WIND-OSX-Version 10.5.4 first (...) then I found SnowyWind 10.6.2
I highly recommend that you forget about those. Distros are nothing but trouble, especially when you want to update - as you have found out. Because of the way "SnowyWind" (and distros in general) is put together, updating to 10.6.7 breaks it when the patches that keep it running get overwritten with original, unmodified Apple files.
Yes, that's how far I am with putting Mac OS X onto the Wind ... Anyway I prefer not only updatable stuff, but additions rather than replacements of relevant parts ...
This can be avoided by installing retail OS X, and keeping your patches in the /Extra folder, separated from the OS itself. An Apple update will not touch the /Extra folder or any files in it.
That's how the real working solution will look like ...
Get a retail Snow Leopard DVD and use an MSI Wind boot CD to boot and install it to an external USB hard drive.
Darn, I had an well priced offer for an original Apple-Retail-DVD some weeks ago ...
Google "MSI Wind boot CD", it looks like there are several available.
Just to clarify: that would be the "additional stuff" as mentioned above?
Once you're done, install Chameleon manually to the hard drive.
Mandatory to make it boot?
Google to find retail OS X guides for the Wind to learn how others have set up Chameleon with the necessary patches so that OS X will run on it.
That would be the "vanilla install"?
(it is against the rules to discuss that here).
... sure - this is chameleon-forum - and nothing else ...
Retail will install to GUID only, but you might be able to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X install to an MBR formatted drive later (ie your internal drive).
CCC does not clone the boot loader so you will have to install Chameleon again after cloning.
So that's probably why my USB-Drives won't boot: I copied entire Mac OS X with CarbonCopyCloner to external USB-Drive. Could it be that there is some bootloader is missing that it does not boot from it - and could installing of chameleon onto that external USB-Drive make it boot? I tried both, GUID and MBR, on the external drive - and neither worked.
This time, in a way that it will work with Windows, so that you can dual boot from your internal drive. See link I posted on the previous page.
Meaning: the internal drive will have GPT and not MBR - and Windows XP will work on it? Or would only Vista or W7 run on GPT?