alltoorobot Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I have a 500gig hard drive split in half. The active partition is running Leo 10.5.8. I have installed Snow on the other partition. I ran into trouble choosing which OS I ran. Ideally I would like to be able to choose which OS I want to run from a bootloader. I'd like to ween myself off leo 10.5.8. I arranged files so that my bootloader would load but with this configuration of files in my extra folder, I could not boot into my leo install. Is there any way I can configure my bootloader to use specific booting data from specific installs which are both on the same hard drive. An easy but costly solution I realize is to get another hard drive and to boot from that hard drive from bios but I don't have access to another sata hd right now. Thanks for your thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapper00` Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I have a 500gig hard drive split in half. The active partition is running Leo 10.5.8. I have installed Snow on the other partition. I ran into trouble choosing which OS I ran. Ideally I would like to be able to choose which OS I want to run from a bootloader. I'd like to ween myself off leo 10.5.8. I arranged files so that my bootloader would load but with this configuration of files in my extra folder, I could not boot into my leo install. Is there any way I can configure my bootloader to use specific booting data from specific installs which are both on the same hard drive. An easy but costly solution I realize is to get another hard drive and to boot from that hard drive from bios but I don't have access to another sata hd right now. Thanks for your thoughts. Chameleon RC3. You can have 2 extensions mkexts in your extra folder. One for Leo and one for snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aesop69 Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I have a 500gig hard drive split in half. The active partition is running Leo 10.5.8. I have installed Snow on the other partition. I ran into trouble choosing which OS I ran. Ideally I would like to be able to choose which OS I want to run from a bootloader. I'd like to ween myself off leo 10.5.8. I arranged files so that my bootloader would load but with this configuration of files in my extra folder, I could not boot into my leo install. Is there any way I can configure my bootloader to use specific booting data from specific installs which are both on the same hard drive. An easy but costly solution I realize is to get another hard drive and to boot from that hard drive from bios but I don't have access to another sata hd right now. Thanks for your thoughts. I am running both on a 200g IDE as follows. Leopard 150g partition 1 Install 10g partition 2 Snow 40g partition 3 I put the rc3 boot file on the leopard partition Snow partition has its own /extra folder and boot file At boot I choose which drive and bam it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 11, 2009 Author Share Posted September 11, 2009 Chameleon RC3. You can have 2 extensions mkexts in your extra folder. One for Leo and one for snow. do you have to create a new folder yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapper00` Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 do you have to create a new folder yourself? Inside the extra folder should be two folders 10.5 and 10.6 you just need to put the mkext (not kexts) for each in their respective folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alltoorobot Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Inside the extra folder should be two folders 10.5 and 10.6 you just need to put the mkext (not kexts) for each in their respective folders. I dont see them in there. maybe i can just make them myself or im using a bad installer I see them in the bin folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aesop69 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I dont see them in there. maybe i can just make them myself or im using a bad installer I see them in the bin folder I might be wrong but her is how my system goes.... The boot file on the root of my 1st partition is loaded. After I choose what HDD/Partition in Chameleon it then loads the E/E from that drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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