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Old 11-23-2009, 09:02 PM
argotera argotera is offline
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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,

Last edited by argotera; 11-24-2009 at 12:53 PM. Reason: better statement
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