I got into a situation where I accidentally configured two bootloaders.

I would just like to know how would I get rid of Chameleon? I just want to stick with my EasyBCD bootloader.

Here is my situation in a little more detail.

I am running Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Leopard Kalyway 10.5.1.

I have EasyBCD setup to boot both Vista and Leopard. It works great.

However, when I select Leopard, I get another bootloader (Chameleon) asking me whether I want Vista or OS X.

So, how would I uninstall Chameleon, or just edit it to remove the option for Vista?

Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist file to enable the "Quiet Boot" Mode.

The How-To Article

Check the "Messing with the boot options" section.

But Windows is my main OS, so if I enable quiet boot I can't get into OS X anymore.

I'm assuming you're using vista boot manager, which, with the help of EASYBCD lists options for both osx and vista and it is on your active partition on your HDD. Hence, when you turn on your computer, it is the second thing you see, (bios prompts being the first). When you select osx, you get to darwin, which also lists your vista partion, and you don't want that. If so far this is correct, there should be no problem quiet booting your darwin loader (just make sure it itself is set to load osx). Just dont quiet boot your vista loader, since that's the main booter you use.

If you do this, you'll get to use vista as your main OS, and when you wish to get to osx, you select it in your vista boot manager and since darwin is quet boot enabled, you wont see the darwin welcome prompts, booting right into osx.

But Darwin lists Vista as the first boot choice. Would it still boot straight into OS X with quiet boot even though OS X is the second option?

And how would I make Darwin boot OS X first?

I tried messing with com.apple.blah blah blah, but no luck.

Set the OS X partition to active using something like

http://downloads.partedmagic.com/

the first one in the list or the gparted liveCD, download and burn it to a CD, boot from it, then you just open gparted, right click the OS X partition, choose manage flags, then set the boot flag on the partition. Now that partition will automatically be selected in the Darwin bootloader, then you can set the timeout to 1 if the other way won't work for you.

I'm sure there's other ways, but either of those CD's are very easy to use and really nice to have around.

Even though Darwin lists vista first does not mean it will boot it. It will boot from the partition you set it to boot from (can be done with the com.apple.Boot.plist flag rd=diskXsY, but should be checked manually first to make sure you don't get any kernel panics). Usually, even if osx is 2nd on the list and vista is first, it will boot to osx w/o any modifications (so it always happened on my installs of JaS distro). Just check it first, without pressing any key when you get to darwin, just wait for the timer to finish and see if it boots to osx. If it does, you can then play with your com.apple.Boot.plist file, and not making any changes to your vista install.

The other thing is that you're not making it very clear. What is your active partition? I'd also recommend what the above person said, marking your osx partition as active and using darwin as a main boot loader. You can get parted magic on a flash drive, which, in my optinion is more convenient than a CD. Instructions are here: http://partedmagic.com/ (lol, it says " The Parted Magic website has been hacked. I'll try to get it back up as soon as possible." )

Alternatively, you can do this to flag your partitions active:

1. Insert your Mac OS X Installation Disc and reboot.
2. When you get to the screen asking to hit "any key" or "F8", hit "F8" and type "-s" and hit enter.
3. When you get to the prompt, type "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" and hit enter.
4. Then type "flag x", where "x" is your osx partition number and hit enter.
5. Then type "update" and hit enter.
6. Then type "write" and hit enter.
7. Then type "quit" and hit enter.
8. Then type "reboot" and hit enter.

Thanks a lot, I'll try it.

Hey Guys:

I don't mean to revive an old thread but I'm having issues with dual bootloaders.

A while ago I installed Windows 7 and used EasyBCD for dual booting OSX 10.5.4 and Windows 7 (windows being default boot). Today I decided to do a clean install of iAtkos v7 and everything went fine and installed the Chameleon Bootloader, but now it has overriden the Windows Boot Manager.

When I try to access the Windows boot from Chameleon, it brings me up to the Windows Boot Manager and lists OSX and Windows 7. When I try to access either it gives me an error basically stating that the boot device is unavailable.

How do I uninstall the Chameleon bootloader (or repoint the drives... since I actually like the Chamelon interface hehe) through OSX? Any input would be vastly appreciated. Thanks!