InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - dual boot on separate HDDs without fiddling with bios settings?

thorazine74 · 10-26-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by LaFemme69

i've posted my vista disk management.

to answer to your question, i CANNOT boot vista when the sata controller is set to AHCI. it seemed like it's booting but the pc reboots itself.

in the chameleon boot menu, all i see are MAIN (osx hdd), HP (1st partition), Recovery (2nd partition) and Data (the other hdd). I can only get into Main when i set my bios sata controller to AHCI and HP (vista) when i set sata controller to RAID.

katie

Ok the situation is like this:
Your Vista will only boot in RAID mode as it is.
Your OS X will only boot in AHCI mode as it is.
So you have several choices to fix that no-go:
- Keeping SATA in RAID mode and making OS X boot in RAID mode with the kexts from the thread I posted above, provided you installed the kexts correctly (permissions, ownership ok and rebuilding cache) it should work.
- Reinstalling Vista with the SATA in AHCI mode. With no RAID arrays this is the preferred setting as both Vista and OS X should boot without troubles. Involves formatting and reinstalling which can be a hassle
- You can also switch Vista from using Intel RAID Driver to Using MS AHCI Driver without reinstalling, see this for more info or google a bit. It involves a bit of registry editing and can be complicated a bit for a newbie.