Chameleon Windows 7 BSOD

[shadowhill]

I have been searching over all the forums for this answer without any luck.....

 

I'm sure this is an easy question for most of you but it's been driving me nuts for the past couple of days.

 

I've installed iAtkos v7 successfully on my Dell XPS 420.

 

I used gParted to set my iatkos partition as active or boot and I am able to see the chameleon boot loader on startup and even load into Leopard ok.

 

If I chose to start up my Windows 7 partition. I get the Windows 7 startup screen and eventually a flicker of a Blue Screen of Death and a restart.

 

I found out afterwards that if I set my BIOS to "Raid On" instead of "Raid ATA/Auto" I can load into Windows 7 right away, bypassing the chameleon boot loader.

 

Whenever I switch the BIOS back to "Raid ATA/Auto" I do get the Chameleon Boot Loader but can only use it to load Leopard.

 

I've tried to use EasyBCD as my boot loader but the Leopard partition is not assigned a drive letter in Windows 7 and I cannot seem to tell it where the Leopard partition is for it to actually load at startup.

 

I'm at a loss and I'm hoping there's someone out there that can give me an answer or point me in the right direction.

 

I'm trying to do everything but completely uninstall my Windows 7 and reinstall it with Raid set to "Auto/ATA" which I thought might work.

 

Thanks for your help in advance.......

[shadowhill]

* Update *

 

I am making some headway with this. Apparently since Windows 7 was installed with the BIOS setting of "Raid On" (Dell Default Setting) Windows did not install the drivers for ATA/IDE . I am going to see if I can install this driver on my current install of Windows 7 and see if I am able to boot up with the Raid option set to "Auto/ATA"

 

I'll let you know if it worked shortly.

 

Nope, that wouldn't work. Seems like I'm stuck with having to always load gpart first and set the boot drive to the correct partition and then set the raid setting to the correct setting for the OS that I am loading.

 

Looks like the only way to fix this issue is to wipe out my Windows 7 installation and install it fresh with the raid setting set to auto/ata in the bios. I will think about this one before doing it......

[shadowhill]

Final Update:

 

In case anybody else has experienced this problem. I did manage to get it working but unfortunately I had to completely wipe out my Windows 7 installation.

 

I could not find a way to boot into Windows 7 with the raid option in the Dell BIOS set to Raid Auto/Ata. I had to first wipe out my windows partition, then set the BIOS to Raid ATA/Auto and finally reinstall windows 7 again.

 

I can now successfully dual boot into Windows 7 and Leopard.

 

As a side note. Reinstalling 7 didn't go as easy as planned. I forgot I had a Windows 7 upgrade and I ended up installing Windows Vista first and then upgraded to Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. Took longer than I expected but very happy with the results.

 

I looked everywhere online for this issue and it seems that if Windows was installed with the BIOS set to Raid ON, Windows installs specific drivers for the HD Controller based on the BIOS setting. Changing the setting to Raid Auto/ATA requires a different set of drivers that you should theoretically be able to install but since you can't boot into Windows Normal mode or Safe Mode I'm not sure how you would go about installing the other drivers for it. I'm sure there is a way but I never stumbled across how to do it.

 

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