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Old 01-28-2010, 05:14 PM
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Dual Boot

What I found was definetly a problem with my install, BUT

My bios gives me the option of pressing <Esc> to get a boot menu, so I can pick a drive to boot off of. I like it cause I can now keep bootable CDs in my optical drive and not be concerned.

My configuration was:
Drive (A): NTFS Windows Vista. Totally unaware of the OS X drive, as it did not recognize the partition. 250 Gig SATA - 1 Partition
Drive (B): NTFS Data drive, non-bootable. 200 Gig ATA - 1 Partition.
Drive (C): HFS Tiger - Then Leopard. Would not boot on its own. With Chamelion 2 installed it would boot to the menu showing drive (A) (Booted Fine), (B) Didn't figure out how to remove it from the boot menu, low priority, and drive (C) (Would not boot) 60 Gig ATA - 1 Partition

I have learned that the problem was definetly the install. The partition got wiped do to my error, reinstalls failed, but told me the boot problem could be fixed. Its now a bootable Vista drive that is independant of drive (A) so I can do some massive networking experiments, and if I trash it, I still have a usuable computer for the family.

Tiger: G4 PowerPC Dual Core 400 Mhz w/640 MB RAM
20 Gig ATA HD all HFS+
Internal DVD
Access to Server
True Tiger

Leopard: Acer Intel Atom Dual [email protected] w/1 Gig Ram
160GB HD-133GB NTFS, 15.68GB HFS+
SD slot
No Net access
iDeneb 1.6 Lite

Compaq SR5710F [email protected] w/3 Gigs Ram
80 Gig ATA HD (NTFS - Vista)
200 Gig ATA HD (NTFS-Data)
Access to Server

Server: Compaq 1.8 Single Core Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
~2 TB online....
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