clownshoes19 Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Mac OSX 10.4.3 8F1111A patched with Jas v4.2b ppf patch I was using 10.4.1 with the ntldr bootloader method. After I upgraded, the bootloader began to just refesh upon choosing to boot my osx. I updated the chain0 file with the chain0 from the DEV-DVD. I read that you have set the mac drive as active, but wouldn't that make it not load the win bootloader? When I set that partition as active I get "MBR error 1" after that I got that, I formated the partition and did a fresh install of 10.4.3. Then I tried the Archos bootloader which I hate and it at least got a HFS+ error. Seems that the Darwin bootloader is not set up correctly? Am I getting the same error with the win bootloader only it is not reporting it? I know that the Jas patch is not a patch released by this site, but would help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9140-dual-booting-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Yes, Chain0 is meant to live on your master drive, on the Windows partition which must be active. The Mac OS must be on the next hard drive in the chain, the slave on the primary channel assumedly. It cannot work with an OS X partition sharing disk platter real estate with Windows. It's just not that sophisticated. Chain0 also may have issues if the slave drive has more than 1 parition on it, especially if the first partition isn't OS X. Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 is pretty decent for a nice GUI multi-OS booter. It can save system files which apparently is important cuz some OSes want the MBR to look different from others, and so forth. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9140-dual-booting-help/#findComment-57151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 I agree. I'm using Acronis 9. It installs from the windows XP partition. During install of OSX it made life very easy -> all I had to do was boot into XP after installing OSX, and tell Acronis to make the bootloader (they call it OS Selector) to be active again, since OSX tinkered with my Master Boot Record. Plus it looks nicer than a non-GUI bootloader. Now, if only I could hack it to change the icon for Mac (it shows up as an 'unknown' icon) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9140-dual-booting-help/#findComment-57186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clownshoes19 Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 Thanks for the reply. I have tried Grub, NTLDR, Arconis and BootMagic. None work. NTLDR worked with 10.4.1. When I make my active partiton the Mac partiton I get "MBR error 1." I think the answer lies with that. I haven't changed anything in the partition table except change the active partiton. Should I format my MBR? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9140-dual-booting-help/#findComment-57480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 If all else fails, I know you can try to use the XP install CD to repair the MBR in the recovery option... I haven't used it enough to be able to help you with it though. Not sure what that would do to the OSX install, but might at least fix the XP side and let you try again... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9140-dual-booting-help/#findComment-57483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmono Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Just a comment on the Chain0 approach for dual booting. I have sucessfully triple booted my comp with WinXP, RedHat, and OS X 10.4.3. I have WinXP on my primary (c:) and RedHat & OSx86 on my secondary (d:) drive. I used the Chain0 approach for booting osx no prob. OSX is actually my 4th partition on the secondary drive. RedHat has the first 3 partitions (2 x ext and a swap) and OSX is 4th. Chain0 has no prob finding my osx install. PS - i use a "dd" approach to dump the first x bytes of my linux drive into a bin file which I placed on my primary drive to boot RedHat. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9140-dual-booting-help/#findComment-57935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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