Another MULTIBOOT issue
I successfully dual boot b/w OSX & Vista on separate HDDs with the help of Thorazine74 and razy60 (thread dual boot on separate HDDs without fiddling with bios settings). NOW, I am embarking on an attempt to TRIPLE boot, adding Windows 7…
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I successfully dual boot b/w OSX & Vista on separate HDDs with the help of Thorazine74 and razy60 (thread dual boot on separate HDDs without fiddling with bios settings →).
NOW, I am embarking on an attempt to TRIPLE boot, adding Windows 7 to the mix, on a 3rd HDD.
I was able to install windows 7 fine on another HDD (under AHCI controller mode). So now ALL my 3 OSs are installed under AHCI mode. My bios is set to AHCI SATA controller mode and booting into OSX HDD to utilize chameleon bootloader. My chameleon bootloader recognizes all 3 OSs. I have no problem when i select to load pc into either OSX or Vista but the problem is whenever I select windows 7, my pc boots into Windows vista.
I tried to install easybcd in both windows vista or 7, it doesn't work either. I don't think easybcd works under AHCI mode for the SATA controller because i don't recall seeing a dual boot option when I tried to boot into vista, since i mentioned earlier that i couldn't even load into windows 7 from chameleon bootloader. in order to boot into windows 7, i had to set my boot drive to windows 7 HDD. Even after doing that, windows 7 doesn't give me a dual boot b/w vista n 7 as set from easybcd. so i figure easybcd probably isn't compatible with AHCI.
what can i do?
kate
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@LaFemme69I tried to install easybcd in both windows vista or 7, it doesn't work either. I don't think easybcd works under AHCI mode for the SATA controller because i don't recall seeing a dual boot option when I tried to boot into vista, since i mentioned earlier that i couldn't even load into windows 7 from chameleon bootloader. in order to…
I can't really suggest anything that may help you but I'd say that EasyBCD works in AHCI mode.
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| @LaFemme69 | Primary Author | 1 | 2009-11-11 |
| @punk_zappa | Contributor | 1 | 2009-11-13 |