Mackjenzie Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Hi, My goal is to dualboot Vista and Leopard OSX from one hd. What did I do yet? - downloaded "Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 OSx86" - burned "BrazilMAC's edition of Leopard" (4,37GB in size) on a single layer dvd - made a new 20GB partition on my maindrive and called it "Mac OSX" - installed app "Vistabootpro 3.3" What do I have to do next? I know there are a lot of tutorials, but I read also a lot of contradictions ... I hope you guys can help me out, and give me the best (and easiest) solution. Specs: Windows Vista Ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6700 nVidia nForce 590 SLI motherboard 2.048 MB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM 768 MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Thank you in advance, Mackjenzie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Hi, My goal is to dualboot Vista and Leopard OSX from one hd. What did I do yet? - downloaded "Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 OSx86" - burned "BrazilMAC's edition of Leopard" (4,37GB in size) on a single layer dvd - made a new 20GB partition on my maindrive and called it "Mac OSX" - installed app "Vistabootpro 3.3" What do I have to do next? I know there are a lot of tutorials, but I read also a lot of contradictions ... I hope you guys can help me out, and give me the best (and easiest) solution. Specs: Windows Vista Ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6700 nVidia nForce 590 SLI motherboard 2.048 MB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM 768 MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Thank you in advance, Mackjenzie What I have done on my laptop (the only one I am dual booting on same drive). I have Vista on partition one, Leopard from iAtkos r2 on partition 2 and a data partiton. I boot with Vista bootloader, choose os and away we go. For some reason, Darwin bootloader after a while stops working with Vista (Vista's fault). !!!! Very important !!!! BACKUP what you have, if you kill your Vista install, 90% chance this will happen, so !!!BACKUP!!! The booting issue is not as big a deal, and getting Leopard tweeked to full working. After OSX install, there is a little program for Winblows called "EasyBCD" that will help you setup your Vista bootloader. Vistaboot pro may do the same thing, not sure. If you can get yourself another hard drive, evan a small old one, you can be sure to keep your Vista intack while getting OSX working. Hope this was some help. Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackjenzie Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 BACKUP what you have, if you kill your Vista install, 90% chance this will happen, so !!! Holy {censored}! If you can get yourself another hard drive, evan a small old one, you can be sure to keep your Vista intack while getting OSX working. I'll better search a second hd then ! thank you for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Hi, Case in point: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry659370 Get you another HD, there are so cheep now, if you got an old one, 10gb is big enough to get osx working. Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackjenzie Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Thanks a lot Kenny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niakoue Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 this link worked for me. My install got Kaliway 10.5.1 + combp pack to 10.5.2 on the 2nd partition and Vista on the 1st partition: http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/20...bootloader.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackjenzie Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 Hi guys, I got myself a new harddisk, so I tried to install OS X. But ... when I say "boot from dvd-drive" ---> I get this message: "Selected boot device not available, press F1 to retry, press F2 for system setup" I tried F1 several times, ... no help! Please help me! Thanks in advance !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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maverickds Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 dude the guide dont work maybe a new link or a copy plzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffswims2win Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I tried to do the exact same thing, major problems. But I think I found something better! (in my opinion) At first after I installed Leopard (which seemed impossible but eventually I got it) I just decided to go straight into Leopard. The next day I decided I needed to do something in Windows. So, I selected my Windows NTFS partition in the Darwin Bootloader. I went to the Vista bootloader, and gave me an error. I decided it would just be easier to do this: 1) Boot into Leopard DVD, delete all partitions. 2) Make a 10GB MS-DOS file system partition (just name it blank, if you dont do this step, you will get errors) 3) Make the rest of your hard drive in HFS+ Journaled and give it whatever name you want, I named it Leopard. 4) Install Leopard on that partition. 5) Once in Leopard, download the trial for VMWare Fusion. (PM me for a keygen) 6) Install Windows Vista or XP in VMware Fusion. It did it for me in less than 2 minutes. 7) Bam! Now you have Windows INSIDE Leopard, and it works perfectly! If you want it full screen, you can just drag VMWare into a new space and hit full screen! I found this much much more effective and SO much easier. Just my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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