OSX and Windows 7 on SEPARATE hard drives

[PappaP]

Hi Guys,

First of all, great work on the bootloader, looks very slick.

I have OSX and Windows 7 installed on two separate hard drives, no other partitions on either.
Once I got each setup working, I tested each installation by switching the hard drive boot order in BIOS, and found this to work fine.

Obviously this is not ideal, so I went ahead and installed Chameleon 2.0 on the OSX hard drive, through the use of an installer. When I restart, Chameleon comes up fine, showing both OSX and Windows 7, and boots into OSX fine.

When I select the windows 7 installation I immediately get a 'BOOTMGR not found' error and am forced to reset. I can still change the boot order in BIOS to access windows 7.

Any ideas? 

[badisi]

Hi,

Same problem here!

I have a netbook with 3 partitions : WIN7, NTFS, OSX

What i did:
- Installed win7
- Installed osx with chameleon 2 rc1
- Tried to start osx (= fine)
- Tried to start win7 (= got the "bootmgr" error message)
- Boot-up with win7 dvd and tried to repair (= error can't repair)
- Boot-up with win7 dvd and tried to play with fdisk (= lost chameleon)
- Re-installed win7 (= boot fine)
- Boot-up with osx dvd and installed chameleon 2 rc3 (= again can't boot on win7 but got different error message (asked me to use dvd and repair : but failed))

Now i'm stuck...

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks guys

[badisi]

Ok, back with the answer !

For those with the same problem, this solution worked for me :

http://www.darwinx86.org/guides/trucs-et-astuces/146-restaurer-chameleon-2

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[scorcho]

select the 'System Reserved' partition on the other disk.

[PappaP]

select the 'System Reserved' partition on the other disk.

I don't seem to have this partition as an option.. Just OSX, Windows 7 Drive, and two external storage drives.

[renard45]

similar problem here but for me i have a black screen when i have both hard drives connected...alone they boot up perfectly help please

[thorazine74]

It seems Windows 7 installs its boot files in a separate partition marked as reserved by default, and maybe Chameleon is not displaying it in the menu but the main system partition which is not bootable by itself (cuz the bootmgr is not there).
You could try pressing [TAB] to switch into the text menu, I think all available partitions are displayed there, not just the ones chameleon believes are suitable for booting like in the graphical menu (unless reserved partitions are hidden by default in all chameleon)