Higgins Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Hey everyone. I did a successful install of Kalyway's Leopard 10.5.1 last night and all went well.. atleast until i tried to get back into Vista. I wanted to have a dual boot on my laptop (OSX/Vista) like i had on my desktop (XP/Vista). After installing leopard i booted to the Vista install DVD to repair Vista's boot loader and be on my way. The installer couldnt find my Vista install.. so i said fine and went to reinstall it only to find that it "cant find a disk that meets the requirements of installation". I have a 120GB hard drive with a 90GB partition for Vista so space is not an issue. It even gives me that error after reformating my vista partition. Help me get Leopard get along with Vista! Thanks ~Higgins Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrpun Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 maybe you have to flag the vista partition as active/boot then the vista dvd should find it (at least that worked for me) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/#findComment-620862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lo-fi Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Just set your Vista partition as active again. Boot with vista install disc and choose repair then get to the cmd prompt. Now just use DISKPART to select the disc and then the partition and make active. ie list disk select disk 0 (or what ever disk) list partition select partition 0 (or which ever active done Then you can repair. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/#findComment-620910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Setting the Vista partition to active didnt change anything. Tried both Vista's DVD and Fdisk. I mean i've reformatted the partition and windows doesnt want to install to it even though it is a fresh partition. Would reformatting the entire HD, installing vista, installing kalyway, then installing a separate boot manager work? (such as GRUB or BootIT) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/#findComment-620914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Harrison Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I tried a XP/Vista/OSX86 setup before, and I tell you - don't even bother trying to make Vista & OSX86 coexist on the same hard drive. In Mac I got the relentless HFS+ partition error, and in Vista, Winload.exe was corrupted (as expected). So I tried repairing the Winload.exe, and it worked in repairing it, but Vista took 2 minutes to boot, and 5 more minutes to a login that continued until I was sent back to the login screen. So that didn't work. I tried reinstalling, and got the same problem you did- no suitable volumes to install. Vista doesn't like something about the way OSX86 works with the MBR, and it tells you about it. I was able to get them to work together by putting them on seperate hard drives (until I carelessly installed katana and bricked the whole setup). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/#findComment-620916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Yeah, harrison i believe it. Though since i've reformatted my laptop three times this week there no harm in reformatting AGAIN *sigh* Im going to try a boot loader.. Wait.. would Bootcamp work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/#findComment-620964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_mx Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Vista makes us work a lot more but its possinle to have OS X/Vista on the same partition. I had such partition scheme and it was working perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87269-help-dual-booting-kalyway-1051-and-vista/#findComment-642978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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