I have an HP Pavillion a1530n desktop computer and I am trying to install OS X and get it to dual boot with my already installed Windows 7. I am using Kalyway 1.5.2 and I have created the new partition, formatted it with the installation and the install proceeds. It finishes and asks for a reboot. But when the computer reboots it automatically boots into Windows 7. Does anyone have a solution for me? Thanks
I did, and when I reboot it goes straight to 7, no boot screen or anything
Actually, I added OSX in BCD and restarted. I can select osx now, but when I press enter a screen comes up saying this:
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How is your setup. 1 disk, 2 partitions? Or 2 disks, both 1 partition?
It looks to me bootmgr is looking to wrong partition or cannot access the OSx partition.
Install osx on a secondary HDD, so the boot mgr would still be on the primary HDD (Win7 partition), switch startup disk, so osx would write its boot mgr on its own disk and this way, the boot mgr wouldn't be overwriten by Win7.
This way, you can boot osx in 2 ways, through the startup disk setting in BIOS itself (not so very pratical but a nice back door if needed), or by changing back the startup disk to the win7 partition and booting through easybcd bootmgr.
I only have one HDD, so that might be a problem. I have one HDD, 2 partitions. Actually 3 because my HP has a recovery partition also.
Technically, it's not legal, especially if you torrented a modified version, in this case Kalyway. The easiest and most legal way to do it is to buy the $30 upgrade disc and use Empire EFI to install it. OS X requires its own drive by the way.
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