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Chameleon => General Discussion => Topic started by: james341 on April 15, 2009, 04:05:33 PM
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hey guys and girls
like i said in my older post - I'm newbie - i thing the word describing me
after making my lenovo s10e dual boot with vista and leopard i insalled chameleon and i was happy to see that it works and log always to my leopard today i tryed to lof into windows and found that i was happy too soon i;m getting to the windows boot manger and i get an errror:
"windows failed to start....bla bla.....
the file that has the problem is winload.exe
i can log into my leopard but can't log into vista
i don't want to mess things up so it will be great if someone can help me fixing this problem and get real dual boot with 2 working operation systems like i want
thanks
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someone? ??? ??? ???
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Here man, try to boot from your Vista DVD, and select startup repair. That worked for me! :)
IF IT DOESN'T WORK (error message or nothing happens) - try to make you vista partition active for a temporary time, THEN try to do startup recovery again.
I think you can do this if you open your vista dvd, go to the recovery menu, then open comamnd prompt.
Type
diskpart
This will open diskpart.
list disk
This will lisk your physical HDs
select disk #
Here replac # with the number of the disk that contains your vista
list partition
This shows all the partitions on the disk
select partition #
replace # with partition number your vista is on
active
Now the disk should be active
Try to do startup repair now and see what happens.
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o.k tried all of this but nothing happen than i looked and found something else and did it (easybcd) and now i have new problems
when i power on my lenovo my first stop is here :
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_LmDpvIuXQnY/SedX6tqbsyI/AAAAAAAAAIk/0UcSZDyHwrs/s800/DSC03187.JPG)
if i press on the leopard i'm all good and in osx but when i press on the vista option i'm getting here :
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_LmDpvIuXQnY/SedX6hc1WjI/AAAAAAAAAIs/twkUwZuG3VY/s800/DSC03188.JPG)
and than i can chose vista and everything is fine, if in this screen i chose macOSX i'm getting back to the chameleon selection screen
what can i do?
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Hi james341
You can try removing the Max OS X option from EasyBCD in windows?
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i will try it now
hope not to lose the mac boot
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i tried do remove the macosx from easybcd but i can't go into easybcd I'm getting this error :
"Valid BCD Registry not Detected
Easybcd has detected that your BDCD boot data and MBR are either not from the latest version of Windows Vista, or don't yet exist..
so i can't remove the macosx from the vista bootloader
is any other way to fix my problem?
all i want is to press the vista icon in chameleon boot screen and go stright to vista with out going to the vista bootloader
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no one?
i will try to repair vista again and see what happens
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I had the exactly same problem... i couldnt boot into vista.
After setting active partition the vista partition and fixed the winload.exe message with Vista dvd, i used EasyBCD.
Added the MAC entry as generic ix86.
Set active partition Mac OS X
Chameleon showed up
Vista Worked with 2 boot selections vista-Mac (with mac going into chameleon loader)
But after getting into Vista i couldnt open BCD
error:
"Valid BCD Registry not Detected
Easybcd has detected that your BDCD boot data and MBR are either not from the latest version of Windows Vista, or don't yet exist.."
Just go to cmd and set partition vista active
diskpart
list disk
select disk x (select your disk)
list partition
select partition x (select your partiton you want to make active)
active
exit
exit
Open EasyBCD
Delete MAc OS X entry
Set Mac OS X partition active again through Vista
And everything works now without second boot selection :)