pookeye Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Alright, I need help. First off I totally did do my homework, so its not like i dont know anything... but I was trying to avoid installing Easy BCD... the less I install the better... all I want is to dual boot Windows 7 and Mac OS X with chameleon as my bootloader.. its an awesome gui. anyways here is what i did. 1.) I installed Mac OS X on hard drive A, EFI method. 1a.) I unplugged this hard drive and connected another one 2.) I installed Windows 7 on second hard drive.. Now I have both hard drives plugged in and made motherboard boot first hard drive (mac os X) 3.) Mac OS X loaded, and I installed Chameleon on first Hard drive and told MB to only boot from first hard drive. Windows 7 boots perfectly fine when selecting it. but when I select Mac OS X it looks like it loads darwin, but even before the text starts to show up (splash screen), it restarts the whole machine. any ideas what i did wrong? or what i have to do to get back on MAC OS X... (i really just want to dual boot via Chameleon without having to deal with MBR. All guides I have seen installs Easy BCD... which I REALLY DONT WANT TO USE..) please help! thanks so much, this forum rules! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marclh Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Boot with -v and show us the last few lines. If you want, you can boot with -x (safe mode) as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1181529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pookeye Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 Boot with -v and show us the last few lines. If you want, you can boot with -x (safe mode) as well. Actually i would have done that, but the problem is, when i select mac os X on chameleon, it pretty much goes straight into restarting.... so i never even get a chance to boot -v or -x (so in other words that screen where you can select that hard drive doesnt even show up.. (the darwin screen) all it does is say loading darwin (in chameleon) im gathering that it tries to start Darwin, but automatically restarts right away.... Boot with -v and show us the last few lines. If you want, you can boot with -x (safe mode) as well. so what confuses me most is that Mac os x worked fine before i installed chameleon.. but after i installed.. now it just restarts the machine before even going to the true darwin (black background with hard drive as selection) choice.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1181535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0rk007hck Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Enable 'Execute bit' (or something like that) in the bios, if it is Enabled, try to disable it; ant toggle Intel speedstep. The problem : Vanilla. If you boot with -f, you will see the kexts running Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1181546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pookeye Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 Enable 'Execute bit' (or something like that) in the bios,if it is Enabled, try to disable it; ant toggle Intel speedstep. The problem : Vanilla. If you boot with -f, you will see the kexts running btw I have i7 Gigabyte EX85 UD5, just for people's information.. but that sounds like a game plan, I will enable/disable 'execute bit' and then toggle intel speedstep. (so will i no longer have that functionality? intel speed step? or do i need to get a fix before i can use intel speedstep) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1181550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0rk007hck Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Just try it!! If it works, try to enable Speedstep again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1181982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
airfly99 Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 It looks like that you've met a more difficult problem..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1183434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan_Man Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I had a similar problem but partitioned on the same PATA drive, retail 10.5.6 and windows 7, GUID map, HFS+ and NTFS. Chameleon 2 wouldn't even boot either partition. Fortunately GRUB-dfe boot disk still booted OS X so I could go in there and fix things. I had to go back to Chameleon 1.0.12. Works fine there. :angry2: Khan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171489-chameleon-problems-with-mac-os-x/#findComment-1183470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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