Jeff91 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 So I have OSX and Ubuntu dual booted on my system. Grub2 is my main boot loader, but I also have Chameleon installed (which Grub2 chainloads into when I select OSX at startup. This was working perfectly fine for awhile, however when I went to reboot from Ubuntu into OSX last night (Starcraft just released and all haha) I discovered Chameleon no longer loads OSX... I am given the Apple icon to select and I can even pass boot arguments too it, but the system simply hangs when you select the icon to boot into (or wait for the timeout to be up). It never even starts to boot into OSX, it hangs at Chameleon. I know my OSX install still works because if I have Grub2 boot right into OSX it works fine - the only issue with this is I have my graphics enabled by Chameleon for my nVidia chip - meaning if I boot into OSX from grub2 I have no video acceleration. Any suggestions/help? Thanks, ~Jeff Hoogland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackMacAttack Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 So I have OSX and Ubuntu dual booted on my system. Grub2 is my main boot loader, but I also have Chameleon installed (which Grub2 chainloads into when I select OSX at startup. This was working perfectly fine for awhile, however when I went to reboot from Ubuntu into OSX last night (Starcraft just released and all haha) I discovered Chameleon no longer loads OSX... I am given the Apple icon to select and I can even pass boot arguments too it, but the system simply hangs when you select the icon to boot into (or wait for the timeout to be up). It never even starts to boot into OSX, it hangs at Chameleon. I know my OSX install still works because if I have Grub2 boot right into OSX it works fine - the only issue with this is I have my graphics enabled by Chameleon for my nVidia chip - meaning if I boot into OSX from grub2 I have no video acceleration. Any suggestions/help? Thanks, ~Jeff Hoogland I woudl suggest booting into OSX though grub2 and then installing the latest version of Chameleon or simply not using grub2 at all (Just use Chameleon) Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff91 Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 I woudl suggest booting into OSX though grub2 and then installing the latest version of Chameleon or simply not using grub2 at all (Just use Chameleon) Hope this helps Grub2 works great - and when I chainloads into Chameleon it is like it's not even there. I will take your advice and try installing the latest version of Chameleon. You wouldn't happen to have a HOWTO you suggest using for installing the latest Chameleon would you? ~Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackMacAttack Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Grub2 works great - and when I chainloads into Chameleon it is like it's not even there. I will take your advice and try installing the latest version of Chameleon. You wouldn't happen to have a HOWTO you suggest using for installing the latest Chameleon would you? ~Jeff Ok, I can see why you would want to keep Grub2. As far as i know there is no "Guide" it installing Chameleon... It is just a installation file that you run, accept the agrrement and it does the rest. Here is the link to the new version of Chameleon: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201902 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtopman Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Make the OSx86 partition active to make Chameleon your main bootloader. Chainload into GRUB2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff91 Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Make the OSx86 partition active to make Chameleon your main bootloader. Chainload into GRUB2. Got a HOWTO for doing this/do you think it would solve the issue? From what I've read elsewhere it is better off having Grub2 as the main loader. ~Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff91 Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Ok - so I have the newest Chameleon now installed and it actually starts booting into OSX from it, but no matter what boot arguments I pass to the system it stalls booting at this line: WARNING - APCI_SMC_CtrlLoop::initCPUCtrlLoop - no-sub-config match for MacBookPro4,1 with 5 p-states, using default stepper instead Any ideas? ~Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.B Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 you might want to try the unoffical chameleon RC5 instead because according to the forums it has some feature to patch p-states, no idea what its about though so don't take my word for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff91 Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Tried two different builds of RC5 and they both give the same p state message. Any other suggestions? Also - another question. Is there a way I can see what boot arguments Chameleon is passing to my OSX kernel? If I can find this out I can just have grub2 pass them to the kernel as well - thus completely bypassing the need for a second boot loader. ~Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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