Thank you for your reply!

You certainly are correct about the amount of partitions MBR disks can hold, but you see the drive I'm trying to run everything from is actually a GUID drive, I read somewhere it's the only way to actually run vanilla... quite honestly I'm on the verge of givin up, as no matter what I try or who I ask I can never figure out how to even boot into vanilla... so this play is honestly going downhill, let alone trying to install chameleon, that's even worse as the install doesn't do anything except mess up what I already have. I would try running vanilla trhough a distro, but the only one that allows me to boot into installer at all is kalyway 10.5.1, an boy is that a mess!

If you have any knowledge about vanilla you'd like to share, I'd really appreciate it!