[syrinet]

Hi every body

Have a mac book 13" due core intel based 1.83, trying to install XP using XOM, It succeded but ssuddenly I lost the mac partition, and the machine is booting only to XP, looks like it is ordinery PC, All mac shortcuts is not working on booting, Unable to reset the PRAM & not booting from the mac installation dvd. the machine is only using the xp MBR.

Any available solution?

Thanks in advance

[Andhee]

Would apple care fix this up for you? Otherwise it sounds pretty mashed xD Good luck with fixing it

[ghporter]

Did you try holding the Option key when the boot chime sounded? (I"m not sure if you considered that one of the "Mac shortcuts not working on booting" or not.) There should also be an applet in the XP Control Panel called "Startup Disk" that lets you choose which OS to boot by default.

Please provide more information on your problem.

[syrinet]

Thanks Ghporter for reply
But I Did mentioned that all shortcuts keys on booting is not working ( that including C & D & V & T keys) when holding down the C key the apple logo is not coming but the machin is starting to XP directly. Even holding (Option-command-P-R) keys togather to reset the PRAM is not working.

Mainly the problem Related to EFI, the machin now is dependind on the MBR for booting
So for that I also Made a (firmware restoration cd) Downloded from apple But also not working Noting that I did exactly what mentioned on apple Site

Thanks

[ghporter]

Did the Startup Disk applet show up in the XP Control Panel? If that works, you can use the Boot Camp Utility to delete your BC partition ("Restore disk to a single partition") and start over. If not, that's pretty diagnostic that the EFI is not working, and I think it, along with the fact that the firmware restoration disc didn't work, would tell Apple that it's hardware, not software that's the problem.

Give 'em a call and see what they say-I've found their phone support people to be very nice.