Hi,
I've been trying to boot up an OS X installation side by side with my win 7 for the past couple of days...
I have several HDDs, C: holds win7 D: is the mac (those 2 are on the same device). E: is on a separate HDD. The reason I bring up E: in the first place is that, that (I believe) is where my system boots from (bootmgr!?). The reason it's there is probably that this machine has gone through multiple reinstalls in the past and was dual boot well before today.
So... After I got my OS X all set up, I put the Win 7 Setup DVD back in. repaired the boot and so now I'm in win 7. d/l EasyBCD 2.0 beta and tried to add an OS X entry. It added it alright, but when rebooting and choosing OS X from the boot menu, I get to a grub command line. I tried messing around with that and basically could 'root' all partitions except the one that has the mac. I also tried going back into EasyBCD to 'change settings' and change the drive letter for the OS X entry. I couldn't find the partition I was looking for in the dropdown. Windows disk manager reports it as a "healthy, active, primary partition", but does not allow me to take any action on it besides 'delete'. Remember, the active plays no part here since I'm booting from another HDD. I tried unhiding the partition. At that point win7 explorer was showing it as well as EasyBCD, but when changed the drive for the entry and saved it did not stick. After a windows reboot it was hidden once more - no idea why.
Any ideas anyone? Should EasyBCD take care of this scenario or am I missing the point?
I've been trying to boot up an OS X installation side by side with my win 7 for the past couple of days...
I have several HDDs, C: holds win7 D: is the mac (those 2 are on the same device). E: is on a separate HDD. The reason I bring up E: in the first place is that, that (I believe) is where my system boots from (bootmgr!?). The reason it's there is probably that this machine has gone through multiple reinstalls in the past and was dual boot well before today.
So... After I got my OS X all set up, I put the Win 7 Setup DVD back in. repaired the boot and so now I'm in win 7. d/l EasyBCD 2.0 beta and tried to add an OS X entry. It added it alright, but when rebooting and choosing OS X from the boot menu, I get to a grub command line. I tried messing around with that and basically could 'root' all partitions except the one that has the mac. I also tried going back into EasyBCD to 'change settings' and change the drive letter for the OS X entry. I couldn't find the partition I was looking for in the dropdown. Windows disk manager reports it as a "healthy, active, primary partition", but does not allow me to take any action on it besides 'delete'. Remember, the active plays no part here since I'm booting from another HDD. I tried unhiding the partition. At that point win7 explorer was showing it as well as EasyBCD, but when changed the drive for the entry and saved it did not stick. After a windows reboot it was hidden once more - no idea why.
Any ideas anyone? Should EasyBCD take care of this scenario or am I missing the point?