@antonehenry

“1. Try to run lspci in the command line. It should show all the devices. If it does not show the ethernet device, you may have a bad chip or your BIOS setting may be wrong. OX86Tools has lspci. 2. pfix may not work perfectly. I remember hav…”

“All set up. I can't get internet to work though. The realtek driver doesn't work it seems. I should specify for help. Tried to install realtek driver in ES2L kit, tried to use that other tool in original post, but don't know how to use it. …”

“All set up. I can't get internet to work though. The realtek driver doesn't work it seems.”

“EDIT::::: Wow, did this F up my hard drive. I can't find a good way to repartition my hard drive to reinstall windows 7. I even erased all of it via partion magic, disk utility, and windows 7 install cd. Nothing works at all. I can still in…”

“apparently using Disk Utility (OSX) or the Win7 install disc, you cannot format your partitions to install both operating systems on one hard drive. It's hating me right now. Next I will trying installing them on separate hard drives.”

“Here's a little followup hiccup I am having. When trying to boot up, I got a "operating system missing" error from my BIOS. So I have to repair windows via the install disc, then I can use windows' boot manager to select an operating system…”

“It's finally installing now. Problem I had... I updated my macbook to 10.6.0 from Tiger, which I was using to create the install on my external HDD. I had a partition made for Mac OS X already, reformatted it via Disk Utility during install…”

“I did. That didn't work initially, so I tried to use an external HDD.”

“Okay, thanks. Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't working for me. I finally got to boot from my external HDD, but it just got stuck. I had to create a partition in order to get that far, just unpartitioned space wouldn't boot from my external …”

“Thanks for the reply! Do you think I need to just do it on a seperate HDD than my windows 7 install? I wanted to do it on the same drive, just different partitions, but that doesn't seem to be working.”

“I can't boot from usb thumb drive, or a western digital mybook external hard drive. This is starting to drive me crazy. Neither will boot. It just goes straight into Windows 7 on my other partition. I tried to put both as first boot device …”