Dual boot with Chameleon on 2 sepaprate harddrives

[robi40]

I'm trying to setup dual boot system with Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, I have 2 harddrives but I can only boot from the first drive (It's a HP DV7 laptop with 2 hdd bay, but BIOS only boots off the first drive)
I have Windows 7 on the first boot drive with MBR and Snow Leopard with GUID on the second drive.
How do I setup Chameleon to do the dual boot?

Here is what i tried so far:
- Install Chameleon On the SL drive, but  i can boot from that drive
- Try to install chameleon on the windows drive, but that destroys the master boot record

Any help would be appriciated!

[s0nykus]

Hey robi40,


You need to fix your Win 7 bootloader as described here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=165899

(look at paragraphs 5 to 7)

At step 7, you can reinstall Chameleon, and (after setting your Win partition to non-active) your Win will boot via Chameleon, and it won't complain anymore.

There are also some Chameleon options that might come in handy, like:

"Scan Single Drive"=No
(I'm not sure what the default value is for this one, but you can try playing with it)

and

"Default Partition"=hd(x,y)
(In case you want to set one of your drives/partitions as default for Chameleon)



P.S.: Some tutorials you'll run across might mention the use of EasyBCD. I would NOT recommend messing with it, or more precisely, using it in conjunction with Chameleon. In my opinion, that is just one more way to mess up things up completely. Chameleon is / should be able to deal with your setup on its own.


Good luck and be patient, just try and try again, until things will work out for you, in the end.