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s0teric

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Booting...
« on: October 06, 2011, 05:35:51 PM »
Okay, I recently got a 2tb hard drive and proceeded to break it up into 4 partitions. One 1.7TB Windows 7 partition, a 50 GB Windows XP partition, a 50 GB Ubuntu partition, and a 50GB Snow Leopard partition. I also have a separate hard disk that is 500GB and has one Windows Vista partition. My desire was for my computer to boot into the 2tb hard drive into the mac osx partition, so that chameleon bootloader would load by default, from which I could choose any os from either disk. However after installing the aforementioned os's on the 2tb disk in the order mentioned the xp partition booted by default. In order to boot from the mac osx partition by default I edited xp's boot.ini file. This, however, made all of my windows partitions unbootable. After messing with and ruining the bcd, i had to boot a copy of winpe and rebuild the boot files by pointing them to the recovery partition. Now, when I boot into the 2tb hard drive, I get a flashing cursor, and when I attempt to boot into the hard drive that contains windows vista, my windows 7 partition is what loads. Can anyone help my sort out this bootloader mess and help me reach my goal of a single bootloader (chameleon) on startup? I have no idea what I have done to this boot process. I can tell you the commands I ran from winpe if that will help anyone make sense of what's going on here.

Blackosx

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 06:02:53 PM »
hmmm..

I would boot in to the 50GB Snow Leopard partition from a bootable Chameleon USB flash drive (which I always create and leave safely tucked away in case of emergencies), then run the package installer from here and point it to your 50GB Snow Leopard partition.

You should be able to then reboot and boot in to Chameleon, from where you can select either your Windows 7, Ubuntu or Snow Leopard installations (well, that's the general idea anyhow). I'm not sure about booting XP from Chameleon though, you'll have to look around here for a discussion on that. It can be chain loaded I think, but I haven't done it as I've not used XP for years.



So, first question is: do you have a way to boot your OS X system? either a boot CD or USB flash drive? If not then this won't help you much.
« Last Edit: October 06, 2011, 06:12:17 PM by Blackosx »
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Gringo Vermelho

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2011, 08:02:13 PM »
If you have access to a Windows PC you can throw together a quick Chameleon emergency USB stick like this:
http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,2143.0.html
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Install Chameleon: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,649
Make your own Chameleon boot CD: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,484.msg2131.html#msg2131

Blackosx

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2011, 08:09:16 PM »
Good call Gringo  ;D
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s0teric

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2011, 04:50:36 AM »
The mbr won't write to the drive using the makeusb command even under administrator privaleges.

BOOM screenie

« Last Edit: October 07, 2011, 04:52:36 AM by s0teric »

Gringo Vermelho

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2011, 05:19:10 AM »
Strange, it works perfectly fine here (64-bit 7 Ultimate).
Try formatting the flash drive to FAT32 first..doesn't make sense I know, but try it.
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How to...
Install Chameleon: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,649
Make your own Chameleon boot CD: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,484.msg2131.html#msg2131

s0teric

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2011, 05:48:19 AM »
It was formatted fat32 I reformatted it again just in case my usb drive was having an identity crisis, yet it still did not work.

Gringo Vermelho

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2011, 04:50:01 PM »
Try using a 2GB (or less) flash drive.

Or try creating a small partition on the flash drive and run makeusb on that.
« Last Edit: October 07, 2011, 04:55:26 PM by Gringo Vermelho »
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How to...
Install Chameleon: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,649
Make your own Chameleon boot CD: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,484.msg2131.html#msg2131

s0teric

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Re: Booting...
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2011, 06:50:36 AM »
I wrangled a 256MB Kingston from my sister, copying the files went fine, but I select it in the boot menu I get:

Boot0: Done
Boot1f: Init
Boot1f: Error

I know. I can't make this easy for you.