Kalyway 10.5.2 on VAIO

[ShadowHearts]

Hello all,

 

I am attempting a triple boot on my Sony VAIO laptop with intel chip. This is a new computer and Windows 7 came preinstalled. My plan of action was to then install osx followed by linux. Unfortunately, I am hung up at the osx install and came to this forum in hopes of some guidance. I would greatly appreciate any help as I am stuck at this point and do not know where to go from here.

 

The current state of events:

 

I partitioned my hdd to have a parition for each os. The one for mac osx was intially formated as fat32. I booted from the kalyway 10.5.2 install disk and erased the osx partition and formated it as hfs. I then customized the install. I kept the sleep kernal option and chose the ati graphics option as that is my graphics card. Finally, I added some of the third party applications and began the install. I did recieve a succesful install message and rebooted my computer. I repaired windows 7 startup with the repair disc and rebooted again. Initially, I could only boot into windows 7 and so I installed easy BCD and added a mac osx entry. Now, upon startup, I could choose to boot into windows 7 (which works just fine) or the osx entry. Upon selecting osx, I am taken to the chameleon bootloader.

 

Here is where my problems begin. Strangly, the default partition shown by chameleon is the partition named ubuntu. However, I have not installed an os to that partition yet. I merely created it at the same time as my osx partition. If I press F8 before the timeout, the osx partition is now displayed. I have tried to boot (hangs at chameleon) and verbose/single boot (which will display some text but still hangs at chameleon). Typing -x for safe mode also hangs at chameleon.

 

Since chameleon displayed by default a partition other than osx, I looked into setting the osx partition as active elsewhere on this forum using fdisk from the terminal window of the kalyway disc. I chose the disk the partition was located on (disk0) and after I press 'p', I noticed that there are two possible partitions for osx. It seems as both choice 2 and 3 say hfs. If I set 2 to active, upon reboot, I am taken to windows - skipping the easybcd bootloader. If I set 3 to active, upon reboot, I am told bootmgr is missing and must edit the active partition to another choice to boot.

 

So now I am out of ideas as to where I should look next or what I should google as far as what exactly my problem is: chameleon? or something else?

 

If any more information is needed, I would be happy to provide.

 

Thanks in advance.