joelymoley Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 I just installed Chameleon last night and I'm having issues booting into Windows. This is my setup: MOBO: Gigabyte EP45-UD3R HDD1. 160GB -> Mac OSX. HFS+ HDD2. 1TB -> Data Storage. HFS+ HDD3. 500GB -> Windows 7, 64bit NTFS When pressing F12 during POST I can select the 500GB HDD and boot to Windows perfectly. When I just let the process do it's thing and boot from Main Drive (160GB MAC), It loads up Chameleon and can boot into Mac OSX perfectly from there as well. When I try to boot into Windows 7 from here[Chameleon GUI], it says "Starting Windows" and shows the logo. Right before the desktop comes up, it just panics and reboots the computer. Any ideas? I also figured out that if I disable AHCI, Chameleon WILL boot Windows 7 but will not boot Mac OS now. What gives? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208624-chameleon-20rc4-mac-osx-1058-windows-7/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyw0lf Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 im having a similar issue with 10.6.2 and windows 7 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208624-chameleon-20rc4-mac-osx-1058-windows-7/#findComment-1398117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelymoley Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 im having a similar issue with 10.6.2 and windows 7 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208624-chameleon-20rc4-mac-osx-1058-windows-7/#findComment-1398134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fallen101 Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 I just installed Chameleon last night and I'm having issues booting into Windows. This is my setup: MOBO: Gigabyte EP45-UD3R HDD1. 160GB -> Mac OSX. HFS+ HDD2. 1TB -> Data Storage. HFS+ HDD3. 500GB -> Windows 7, 64bit NTFS When pressing F12 during POST I can select the 500GB HDD and boot to Windows perfectly. When I just let the process do it's thing and boot from Main Drive (160GB MAC), It loads up Chameleon and can boot into Mac OSX perfectly from there as well. When I try to boot into Windows 7 from here[Chameleon GUI], it says "Starting Windows" and shows the logo. Right before the desktop comes up, it just panics and reboots the computer. Any ideas? I also figured out that if I disable AHCI, Chameleon WILL boot Windows 7 but will not boot Mac OS now. What gives? kk it matters what u configed your setup as. in Mac osx boot. i'm not sure this will work but try installing windows with the HDD configed as AHCI Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208624-chameleon-20rc4-mac-osx-1058-windows-7/#findComment-1399387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Rhee Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 I also figured out that if I disable AHCI, Chameleon WILL boot Windows 7 but will not boot Mac OS now. What gives? Did you install Win7 in IDE (non-AHCI) mode? Win7 natively supports AHCI, but (I think) only if you install the OS in AHCI. If you installed the OS in IDE mode, the installation won't load the AHCI drivers and {censored} you over. In contrary, OS X has no IDE mode support, which is why disabling AHCI kills your OS X. If this is true, just find a way to load AHCI drivers onto your Win7 installation. If you can't figure out how to do that, you'll have to re-install Win7 with AHCI turned ON. -Ryan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208624-chameleon-20rc4-mac-osx-1058-windows-7/#findComment-1400328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I'm not entirely sure if this will work but if you enable AHCI then do a windows repair with the boot disk it should install the relevant drivers as it will detect them as missing. It worked for me but in a different circumstance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208624-chameleon-20rc4-mac-osx-1058-windows-7/#findComment-1402751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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