dual boot on separate HDDs without fiddling with bios settings? - Page 2

LaFemme69 · #11 10-01-2009, 03:41 AM

No, not yet. hopefully soon when i have the time to. I'll keep you guys posted.

thank you so much for all your help.

kate,

Quote:

Originally Posted by andr3as

Did you try the EasyBCD and add the MACOSX boot option???

LaFemme69 · #12 10-17-2009, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andr3as

Did you try the EasyBCD and add the MACOSX boot option???

hope you are still following this thread andr3as.....

i finally tried easyBCD and added the MACOSX boot but didn't work. when i checked the setting in easyBCD, i noticed that the MACOSX is listed in Drive C (same as windows) but in fact, it's in a different HDD.

also, would i have to set my bios to boot into vista os first?

thanx.

kd.

razy60 · #13 10-17-2009, 10:54 AM

Hi, when you say fiddle with your bios, do you mean go into it and change which HDD it starts from? or something else. It's just that whenever i have loaded a second OS into my PC that has 3 HDD's the boot always seems to be on the first HDD, unless i disconnect the drives-install-reconnect then when it starts i click F11(on my PC on the laptop its F12) then select which drive/OS i want.
As a suggestion do you have a copy of Gparted if not download it burn it to disc and run it as a live CD, it will then give you a good idea of what you have in your setup as far as HDD's and partitions go. I.e where boot is etc.

Raz

LaFemme69 · #14 10-17-2009, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by razy60

Hi, when you say fiddle with your bios, do you mean go into it and change which HDD it starts from? or something else. It's just that whenever i have loaded a second OS into my PC that has 3 HDD's the boot always seems to be on the first HDD, unless i disconnect the drives-install-reconnect then when it starts i click F11(on my PC on the laptop its F12) then select which drive/OS i want.
As a suggestion do you have a copy of Gparted if not download it burn it to disc and run it as a live CD, it will then give you a good idea of what you have in your setup as far as HDD's and partitions go. I.e where boot is etc.

Raz

I always set mine to boot up from the OSX HDD. i always have to go in BIOS and change my SATA setting, switching b/w RAID setting (for vista) and AHCI (for osx). Exit bios, reboot and go into my boot menu (by pressing ESC when booting) and select the appropriate OS that i want to boot up to, in accordance to what i selected in BIOS.

I've tried EasyBCD but it didn't work. like i said that in the setting of easyBCD, i noticed my osx is set to boot from C, same hdd as vista but it's not. it's on another hdd. how can i fix that?

thanx.

kd.

thorazine74 · #15 10-17-2009, 08:08 PM

I'm not sure but I think you cant use EasyBCD to chainload OS X from vista bootmgr when they are in different disks, maybe the 2.0 beta can do it, try it if you havent yet.

LaFemme69 · #16 10-18-2009, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorazine74

I'm not sure but I think you cant use EasyBCD to chainload OS X from vista bootmgr when they are in different disks, maybe the 2.0 beta can do it, try it if you havent yet.

thanx thorazine74. I'll see if i can find EasyBCD v2.0 beta. I think the latest one that i dl is 1.7....something.

it would be nice if i can set to boot from different drive.

would you recommend me setting my bios to boot from vista hdd?

kd.

razy60 · #17 10-18-2009, 01:44 PM

Could you post a screen shot of your disk management screen, it would help to see how your system is set up.

Raz

Edit:

Quote:

would you recommend me setting my bios to boot from vista hdd?

Yes

LaFemme69 · #18 10-19-2009, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by razy60

Could you post a screen shot of your disk management screen, it would help to see how your system is set up.

Raz

Edit: Yes

hi Razy60. disk management in windows or OSX? how do i go about doing it?

sorry, i am a newbie when it comes to computers.

LaFemme69 · #19 10-19-2009, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorazine74

I'm not sure but I think you cant use EasyBCD to chainload OS X from vista bootmgr when they are in different disks, maybe the 2.0 beta can do it, try it if you havent yet.

Thorzaine74, i've tried to install easybcd 2.0 beta but i still cannot change the drive for my mac os x.......

i hope there is a way to dual-boot post-installation coz i am not gonna be happy if i have to reinstall mac os x again to get dual-boot.....

thanx.

katie d.

thorazine74 · #20 10-20-2009, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaFemme69

I always set mine to boot up from the OSX HDD. i always have to go in BIOS and change my SATA setting, switching b/w RAID setting (for vista) and AHCI (for osx). Exit bios, reboot and go into my boot menu (by pressing ESC when booting) and select the appropriate OS that i want to boot up to, in accordance to what i selected in BIOS.

I overlooked this, you have 2 troubles mixed up:
1) Having to use the boot menu to select the main disk.
2) Having to switch the SATA mode between AHCI & RAID.

For 1) I dont know the solution, you should post the disk layout from both Windows & OS X, maybe someone has an idea. From Windows you type "Computer Management" in the search box and the console should open, then look for Disk Mmanagement, or even better (harder) use diskpart.exe command line. From OS X you can type "diskutil list" in Terminal.
From what I know you cant boot OS X from Windows boot manager in different disks.
When your OS X disk is primary, do you see the RAID partition in chameleon menu? If not I dont have any idea to fix it, apart from using another boot manager on top of both windows bootmgr and chameleon.
For 2) you may be able to boot OS X in RAID mode if you have an Intel ICH SATA chipset, using one of the legacy kexts posted here