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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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@JoesMorgue Published 2009-05-24
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Leopard 10.5
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5,719 historical reads · 2 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2009-05-24 – 2009-05-25
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@JoesMorgue (2)@Voyn1x@SportsGuy

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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Author Update #1 @JoesMorgue 2009-05-24 ↳ Re: @Voyn1x

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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Field Note #1 @Voyn1x 2009-05-24

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 ↗.

Field Note #2 @SportsGuy 2009-05-25

for B, click on your os x drive, and then go to Extra, and it should be there

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@JoesMorguePrimary Author22009-05-24
@Voyn1xContributor12009-05-24
@SportsGuyContributor12009-05-25