norms Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I wonder if any of you guys could help me on this one. I have a Dell XPS 17 laptop to which I had SL 10.6.7 installed working pretty good, but suffered from the fermi freeze quite often. I eventually gave up trying to stop it freezing and went back to Windows 7 for the time being. I also had no problems configuring Chameleon boot-loader with the many options available, changing themes etc. I've only just recently upgraded to Lion 10.7.1 via the app store and now have everything working pretty well and so far without the dreaded fermi freeze fingers crossed so far. My hard drive set up is, as far as I recall: MBR configured with 4 partitions as follows 1 : Recovery 2 : Windows 7 3 : DellUtiliy 4 : Lion I have Chameleon installed on the Lion partition which I installed using the provided installer then choosing the appropriate partition. I did this immediately after installing Lion. I also created the new org.chameleon.Boot.plist with a few settings such as the menu timeout and default selection etc. I even tried using Chameleon Wizard to confirm I was putting everything in place. The problem I am having is that no matter what I do, as soon as the laptop boots I get the standard plain text boot options to select which partition to boot from. This stays on until I select one and press Enter. I've tried rolling back a few Chameleon version but to no avail. I've searched the net and can't find anything specific on the issue. To be honest I am now at a loss. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to try ? Is it maybe related to MBR partition scheme and Lion + chameleon incompatibility, baring in mind it worked fine with 10.6.7, but I'm just guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norms Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 Never-mind, I worked out what the solution was. What I needed to do was boot into Windows 7, run a privileged command prompt then use diskpart command to set the Lion partition as Active. During the process of installing Lion I must of somehow set the Windows 7 partition as active and not realised. I hope this helps someone out in future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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