Need Admin Password
I installed iAtkos V7 (Leopard) on my Laptop Acer Aspire 5810TZ Intel Pentium 1.3Ghz 800Mhz FSB Intel GMA 4500M 4GB DDR3 Memory I am multi booting with several partitions. 1 Mac OSX Leopard 2 Windows 7 Home Premium 3 Ubuntu Root 4 Ubuntu…
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- @Raditude Published 2010-06-01
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I installed iAtkos V7 (Leopard) on my Laptop
Acer Aspire 5810TZ
Intel Pentium 1.3Ghz 800Mhz FSB
Intel GMA 4500M
4GB DDR3 Memory
I am multi booting with several partitions.
1 Mac OSX Leopard
2 Windows 7 Home Premium
3 Ubuntu Root
4 Ubuntu Home
I installed Ubuntu last, so I am running the GRUB bootloader. I want to install Chameleon, and that's where I run into problems.
When I am installing it, it asks for my Administrator Password. Well, I enter my username and password, but it doesn't accept it. I try several variations, to no avail. I look up the user accounts, and it shows my user account in there, and the password is correct. After some studying, I realized that my user account is only a standard account, and not an administrator account. There is no administrator account listed. When I click on the lock to unlock the account, it wants me to enter an administrator's username and password. My account is the only account I put on here.
I have reinstalled Mac a few times since the original install, using the same username and password combination.
I don't want to have to reinstall anything else again. I have installed Mac Windows and Ubuntu several times, in the last week. I especially don't want to install Windows again, because I don't want my Activation Key to run out, since it's legit, and is being registered 5 times a day everytime I crash my computer.
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I'm totally new to this, so forgive me.
How do I boot into Darwin from GRUB bootloader? I found a way that you can edit the command line first before booting, but I don't know where to add the -s.
I reinstalled it again, so I got it working correctly.
I think how it's setup is Grub launches Darwin to load OSX. I'm not positive. I don't know how to add arguments to the Darwin command.
Anyway, I got just reinstalled, and I decided not to install Chameleon. I got it working, even though it doesn't have a nice looking bootloader, at least it works, so I'll stick with it.
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Try the following: Boot into Darwin using -s Flag and use passwd to set a password for root, next boot up Log-out, log in as root and try creating a new Admin User.
Sorry but I do not realy understand how your currently used dual-boot setup works.
If you are using GRUB Bootloader in MBR you must be chainloading a) the Windows Bootloader and b) the Darwin Bootloader Fork (Chameleon, PC_EFI whatever), either from GRUB or Windows Bootloader - how else are you currently booting into your OS X?! :
Or are you trying to reinstall Chameleon using your OSx86 DVD? But I do not get why it should ask for a password? Anyway if so be aware to have GRUB installed to a your Linux Partition first - otherwise GRUB will be broken.
@Raditudeeven though it doesn't have a nice looking bootloader
Chameleon v2 / PC_EFI 10.x has Theming support.