Windows always starts!

[thebigbrainman]

Hi Community!

Today I installed iAtkos v7 on my windows 7 ultimate 64 bit pc. After installation I restarted the PC, the Cameleon bootloader appears and everything works in the Mac OS X system. But then i inserted the windows boot CD to repair the system (for dual boot) and restarted the machine again. Since that Windows always starts when i switch on the computer and the Cameleon Bootloader never appears. It just says: "boot0: done" .

[spalek83]

The partition Chameleon is installed on needs to be set to active for it to be booted to first. When you used the windows boot dvd to repair, assuming you did what I think you did, it repaired the bootloader, and changed which partition is marked as active(making windows partiton active and chameleon partition not)... assuming windows and chameleon were on different partitions of the same hard drive.

[angeldust_atlas]

Yes, you have to make OSX partition active.
Use "fdisk" on OSX or "diskpart" on Windows7 or Win DVD recovery console.

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fdisk /dev/rdisk0 (will show first HDD, asterix marks active partition)

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fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (to edit, type "p" to print current state, type "f 1" to mark 1 partition active, type "w" to write, "q" to quit)
Info here: http://ss64.com/osx/fdisk.html

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diskpart
list disk
select disk=0
detail disk
select partition=1 (or 2)
detail partition
active
exitInfo here: http://ss64.com/nt/diskpart.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415