Installing/Booting Another OS

some problems came to me using this process...

i followed everything to the T on the guide here and i am unable to boot into OSX. i do get the option but it wont boot. so i went to windows, opened up te disk manager and it says i have 38bg of 38gb avaliable on an unknown drive. i am assuming the unknown drive is the Leopard drive that windows cant read. but why after i spent 1.5 hours installing OSX it did not install, nor did it take up any space. other than the obvious 100% free space, why cant i boot? or is windows telling me incorrect info?

 

this is the error i get when i try to boot up OSX

 

what flags did you boot with (ie ... -v -f ect)

 

I finally got OS X installed and working, but now I can't boot into Windows. When I fire the machine up, I get to the X/Darwin thing asking me for boot options. If I pick the WIndows partition from there, it acts like it's booting and I get a screen with Windows name and logo, but it stalls from there. I am not sure how to install a bootloader, but I am thinking maybe if I use BootCamp after Ghosting the XP partition, and reapply it to the BC partition, OS X will handle the bootloader stuff for me. Is this correct?

Here's how it I got to where I am at...
- Formatted the drive to 1 partition using Windows XP HE installer disc, then installed XP.
- Used it like this for a few days till I got my iATKOS stuff downloaded.
- created a PartedMagic Live disc, booted off that and shrunk the Windows XP partition down, added a new partition which I made FAT32.
- Then booted off the iATKOS disc, used Disk Utility to format the new FAT32 partition to the typical OS X partion with Journaling. Finished the install and got it all working.

Is there some fix for the Windows thing maybe to make it boot, or should I try the bootcamp solution? Or a 3rd party bootloader?

 

have you tried booting windows into safe mode or any of its derivatives. Sounds like you changed the partionion map and windows didnt like it.

try safe mode if that doesnt work, try booting off the xp disc and running a rescue.

dave

 

Good idea. I will give it a try in a few!

Update... Safe Mode also got stuck at the "Windows XP" screen. Trying a recovery off the XP disc now...

Tried the recovery console, FIXMBR, didnt work.

Since I don't have any real anything on either the XP or OS X partition, I may end up just going at it fresh. AGAIN. Not what I want to do but they's the way the dices be rollin.

 

ya i had a similar issue. i setup 4 partitions in leopard installer and then ended up repartiotioning one of them thus throwing off the order and windows was fucked. i rolled the dices too.

now i have triple boot, with a share drive. just took a few tries.

dave

 

OK... let me go thru it so I know exactly what I am supposed to do since I have done it 3x tonight and failed.

In OS X, using Disk util, I format as 2 partitions, MBR, first for XP as Fat32, 2nd for OS X as HFS+ Journaled. Then, I boot up the XP installer, pick the fat32 partion. But, do I then use it as fat32 or can I makeit into an ntfs partiion? So far, if i change it, windows (after its first bit of installing when it wants toreboot) then no longer boots at all and all is hosed, makingme start over from scratch.

Can someone please post the details so this old and very tired man can do it right tomorrow? tnx

 

This is how I did it: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3192&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=10#p17145. It works fine. I started installing Windows in the first partition (it was the only one at that time) and then I added OSX on the second one. In this case, everything kept working fine, with Darwin as a bootloader.

 

vzr's method should work fine, even for the internal hd

 

I'll try it tonight I guess.

This installing, reinstalling is starting to become a ritual around here.

 

and someone knows how to edit the darwin boot loader, to correct my linpus? its appear but the number is incorrect (hd0,1).

 

from what i can tell, there is no way to edit chameleons boot order, not sure about pc_efiV8. do you know which bootloader you used?

 

chameleons, but im not sure, because I try many things before run well

 

Hey Alien,
Have you tried the method I described on my tutorial? I've done that on two aspire ones flawlessly now. Just install OS x and partition it with disk utility then restore your xp image onto the xp partition. Then, make the os x partition active through the command prompt in windows. Good luck!

 

Hey all,

I see that there are a lot of problems with booting OSX and another system. It took me a while to figure out, but I am currently running a triple boot of XP/OSX/Ubuntu, all working perfectly. The way I did it was by first having XP installed, then before I installed anything else I partitioned the hard drive into the sizes I wanted (I used Acronis Disc Director Suite). Next, I installed OSX on the second partition, the Darwin loader was able to pick up on both OSX and XP fine. Finally I installed Ubuntu on the third partition. The biggest problem I've seen people having is getting Grub loader to recognize OSX properly. You can follow the instructions that dfiore has on page 4 about installing chameleon, or there's a slightly simpler way that I found on a different forum. Grub loader wont boot the OSX partition properly if it is a higher number partition than Ubuntu. So if Ubuntu is sda3 and OSX is sda4 it wont boot, but if you install OSX on sda2 then Grub will be fine and boot straight to the Darwin loader, which gets you OSX no problem.

Hope this is able to help some of you out, let me know if you have any other questions

 

how did you get grub to boot to mac osx without the chameleon files. my ubuntu install is on sda6 and my osx is on sda2 and it wont load it without chameleon

dave

 

you still need to edit the grub script to add OSX as an option, just dont need to install chameleon. sorry forgot to mention that

 

do you have chameleon installed on the partition of osx and grub just calls the partition. as i currently have it, i have chameleon installed on the osx partiotion and the chameleon boot file called on (placed in linux /boot folder) from grub.

dave

 

i didnt use chameleon at all. when i select to boot to OSX from grub it just pulls up the darwin bootloader that's on the OSX partition