This Tutorial learns you how to install Chameleon bootloader on your Mac partition.
This may help you when you get b0, boot0 and other errors get, and the installer won't help.
(Installer didn't work very well in my case)

1. Open the Terminal app

2. Use sudo -s to assume root privileges.

3. First get the partition / disk where your Mac partition is


You should see something like this:


4. In this tutorial is the Mac disk disk0s2

5. Extract the Chameleon archive and go back to the terminal.

6. Install boot0 to the MBR:


7. Install boot1h to the bootsector of your OS X partition:


8. Copy the ‘boot’ file to your root partition:


Or if it's not your current volume:



9. Now make we our partition active.
Our disk is disk0, so our code will be:



It will look like:


---------------------------------------------------------------
For Chameleon 2.0 only
---------------------------------------------------------------

10. Copy Themes and smbios.plist to your Extra folder:

cp -R smbios.plist Themes /Extra
11. Finally add any kexts you wish to /Extra/Extensions like you usually would.

Thanks!

I managed to follow all of the steps (I think), but since I have a pretty severely mangled boot by now, it did not quite work. But that was not really a surprise. re-installing the OS'es right now.

I did have one question about copying the boot file. You say to copy it to the root, so would I just type:

cp boot /rdisk0s2

where 0s2=OS X install? What goes on the other side of that / ?

Oh, and you certainly imply it, but one should cd to the extracted .pkg files. Silly noobs like me might scratch their head for a minute.

/ means your current boot drive.

Thank you, man. Your tutorial worked like a charm :-D

im getting fdisk : dev/rdisk0 : permission denied. whats that mean?

how would you go about doing this is if I have osx in one HD and win 7 in another one?

anybody?

Try before executing this commands:
sudo -s, type your password (you don't see start or something like that), and enter

I'm sorry, but I re-re-re-re-re your post and im still confused on what I have to do.

What i do if i get

fdisk: could not open MBR file boot0: No such file or directory

which archive i need to dl? (Chameleon-2.0-RC3-r658-bin.tar.gz) that one? and if yes where i need to extract? (root?) some map?

Thank you.

Extract is somewhere, and use CD to get there, CD is a command, and not the 'CD-Drive'.
Do this:
1. Extract the stuff
2. Determine which drive it is, using diskutil list
2. Type in the terminal 'cd ' < - Space after CD
3. Drag the i386 folder from chameleon 2 to the terminal window
4. Press enter
5. execute step 6 and later

Hi again man, sorry but im dummy )) i get always thesame fout. If i do step6 i get @no such file directory@ take a look please at the scrshoot please. Click to view attachment

thanks man for you routing )

Don't copy and paste!!
Just type line by line, and instead of typing cd <, type cd , and drag the i386 folder to the terminal, en type enter.

Tried this, and got "fdisk: could not read MBR code: Is a directory"

Is not working.

I'm getting this too.