Boot camp Multiple operating systems

I need to install both Windows EXP and Vista on my mac has any one tried it and how did you do it

Hi Kev,
see here: http://www.windowsonthemac.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2
Good Luck
Stefan

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I need help in booting the microsoft operating system

i need help in booting the microsoft operating system from startup.

Which version of OS X are you running? All you need to do is to purchase a retail copy of whichever flavor of Windows you like (I prefer Windows 7 Professional to Win 8.1) and use Boot Camp to install same. Then you'll be able to boot into either Mac OS or Windows by holding down the option key.
Boot Camp -> http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1461.
Good luck,
Clinton

Please help me get my laptop back someone has cracked the master password and is running multiple operating systems which I have no access to

Okay so I am not a computer expert by any means and have no clue how to fix my system. My father worked for intel for over 20 years as an engineer I asked him to restore my laptop to its original factory state and instead he cracked the master password
installed multiple operating systems and made himself the administrator or domain controller. Many features and options I do not have access to so reading the trouble shooting and going through the steps always leads me to a dead end. The laptop is TOSHIBA
SATELLITE L875D-S7332 a6 VISION AMD WINDOWS 8. As far as I can see my profile is actual running a version of windows 7. I do see reference to a windows 8RT windows 2003 windows vista wow64 and 32 I don't know what all that means I would just like to know how
wipe everything and get back to the factory condition I bought it in. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated

Do you have Win 7 installation disk? If yes, then go ahead and format the laptop if you don't need any data. If you need the data it it, then copy the same to USB disk and format it. Removing OS and deleting these things will anyhow keep some remains on
HDD. TO get the speed and performance back, you might need a fresh installation.
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HELP! How can i restore/recover files from Bootcamp with Boot Failure - Missing operating system error?

Hi,
I am having a few problems with bootcamp on my imac. When i tried to move the bootcamp partition on windows 7 into free space, it crashed and turned off. Ever since i have had the error 'Missing operating system' and it fails to boot. I have some very important files on the bootcamp partition. Is it possible to recover these files or even to restore the bootcamp partition to it's original state? I do not have a backup of my bootcamp partition. Another problem i have is that ever since i tried to expand my macintosh HD partition into free space, when i hold alt while booting up (to choose which partition to boot like i normally do), the bootcamp partition has stopped appearing. This means that i cannot even boot the windows 7 bootcamp partition anymore!
So basically here are my 2 questions:
How can i restore/recover files from Bootcamp with Boot Failure - Missing operating system error?
How can i make the Bootcamp partition appear in Startup Disk and when i hold the option key while starting up my computer to allow me to boot windows 7?
Any solutions are very much apreciated!
Thanks!
I know that bootcamp (disk0s4) hasn't been fully deleted since it appears in disk utility (i cant do anything to it though)
And here is the error i see when i try to launch bootcamp (back when i was actually able to boot up bootcamp to the error screen)

WinClone 3 is OS X and saves Windows image it makes for restore - that should work but you will have to try and you would need to make a new image unless it also works with a native Windows system restore image. It is now supported and has come a long way.
http://www.twocanoes.com/
Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
Backup (though external is much safer) and you want bootable OS X clones as well as TimeMachine
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
There are a number of things to do like chkdsk and others as well as Windows DVD to do automatic system repairs and find out why.
AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
I would rearrange and redo your storage setup and how you use the 4-5 internal hard drive bays.

W540 BIOS update to 2.18 cannot boot to any operating system

i try to update the BIOS of thinkpad w540 to BIOS version 2.18.
Everything seems to work fine and it says to me the update is flashed.
But now, when my w540 boots, it does everything as normal but when starting to load the operatig system it power off and reboot and do this again and again.
I can enter the BIOS setup and the version is the updated one (2.18)
I can change in the BIOS options and i can choose from where my w540 boots. i try to boot from the HD, a CD, a flash but no use (using Windows 7 on HD and Linux from flash and ESXi from CD).
My Problem, i cannot boot to any operating system now.
Any one can help please, Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thank U ALOT Richk, i do what U say and also before that i restore the default bios setting and restor the keys to the factory settings. i write this as it may help some one another.
Again Thank U ALOT Richk.

Im practically a novice to Mac Operating systems but just bought a MacBook pro, installing windows through boot camp on the system I cannot access apple operating systems what do I do

i tried to install windows 7 through the Boot Camp provision on my MacBook Pro which was successful but cant have access to Apple operating system its booting from windows only

Thanks very much knucklesmac, Im from Ghana I first bought my Ipad 2 in Calgary 27 Sept 211, Ive since loved apple products but Im not a computer geek, but would certainly love to be one Im ok with windows though.
Now the partition I craeted through windows was too small, not only that the widow 7 cd refused to come out.whats the next move, i wish to be initiiated into the apple cult the machines are sleek and beautiful

Installing Multiple Operating Systems with grub and Arch Linux

NOTE: Please keep in mind that there are many different ways to achieve this same result using various loop and ramdisk methods, read this with a separate window to jot down your comments and suggestions... this is ongoing for me so any help would be appreciated!
Read the full article at Install Multiple Os without cds
This is my first post and I plan on making this topic an official HOWTO with www.tldp.org.
I have been into the computer security scene since 1990, but I realized that I had very little experience with the various LInux, Unix, and alternative Operating systems out there.
I have a CD-RW drive but being a struggling computer security researcher I had no money for blank cd-recordables. What follows is how I managed to install various operating systems on my computer (1 hard drive) without having to burn to a CD the ISO and then boot from that.
I first partitioned my 120GB harddrive into 10 partitions, the 2nd partition is a small swap and the last partition is extra large because it holds all the ISO images..
I then wrote a small shell script to automatically download (I love wget!) the following.
OpenBSD
IpCOP
Libranet
Arch-Linux
Fire
Local Area Security
Packet Master
Devil-Linux
FreeBSD
Knoppix
Helix
Gentoo
Yoper-Linux
NetBSD
RedHat
Slackware
The script also downloaded Installation manuals and md5 checksums.. (let me know if I should post... its pretty unsophisticated
I installed Slackware (personal favorite) on hda1 using my last blank CD-R, note that I do not have a separate boot partitino. (Should I?). I also installed grub on the MBR. I love grub, if you read through the man pages and all info you can find about grub, you can learn a whole lot. Grub has much more features and capability than lilo, even though lilo comes installed by default with slack.
I organize my kernel situation as follows... In my /boot directory, I mkdir KERNEL, CONFIG, MAP, INITRD and that is a good way for me to keep my kernels and everything organized.. Another good way is a separate dir for each new kernel.
Since Arch-Linux is a solid distro, I'll use that as a first example.
Here is the Arch-Linux section of my shell script
goge Arch-Linux
$w http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/archlinux/arch-0.6.iso
$w http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/archlinux/arch-0.6.md5sum
$w http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html
md55
cat arch-0.6.md5sum
md5sum arch-0.6.iso
md55
The first thing to do is to mount the downloaded ISO image so we can use it as if it were an actual CD.
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cdimage /mnt/cdrom
Where cdimage= the ISO image. EX. /usr/local/src/ISO/Linux/Arch-Linux/arch-0.6.iso
This mounts the iso as /mnt/cdrom.
Next you need to copy /mnt/cdrom to a separate partition for the booting process. So mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda9. ( I prefer reiserfs or even XFS to ext but if you use something other than ext2 you could run into some problems because some of the installation kernels and initrds don't include support for reiserfs and so can't recognize the files. Although you could use mkinitrd to create a new initrd with reiserfs support, that might be pushin it IMO... I use the 9th partition consistently for this. I know there is a "right" way to copy the /mnt/cdrom files so everything stays the way it is supposed too, using tar or cpio, but I'm lazy so I just do cp -rp.
(What is the tar or cpio commands to copy with correct permissions etc??)
So you mount the 9th partition as whatever, say /mnt/hd and then copy the files. Now what?
Now edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include the specific options to boot arch-linux installation.
A good idea is to find the isolinux.cfg file somewhere on the distro cd, this will tell you what to include in the menu.lst.
Here is the section in my menu.lst
title Arch Install
root (hd0,8)
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/rd/0
initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img
This should be self-explanatory. The root (hd0,8) is pointing to partition 9. So the rest of the commands start from partition 9.
When you experience problems, remember you can always edit the grub boot options by typing 'e' and then edit the section. Also, a good idea is to include several variations in your menu.lst so you can easily try other ways to boot efficiently. And, remember to read up on all the installation guides that come with your distro, specifically, hard-disk installs.
There are special cases, Gentoo, has a semi-new compressed filesystem called squashfs. BTW, this is AWESOME, so check it out. It has to be compiled into the kernel, so some work is in order, but use this recompile to optimize your kernel. You can get the squashfs patch for almost any kernel. I use the latest stable 2.6 kernel. Squashfs is incredible and although I don't think you need it to install from ISO, you do need it to expand the livecd.squashfs filesystem that comes with the cd.
Heres a sample Gentoo section from my menu.lst
title Gentoo Install
root (hd0,8)
kernel /isolinux/gentoo root=/dev/ram0
initrd=/isolinux/gentoo.igz init=/linuxrc acpi=off looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs cdroot vga=791 splash=silent
A nother' tip is the shell that is provided if you experience problems, typically busybox or ash. The key tools to get you going from here is mount and chroot. Sometimes you will need to manually create a simulated file system and then chroot into it. For instance, you might have to create boot, etc, bin, directories on the target partition.
I generally install each OS onto the next partition (careful of the logical partition) and add it to my menu.lst after install. A good idea is after installation, copy the kernel and initrd(if there is one) to the slackware(or whatever) boot partition on hda1. I copy kernels to /boot/KERNEL/ and initrd's to /boot/INITRD, then menu.lst is more organized...
You then need to add an updated section to your menu.lst (just comment out the install section for later)
Here is the finished arch-linux section from menu.lst
title Arch Linux 6
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 ro root=/dev/hdc3
This doesn't use my convenient boot/KERNEL/vmlinuz26 as you can tell by setting the root to partition 3.
***NOTE: Make a backup of MBR using dd and save to floppy, also backup the partition table to floppy, using cfdisk or parted. And boot disks (I use 1 with grub, and 1 with slack, and tomsbootdisk) will invariably come in handy. Tomsbootdisk is recommended, and make the grub boot disk when you install grub. install to floppy.
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The final result after some fun experimenting, is when I boot, I have a cool grub boot screen come up with the option to boot into whatever OS I want, this is handy for multiple reasons. One good thing to do after this is to port scan and vuln scan each OS, after you update of course. Write this stuff down and you will know the weaknesses/strengths of the various OS's.
I can boot a custom Firewall, snort, or multiple honeypots using this procedure, as well as a graphical kde environment with a kernel optimized for graphics and my processor/architecture, or an environment devoted to forensics or even an environment suitable for programming.
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P.S. Some of the cooler alternative operating systems are BeOS 5, EOS, ER_OS, V2_OS, and my personal favorite Menuet. Menuet is 100% assembly graphical operating system that fits on a floppy. Its f'in money!
This should be a good enough example to get you started, this kind of thing should be learned and not just copied... Knowing how to do this stuff could prove to be exceptionally useful...

Start by reading all the articles built-in on your Mac - Help > Mac Help, search "printer sharing."
http://desk.stinkpot.org:8080/tricks/index.php/2008/04/how-to-print-to-a-cups-se rver-from-mac-os-x/
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080324224027152&query=share%2Bpri nter
http://members.cox.net/18james/osxprintersharing.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-56940.html

Booting different Mac operating systems.

In the Windows world, the user can set up a computer to allow the selection of different operating system versions, such as Win98, WinXP, WinVista, to be chosen at startup.
Can this be done with Leopard, or possibly Snow Leopard? I'd like to upgrade, yet keep the existing system installed. I am not referring to using an emulator like Parallels Desktop, I'm already doing that.
One of the things that's the most frustrating to me is the different terminology used. Took me awhile to figure out that Airport is wireless networking, and today I discovered that Automator appears to be a macro recorder. Yet I've got a friend who could never figure out the other terms but the Mac terms make perfect sense to her!! Go figure!!! LOL
And before someone suggests it, I bought a Leopard book last spring when I bought this Mac, but a summer job I took involved 10-12 hour workdays and I just haven't had the time or energy to get it read.
Ken

Supported different Mac operating systems (and unix-like Linux for Mac) can be
booted in the same computer; in order for multiple Mac OS X systems to work,
they need to be in their own partition so as to not mix up their differences, and
applications that may work well in one may not do so well in another. So, each
OSX has its own Applications and other folders, in their own home partitions.
Snow Leopard 10.6.x is intended for Intel-based Macs; Leopard 10.5.x is the
last version supporting PPC-based Macs. Some PPC Macs did not like 10.5.
You could probably use a bootable externally enclosed hard disk drive to have
additional system(s) available for the computer, instead of reformatting the HD
& partitioning it for several systems. The OEM drive may be too small for more
than one OS installed, depending on the uses expected and storage demands.
Computers that can't support the latest OS X 10.6.x won't, and they can't use
an older OS X than the one they shipped with, the exact as-shipped version.
Some models can run several OSs including variants of Linux or unix for Mac,
and select supported OS X versions; plus older Macs running dualboot OS9/X.
The Support pages on the Apple site have helpful information on specific Macs
& other hardware, so that may be of help to read about each model in question.
Also, the free download offline database: http://mactracker.ca is fairly handy.
Good luck & happy computing!

HT3986 why can't my boot camp in mac system detect the win7 system i've installed

I try to use parallel in my macbook pro, but it can't show me the boot camp option that i used to intall win7.
when i click my boot camp assistance in mac system, it shows me only to continue to install windows. is it supposed to be like this?

Unclear what you did and askng your system to do.
Can you boot Windows natively now?
If you want to dual boot Windows and Mac, you use Boot Camp.
If you want to do all that, AND you also want to use your Windows as a guest OS under Mac using parallels you setup parallels after Windows was installed and functioning and fully updated first.
And Parallels has their How To, FAQ and support forum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VMware_Fusion_and_Parallels_Desktop
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop?icid=1480

IPhone with multiple operating systems (win/mac)

Does the iPhone have any problems switching between operating systems? ie: if it's used for a few months with iTunes on a PC and then you switch to iTunes on a Mac, will there be any problem moving over all the contacts, music...etc?
I remember some of past iPods had issues that once they were "formatted" for one OS, you couldn't really use them with a different one without wiping them clean and starting over.

The iPhone has it's own OS, and syncing between Macs and PCs is not a problem. There's no formatting issue involved.

Share firefox profile across multiple operating systems.

I've recently installed windows 8 on a VHD (my main OS is Windows 7) and I was wondering if it was possible to share the same firefox profile on both operating systems. I have the profile manager from [http://ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/profilemanager/ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/utilities/profilemanager/], but when I tried to make a new profile at the location of my main profile, it instead made a subdirectory under my main profile. Is there anything I can do to share the profile between the two? I could always use sync, but I would like to share my addons, if possible.

* Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup

After upgrading my MacBook Pro memory to 8GB it no longer boots to an operating system.

It is a MacBook Pro, mid June 2009 model and 13".
I've followed the installation videos adequately and the orginal 2 x 2GB have been removed with the new 2 x 4GB successfully slotted in.
It turns on and goes past the first Apple logo and the "ding", then lands on a light grey screen.
A black arrow is active but there is no menu bar, icons or anything showing.
After a while the iTunes screen saver activates and I also noticed an alert from BusySync appear!
Looking for an Apple genius to help me sort this one out!

What I find interesting is this:
A black arrow is active but there is no menu bar, icons or anything showing.
After a while the iTunes screen saver activates and I also noticed an alert from BusySync appear!
That suggesting that the computer is booting up - no other way to see the cursor screen saver. It would be strange to see this occur with bad memory but when returning the original RAM led to the same thing...
I think it would be a good idea (start with whatever RAM you have installed now) to do a safe boot. Restart the computer holding the shift key until the grey Apple screen appears. Among other things this will force the system to perform a disk test and will erase cache files that sometimes cause problems. If the computer boots normally into Safe Mode you can then try booting normally again.

Multiple operating system crashes- the computer has rebooted from a bugcheck

For last couple of months I have been facing multiple crashes every day. Looking for help diagnose it. The memory dump file is 797 MB. Is there an option wherein I can make any sense out of it under guidance from community here- or should i simply try
a clean install of win 8.1

Hi grensmoothie,
Any update here?
You may follow the guide posted by Team Zigzag (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_update/warning-disabling-the-new-windows-update-ui-may/dc846517-eca0-4960-b0ff-1eb7227223f5),
For BSOD related issue, we do need the dump file to give a proper suggestion.
Besides, if you would like to debug the dump file by yourself, you may follow the WIKI article below:
Windows Bugcheck Analysis
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

[SOLVED] Computer hangs at boot for any operating system

I had no idea where to post this. No matter what I try to load, be it Linux, Windows, or even a livecd, it hangs. For Arch it hangs after "loading initrd", for Linux Mint it hangs randomly in the init sequence, usually about halfway through. Windows gets stuck at the splash, and livecds get caught up after the initrd line. I tried manually booting them with grub (using grub2) with the same results. I hadn't been messing with anything boot related prior, and the fact that it's anything i try to boot, including livecds, sort of says to me it isn't boot loader related anyway. But I honestly have no idea. Is it the hardware? It's an HP Pavillion dv6 laptop if that helps at all.
Last edited by les_paul1369 (2011-10-19 12:09:03)

Have you had any overheating issues? Those HP dv6 laptops are notorious for that problem. Idle temperatures in the 80 to 90 degrees Celsius range are not uncommon. That type of heating can damage components on the motherboard over time. You can try blowing out your vents and running with the screen edge elevated by a small book or magazine so as to increase air circulation underneath the laptop. You may want to run memtest overnight which should give you several passes. That should pick up any problems with your ram. If any are revealed, it's usually only one ram stick that's gone bad so you can isolate it by removing one of your ram sticks and testing them one at a time with memtest.
Last edited by kilgoretrout (2011-10-19 12:36:06)

My MBP does not boot in the operating system. How can I get it to work again?

I've tried rebooting from the OS DVD but it does not do anything. Now, I can't even get the DVD out to try the MBP install disks. Is there anyway to get this working again?

If it's not an Airprint enabled printer, you can not natively through your iPad. BUT, there are apps you can purchase in the App Store, like Print Central ($9), which is what I use myself and works well for my needs.

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