Please help.
I installed many many times (over 10 times) Snow Leopard and followed many instructions I found on the net to install Chameleon.
I also installed it using MultiBeast.
I have the following configuration:
- Disk 0 :
- System Reserved Partition
- Windows 7 NTFS
- Disk 1 :
- Disk 2 :
- Disk 3 :
- Disk 4 : USB External
During a few of the installations I installed SL with all other drives physically unplugged and the MacOSX one in first place. I still could not get Chameleon installed - manually or automatically through Multibeast - the system kept crashing with panic etc. I did not understand very well all that and did not resolve or debug the kernel panic. So at one stage I connected all my drives in the config shown above. Then tried another few installs f SL.
Somehow, I have no idea when and how, I installed
Chameleon on my first drive, i.e. my Win7 NTFS drive.
If I now disconnect all my drives but Drive 0 (as per the list above), I get the EasyBCD boot menu allowing me to boot Win or MacOX. If I choose Mac OS, I get the Chameleon boot loader.
WHERE IS IT? I could not find it anywhere, neither as a hidden file nor as a normal directory/files.
The problem is that it can only successfully boot/load the MacOS partition with SL if it is the LAST ONE. However, the USB drive is the last partition and now even if I press F8 and choose manually the MacOS option, the system just restarts.
Can anyone please help with this?
All I want is dual boot - Win 7 / Mac OS X
I am quite happy of the boot manager is Chameleon, as long as have this functionality. 99.99% of any posts on the net only deal with several partitions on the same drive and that drive is invariably the first one...
So please: - where is the Chameleon hiding?
- can I configure it to ignore the USB drive(s) so that the MacOSX is booted correctly?
- can I remove it and boot from a different installation of the Chameleon from a different partition on the MacOSX drive?
Many thanks,
n00b