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talisman

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Chameleon and grub (/boot)
« on: April 07, 2009, 07:24:08 AM »
Thanks for the good work….

Chameleon cannot see my /boot partition (GRUB), hd(0,4) in my drive with MBR. I do have grub installed and working in it. Is there a way of editing the partition list in Chameleon as can be done with grub.conf?? Thanks
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stevmach

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Re: Chameleon and grub (/boot)
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2009, 11:47:20 AM »
Hi! i have the same bug!

 Chameleon don't see  ext3 partitions. I have already 2 hhd in double boot Mac Os X retail on the fisrt and windows on the next hdd and my linux on the third hdd. Chameleon work great for the 2 first but not with linux.

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BladeRunner

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Re: Chameleon and grub (/boot)
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2009, 04:43:17 PM »
I am not sure why you might be having this problem, but I am sure that Linux/grub/ext3 works with Chameleon.

I have an external USB drive partitioned MBR with openSUSE installed which is bootable from my Chameleon boot menu.  The drive is partitioned as primary 1 - ext3 "/", primary 2 - swap, primary 3 - LVM to contain all the other mount points.  Grub is installed in the boot sector of partition 1.

I hope you have good luck in resolving your problem.
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mackerintel

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Re: Chameleon and grub (/boot)
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2009, 09:44:11 PM »
chameleon shows ext2/3 partitions if and only if a bootloader is installed to that partition. (see LILO/grub manual on installing to partition and not MBR)

stevmach

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Re: Chameleon and grub (/boot)
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2009, 03:42:47 AM »
Ok thanks! i try hit and it work great !!  triple boot , 3 hdd with mac os x retail , xp pro and ubuntu 8,10  with th great chameleon!!!!