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Old 03-25-2008, 02:07 AM
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Thanks to you, roisoft, I can do this now. See you in a few minutes ;-)
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Old 03-25-2008, 03:48 AM
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I installed the Vista Bootloader, installed EasyBCD, repaired the Bootloader and tried to add OSx86 to the Boot-List. There were a MBR and a GUID/EFI option, but no GUID/Emulated-EFI option. EasyBCD said, I need a .efi-file from i386, but this file doesn't exist in my system. And the chain/chain0 mode doesn't work as I know already, because it's only for MBR. After Googling I experienced, that there's no way to add a GUID HDD to the Vista-MBR bootloader without OSx86-Vanilla.

Means: I have to change the Boot priority on every boot, when I want to start Windows (in german we say: Win<i>doof</i> - "doof" means "stupid"), but that's not very often.

Thanks guys for your help anyway,
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Old 03-25-2008, 01:48 PM
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Hi bud, sorry for the delay.

Don't know if this is any use to you but I found out I can go two ways to boot my XP/Vista.

1. F8 on boot and selecting HD with XP/Vista on it
2. pressing SHIFT while booting auto selects my XP/Vista HD. This one probably auto boots to the first HD.

So if the first option does not work try the second one. I'm using the Vista Bootloader of course. And my mobo is ASUS A8N SLI premium.

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Old 03-25-2008, 02:32 PM
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I'll try, thanks Snow.
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Old 03-25-2008, 05:35 PM
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Guys, you won't belive me, but I FOUND A WAY. After reading on InsanelyMac & Co, that it's not possible to add a GUID-OSx86 to a Windows-Bootloader, I got it working anyway. Short insctruction (I'll write a article on InfiniteMac later):

Go to your Leopard HDD /usr/standalone/i386/guid/ and copy the "boot0"-file to your Windows HDD root.
Then add following line to c:/boot.ini:

C:\boot0=Mac OS X Leopard

Greetings,
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Old 03-25-2008, 06:35 PM
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Congrats crawle, my way was making a minimal mbr partition into the windows drive with mach_kernel and this files, adding this flag into the boot.plist "rd=diskX" or "boot uuid=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"


but your way is more easy, thanks! )
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Old 03-25-2008, 06:48 PM
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Ah, also a nice technic ;-)
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Old 03-25-2008, 10:09 PM
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Thanks, may be that's why I was never able to get this working with XP, lol.



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