Boots fine using grub-dfe / doesn't boot using Chameleon

[TotallyMac]

Here's my setup:

- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Motherboard

- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Processor

- 4 x OCZ 2GB 1066 Memory Modules (8GB Total)

- 2 x Seagate 500GB 7200.11 SATA Hard Drives

- 2 x NVidia 8800GT Video Cards

- Samsung SATA DVD-ROM Drive

 

I tried following Auzigog's installation (because he had the same motherboard I did) but had a problem at the end after I tried booting WITHOUT the grub-dfe CD. Booting from the CD works just fine... Booting WITHOUT the CD (Ie: Using the Chameleon/EFI bootloader) it just hangs at apparently the last step.

 

I tried installing "fresh" retail 10.5.6 install booting using grub-dfe, it installed fine. I then rebooted, finalized my install, and tried installing Chameleon 2.0RC2 (since the one Auzigog used was older) and that did the exact same thing.

 

Here are the last few debug messages from a failed boot:

 

ACPI_SMC_PLatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out
mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-176.3 (Sep 30 2008 16:59:38)[36]: starting
/usr/sbin/ocspd[68]: starting
phyWaitForAutoNegotiation TIMEOUT
configd[48]: InterfaceNamer: no network interfaces, could not update platform UUID
mDNSResponder[36]: Note: DNS Server (192.168.255.254 for domain . registered more than once

 

A successful boot (Ie: using the boot CD to boot from the Hard Drive) looks pretty much identical, the only exception I see is something about starting a process called loginWindow or something like that.

 

So obviously grub-dfe is doing something that OSX likes, and Chameleon is doing something it doesn't. Unless maybe I have a BIOS setting wrong or something stupid like that. I couldn't find anything on what my BIOS settings should be for this board, but I turned AHCI on, HPET ON, and HPET 32 bit mode (I tried 64 bit as well, didn't make a difference).

 

Thanks in advance!

[Khan_Man]

Hi, I found that Chameleon needs some extra files to boot.

 

-Boot the computer using grub-dfe

-leave the disk in the machine

-open up the CD disk and mount the disk .img

-inside the disk image you'll find a bunch of folders, when you get to the bottom of those folders you'll see some .kext files.

-Copy these files and put them in the /Extra/Extensions folder

-try a reboot (without the grub-dfe disk in)

 

I hope this procedure works as well for you as it has for me.

 

Khan