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gehrc
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Hey Guys,

 

I just got my copy of Windows 7 for my Dell Latitude D830 Notebook that was previously running Vista and iATKOS 1.0i. I decided to go with a clean install of Win7, so I deleted my Vista partition and installed Win7 on that space. Win7 is running well. However, when I put my iATKOS 1.0i DVD in to redo the Darwin_Boot, it just doesn't work. The process completes successfully, but when the computer reboots, Windows 7 just starts right back up. Any ideas on how I can do this WITHOUT redoing the OSX partition? I have everything on there the way it needs to be, and I really don't want to wait for FCP to install again XD.

 

Thanks, and Happy Holidays.

gehrc
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I used EasyBCD to add a Generic x86 PC OS X boot option to the windows 7 bootloader.

 

The windows 7 bootloader is not as cute as Chameleon, but works great!

 

 

Can you be more specific? I tried that and it doesn't work - Windows gives me an error when I choose the OSX option after I've added it with EasyBCD.

TheGreatDeceiver
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I appreciate your help. However, I don't quite understand how to implement this, as Windows 7 no longer uses boot.ini?

 

the windows 7 bootloader will pick up entries from boot.ini. just like Vista did. You could use EasyBCD to add this also. But because I can easily mess up the bootloader config with BCDEdit, I prefer to use the good old boot.ini.

 

just give it a try. can't break anything.

gehrc
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the windows 7 bootloader will pick up entries from boot.ini. just like Vista did. You could use EasyBCD to add this also. But because I can easily mess up the bootloader config with BCDEdit, I prefer to use the good old boot.ini.

 

just give it a try. can't break anything.

 

 

Where do I place this? I tried in the root of C:\ and it didn't do anything.

TheGreatDeceiver
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Maybe you could elaborate more on exactly what you did and how you did it for us. Step by step? Because I'm pretty lost, I've tried everything I can think of...

 

1. put ntldr and tboot onto the windows 7 boot drive in the root (likely C:)

(you have to use admin rights to do this)

2. open notepad and add the following

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=c:\tboot
[operating systems]
c:\tboot="Leopard"

save the file as boot.ini to windows 7 boot drive, same place as ntldr and tboot

(again, depending on your settings, you may need admin rights, save it to desktop first and then copy to boot drive).

 

when you reboot, windows 7 bootloader will pick up the entry from boot.ini and next to Windows 7 also list Leopard (you could just call it SL in the boot.ini quotation marks).

 

when you choose this to boot from you may be going right back to the windows 7 bootloader. This may happen because your OSX does not have a boot wait time set and will itself default to windows boot.

Here is what should work. after you choose Leopard and press enter, immediately type F8 a couple times. This needs to be a split second after you press return. Have your other finger ready to press F8. You should then see the Darwin bootloader. Once in OSX make sure you add a time delay to the com.apple.boot.plist. If that is set you will see the darwin bootloader without hammering F8.

 

This works here and luckily for others in the other threads.

good luck

gehrc
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1. put ntldr and tboot onto the windows 7 boot drive in the root (likely C:)

(you have to use admin rights to do this)

2. open notepad and add the following

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=c:\tboot
[operating systems]
c:\tboot="Leopard"

save the file as boot.ini to windows 7 boot drive, same place as ntldr and tboot

(again, depending on your settings, you may need admin rights, save it to desktop first and then copy to boot drive).

 

when you reboot, windows 7 bootloader will pick up the entry from boot.ini and next to Windows 7 also list Leopard (you could just call it SL in the boot.ini quotation marks).

 

when you choose this to boot from you may be going right back to the windows 7 bootloader. This may happen because your OSX does not have a boot wait time set and will itself default to windows boot.

Here is what should work. after you choose Leopard and press enter, immediately type F8 a couple times. This needs to be a split second after you press return. Have your other finger ready to press F8. You should then see the Darwin bootloader. Once in OSX make sure you add a time delay to the com.apple.boot.plist. If that is set you will see the darwin bootloader without hammering F8.

 

This works here and luckily for others in the other threads.

good luck

 

 

See, that's where my issue comes in. The bootloader never picks that up, so it just runs right back into Windows, and no prompt ever appears. I followed these exactly too... this is odd. Thanks for your help.

 

When you say boot drive, do you mean that partition that 7 creates during setup?

 

 

 

When you say boot drive, do you mean that partition that 7 creates during setup?

geoffhackamac
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<br />I used <a href="http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1" target="_blank">EasyBCD</a> to add a Generic x86 PC OS X boot option to the windows 7 bootloader. <br /><br />The windows 7 bootloader is not as cute as Chameleon, but works great!<br />
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so it can be done you can have the best of both worlds i

, i would like windows 7 and osx on my pc but i have 5 drive raid any advice please thanks...

TheGreatDeceiver
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See, that's where my issue comes in. The bootloader never picks that up, so it just runs right back into Windows, and no prompt ever appears. I followed these exactly too... this is odd. Thanks for your help.

 

When you say boot drive, do you mean that partition that 7 creates during setup?

 

 

 

When you say boot drive, do you mean that partition that 7 creates during setup?

 

your c drive.

you say "runs right back into windows". that implies it does pick it up? When you restart and you don't see the entry from the boot.ini then sth else is hosed. sorry that it doesn't' work for you.

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