Win 7 RTM screwed up Chameleon

[MaestroX1]

I had a (near) perfect dual boot system with Win 7 RC and Snow Leopard, using Chameleon as the bootloader. I installed Win 7 RTM last week, and it really messed up Chameleon.

 

If the Mac partition is the active one, it results in a continuous boot0: done message.

 

Making the Win 7 partition active along with an EasyBCD entry for SL results in a single boot0:done message.

 

Using a bootCD, I can boot into SL, but reinstalling Chameleon doesn't work either.

 

What exactly is wrong and is there any way to fix it? I don't wanna reinstall SL again, as its fully updated.

 

The machine is an HP dv6 laptop, with Win 7 & SL installed on 2 separate partitions in MBR format.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

MaestroX1

[sparkythewondersquid]

wh

I had a (near) perfect dual boot system with Win 7 RC and Snow Leopard, using Chameleon as the bootloader. I installed Win 7 RTM last week, and it really messed up Chameleon.

 

If the Mac partition is the active one, it results in a continuous boot0: done message.whh

 

Making the Win 7 partition active along with an EasyBCD entry for SL results in a single boot0:done message.

 

Using a bootCD, I can boot into SL, but reinstalling Chameleon doesn't work either.

 

What exactly is wrong and is there any way to fix it? I don't wanna reinstall SL again, as its fully updated.

 

The machine is an HP dv6 laptop, with Win 7 & SL installed on 2 separate partitions in MBR format.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

MaestroX1

what worked for me was to use gparted (or whatever partitionn manager you like) set the target windows partition as active do the install set the mac partitiond as active and reinstall chameleon using the iatkos v7 disk uncheck everything in customize except chameleon and install as you normally would choosing, of coarse your mac partition as target if you get install failed reboot without disk and (at least in my case) it was all good hope this helps

[MaestroX1]

wh

what worked for me was to use gparted (or whatever partitionn manager you like) set the target windows partition as active do the install set the mac partitiond as active and reinstall chameleon using the iatkos v7 disk uncheck everything in customize except chameleon and install as you normally would choosing, of coarse your mac partition as target if you get install failed reboot without disk and (at least in my case) it was all good hope this helps

 

 

I did try your method, several times over in fact with no luck.

 

I think I've got it fixed. I installed BootThink over Chameleon, which allowed me to boot into SL once again, but didn't load the kexts in Extra/Extensions. Rather than try and learn how BootThink worked, I just reinstalled Chameleon over it, and voila, it's working again.

 

Hopefully, it stays this way, but if not, I at least know there's another bootloader around that works.

 

Cheers,

 

MaestroX1