type Set Active Type Exit "twice" Now Click "X" in the upper Right Corner Now Select Repair your Computer The utility should detect the Problem and offer to automaticaly repair Allow to restart Your Vista boot loader should apperar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterno3 Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 i've tried this, but it still does not allow me to boot into leo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatherless One Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I have the same issue I've been running Leo for almost 3 weeks and still boot from DVD disk drive, not even funny any more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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