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First time Hackintosher here. Standing on the shoulders of giants on this forum and website, I successfully built my machine.


I have 2 SSDs for dual booting Mountain Lion and Windows 8 and I have a problem with the bootloader.


I enabled my OS X drive as #1 boot in my bios and it boots up fine into OS X.


If I press a key, I get the OS X and Windows NTFS options. When I press Windows NTFS, I get an error message that reads the following:


File: \Boot\Bcd
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors.


I disabled my Mountain Lion drive in Bios and I could boot into Windows 8 fine, without any errors.


So Mountain Lion and Windows 8 on separate drives work fine individually but I am unable to use the bootloader to choose which one to load. I want Mountain Lion as the default option and I want to be able to go into Windows 8 through the bootloader.


Thank you very much!

Specifics:


Intel Core i7-3770K, Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5-TH, SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB SATA 6.0 Gb-s2.5-Inch SSDs
Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.2
Windows 8 Pro
Chimera v1.11.1 installed from Multibeast Mountain Lion 5.2.0

Photo of error message:


Boot Error.jpg
 
ihacki said:
First time Hackintosher here. Standing on the shoulders of giants on this forum and website, I successfully built my machine.


I have 2 SSDs for dual booting Mountain Lion and Windows 8 and I have a problem with the bootloader.


I enabled my OS X drive as #1 boot in my bios and it boots up fine into OS X.


If I press a key, I get the OS X and Windows NTFS options. When I press Windows NTFS, I get an error message that reads the following:


File: \Boot\Bcd
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The Boot Configuration Data for your PC is missing or contains errors.


I disabled my Mountain Lion drive in Bios and I could boot into Windows 8 fine, without any errors.


So Mountain Lion and Windows 8 on separate drives work fine individually but I am unable to use the bootloader to choose which one to load. I want Mountain Lion as the default option and I want to be able to go into Windows 8 through the bootloader.


Thank you very much!

Specifics:


Intel Core i7-3770K, Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5-TH, SanDisk Extreme SSD 120 GB SATA 6.0 Gb-s2.5-Inch SSDs
Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.2
Windows 8 Pro
Chimera v1.11.1 installed from Multibeast Mountain Lion 5.2.0

Photo of error message:


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If you installed Windows the "default way" you have two partitions for it. And "System Reserved" is the one you need to tell Chimera to boot from as it is really your Windows boot partition.
 
I don't exactly know what the "default way" is, but I installed it first with just one SSD, before doing the same with OS X and then connecting both SSDs to the motherboard.

I don't see a "System Reserved" option at the Chimera boot menu, Mountain Lion and Windows 8 NTFS are the only 2 options available.

Any other ideas?
 
ihacki said:
I don't exactly know what the "default way" is, but I installed it first with just one SSD, before doing the same with OS X and then connecting both SSDs to the motherboard.
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The default way is you install to an uninitialized, unpartitioned HDD, and as a result you end up with two partitions "System Reserved" (100MB) and your real Windows NTFS. The system boots from the System Reserved partititon.

I would need further information on your partition scheme to give you any advice.

I don't see a "System Reserved" option at the Chimera boot menu, Mountain Lion and Windows 8 NTFS are the only 2 options available.
Any other ideas?
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Have you tried booting just off the Windows 8 disk? (ie. disconnect the OS X ssd).
Sometimes, you can use the Windows Recovery Environment to repair your boot files.
I usually do mine manually, using diskpart, bootsect, and bcdedit at the recovery command line.

It is also possible you did a UEFI instead of BIOS install for your Windows install. Chimera can only boot a BIOS Windows install. In that case, you should re-install not using UEFI. I don't know if your BIOS has the ability to disable UEFI, but if it does, use it, that way you're not confused UEFI/BIOS booting. You would be able to tell easily -- if your Windows drive is partitioned GPT, then you did a UEFI install for Windows.
 
Yes, my Windows drive's partition map scheme is GPT. Guess I didn't catch the part where I had to disable UEFI for the Windows install. Isn't UEFI supposed to be the default technology for the BIOS? I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UPS-TH motherboard.

Let me get this straight - I disable the UEFI under BIOS settings, re-install Windows 8 with only the Windows 8 drive connected, then connect my OS X drive also and reboot into Chimera and I can boot into either one? Do I need to enable UEFI again?

Thanks RehabMan! :clap:
 
ihacki said:
Yes, my Windows drive's partition map scheme is GPT. Guess I didn't catch the part where I had to disable UEFI for the Windows install. Isn't UEFI supposed to be the default technology for the BIOS? I have a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UPS-TH motherboard.
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UEFI may be on by default on modern boards. Don't know as I haven't purchased a motherboard for a couple of years. But usually even UEFI boards have an option to boot media in either BIOS or UEFI mode. Usually they list things twice (eg. CD/DVD [BIOS], CD/DVD [UEFI]). But if they don't do that, and they are booting media in UEFI mode if UEFI is enabled, then you need to disable it first to get something like Windows to install BIOS mode -- which you need for Chimera.

Let me get this straight - I disable the UEFI under BIOS settings, re-install Windows 8 with only the Windows 8 drive connected, then connect my OS X drive also and reboot into Chimera and I can boot into either one? Do I need to enable UEFI again?

Thanks RehabMan! :clap:
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Yes to first question. And no to second question. No need for UEFI in BIOS for Chimera boot. At least that is my understanding...
 
I too am having the same issue, although if i click the partition that says ntfs, it will boot into windows. just after it gives me the /bcd error or w/e.
 
nFdoom said:
I too am having the same issue, although if i click the partition that says ntfs, it will boot into windows. just after it gives me the /bcd error or w/e.
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Is there a System Reserved? If so, did you try to select it?
What is your partition type of the disk that has Windows on it?

Run this in Terminal under OS X and post the result:
Code: 
diskutil list
 
Hey i was reading through this to find an answer because i was having the same issue but i found a decent way for it work. It aint clean but i wasnt able to get chimera to boot up at all having my SSD ML in boot #1 when it would go straight to windows. My board is GA-Z77X-UD5H and find the option in BIOS, Harddrive BBS properties and have the ML SSD selected as boot #1 there and it should boot chimera after restart. Then if you want to boot into windows you should have 3 options. I have ML, Recovery, and Windows NTFS. Select recovery for windows and it should boot into windows. It aint perfect but it works and finally chimera loads for me. Hope this helps.

Domonin
 
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