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pumpin
11-23-2009, 07:54 AM
hi,
already had win 7 installed (Hdd1, part1), then installed iatkos (Hdd2, part1)
and here is the problem i think.
the Chameleon Loader doesn't know anything about the win install, and the winloader nothing abaout the osx install.
already tried EasyBCD but it cant find the osx installation when i boot up.

so here's thge question hw can i install Chameleon on the first HDD and saying that the OSX install is on the 2nd drives first partition???

pls. help

Imkantus
11-23-2009, 08:03 PM
You can add chain0 to the Windows Bootloader - google for it.

Or you can try to install GRUB to an own partition on the Windows HD and add entries for chainload Windows & boot from second HD...

argotera
11-23-2009, 09:02 PM
hi,you can try to use the chameleon from the second disk to boot system. J have a laptop with dual boot,w7 and iatkos. I don't know how exactly i got it working but my current configuration gives me a chameleon boot screen with the windows logo, and a timeout time of 1 sec.if i don't press any key, it starts windows, if i press any key it gives me three icons to choose from, one for each of my partitions,, an ntfs for windows, a hfs for leopard (and a third one actually which i have for data but it does no harm).from this selection screen i choose which os i want to boot too.
i ve tested and it works for multiple physical drives as well as your system

try this. first off, make your chameleon partition your active partition,
when you boot into leopard, go to the file
com.Apple.Boot.plist
which is located in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
below, it's what written in mine where i have leop and w7 on the same disk, in different partitions but it should work for you too if you edit it accordingly.i put it there just so you can get an idea.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1920x1080x32</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>rd=disk0s2</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>yes</string>
<key>Default Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,1)</string>
</dict>
</plist>

the
<string>rd=disk0s2</string>

line indicates to the system where to boot from. you should put there the partition on which you have leopard and chameleon. (probably disk1s1)

the

<key>Timeout</key>
<string>1</string>

is for well, the timeout.how much time you have before it boots into the default OS. i have set it to 1 as you see.

the

<key>Default Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,1)</string>

is for choosing which would be your default os. the first number in the parenthesis is for the number of the physical drive and the second for the partition. mine is w7 which is installed in the first (and only) drive, on the first partition. yours probably should be (0,1) for windows, (1,1) for leo

tell me how it went.

p.s.
if when you ll do all the above, and try to boot windows it doesn't work and gives you a "put your windows installation disk in and make repairs" message, pop you windows dvd in, choose repair options, don try to repair start up, rather go to command prompt, make your windows partiton active, then close cmd, and then choose "repair start up". then let it enter into windows , open cmd and make you leopard partition the active partition again. if you don't know how to make a partition active in cmd google it,

argotera
11-23-2009, 09:03 PM
i ll edit my post late to make it easier to follow, sorry, out of time right now

pumpin
11-25-2009, 02:59 PM
sorry for answering that late... but it still deosn't work mac is still default....

here is my com.apple.boot:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Default Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,1)</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024@32</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>custom</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>rd=disk1s1</string>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
</dict>
</plist>


the Mac install is in Disk1s1
and the win boot drive is disk0s1

so what's wrong?

pumpin
11-25-2009, 06:48 PM
got IT!!!!!!

Chenged the Hd(0,1) to HD(1,1)
a little strange that it works that way.... but may be when starting from Hd1 it thinks its the hd0 or something like that....

Attrition
12-15-2009, 04:09 PM
Hey folks,

New to the forums.. I realize that this issue has been resolved but I'd like to share a very simple alternative for setting up a dual boot with two separate hard drives.

Simply install iATKOS on your drive of choice with Chameleon, assuming you already have WinXP/Vista/Win7 installed on another drive.

Go into your BIOS and change the boot order of your systems hard drives. Set your iATKOS (or any other OS X distro) to be the first drive in the boot sequence. Chameleon will automatically detect your Windows drives...

And that's it.. During boot up Chameleon will load and ask you to press any key to enter boot options or you can not press anything and it will launch OS X.