Does anyone know how I can install Windows Vista and Leopard on the SAME hard drive. I created one NTFS partition for Vista (MBR) and one HFS+ Extended Journal Partition for Leopard with MBR as well. I selected the dual bootloader option in Zephyroth's release, but after install is completed, I get the following message: "Missing OS" (after restart). What should I do? Please let me know. Thanks.
I am able to access Leopard if I leave the DVD in the drive, and am also able to see my other two Windows partitions. (C drive and one spare partition I created for backup). However, I can't boot Mac OSX without a disk, and when trying to fixboot my Windows installation, Windows Installation CD tells me that my volume is corrupt or in a unknown format. Whar should I do?

Help would be very appreciated. Thanks.

i had osx running alongside xp/vista on one disk.
at first i installed it on an external usb disk (for easy testing)
and moved the partition later on the internal disk/partition.
to get it booting (as the bios boot selection dosnt work with partitions)
i used easybcd to add the partition to the (vista)bootloader.

i have no experience of how to install directly on the partition, but adding to
the bootloader should work.

btw:
the order bootloaders work should be as follows (correct me if wrong):
1. bios bootloader / preference - which disk
2. loader on first partition on that disk (in most cases win mbr) - lets choose specific partitions
(even on other disks)
3. local loader on that partition - may be the osx darwin bootloader

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Leopard 10.6.5 | Core i3 | Gigabyte H55M-USB3 | ATI 5770 | Coolermaster Cosmos

You should try EasyBCD in vista, it will let you select Generix X86 PC (something like that ) to add to the bootloader, which makes you able to dual boot vista and leopard.

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Mac+OS+X

There own howto

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Okay, I plan on following the below. Thanks man.

OS X Before Windows Vista

The most common setup for users looking to get OS running on their PCs involves a pre-existing OS X installation followed by a Windows Vista install. In this case, the computer boots into the Windows Vista bootloader, and does not have an option to boot into OS X.

1. Fire-up EasyBCD, and navigate to the "Add/Remove Entries" screen.
2. Select "Mac OS X" from the tabs at the top.
3. From the platform drop-down list, select "Generic x86 Hardware"
4. If you wish to change the name from the default "NST Mac OS X," you may do so now.
5. Select "Auto-configure Mac Settings" and then hit "Add Entry" to finish up.

You can now reboot your PC, and select "NST Mac OS X" (or whatever you chose to call it) from the Vista bootloader. OS X should begin to boot immediately.

Will this work for Windows XP?

i guess easybcd only works with vista installed because a sole xp installation boots
old style with boot.ini, ntldr etc. here you have to edit the ini. search wiki for dualboot
and chain0.

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Leopard 10.6.5 | Core i3 | Gigabyte H55M-USB3 | ATI 5770 | Coolermaster Cosmos

With Windows XP, I think it should still work because chain0 is supported. Isn't that so?

Leopard & Vista same HD with GUID


1. Boot into Leopard install dvd and open disk utility, click your HD you are makeing a Guid then click the partition tab click the drop down menu and select the number of partitions that you need, in my case i have used two, the first one for VISTA( Fat32), the second one for LEOPARD (Mac Os Extended (journaled)) then click options and select GUID, aply and reboot when it´s finished.

2. Boot into Vista install dvd and when you see the screen of disk selection, click the patición in fat32 and format in NTFS, then install Vista.

3. When vista finishes, boot into leopard DVD and install over the partition that you have created in the step 1.
Don´t forget select efi guid bootloader.

reboot and that´s all, you don´t need touch the Vista bootloader you´ll see Darwin with those options

- 1. hd (0,1)
- 2. hd (0,2) Foreign BOOT (VISTA)
- 3. hd (0,3) LEOPARD

Roisoft thanks, but for efi guid bootloader, I don't have that option in revision 2. What should I do? please let me know. thanks. =)