Bootloader (Chameleon) ignoring HDD

[AlastairDewar]

Hey,

I've managed to install Snow Leopard onto my hard drive alright, but im having issues with the bootloader (Chameleon). I need to keep my USB drive in as the bootloader is currently on it but instead of giving me the option of booting into the OS recently installed on my HDD it loads up the installer from the USB drive.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

[magnat2]

Hey,

I've managed to install Snow Leopard onto my hard drive alright, but im having issues with the bootloader (Chameleon). I need to keep my USB drive in as the bootloader is currently on it but instead of giving me the option of booting into the OS recently installed on my HDD it loads up the installer from the USB drive.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

Do you have your snow partition marked active? Is it a primary partition? If its not a primary partition it wont boot...

[blackosx]

Hey,

I've managed to install Snow Leopard onto my hard drive alright, but im having issues with the bootloader (Chameleon). I need to keep my USB drive in as the bootloader is currently on it but instead of giving me the option of booting into the OS recently installed on my HDD it loads up the installer from the USB drive.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

When Chameleon loads you should be presented with a default device to boot and a progress bar counting down before booting that device. In that time you should be able to press any key (apart from enter) to display the device selection screen where you will see a list of all your partitions. Then you can select one of these with the left & right arrows and press enter to boot it.

 

From what you describe, you are not getting the chance to select a different partition? This can be set in the com.apple.Boot.plist in Chameleon to control it. Try this....

 

Open up the com.apple.Boot.plist which you'll find inside the Extra folder on the USB drive. You will see some key/string pairs which instruct Chameleon what to do. Is there a Timeout key in there? If so, is it set to 0? Here's how my key/string pairs read in my com.apple.Boot.plist on my USB stick.

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1680x1050x32</string>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

<key>Instant Menu</key>

<string>No</string>

 

Graphics Mode is set for my resolution, you might want to change this to suit your system.

Kernel is set for standard vanilla kernel as I am using a Core2Duo CPU.

Kernel Flags are set to boot the kernel in 32-bit mode. (I am using Chameleon v2 RC3)

Timeout is set to 5. So when Chameleon loads you will see a progress bar counting down for 5 seconds.

Instant Menu is set to No. This was you will get to see the initial boot devices with the countdown progress bar.

 

See if that helps?