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Hi all,

 

So I just installed OSX Lion 10.7.2 on my Dell Inspiron 14R N4110.

Everything is working except wifi (ordered a card) and booting from HD (I've been using rBoot.)

 

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to fix this.

I checked the checksum and they're both 6272. I've tried using the chimera from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], and the chimera latest version using the direct download link. The boot plist is in the extras folder too just like it should be. But when I turn on my computer it says Operating System Not Found.

 

Any help?

If you need anymore info please ask.

 

Thanks!

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Are you dual booting? If so, install Chimera (or Chameleon) to your OSX partition (or HDD), then reboot into Windows and set that partition as active.

 

It wasn't working before either, but now I do have two partitions, Win 7 and Mac OSX.

All partitions I have are set as active currently. They did that automatically.

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Try booting into the "System Reserved" partition, if that doesn't work, boot into your Windows installation and choose repair computer. Once repaired, set the OSX partition as active.

 

All partitions are already set to active so that can't be it. Is the system reserved partition the 200mb one or so that appears on windows but not Mac? When I boot into that what would I do and how would it help, assuming its not actually an OS.

Thanks for the reply.

 

PS. How would I boot into system reserved because it doesn't appear as an OS on rBoot.

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Firstly: all of your partitions to be active at once is impossible, so you're not understanding what I'm saying.

Boot up your Windows installation and choose repair computer, from there boot into Windows and set your OSX partition active using Windows Disk Management.

If you don't have a Windows installation DVD/USB stick boot up your OSX installation (well, only it's bootloader) to then boot into the partition where OSX is installed and install a proper bootloader on it (Chameleon)

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Well I'll go into Windows and see what it tells me with partitions being active. I remember it said that all of them were Active setting but I'll go check you'll prob right. And so I'll go set Mac Active and then re-install bootloader, see if it works. Thanks.

 

So here's a pic of the drives from Windows30xgd1k.png

 

 

It won't let me set Mac (or windows, for that matter) to Active Partition shown here: 4fuwsz.png

 

 

How do I force make it active?

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The partition must have a letter assigned to it, but you can't do that since the file system isn't recognized.

 

Now there are two ways to solve this:

1: Run DiskPart (just search) and type in the following commands: 

list disk
select disk X (your hard drive)
list partition
select partition X (the partition where OSX is installed)
active
exit

This will set it as active, but be sure you that you have a way of booting into it.

 

2:

Install MacDrive (sorry, shareware) and then you can set it to active in Disk Management. It will also allow you to browse Mac formatted disks as long as the trial is running.

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The partition must have a letter assigned to it, but you can't do that since the file system isn't recognized.

 

Now there are two ways to solve this:

1: Run DiskPart (just search) and type in the following commands: 

list disk
select disk X (your hard drive)
list partition
select partition X (the partition where OSX is installed)
active
exit

This will set it as active, but be sure you that you have a way of booting into it.

 

2:

Install MacDrive (sorry, shareware) and then you can set it to active in Disk Management. It will also allow you to browse Mac formatted disks as long as the trial is running.

 

Thanks for the step by step guide :)

 

So I did this, and now the boot plist isn't showing up after installation (I deleted it after setting to active, thinking a fresh installation would be good.)

I tried the standalone version, and the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] version and both don't make the plist show up. I used step 1 to set the partition as active. Do you have a copy of the plist you can send me?

 

Thanks!

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