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I had a working dualboot of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (same hdd) booting from chameleon on the OS X partition, unfortunately I had to reinstall Windows 7. Of course, as I expected this made the windows partition active so it would boot directly into windows, using a boot disc I went back into OS X and made it the active partition again so I could boot to chameleon, but now it just boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left, no chameleon!

 

I've double checked and the OS X partition is definitely active, I also tried reinstalling my chameleon bootloader, but this changes nothing.... please help!

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Did you go through the three steps of installing Chameleon?

 

From the readme:

Suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk0s2

 

- Install boot0 to the MBR:

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0

 

- Install boot1h to the partition's bootsector:

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2

 

- Install boot to the partition's root directory:

sudo cp boot /

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Dear peoples. I have Acronis Loader multiboot on SATA partitions (XPx64, Win7 and Snow with Chameleon loader); Everything worked fine. I've just added extra IDE HDD formatted NTFS to computer. Acronis loader works and boots into other systems where this HDD is visible and read/write is OK. But when I chooze to boot into SnowL via Chameleon it freezes with black screen and cursor blinking. If I disable this new IDE HDD detection in BIOS and it is not seen anymore, everything is fine as was before, so the problem is obviously with adding this extra HDD. Please help me what could be done, please.

Thank you

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I had a similar problem and even tho the OSx partition was set as active, win7 jumped in.

 

The solution was simple, I downloaded a little free prog called EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Then u simply add the OSx partition, u can then set it as the default option and if u want.

 

The only problem I now find is the chameleon bootloader will not load windows, it simply shows me the mbr boot options again, but I can live with it, its just like i have 2 bootloader menus to get Leo up!!

 

Hope this helps!!!

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I had a working dualboot of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (same hdd) booting from chameleon on the OS X partition, unfortunately I had to reinstall Windows 7. Of course, as I expected this made the windows partition active so it would boot directly into windows, using a boot disc I went back into OS X and made it the active partition again so I could boot to chameleon, but now it just boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left, no chameleon!

 

I've double checked and the OS X partition is definitely active, I also tried reinstalling my chameleon bootloader, but this changes nothing.... please help!

 

Try:

 

Boot with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] into SL

run gptsync

run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

reboot

 

This should properly reinstall Chameleon ... perhaps this is what you did except for gptsync ???

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Try:

 

Boot with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] into SL

run gptsync

run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

reboot

 

This should properly reinstall Chameleon ... perhaps this is what you did except for gptsync ???

 

 

I am having the exact same problem with the op.

 

JaBrd, how do I use gptsync to make my disk0s2 active? ? (although diskutil says it already IS active)

 

 

My background:

 

In my case I set the partition active by doing this:

 

Type diskutil list

The IDENTIFIER of my Apple_HFS Snow Leopard drive is disk0s2.

Type sudo -s

Enter your password.

Type fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0

Type y

Type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

Type p

Type f 2

Type w

Type y

Close Terminal and reboot.

 

I got stuck at this point:

 

bash-3.2# fdisk -e /dev/rdisk2

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

 

I ignored it and moved on and now after disconnecting external boot usb disk and booting normally my hackintosh stops right before the part where the bootloaded was supposed to come up.

 

Verifying DMI pool data ..................... (blinking cursor)

 

Normally, after that point the bootloader would come up and osx would launch.

 

It currently stops there, it does not freeze, but does not show the bootloader either. I can get to OSX only via the usb bootloader ([url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] or Kakewalk is the same for me).

 

I did re-install kakewalk but the bootloader still does not come up after the "Verifying DMI pool data" part. It is as if it can't find my drives.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

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