Thrace Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 So, I hope you all can help me. Thanks for reading. I have a rig with one disk for Windows 8 and one disk for OS X and I use f12 at boot to move between then, Win8 using the Microsoft bootloader and OSX using Chameleon. However, something happened to my OS X disk yesterday and for whatever reason, I just couldn't boot any longer to it. It hung at the DMI portion of boot. Now, I had all my data backed up (including my extra directory, smbios.plist and everything) so I blew the drive partitions away and recreated an entirely new EFI-based GUID disk, reinstalled ML from my dedicated external USB install drive and then I copied over my extra folder, boot file, etc back over but I wasn't able to get in still. Do you all know if I did something wrong, or if I'm missing something? Thanks again for reading. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286464-disaster-recovery-chameleon-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Cant you boot from the external drive and use the boot loader installed on that to boot from your hard drive? Copying the "boot" file installing Chameleon. The boot loader itself consists of three files, boot is just one of them. Read (register to download files). Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286464-disaster-recovery-chameleon-wont-boot/#findComment-1889822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrace Posted February 17, 2013 Author Share Posted February 17, 2013 Thanks for responding. The external drive isn't an OS X partition, per se. It's just the install media so when it boots, it just goes right to the installation, not to a Chameleon boot screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286464-disaster-recovery-chameleon-wont-boot/#findComment-1889825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 You would not be able to boot it on your PC at all if it didn't have Chameleon (or another boot loader) installed on it. You probably have the GUI disabled. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286464-disaster-recovery-chameleon-wont-boot/#findComment-1889828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrace Posted February 17, 2013 Author Share Posted February 17, 2013 Do you know how I can toggle the GUI part of it? I think I figured it out. Thank you for all your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286464-disaster-recovery-chameleon-wont-boot/#findComment-1889838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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