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tessa1717 09-01-2009 01:43 AM

i followed your guide and did what you said but for some reason it would not boot the cd. Not sure if i did something wrong but it keeps asking to boot from cd and then it goes straight into windows. i have even tried unhooking all my drives but no luck.

sk1nhd33t 09-01-2009 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by tessa1717 (Post 32997)
i followed your guide and did what you said but for some reason it would not boot the cd. Not sure if i did something wrong but it keeps asking to boot from cd and then it goes straight into windows. i have even tried unhooking all my drives but no luck.

worse thing that can happen is the DVD will not boot and stall but for you it's booting windows? hhhmm im sure something is wrong there, watch this Youtube video.

anyone else can confirm that this works aside from me or this guide is a total failure and should be locked and deleted

tessa1717 09-01-2009 04:03 AM

Thank i will do. I have i have windows installed on a separte hard drive and since it could not boot to DVD then it went to my second boot device which is my windows hdd

rabalder 09-01-2009 10:12 AM

hi
would have been great if you could tell me why my dvd player aint showing up in chamelon,just my usbflash and hd

rab

ivv909 09-01-2009 10:51 AM

I made a boot USB but in one stage it says no cd found on druve 1, on other stage after chameleon is loaded there is no DVD icon only HD

I am with Gigabyte EP43-DS3, curently use 10.5.8 retail with Boot 132,
I have DVD retail 10.6 but I can't make from BIOS to see DVD drive in Chameleon boot screen.

Can any one give me advise how to set up the BIOS so I can use DVD drive

sk1nhd33t 09-01-2009 11:39 AM

my ES2l has 4 sata ports (sataII 0-3), the first time i tried this guide my DVD drive is on the 2nd port (port #1 master) and it's also not showing so i tried it on the 3rd (port #2) and 4th (#3) which is slave and it work. So for all who has a dvd drive not showing try changing the sata ports.

im looking for one soul who has made this guide to work haha :)

sk1nhd33t 09-01-2009 11:47 AM

a quote again from netkas blog, im using Enhanced SATA in my Bios and On chip PCI IDE is disabled

" PC EFI is a bootloader based on chameleon2 source code, v 10.3 brings one new feature, a cd/dvd-rom reading driver for ide mode(compatibe/legacy and enchanced/native).
The driver based on mindrvr from ata-atapi.com.
it doesn’t work with ahci(it will not detect dvd drives in ahci mode, hard drives still work fine).
it’s beta, so its only for testing, driver may not work for you.
known issues: sata ports 5-6 doesnt work, so I disabled scanning of those
. "

rabalder 09-01-2009 12:56 PM

hi
setting bios to ide mode doesnt solve any problem, nothing shows up :)

rab

ikuromac 09-02-2009 03:50 PM

Installed successful via this method,
Right now I'm using USB boot to Snow Leopard, could anyone tell me how can i change boot from harddisk? Thanks all

sk1nhd33t 09-02-2009 05:24 PM

finally! 124 download attachment and counting and only 2 souls can confirm it works? please dont tell me you also have the same board as mine which is G31M-ES2L? ^_^

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Originally Posted by ikuromac (Post 33240)
could anyone tell me how can i change boot from harddisk? Thanks all

F12? boot.plist default HD partition? can you elaborate? didnt quite get what you wanna do.