HunterJ Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I recently upgraded my iDeneb installation from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8. After this installation, i decided to use the ideneb tools to upgrade my voodoo kernel and my chameleon bootloader. Once that installation completed, OS X crashed. I didn't think that this was an issue since it does this half of the time whenever i shut it down. However, when i started up the computer, i was given a black sceen with a smiley face character, a grey block, an "h" and a degree symbol. It won't let me do anything else. I'm running a dual boot installation with windows 7, so i figured if i used the startup repair on the windows install disc, everything would go back to normal. when i tried this, the disc told me it couldnt find a windows installation. I don't think that the chameleon install wiped the hard drive, but i could be wrong. is there anything else i can try to at least be able to boot my primary windows install? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210010-after-chameleon-install-computer-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterJ Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 I fixed it! it turns out that the OS X partition being marked as the boot partition was what messed it up. Using an Ubuntu disk and gparted, i was able to fix this. But once i boot into OS X, the new chameleon bootloader is still there, working. This makes me think that it was just a hard drive glitch, so i'm not sure if it's avoidable in the future. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210010-after-chameleon-install-computer-wont-boot/#findComment-1404913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ier3Boy Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 I need some help .....I have installed iDeneb v1.6 lite successfully in vmware but it wont boot. It sticks at the apple logo on boot. Same results with "-x" safemode and "-f" . can anyone help ..please ! when i boot to single user "-s" the following screen screen loads- please help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210010-after-chameleon-install-computer-wont-boot/#findComment-1409163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterJ Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 I need some help .....I have installed iDeneb v1.6 lite successfully in vmware but it wont boot. It sticks at the apple logo on boot. Same results with "-x" safemode and "-f" . can anyone help ..please ! when i boot to single user "-s" the following screen screen loads- please help Did you try selecting a different kernel? try typing "anv" or "voodoo" at the boot prompt, I think those are the default kernels included with ideneb. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210010-after-chameleon-install-computer-wont-boot/#findComment-1409203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ier3Boy Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Did you try selecting a different kernel? try typing "anv" or "voodoo" at the boot prompt, I think those are the default kernels included with ideneb. I tried it but it says cant find "voodoo" and the same with "anv" I even reinstalled and retried different kernals. ssame results Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210010-after-chameleon-install-computer-wont-boot/#findComment-1409386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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