Issue with Chameleon and Samsung NP-RF411-S03SG

[SRSR333]

Hi  

I have an issue with my laptop hack. For some reason, Chameleon messed up and I restored the Windows boot loader, thinking that I could always use my USB installer with Chameleon to boot up OS X and fix the problem. However, I realised that my USB installer actually uses Clover (I forgot that I prepared it for a new laptop with Haswell). Now, I have an OS X partition configured for Chameleon, and I can't boot it with the USB drive. I get a white screen and then screen artifacts after booting. Doesn't go to the login page. Laptop specs in signature. Please help. Thanks

[fusion71au]

Hi,

 

I don't know if you've already solved this yourself but I have a few suggestions:

 

• If chameleon's boot files are still on your OSX partition, you can use EasyBCD to configure the Windows bootloader to chainload chameleon ---> boot OSX (see instructions here "OSX before Windows")
• You can access your chameleon /Extra files (on the OSX partition) from Windows by installing Transmac or Apple's bootcamp HFS drivers.  You can then create a chameleon/Clover boot disk with cVaD's BootDiskUtility --->copy your org.chameleon.boot.plist & SMBIOS.plist files to the /Extra folder on the boot disk ---> boot with chameleon into your OSX partition on the hard disk (press <2> at boot time to choose chameleon over Clover)--->reinstall chameleon on your hard drive.
• Tweak the config.plist on your Clover Installer USB (in EFI/Clover/config.plist) so that it can successfully boot your OSX on the hard drive, then reinstall chameleon/Clover on the HD.  See Clover instructions thread for tips on graphics.

Hope that helps .

[SRSR333]

Hi,

 

I don't know if you've already solved this yourself but I have a few suggestions:

 

• If chameleon's boot files are still on your OSX partition, you can use EasyBCD to configure the Windows bootloader to chainload chameleon ---> boot OSX (see instructions here "OSX before Windows")
• You can access your chameleon /Extra files (on the OSX partition) from Windows by installing Transmac or Apple's bootcamp HFS drivers.  You can then create a chameleon/Clover boot disk with cVaD's BootDiskUtility --->copy your org.chameleon.boot.plist & SMBIOS.plist files to the /Extra folder on the boot disk ---> boot with chameleon into your OSX partition on the hard disk (press <2> at boot time to choose chameleon over Clover)--->reinstall chameleon on your hard drive.
• Tweak the config.plist on your Clover Installer USB (in EFI/Clover/config.plist) so that it can successfully boot your OSX on the hard drive, then reinstall chameleon/Clover on the HD.  See Clover instructions thread for tips on graphics.

Hope that helps .

Thanks for the extremely detailed post; it was quite useful. I actually did solve it before you made the post by watching a YouTube video on creating a Chameleon USB boot drive from Windows. Nevertheless, I and a few others are going to find this post useful in the future, and I'll mark it as solved. Thanks very much.