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[Chameleon] Working system, bootloader starts, doesn't see Hack drive

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Dear all,

 

I've been in the Hackintosh world for a little while, but this quite surprised me.

After reinstalling my PC's hardware in a different case, I'm not seeing the OS X drive to start from in Chameleon anymore. This system had been running fine for months.

 

Interestingly enough, the UEFI sees the drive and can start from it, and the bootloader starts as usual. I just don't see the OS X drive to start from, only my Win drives.

 

I've tried changing SATA ports, but there's only two SATA-300 ports in my system I ran this drive off (ITX, 2x S6, 2x S3), and it just doesn't see the drive in Chameleon.

 

Windows shows the drive fine, and I have access to its files. I think my org.chameleon.Boot.plist is fine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>IGPEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>kext-dev-mode=1</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
        <key>HDEFLayoutID</key>
        <string>01000000</string>
        <key>GenerateCStates</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
        <key>GeneratePStates</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
        <key>UseKernelCache</key>
        <string>Yes</string>
<key>HDAEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Default Partition</key>
<string>hd(2,1)</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

- Al

 

ASRock Z77E-ITX (2x S3 / 2x S6)

3570K

2TB, 830 Pro 256GB, 840EVO 250GB, Kingston 120GB

16GB DDR3

 

Ran El Cap fine for months off of 120GB SSD

Allubz
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I think it's Enoch yeah. Is there a way to check? I usually run Clover, but this PC needed Chameleon.

 

EDIT: It's Chimera

 

I'm trying to make a new bootable USB now. If that works, I'll reinstall the bootloader.

 

EDIT2:
Other bootables don't see it either.

 

I think it has something to do with none of the partitions being active, but I can't set them to active in Windows either ;/

Allubz
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The plot thickens.

 

I'm 100% sure I'm using a Chameleon-based bootloader. It says Chimera 4.1.

 

I have used this for months, until I happened to reinstall the hardware on my system into a new casing.

I'm trying to make a Enoch bootable on a VMWare system, because currently I have only a Snow Leopard system that doesn't accept Enoch for USB. The installer keeps failing.

Allubz
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Now I'm thoroughly confused.

 

I'm running  Chimera, I mean, it shows that literally and I know what Clover looks like as well.

 

I've had this system run for months, until the hardware rebuild.

 

I'm lost. But I think I'll try to to install either Enoch to USB or Clover, but I didn't have time the last 2 days.

 

I'm running El Cap, pretty sure about that, but eh, it's hard to check if I can't launch the system. I can access the Mac HDD though, so if there's a file indicating the one or the other, I could show.

 

Any ideas on why my drive wouldn't show up in the bootloader, though?

 

Cheers :) Thanks for thinking with me people!

Allubz
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It took me a while to get time for this.

 

Fact of the matter is: My bootable Clover installer doesn't see the Hack partition either.

 

It seems to me that the partition isn't marked as "active", but so far Windows hasn't helped me do this either (it's grayed out).

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