somebodyelse123 Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Hi, I'm kinda of a noob at this stuff so pardon me for my noobiness. To start off, i download the iATKOS S3 and burned it to a disc. At first, the thing kept restarting so i researched a little and finally put busratio=20 (without -v) and it worked. I went through the setup, i was cofused which wirelss i had so i chose all the realtek ones, and the installation finished successfully. I took out the disc and the Chameleon RC4 thingy came up. Every time i try to boot OSx, it reboots. I installed it with windows 7 on the same hard drive. Computer specs: Core i5 450m Nvidia 310m 4gb ram Did I mention: I like cheese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svenmike Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Are you sure that it installed Chameleon correctly? If OS X is installed on the second partition then the installer may have tried to install the Chameleon "boot" file on your windows partition. I would recommend buying a 16 gig thumb drive or external usb hdd and installing OS X to it. That way there is nothing else on the drive and you can make sure the critical "boot" file in installed correctly. Plus then you have a backup incase you screw things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodroweBones Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 I've got this exact same issue... I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro L650 (Core i5 450M) which had Windows 7 on it. I had previously installed OSX on my desktop once upon a time so figured it was gonna be no prob to install on my laptop. After finding out I needed to use the busratio=19 parameter before booting iAtkos I went and installed OSX to an empty partition on my laptop hard drive. Now when I boot my laptop it goes to the chameleon loader and if I select OSX it just reboots and if I select Windows 7 it just says it cant find the winload.exe. I even tried bcdedit but it says it cant find the bcd store. So right now my laptop does nothing . I tried running OSX using the same busratio option but it still reboots. Any suggestions on how to get either OS working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodroweBones Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Just thought I'd throw up the solution to my issue... I didnt have much time to diagnose yesterday which is why I posted this up as a potential time saver (its a laptop I use for work and needed it asap this morning). All I did was boot my Hirens Boot CD and loaded up Mini Windows XP and set my Windows 7 partition as the active partition again. Then I had to boot off my Windows 7 DVD and run the startup repair (if I didnt set the partition to active the repair utility did not detect any windows installations). Once I did that I used EasyBCD to add in a Mac boot entry and I'm all set... Now I just have to get OSX working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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