Blinking cursor/dual boot problem Fix

[pointblankshotx]

I posted this in the "how to set an active partition" thread, but it was a really old thread and that wasnt the real problem for me. but heres how i got past the blinking cursor.

 

Okay everyone i think i sorta got a solution here, im not any sort of expert but i got it working through trial/error.

 

i am dual booting iatkos v7 and windows 7 on a dell inspiron 1521 amd.

 

i installed iatkosv7 then installed windows 7 and was stuck only loading windows 7. i could boot osx but i had to boot from cd and couldn't get a wifi connection for some reason.

 

so i followed the guide in this thread and got stuck at the blinking cursor screen or the mission operating system screen (depending on which partition i made active with the guide posted).

 

After a few days of googling and searching around i just figured id get creative. So, i loaded up my iatkos v. 7 install dvd and under "utilities" there an option "Chameleon v.2 installer"

so i ran the installer, followed the instructions and got the chameleon screen to boot instead of the blinking cursor.

 

But first go to utilities>disk utility select your mac partition and Unmount it.

then close disk utility

 

now open up chameleon v2 installer

wait a few seconds for the scripts to load

 

It will prompt you to do several things, i believe the first one is:

 

select disk (for me it was 0)

Type: 0 (or your selected disk)

then press enter

Type: Y DO NOT PRESS ENTER, by pressing y it automatically enters it for you.

 

now you will be prompted to enter partition number

i selected 2 because thats where my osx is installed. (why i selected this one i have no idea, but it worked)

so type 2 or whatever number you want to install it to. press enter

then type: Y again, AGAIN DO NOT PRESS ENTER

 

after this just follow the instructions and keep pressing Y. until it says "proccess complete"

or something like that.

 

Now close the terminal and quit the OsX installer.

 

a window will pop up that has a Restart button.

 

push it.

 

now you should get the chameleon screen again.

 

The first time i selected my mac harddrive from the chameleon screen, it timed out and restarted.

chameleon popped up again so i tried windows and i got some sort of hardware failure

BUT the third time i restarted i selected my mac partition again and it loaded fine!

however it was really weird and buggy, i could not select the little apple logo to restart or shutdown, the top bar would disappear every time and finder would reload... this is a different issue though i think.

 

-i just restarted again and i can click the little apple... maybe the more i restart the more efficient it runs?

 

everything seems to be working fine now except i get an error when trying to load windows.

"Status: 0xc000000e

Info: the boot selection ailed because a required device is inaccessible"

 

im going to try to repair this so we'll see what happens.

 

so try this, at your own risk obviously and let me know how it works for you.

 

~pointblankshotx

[kocoman]

Are you using MBR or GUID?