McMevan Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 If someone can please let me know how to get osx to load without pressing f8 and selecting the drive every single time I would greatly appreciate it... Here are the things that I have tried already: Put the CHAIN0 file in windows directory and bcdedit with an entry that directs to load chain0 Added a boot.ini file that says c:\CHAIN0="Mac OSX Leopard" Used easyBCD and added a generic pc x86 entry Edited the mac file com.apple.boot.plist with <string>rd=rdisk0s3</string> None of these things have allowed me to boot without f8 and selecting the drive.... Just thought of something else too... When I installed and boot into Vista I got the winload missing error and then used the vista disk to "repair/restart" could this have something to do with it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lo-fi Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Dont think you can if you want vista as the default OS but if you want OSX as default its OK You should be able to repair your vista partition then set the partition that has OSX on it as active I could only do it with MBR and I think my OSX is on the first Partition but I cant check at the mo... PS I used 10.5.1 not 10.4. like it the post below.... This was from a macgeek tut: Step 1: Install OS X86 10.4.x on the second primary partition Step 2: Make the first primary partition active to install Vista Boot up OS X and in a terminal window, sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit reboot Step 3: Install Vista on the first primary partition Step 4: Restore OS X86 in the MBR Boot off JaS OS X86 dvd in single user mode (press F8 & type -s). At single user prompt, fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 2 update write quit reboot Step 5: Make the first partition active back to boot up Vista At this point OS X86 should boot up and in a terminal window, sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 quit reboot Step 6: Restore Vista on the MBR Upon reboot, Vista will show "\Window\system32\winload.exe" corrupted. Insert Vista disc & follow directions to recover. Reboot & check that Vista boots up fine. Step 7: Make second primary partition active to use Darwin Bootloader Boot off JaS OS X86 dvd in single user mode again (press F8 & type -s). At single user prompt, fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 2 quit reboot Search is your friend there are heaps or posts about this stuff Easier if you use 2 disks rather than 2 partitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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