dual boot on separate HDDs without fiddling with bios settings? - Page 4

thorazine74 · #31 10-22-2009, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by LaFemme69

Ok, this is what comes up when i 'diskutil list' in OS X Terminal

dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk0
1: Windows_NTFS HP 455.9 Gi disk0s1
2: Windows_NTFS FACTORY_IMAGE 9.9 Gi disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk1
1: Windows_NTFS Data 465.8 Gi disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk2
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Main 200.0 Gi disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS Data 731.1 Gi disk2s3

if that means anything to you 'coz it doesn't to me. LOL!!!

Katie

Well I think if you can boot Vista in AHCI mode it means you dont have any RAID array. I would keep SATA in that way, you should be able to boot both Vista & OS X in AHCI, by choosing the HD to boot in the BIOS menu, correct?

To fix the other problem you need to find out what partition are you booting from?
Check in Vista Disk Management, which partition is marked as "System" and which one is marked as "Boot". Do you see the one marked as "System" in Chameleon Boot menu? If not press F10 or TAB and see if you see it, thats the one you should choose there to boot Vista from Chameleon.
Check in OS X partition if you have a file named "boot" and a folder named "Extra" in the root directory. If they are there it means you are booting OS X from System partition, not from EFI partition, thats the partition you have to add in EasyBCD as OS X. And make sure you use EasyBCD 2.0 beta, I'm pretty sure the old version doesnt support many of the feature needed to do this kind of multibooting.

razy60 · #32 10-22-2009, 03:33 PM

Hi,

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I already have an image of my vista disk management but how do i post or attach on here??? LOL!!!

I am sure you click the image icon in the box at the top of the reply page then just use the browse button to find your image then follow the instructions.

Raz

LaFemme69 · #33 10-22-2009, 10:54 PM

ok. here we go.....hope this will help.

kate d.

razy60 · #34 10-25-2009, 05:25 PM

HI, looking at your management screen it looks ok, although you have 2 active partitions which i would only expect to see 1.
Could you post a few screen shots of easybcd.

Raz

LaFemme69 · #35 10-26-2009, 05:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorazine74

Well I think if you can boot Vista in AHCI mode it means you dont have any RAID array. I would keep SATA in that way, you should be able to boot both Vista & OS X in AHCI, by choosing the HD to boot in the BIOS menu, correct?

To fix the other problem you need to find out what partition are you booting from?
Check in Vista Disk Management, which partition is marked as "System" and which one is marked as "Boot". Do you see the one marked as "System" in Chameleon Boot menu? If not press F10 or TAB and see if you see it, thats the one you should choose there to boot Vista from Chameleon.
Check in OS X partition if you have a file named "boot" and a folder named "Extra" in the root directory. If they are there it means you are booting OS X from System partition, not from EFI partition, thats the partition you have to add in EasyBCD as OS X. And make sure you use EasyBCD 2.0 beta, I'm pretty sure the old version doesnt support many of the feature needed to do this kind of multibooting.

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

thorazine74 · #36 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.

LaFemme69 · #37 10-26-2009, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by thorazine74

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.

yes, that seems to be the case that vista is ONLY bootable under RAID and osx is ONLY bootable under AHCI coz no matter which combo of bios set up i have or how i set bootloader, DOES NOT seem to work.

(1) i've tried to install the kexts that you recommended and yet still doesn't work for osx to boot under RAID sata controller. unless i did it wrong. i just dl the kext and using OsX86Tools to install the kext.

(2) yes, i agree that reinstalling any OS is a B***H!!! lol! Unless I decide to install Windows 7 and crap Vista, since windows 7 is better. so would you insist that i install windows 7 under AHCI mode????

(3) in the meantimes before either reinstalling vista or fresh install of windows 7, i'll look @ the thread you gave me.

thank you so much for your help thus far.

katie d.

LaFemme69 · #38 10-26-2009, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorazine74

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.

just quickly looked @ the links you provided, seems easy enough and 'do-able' . will try tonight and get back to you......HOWEVER, if you don't hear from me for a week or so, PLEASE come and rescue me!!! lol.

katie.

razy60 · #39 10-26-2009, 05:38 PM

One thing i would add is that it may be better to partition your first drive so that vista and Osx are on the same drive then leave the other drives as ntfs, that way you get all the storage which is shareable to both systems, Just ensure that you install the ntfs kext to allow you to do this in OSx.
Also by installing both on one drive it will stop a lot of the problems you had.
I realise that it's maybe not what you intended but it is easier to do.

Raz

LaFemme69 · #40 10-27-2009, 02:05 PM

you guys ROCK!!!

Thorazine74: thank you for the links. so far, that solved the problem. Vista is capable of booting in AHCI mode but not always enabled, like mine so I had to enable it through Vista registry (from the links) before I can boot via AHCI. I've set the BIOS to AHCI mode and boot drive to OSX HDD, utilizing Chameleon dual-boot. so far, i've only tried to get into Vista and it WORKED!!!!! later tonight, i am gonna try to get into OSX from the same boot menu. I assume it would work since it worked before under the same BIOS settings.......I AM SO EXCITED!!!! THANK YOU!!!

my next step......triple boot with Windows 7!!

thank you razy60 and thorazine74.

katie