Chameleon 2.0 does not work..? (for me)
after a couple of days,long hours and pulling my hair, pretty much going insane I finally managed to install OSX 1.5.6 (retail) on my DELL XPS M1730 *hurray* Now I'm attempting to get chameleon to work so I can dual boot it with my windows…
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after a couple of days,long hours and pulling my hair, pretty much going insane I finally managed to install OSX 1.5.6 (retail) on my DELL XPS M1730 *hurray*
Now I'm attempting to get chameleon to work so I can dual boot it with my windows 7 (which was already installed before OSX.)
So I've downloaded chameleon 2.0 (installer) with windows and installed it on my mac but then when I reboot (without the 132 boot CD) it will boot straight into windows...
Can anybody tell me what I did wrong ?
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(hardisk are now 2 seperate HD's one MBR-(windows 7) and one GUID -(mac install)
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Thanks a ton, that worked just fine !
However can I now still create a bootscreen that asks me te select the OS with nice icons ?
(i've seen it like that on youtube)
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If its a separate disk you should just need to change the HD boot order in the BIOS so you boot from the disk where Chameleon is installed.
You dont get the chameleon2 menu? I think it should be active by default when using the installer, maybe you didnt install any themes?
Check the files in /Extra, there should a themes folder there, check the com.apple.Boot.plist file there, maybe the chameleon's config file is wrong?
You dont get the chameleon2 menu? I think it should be active by default when using the installer, maybe you didnt install any themes?
Check the files in /Extra, there should a themes folder there, check the com.apple.Boot.plist file there, maybe the chameleon's config file is wrong?
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| @thorazine74 | Core Contributor | 3 | 2009-07-13 → 2009-07-14 |
| @spiritonline | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-07-11 → 2009-07-13 |