Hiding/managing partitions

[chicagofilms]

Can someone help me sort out the partitions I have showing in Chameleon?  Here's what I have:

Disk0 is Windows 7 and Disk2 is Windows Server.
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:               Windows_NTFS System Reserved         104.9 MB   disk0s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS Win7                    320.0 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *160.0 GB   disk2
   1:               Windows_NTFS System Reserved         104.9 MB   disk2s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS                         159.9 GB   disk2s2

When I boot up, Chameleon shows me 4 options: OSX, System Reserved, Win7, System reserved, Windows_NTFS

I'd like Chameleon to simply show: OSX, Windows 7, and Windows Server.

Is there away to get this done correctly?  I have to click on the appropriate "System Reserved" partition to get Windows to boot, so hiding those doesn't work. And if I hade "Win7" and "Windows_NTFS" I'm just left with 2 "System Reserved" to choose from.

Can I simply rename all my partitions and hide the non-bootable ones? Will Windows boot if I rename the "System Reserved" partition?

Thanks

[Blackosx]

Hi chicagofilms

RC4 has the 'hide partition' boot option, though the 'rename partition' option I think is only supported in the current RC5 trunk.
But what you can do in your case, if using RC5, is add something like the following to your /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist

<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,2); hd(2,2)</string>

<key>Rename Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,1)Windows7; hd(2,1)Windows Server</string>

I think the semicolon is used as a delimiter but you'll have to try it to find out as I'm not in front on my hack where I have used it.

You can press TAB when at Chameleon's GUI to accurately discover the disk/partition numbers that Chameleon uses, as they might differ from how you see your drives from within OS X.

[chicagofilms]

thanks a million!  ill give it  shot when i get home tonight 

[chicagofilms]

Well, the hide flag works, but I'm not having any luck with the rename.

[chicagofilms]

Well, the light bulb finally went off in my dim little brain...

I simply renamed the system reserved drives in windows using disk manager. Now I have it all sorted.

Thanks again for the info!