chameleon boot order "default partition" not working

[N!tr@m]

Hello,

 

I have 2 HDDs. On the first is windows and on the second there is SL and the chameleon bootloader. Now, SL is the first boot device in chameleon's boot order, but I would prefer windows to be the first, so that I would have to swap the boot devices to boot into SL. Everything clear so far?

 

I tried to customize the com.apple.boot.plist. The SL partition is hdd 1, partition 4 and the windows partition is hdd 0, partition 1. I added the following into com.apple.boot.plist:

 

<key>Default Partition</key>

<string>hd(0,1)</string>

 

The parameters are 100% correct, but there is only a boot error..."mach_kernel can't be found" and windows isn't default partition further on.

 

I really am fed up with selecting the hdd in the bios pressing F12 and so on...there must be another way to get it work this way, but I don't know how

 

Thanks,

N!tr@m

[Gringo Vermelho]

I assume you're using Windows 7?

 

Does Windows' "System Reserved" partition appear in the list of bootable partitions? You must set that as default partition if you want to autoboot Windows.

 

What version of Chameleon are you using? Make sure it's not too old to support the default partition flag. You can check the docs over at the Voodoo Projects forum.

 

Anyway;

 

Open Terminal.app, type diskutil list and post the output here.

[N!tr@m]

I assume you're using Windows 7?

 

Does Windows' "System Reserved" partition appear in the list of bootable partitions? You must set that as default partition if you want to autoboot Windows.

 

What version of Chameleon are you using? Make sure it's not too old to support the default partition flag. You can check the docs over at the Voodoo Projects forum.

 

Anyway;

 

Open Terminal.app, type diskutil list and post the output here.

 

Where should "System Reserved" partition appear? In the boot screen only "OS" (which is Windows 7) appears. This is the partition I want to boot in. It's the version 2.0-RC4 of chameleon. Default partition flag should be supported.

 

This is what diskutil list says:

 

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: 0xDE 82.2 MB disk0s1

2: Windows_NTFS RECOVERY 16.1 GB disk0s2

3: Windows_NTFS OS 379.1 GB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk1

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac1 49.5 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_HFS Mac2 26.0 GB disk1s3

4: Apple_HFS Mac OS 84.0 GB disk1s4

 

Anything wrong I did before?

 

Here's my current com.apple.boot.plist-file. Maybe it helps:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>1</string>

<key>Legacy Logo</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>

<string>Yes</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

Thanks,

N!tr@m