Dual Booting with Chameleon 2.0
I am SO happy! I FINALLY got my OS X drive to boot, using Chameleon 2.0! Now, how do I configure it? Because the rest of my family knows Winders (& I can't get to the internet from OSX) I want it to default to Vista. At least for now...
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I am SO happy!
I FINALLY got my OS X drive to boot, using Chameleon 2.0!
Now, how do I configure it?
Because the rest of my family knows Winders (& I can't get to the internet from OSX) I want it to default to Vista. At least for now...
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OK...
A) OS X no longer boots. The bootmenu comes up. I can go thru it, and pick any options. Even on verbose, I get a ton of text, then the machine just stops on a black screen. And no, I havn't done anything to it yet.
A.1) It still comes up if I rd=disk1s1 from the DVD
B) Where is com.apple.boot.plist?
@Voyn1xIn your com.apple.boot.plist just add the following before the closing </dict></plist> Default Partition hd(x,x) where hd(x,x) is the disk and partition number Vista is installed on. For example on my system I have hd(0,2). You can find this out easily in terminal by typing: diskutil list The full list of chameleon boot options can be…
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In your com.apple.boot.plist just add the following before the closing </dict></plist>
<key>Default Partition</key>
<string>hd(x,x)</string>
where hd(x,x) is the disk and partition number Vista is installed on. For example on my system I have hd(0,2). You can find this out easily in terminal by typing:
diskutil list
The full list of chameleon boot options can be found here ↗.
for B, click on your os x drive, and then go to Extra, and it should be there
Sources & Contributor Provenance (3 credited usernames · Thread #2967)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @JoesMorgue | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-05-24 |
| @Voyn1x | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-24 |
| @SportsGuy | Contributor | 1 | 2009-05-25 |