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Old 05-24-2009, 02:05 PM
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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...

Tiger: G4 PowerPC Dual Core 400 Mhz w/640 MB RAM
20 Gig ATA HD all HFS+
Internal DVD
Access to Server
True Tiger

Leopard: Acer Intel Atom Dual [email protected] w/1 Gig Ram
160GB HD-133GB NTFS, 15.68GB HFS+
SD slot
No Net access
iDeneb 1.6 Lite

Compaq SR5710F [email protected] w/3 Gigs Ram
80 Gig ATA HD (NTFS - Vista)
200 Gig ATA HD (NTFS-Data)
Access to Server

Server: Compaq 1.8 Single Core Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
~2 TB online....
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Old 05-24-2009, 05:17 PM
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In your com.apple.boot.plist just add the following before the closing </dict></plist>

Code:
<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:

Code:
diskutil list
The full list of chameleon boot options can be found here.

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse

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Old 05-24-2009, 10:30 PM
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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?

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Originally Posted by Voyn1x View Post
In your com.apple.boot.plist just add the following before the closing </dict></plist>

Code:
<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:

Code:
diskutil list
The full list of chameleon boot options can be found here.

Tiger: G4 PowerPC Dual Core 400 Mhz w/640 MB RAM
20 Gig ATA HD all HFS+
Internal DVD
Access to Server
True Tiger

Leopard: Acer Intel Atom Dual [email protected] w/1 Gig Ram
160GB HD-133GB NTFS, 15.68GB HFS+
SD slot
No Net access
iDeneb 1.6 Lite

Compaq SR5710F [email protected] w/3 Gigs Ram
80 Gig ATA HD (NTFS - Vista)
200 Gig ATA HD (NTFS-Data)
Access to Server

Server: Compaq 1.8 Single Core Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
~2 TB online....

Last edited by JoesMorgue; 05-25-2009 at 12:02 AM.
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Old 05-25-2009, 02:38 AM
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for B, click on your os x drive, and then go to Extra, and it should be there



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