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can we incorporate the new i7 compatible 9.7.0 Vanilla Kernel into this?

 

What method could we use to install this?

 

Im thinking this would work fine right?

here or here

 

The system.kext could just go into the extensions folder and then just correct permissions too right?

 

thanks

 

buhgock.

 

I've tried a couple of times to get my install working with the new kernel, so far I've had no luck.

 

I have some free time today though, so will try a few options that I've yet to try.

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I did not do anything other than filled all banks with 12 GB total. I think you have to put memory in 3's. So if you have 2GB sticks than the minimum should be 6 GB (3 sticks).

 

Random question, what voltage does your ram run at? Mine runs at 1.65 and i read somewhere that OSX doesn't like ram under 1.80? No idea why but I'll try anything at this point.

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Random question, what voltage does your ram run at? Mine runs at 1.65 and i read somewhere that OSX doesn't like ram under 1.80? No idea why but I'll try anything at this point.

 

MacOS has no insight into RAM voltage ...

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OK had a play with (Software) RAID on my setup today.

 

Installed 2 x 80gig drives on ports SATA 3 & 4

 

And used Diskutil to make a raid set.

 

Clicked RAID

 

RAID Set name = RAID Set

Volume format = Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

RAID Type = Striped RAID Set

 

Dragged and dropped both 80 gig drives into the window

Clicked Create

 

=========

FAILED

=========

 

No matter what I tried (Stripe / Mirror / Concatenated Disk Set) it failed every time with bringing the raid set online

 

It would partition the drives

add the boot stuff

give the Raid set a UUID

but the Bringing Raid set online would bomb out

 

Creating RAID set failed

Creating RAID set failed with the error:

Could not find RAID.

 

 

Tried copying these kexts to the EFI partition

AppleRAID.kext

AppleStorageDrivers.kext

IOBDStorageFamily.kext

IOStorageFamily.kext

 

re-ran update.sh

 

Rebooted and tried again.

 

Straight away RAID creation worked and I tried copying some files over and deleting etc.

 

worked.

 

Then I deleted the RAID set

and tried to make it again

 

It did the same thing...failed at bringing RAID set online

 

Deleted the raid set again and partitioned the drives seperately and no problems they mounted on the desktop...

 

Did some more sniffing in the extensions folder for what looked like HDD drivers (kexts) etc

 

found IOAHCIFamily.kext

 

copied that over to EFI partition, re-ran update.sh

 

rebooted

 

GOT a stop sign

the Disk you inserted was not readable by this computer

Initialize / Ignore / Eject

 

Left the message alone, and it disappeared!!

 

Opened Diskutil and the raid set I made earlier is there WTF? What happened to my individual drives and partitions?

 

So I deleted the RAID set again, and created a new one....

and it is working again ?? huh?

 

Mounts and I can copy files around again etc....

 

Deleted the RAID set

 

and made it again... still works,...

 

So either the last file

IOAHCIFamily.kext

to the EFI partition fixed the problem

 

or it's just that RAID is buggy on this system

 

I will let it go for a while and see if the RAID strip I made fails in the near future

 

any one else got (software) RAID working or had the same issues?

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Try this image. The original image posted in this thread did not work for me. I had to modify it a little bit. I don't recall what exactly I did change but it works like a charm for my P6T Deluxe V2.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/l20hyygzwfl/...DFE-146-BUM.dmg

 

well no luck with this and the other image posted on page 8.

 

I guess I will really remove some of my 12GB with most things short of building a new slimboot image tried.

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MacOS has no insight into RAM voltage ...

 

Ya, I thought it was a long shot.

 

So my current situation is this:

I have a retail 10.5.6

i7 920

p6t deluxe v2

3 x 2Gb OCZ 12800 Platinum

 

When i tried to use this guide, I could get into the installation screen but it would freeze after 1 or 2 minutes. Many nights spent searching through boards to no avail. Finally I removed two sticks of ram and disabled every CPU setting in the BIOS for a lark and behold, it installs with no freezing! I

continue with the guide (everything accept the 10.5.6 update), and everything runs like a charm. I have 4 cores+ HT, my GTS 250 and network are up (haven't bothered with the sounds yet). The machine runs great! However, whenever I install the rest of the ram, as soon as I try to boot again it freezes (will put a screen shot in later) during the initialization. I've been able to run Vista 64 with all ram in and everything looks fine from a hardware standpoint. Another head scratcher, I can install iPC 10.5.6 final without freezing and with all of the ram in.

 

I know that many other people who have been trying to install 10.5.6 retail have had this freezing issue so hopefully this can help them as well.

 

Does anyone know what difference between retail 10.5.6 and iPC 10.5.6 would affect this? Any other insight??

 

Thanks in advanced.

 

EDIT

 

I reinstalled using the guide with the 3 sticks of RAM installed AND all CPU options in the BIOS set to DISABLED and it worked like a charm. I don't know why i wasn't able to add the RAM post install but I'm also new to Mac's.

 

FOR ALL V2 OWNERS, DISABLE ALL CPU OPTIONS FOR THIS GUIDE TO WORK

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well no luck with this and the other image posted on page 8.

 

I guess I will really remove some of my 12GB with most things short of building a new slimboot image tried.

 

pls. disregard this and my other previous post - while I still don't have it go into the installer this is more of a rtfm issue

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I've tried a couple of times to get my install working with the new kernel, so far I've had no luck.

 

I have some free time today though, so will try a few options that I've yet to try.

 

i also tried this and no luck. All i get is a kernel panic with reference to xnu and unhandled cpu instructions.

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many hours in the meantime and no success to get into the installer:

 

Current issue:

 

rd(0,1)/mach_kernel.voodoo busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk1s3

 

leads to the common "still waiting for boot device"

 

I am positively sure that the install files on the retail dvd are on target 3, and the bsd device/grub disk is disk1 (having 1 sata hd and 1 sata dvd)

 

Just can not get past it.

 

 

Configuration:

 

 

P6T Deluxe V2

920

2 Gig (reduced from 12)

all bios cpu options disabled

9800GT

HD SATA channel 1

DVD SATA channel 2

Retail 10.5.6 (tried 10.5.5 shipped with my mac book, 10.4 with mac pro both leading to kernel panics)

132 slimboot from the first forum page (tried others also)

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many hours in the meantime and no success to get into the installer:

 

Current issue:

 

rd(0,1)/mach_kernel.voodoo busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk1s3

 

leads to the common "still waiting for boot device"

 

I am positively sure that the install files on the retail dvd are on target 3, and the bsd device/grub disk is disk1 (having 1 sata hd and 1 sata dvd)

 

Just can not get past it.

 

 

Configuration:

 

 

P6T Deluxe V2

920

2 Gig (reduced from 12)

all bios cpu options disabled

9800GT

HD SATA channel 1

DVD SATA channel 2

Retail 10.5.6 (tried 10.5.5 shipped with my mac book, 10.4 with mac pro both leading to kernel panics)

132 slimboot from the first forum page (tried others also)

 

are you connecting the sata to the intel sata?

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I spent a lot of time with the "still waiting on root" problem and the way I got over it was to use an external USB DVD drive. I don't know why it worked but it did for me.

 

From what I can tell, if you get that error during installation, it can't find your DVD. I used 10.5.6 as well and for me it was disk1s3. try different values like disk0s3 or disk2s3. Also, if you still are using you SATA DVD, try different ports for the DVD (2, 3, 6) and leave the HDD on port 1.

 

Also, for me, for some reason when I installed without all of my ram in it wouldn't recognize it when I installed the rest after the install. If you are using the V2 just make sure that all CPU options are off (and that the RAM is compatible with the mobo).

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I spent a lot of time with the "still waiting on root" problem and the way I got over it was to use an external USB DVD drive. I don't know why it worked but it did for me.

 

From what I can tell, if you get that error during installation, it can't find your DVD. I used 10.5.6 as well and for me it was disk1s3. try different values like disk0s3 or disk2s3. Also, if you still are using you SATA DVD, try different ports for the DVD (2, 3, 6) and leave the HDD on port 1.

 

Also, for me, for some reason when I installed without all of my ram in it wouldn't recognize it when I installed the rest after the install. If you are using the V2 just make sure that all CPU options are off (and that the RAM is compatible with the mobo).

 

will try to put the DVD on a hd partition and go from there and/or marvell sata.

 

the kernel it boots of the 132 cd is fine with the DVD - it reads the kexts off of it before invoking the kernel of the install instance. Can't tell which root device it is waiting for then - might also be the hd. I had also put the DVD on a USB stick but could not yet find a 132 that tells GRUB about the usb device.

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having the os on an hd speeds up the experimentation environment quite a bit - no need to change disks. Prior to reading the darwin boot options documentation below which ambiguously explains what the rd parameter should mean, I got the following results:

 

sata port 1 disk0 seagate 1.5TB to-be boot disk

sata port 2 disk1 hd with 10.5.6 parition

sata port 5 DVD

 

assuming rd should point to the install media image:

 

0s2 kernel panic

0s3 kernel panic

0s5 gui with no disc symbol

 

assuming rd should point to the target hd:

 

1s2 still waiting for root device

1s3 still waiting for root device

1s5 still waiting for root device

 

 

 

darwin boot options

> rd= this parameter state what is the boot disk to use (instead of using the boot menu appearing before the prompt) you state the drive and partition in the pattern: diskXsY where X stands for the disk number (first disk (usually primary master in IDE) 0 second disk is 1 etc.) and Y stands for the partition on that disk starting with 1 as the first partition, so if you have one disk and one partition the parameter will look like this: rd=disk0s1

 

whereby

> Disks start at 0

partitions start at 1

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having the os on an hd speeds up the experimentation environment quite a bit - no need to change disks. Prior to reading the darwin boot options documentation below which ambiguously explains what the rd parameter should mean, I got the following results:

 

sata port 1 disk0 seagate 1.5TB to-be boot disk

sata port 2 disk1 hd with 10.5.6 parition

sata port 5 DVD

 

assuming rd should point to the install media image:

 

0s2 kernel panic

0s3 kernel panic

0s5 gui with no disc symbol

 

assuming rd should point to the target hd:

 

1s2 still waiting for root device

1s3 still waiting for root device

1s5 still waiting for root device

darwin boot options

> rd= this parameter state what is the boot disk to use (instead of using the boot menu appearing before the prompt) you state the drive and partition in the pattern: diskXsY where X stands for the disk number (first disk (usually primary master in IDE) 0 second disk is 1 etc.) and Y stands for the partition on that disk starting with 1 as the first partition, so if you have one disk and one partition the parameter will look like this: rd=disk0s1

 

whereby

> Disks start at 0

partitions start at 1

 

the 1st rd on the line is for the linux boot loader

the second is for the osx install

 

1st rd or root disk is the disk with the boot loader (linux)....

2nd rd or root disk is the osx DVD partition 3 in you case it's the DVD drive disk2s3

 

try

rd=(0,1)mach_kernel.voodoo busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk2s3

 

I think you are getting confused with the install disk,

 

1. load boot loader (linux)

2. which then loads the installer on the DVD (os x)

 

think of the line this way

 

1st bit

 

rd=(0,1)mac_kernel.voodoo

 

says "load the modified kernel mach_kernel.voodoo" from the root or 1st partition of the boot disk

which if you have your bios set correctly will be you DVD drive

 

next bit (after you have swapped disks)

 

busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk2s3

 

says "the new root disk to boot is the DVD (disk 2) partition 3".... and pass the options "busratio=20 -v -f"

 

> Disks start at 0

partitions start at 1

 

In my mind this is confusing,

 

look at it this way instead

 

Disks and partitons both start at 0

 

your 1st HDD is disk0

your 2nd HDD is disk1

and so on

 

1st hard disk with no partition or just the boot partition is disk0s0

once formatted GUID for OS X it will have 2 partitions

 

root of disk = disk0s0

EFI partition = disk0s1

OSX install partition = disk0s2

 

DVD is formatted/partitioned the same so it also has osx on it's 3rd partition disk2s3

 

in you case once booted into the OSX installer, you need to run diskutil and partition the 1st HDD (your intended boot disk) then install to this

 

sata port 1 disk0 seagate 1.5TB to-be boot disk < will end up with disk0s1 EFI partition and disk0s2 your install of OSX

sata port 2 disk1 hd with 10.5.6 parition < if it was me I would pull this out

sata port 5 DVD < if it was me I would either move this to SATA port 2 and change bios to match boot from it

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Hi there.

 

So, I tried many times to install this, and finally it showed that only the original version 10.5.0 worked for me at all.

There I finally after a few tries managed to boot and install the OS.

After rebooting to the harddisk this time I had to solve the "Do you already own a Mac?" loop, which I managed.

Then I had to get the files for DSDT on a usb stick and reboot again or else it would not find it (hot plugging does not seem to work).

 

I applied the DSDT patch 1.0.1e and right afterwards the EFI parttition (version 6.1).

 

I'm not sure I edited the com.apple.Boot.plist correctly.

I just replaced the UUID string with the real UUID I got from "diskutil info /def/disk0s2 | grep UUID". Is this correct?

 

After rebooting with all cpu cores enabled there was no real error but it did also not finish booting. I tried this both from booting from harddisk and from the boot cd, and also tried setting just one cpu aftive with no hypertherading. Nothing worked.

 

Here is a screenshot (sorry that it's wobbly) from where id stops and does not do anything (logs displayed by setting parameters "busratio=20 -v -f":

IMAG0068.jpg

 

Can you help me on what may be wrong?

Btw, the warnings seen on the screen were also displayed on the first boot before installing os x, so I assumed they are ok?

 

I really followed the instructions as described in the original posts and posts linked to by it.

 

EDIT: I saw I skipped the last steps 5 and onwards when installing new EFI.

I'll do those once I got time again and keep you posted.

 

EDIT:

I now managed to do the missing update.sh after booting with -s option and mounting EFI partition.

That worked, and also the upgrade to 10.5.6, the patching of lan and sound.

I also managed to get my ati 4850 working, see here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi.../t155477-0.html (i recommend installing the bugfixs, they seem to be necessary).

However i had troubles with the monitor turning off after a new reboot, I started with -x option and that fixed this (for now?).

 

Also, when I return from sleep mode the display is garbled and next to unusable.

Can anybode help with this last point?

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the 1st rd on the line is for the linux boot loader

the second is for the osx install

 

1st rd or root disk is the disk with the boot loader (linux)....

2nd rd or root disk is the osx DVD partition 3 in you case it's the DVD drive disk2s3

 

try

rd=(0,1)mach_kernel.voodoo busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk2s3

 

I think you are getting confused with the install disk,

 

1. load boot loader (linux)

2. which then loads the installer on the DVD (os x)

 

think of the line this way

 

1st bit

 

rd=(0,1)mac_kernel.voodoo

 

says "load the modified kernel mach_kernel.voodoo" from the root or 1st partition of the boot disk

which if you have your bios set correctly will be you DVD drive

 

next bit (after you have swapped disks)

 

busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk2s3

 

says "the new root disk to boot is the DVD (disk 2) partition 3".... and pass the options "busratio=20 -v -f"

In my mind this is confusing,

 

look at it this way instead

 

Disks and partitons both start at 0

 

your 1st HDD is disk0

your 2nd HDD is disk1

and so on

 

1st hard disk with no partition or just the boot partition is disk0s0

once formatted GUID for OS X it will have 2 partitions

 

root of disk = disk0s0

EFI partition = disk0s1

OSX install partition = disk0s2

 

DVD is formatted/partitioned the same so it also has osx on it's 3rd partition disk2s3

 

in you case once booted into the OSX installer, you need to run diskutil and partition the 1st HDD (your intended boot disk) then install to this

 

sata port 1 disk0 seagate 1.5TB to-be boot disk < will end up with disk0s1 EFI partition and disk0s2 your install of OSX

sata port 2 disk1 hd with 10.5.6 parition < if it was me I would pull this out

sata port 5 DVD < if it was me I would either move this to SATA port 2 and change bios to match boot from it

 

I had already tried it previously in that configuration without a 2nd hd. I understand too little why it worked now now with

 

sata 1 hd0

sata 2 dvd

sata 5 hd1 with media partition

 

... rd=disk1s2 with (post corrected from 2s2)

 

an ideneb 10.5.6 in the drive (!)

 

it actually installed from hd1 without noticeably going to the DVD (?)

 

 

 

rd=(0,1)mac_kernel.voodoo

 

says "load the modified kernel mach_kernel.voodoo" from the root or 1st partition of the boot disk

which if you have your bios set correctly will be you DVD drive

 

next bit (after you have swapped disks)

 

busratio=20 -v -f rd=disk2s3

 

says "the new root disk to boot is the DVD (disk 2) partition 3".... and pass the options "busratio=20 -v -f"

In my mind this is confusing,

 

might it be that the first line loads the voodoo kernel from a ramdisk, whereby the rd=disk[n] tells it where the root hd is to be found.

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P6T Deluxe V2

I eventually had to disable all CPU settings in the BIOS before i could successfully run the installation. Otherwise it would hang during the DVD consistency check.

 

now I'm up and running, and dual booting with vista on a second HD, using Chameleon on my EFI partition.

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Hi again.

 

So, now I got the basics working (see my recent post about my process in that) I would like to get a dual boot of Vista and Mac OS X working.

 

So what I did was use EasyBCD to create a new boot entry. EasyBCD apparently also creates a chain booting file entry (those 512 byte long files).

 

I tried to boot but got a Chain Booting Error.

 

I think this is because I followed the guidelines posted in this thread to unplug other harddisks to make installation easier (how the hell to find the right rd=diskXs3 without trying them through when I have 4 harddisks and 1 DVD drive) and this messes up on dual boot now (i'm not sure though).

Anyway, there is a post http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/dont-do-it-just-dont/ that indicates this way.

 

So, now in this dilemma I am having a hard time fixing this.

 

Can you help me get this fixed?

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has anyone tried installing retail using a USB drive instead of the retail disk? I used to have an actual retail copy, made an image of it, and restored it to an 8GB flash drive, which I can use to install osx on my macbook pro.

Could this work with the boot123 changing the rd=disk to the USB slice?

Does the retail install work if I take the full image and remove the languages and printer drivers so that it will fit on a SL DVD?

Thanks dudes

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are they on the same drive?

 

I got vista and leopard to dual boot on two different drives by installing Chameleon 2 RC1 on the EFI partition of the OS-X drive. works like a charm.

I followed this guide:

http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/04/how-to-...ameleon-20-rc1/

 

I tried EasyBCD but got nowhere.

 

 

Hi again.

 

So, now I got the basics working (see my recent post about my process in that) I would like to get a dual boot of Vista and Mac OS X working.

 

So what I did was use EasyBCD to create a new boot entry. EasyBCD apparently also creates a chain booting file entry (those 512 byte long files).

 

I tried to boot but got a Chain Booting Error.

 

I think this is because I followed the guidelines posted in this thread to unplug other harddisks to make installation easier (how the hell to find the right rd=diskXs3 without trying them through when I have 4 harddisks and 1 DVD drive) and this messes up on dual boot now (i'm not sure though).

Anyway, there is a post http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/dont-do-it-just-dont/ that indicates this way.

 

So, now in this dilemma I am having a hard time fixing this.

 

Can you help me get this fixed?

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Hi.

 

Here my layout of disks:

DISK 0 (sata port 0): 1 partition vista, 1 partition windows 7

DISK 1 (sata port 1): 1 parditions with data only

DISK 2 (sata port 2): 1 partiton of data

DISK 3 (sata port 4): 1 hidden efi partition, 1 partition MAC OS X, 2 data partitions (windows partition manager shows the order differently)

DVD 1 (sata port 3): drive from which I installed All the OSs

 

I now tried to change the boot order priority in bios to tell it to boot from DISK 3 first.

The only thing that was displayed was:

boot0: GPT

boot0: HFS+

boot0: booting

boot0: done

 

That should not be there, right?

It only boots Mac OS X if I disconnect all other drives (so have same configuration as when I installed it).

 

I tried an older version 1.52 of EasyBCD where I can manually select drive and paraition, but that does not work either (no Chain Booting Error, some error from windows where I can continue and select another boot option)

 

I may have a look at Chameleon.

Does this guid "work together" with the guid in the first post of this thread?

 

Thanx in advance.

 

are they on the same drive?

 

I got vista and leopard to dual boot on two different drives by installing Chameleon 2 RC1 on the EFI partition of the OS-X drive. works like a charm.

I followed this guide:

http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/04/how-to-...ameleon-20-rc1/

 

I tried EasyBCD but got nowhere.

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it replaces the part about the EFI partition, I think. make sure to copy all your extensions, kernel, and plist properly.

 

I suggest looking into the Boot.plist file that you have on your EFI partition. if it uses the diskXsY format to identify the root device for the kernel, then that will always change if you change your drive configuration.

what I did was use "boot-uuid={my leopard installation UUID}" insted of "rd=diskXsy". diskXsY may change, but the UUID will always stay the same.

 

you can get your UUID by getting the info for your leopard install partition from Disk Utility.

 

 

 

Hi.

 

Here my layout of disks:

DISK 0 (sata port 0): 1 partition vista, 1 partition windows 7

DISK 1 (sata port 1): 1 parditions with data only

DISK 2 (sata port 2): 1 partiton of data

DISK 3 (sata port 4): 1 hidden efi partition, 1 partition MAC OS X, 2 data partitions (windows partition manager shows the order differently)

DVD 1 (sata port 3): drive from which I installed All the OSs

 

I now tried to change the boot order priority in bios to tell it to boot from DISK 3 first.

The only thing that was displayed was:

boot0: GPT

boot0: HFS+

boot0: booting

boot0: done

 

That should not be there, right?

It only boots Mac OS X if I disconnect all other drives (so have same configuration as when I installed it).

 

I tried an older version 1.52 of EasyBCD where I can manually select drive and paraition, but that does not work either (no Chain Booting Error, some error from windows where I can continue and select another boot option)

 

I may have a look at Chameleon.

Does this guid "work together" with the guid in the first post of this thread?

 

Thanx in advance.

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Hi ohsht.

 

I thought the problem was because unplugging the other drives but this is not the case: I re-installed the whole thing again from scratch, this time with the other drives plugged in.

Then even booting making the Mac harddisk the preferred one worked.

 

I tried EasyBCD again it did not work, and worse it appears to have modified the Mac partitions: the hidden EFI partition is now visible and I can neither boot by making that hardidisk preffered nor boot on the harddisk via CD (it won't find the disk3s2 boot device I provide).

 

So I wonder now:

- is it possible to repair this again without re-installing again?

- which tool to use to make the vista boot loader work with Mac OS X? Is there a good guide to set this up without breaking everything?

 

Thanx!

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