TequilaKez Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I used to have a triple boot system running fine with chameleon RC3 and 10.6.5 / Win 7 / Ubuntu Lucid, but since upgrading the linux partition keeps disappearing from Chameleon. I have Snow leopard on it's own drive which has the bootloader and Win7 and Ubuntu share another drive. I installed Ubuntu chosing to install grub on the Ubuntu partition (/dev/sdd5 in my case) but it doesn't show up in chameleon. If I boot from the Live CD and reinstall Grub2 like this... sudo mount /dev/sdd5 /mnt sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sdd5 --force ... and then reboot, Linux finally shows up in the chameleon bootloader until I reboot again............ and it's gone. So each time I want to boot into Ubuntu I have to boot with the liveCD, reinstall grub and then reboot. I want to use Chameleon as the bootloader as it's much prettier than grub and I don't want any extra steps involved to booting normally into snow leopard. I also want Windows to be a selection from chameleon as I used to have it so Grub must go on the Ubuntu partition and not the MBR. Any ideas why ubuntu would be modifying (perhaps it thinks it needs repairing) it's own bootloader on reboot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244246-problems-with-chameleon-rc5-and-grub2-maverick/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dublea Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Are you using RC5 for Chameleon?? RC4 had issues with seeing grub Also, be sure to lock grup-pc and grub-common from updating inside of the synaptic package manger. This will prevent you from having issues again also. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244246-problems-with-chameleon-rc5-and-grub2-maverick/#findComment-1629906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TequilaKez Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 Are you using RC5 for Chameleon?? RC4 had issues with seeing grub Everything was working fine with Chameleon v2 RC3. It works with RC5 for one session then is gone after rebooting. Also, be sure to lock grup-pc and grub-common from updating inside of the synaptic package manger. This will prevent you from having issues again also. How do I lock the files? I am pretty sure it's not updates causing this behaivour (unless Maverick Meerkat has updates happenning in the background wihtout me authorizing them). It must be something in the shutdown phase that is changing things. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244246-problems-with-chameleon-rc5-and-grub2-maverick/#findComment-1630029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dublea Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Well I'm working with a fresh install of OS X 10.6.6, Win7, and Ubuntu. RC5 has no issues seeing my Grub. Now I did use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. I would highly recommend using them with a retail disc of OSX 10.6.3. Here is how I set up this box: Installed OSX 10.6.6 w/ Chameleon RC5 from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Installed Win7 x64 Booted to OSX via [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disk, downloaded RC5 from voodoo directly and installed Changed Chameleon theme after booting into OSX one more time. Installed Ubuntu 10.10 w/ grub installed on / reboot and make changes to grub not to display OSX or WIn7 Edited com.apple.boot.plist to hide none bootable partitions and make Ubuntu default partition. To lock a package from updating within Synaptic Package manager, check the packages you wish to lock, go to Edit > Lock package version If you would like I can make a detailed step by step guide to installing the system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244246-problems-with-chameleon-rc5-and-grub2-maverick/#findComment-1630414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danageis Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I am having this exact problem.... mind clueing me in on how you solved it/what the source of the problem is specifically? I am running Ubuntu 11.04 Win7 and 10.6.6i from Hazard with the Chameleon RC5 from the disc. GRUB2 is installed to linux partition, but every time I boot into Ubuntu and reboot, the drive has disappeared from chameleon and I need to reinstall GRUB to the partition from the 11.04 liveCD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244246-problems-with-chameleon-rc5-and-grub2-maverick/#findComment-1746265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
econby Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Had exact the same problem (ubuntu is on sda2), fixed by adding grub-install --force /dev/sda2 at /etc/rc.local Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244246-problems-with-chameleon-rc5-and-grub2-maverick/#findComment-1789921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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