homers Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Hi I asked this in the Multi boot section but got no replies and because I have fixed my OS Selector not working problem I thought I would ask here. OS selector is working so at start up it sees my Vista drive and Mac OS X drive. When I click Vista it boots fine but when I boot mac it comes up with a blinking "_". Before OS selector this problem still occured but I would have my mac drive on SATA 1 and have to boot from CD and it would then boot hard disk. How can i fix this problem so it will boot into mac in OS selector? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickll9009 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Ok this is 2 things you can do... 1- Boot off the Install DVD and let the countdown go down without pushing any buttons it should boot into the intro video and later setup 2- Go into windows- go to start then run ( if in vista just click in the box at the bottom of the start menu) and type diskpart now when the diskpart command prompt comes up type "list disk" ( no quotes) and press enter now type "select disk #-- where # is the disk os x is installed to) and hit enter- now type "list part" and hit enter now type "select partition # ( where # is the partition os x is on - usually flagged as an unknown type) now type "active" and hit enter now reboot and when you do that you will get the darwin bootloader - now when the timer is counting down hit any button and then use the arrow keys to select the OS you want to boot into and hit enter - Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Hi I tried the second option but all I get is MBR error 3 and then it goes into Vista again. I think the MBR error was due to Os selector trying to boot from a CD or something. I have disabled OS selector now but it still comes up Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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