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Note Leopard 10.5 Chameleon / Boot-132 AHCI / SATA

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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@LaFemme69 Published 2009-11-11
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Leopard 10.5
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3,904 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2009-11-11 – 2009-11-13
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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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Field Note #1 @punk_zappa 2009-11-13 ↳ Re: @LaFemme69
@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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@LaFemme69Primary Author12009-11-11
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