Chameleon Bootloader Hidden Partition?!

[HackingCows]

Hey Guys!

 

Recently i've installed Chameleon Bootloader RC4 in my mac partition and it worked fine. Unfortunately I was being rash and messed up my hard drive. No problem, I thought, just reformat and reinstall. I used the windows and mac partitioners and tried booting into my mac partition with easyBcd. oddly enough it showed a chameleon bootloader rc4 while i did a fresh install of iDeneb with only chameleon bootloader v1. Fed up with this, I used the program kill disk, from KillDisk.com which ensures that all data is destroyed and is neraly impossible to recover. Kinda overkill, but even after I install Windows with EasyBcd it STILL boots up into the Chameleon Bootloader RC4 screen, which by the way freezes when I try to boot into the HFS+ partition. Any ideas?

[J.B]

if yo used easyBCD to add an entry to the windows bootloader to boot OSX, it adds its own chameleon bootloader to "bridge he gap" between windows bootloader and booting the OSX kernel, essentially easyBCD put it there

[HackingCows]

if yo used easyBCD to add an entry to the windows bootloader to boot OSX, it adds its own chameleon bootloader to "bridge he gap" between windows bootloader and booting the OSX kernel, essentially easyBCD put it there

 

Wait ... so you are saying that easyBcd installed the chameleon bootloader rc4 by itself? Do you know any solution to fix this?

[J.B]

put quite simply, dont use easyBCD

 

though, v2 RC4 will (obviously) but better than v1, so you might want to try and findout what the problem is between the two, because if v1 can boot, i don;t see why v2 shouldn't be able to

 

an alternative is that if you have the OSes install on different HDD (like my signature) you can install chameleon to the EFI partition of the OSX HDD, and it will boot OSX and windows easily (thats what i have set up)

[HackingCows]

put quite simply, dont use easyBCD

 

though, v2 RC4 will (obviously) but better than v1, so you might want to try and findout what the problem is between the two, because if v1 can boot, i don;t see why v2 shouldn't be able to

 

an alternative is that if you have the OSes install on different HDD (like my signature) you can install chameleon to the EFI partition of the OSX HDD, and it will boot OSX and windows easily (thats what i have set up)

 

Thank you for replying to my post.

 

I don't think you understand my current position. After installing Mac, and then Windows, I try to boot into Mac OS from EasyBCD expecting to see a Chameleon Bootloader V1, except that I find an nonfunctional version of Chameleon Bootloader v2 RC4 that can only boot into the Windows NTFS partition and not the HFS+ partition.

 

I have not installed RC4 in this new reformat. I don't know why my reformatting does not erase the Chameleon Bootloader v2. Every time I use EasyBCD it chooses to boot into this odd twisted version of Chameleon Bootloader. Yes I have installed RC4 in the past, but I do not understand why it was not removed through reformatting. This leads me to think that there is a hidden EFI partition of the Bootloader.

 

I am asking you if there is a way to get rid of this. The solution that you suggested isn't clear. Do you mean for me to upgrade my Bootloader?

[J.B]

what is your current HDD configuration?

 

and yes, i think that when you format a partition to HFS+, i also creates a tiny hidden EFI partition for booting OSX, this is where you want to install you bootloader (using the instructions and fdisk utility that comes with all chameleon releases) once that is done, you should be able to boot OSX on you HDD, but not the windows, to fix that you have to boot into the windows cd and repair the bootloader

 

after doing that you be able to boot windows but not OSX, to fix this you must boot into windows and in the command line type some command to makr the OSX partition as active, however, i can't remember that bit (not having used it myself as i used 2 different HDDs, one for each OS) so you will have to google for the specific instructions