Cant boot from Chameleon (AsereBLN)

[barbaroja]

Hi community. I am posting this in my hackintosh: gigabyte P35C-DS3R, Q6600, BIOS F12.

Running Snow leopard 10.6.3 via [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (supported boot CD). I have windows in another disk (disconnected) so OS X is alone in this one. The disk has been partitioned using a GUID scheme, with 3 visible MAC OS X partitions: On the first one is OS X, a second one for files, and a third for Chameleon (modded AsereBLN 1.1.9).

 

Since booting from CD is not nice anymore, and in order to use my already manually patched DSDT and extras, I have followed any imaginable guide to install Chameleon AsereBLT flavor in the Chameleon partition. I even tried to install to a USB stick but the system wont boot, it does not even shows the boot0 message that comes prior to booth.

 

So I am stuck using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] from the DVD drive in IDE mode connected through the jmicron connectors. I must say I used tonymac´s AsereBLN installer in both of the partitions (OSX and Chameleon) but I read that if the system does not find the boot file in a partition then its like nothing happened. Right now the Chameleon partition is the last one in the drive, if that matters.

All of the boot files were also copied via terminal to the Chameleon partition, including the boot file.

 

So please help me to boot from AsereBLN. Thanks guys!

[barbaroja]

UPDATE: Used tonymacs installer for EFI10.6 and AsereBLN 1.1.9 and tested in another PC.

 

...booted fine via USB... Its getting scary. Why would my PC not recognize these booters? Its starting to sound BIOS to me. But hey: The CD boots just fine! Arghhhhhh

[Svenmike]

You need to install Chameleon on the EFI partition of your hard drive, as in the very first portion of the drive. Chameleon cannot boot OS X unless it is on the same drive. Having a seperate partition for Chameleon is pointless.

Open up Terminal.app and follow these installation instructions;

 

cd into the folder containing Chameleon. Then:

 

Install boot0 to the EFI:

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 /