Hello!
I'm new to EasyBCD. I installed Vista and MacOS X Leopard besides XP. Vista and XP boot fine. Because MacOS is on the primary partition on my 2nd HD, I need to set this HD in the BIOS to main in order to boot Leopard. This works fine. But now I wanted to use EasyBCD to set this up by using the Vista boot manager. I tried and it failed. So:
a) How can EasyBCD set up a device entry for a partition it does not see? The Mac partition is Mac format and since it is primary, it will be drive D: in the boot stage. I can only choose it for a new MacOS entry. Then...
b) EasyBCD creates an entry like this
Name: Mac OS X
BCD ID: {f266bf56-7eaf-11dc-8d7f-fa4c49c768cd}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr
Windows Directory:
Since there is no word left in the guides for EasyBCD to do something manually, I assume it will do everything required. But if there must be a path \NST with a file .mbr, which I suppose to be a Master Boot Record sector, where is it? There is none on the C: drive, nor on the Mac drive, of course. So
c) Why does EasyBCD set up the BCD for a file and path that does not exist? Or, at least, why it doesn't create the path and the file?
The result is the boot manager error we all know. There are no 3 seconds or something, as other members reported here. The boot manager instantly tells me the error after selecting the MacOS entry. Sure it will, because there is no \nst\nst_mac.mbr path and file on the target drive...
I'm new to EasyBCD. I installed Vista and MacOS X Leopard besides XP. Vista and XP boot fine. Because MacOS is on the primary partition on my 2nd HD, I need to set this HD in the BIOS to main in order to boot Leopard. This works fine. But now I wanted to use EasyBCD to set this up by using the Vista boot manager. I tried and it failed. So:
a) How can EasyBCD set up a device entry for a partition it does not see? The Mac partition is Mac format and since it is primary, it will be drive D: in the boot stage. I can only choose it for a new MacOS entry. Then...
b) EasyBCD creates an entry like this
Name: Mac OS X
BCD ID: {f266bf56-7eaf-11dc-8d7f-fa4c49c768cd}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr
Windows Directory:
Since there is no word left in the guides for EasyBCD to do something manually, I assume it will do everything required. But if there must be a path \NST with a file .mbr, which I suppose to be a Master Boot Record sector, where is it? There is none on the C: drive, nor on the Mac drive, of course. So
c) Why does EasyBCD set up the BCD for a file and path that does not exist? Or, at least, why it doesn't create the path and the file?
The result is the boot manager error we all know. There are no 3 seconds or something, as other members reported here. The boot manager instantly tells me the error after selecting the MacOS entry. Sure it will, because there is no \nst\nst_mac.mbr path and file on the target drive...
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