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Chimera text-spinner suddenly hangs (at about '|' or '/') with presence of internal time machine dri

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me too is having this problem. But my drive is only 320gb.

For now, I am using the "Scan Single Drive" method but I do multiboot so it is a bit of a hassle. When I need to boot into windows, I will go into BIOS and select the windows drive to boot. For some motherboards you have option to go into boot menu where you can directly select which drive to boot.

So you're pressing F12 during boot then selecting your Windows drive? You seem to be indicating that you're entering the BIOS by pressing delete and selecting the drive. Please clarify.

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+1 for the Scan Single Drive = Yes workaround. Working fine for me so far, anyway!

I also multi-boot between OS X, Windoze and various Linux distributions (currently Linux Mint). I let Linux's Grub boot loader handle the multi-boot side of things, so Chameleon/Chimera only has to handle booting of OS X, which is on its own SSD, of course.

In order include Chameleon as a boot menu option in Grub - a technique known as "Chain Loading" - I had to edit the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom in Linux. I appended the following entry to the end of that file:

# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "Mac OS X Chainloader" {
set root=(hd3)
chainloader +1
}


You'll need to change the (hd3) to match your own OS X drive. (Tip: when you're at the Grub boot menu, hit the "e" key to edit the entry on the fly. You can then experiment with hd1, hd2, hd3 etc until you trigger Chameleon.)

After saving your /etc/grub.d/40_custom file, you need to then issue a "sudo update-grub" command at your Linux console and you're done.

And you can always change the default boot option in Grub to be your Chameleon entry. I do! Just look for the GRUB_DEFAULT= option, and set it to be the number of your Chameleon entry in the list. (NB: the menu list count starts from zero not one.)
 
+1 for the Scan Single Drive = Yes workaround.

Thank you to Clipper99!
 
I wanted to supply an update on my machine's status. I installed 10.9 some time ago (July?) and used MultiBeast 6.4.x to install the Chimera 3.0.1 boot loader which shows Chameleon 2.2 r2378 Built 2014-05-07 when the space bar is pressed at startup to display all of the bootable volumes. I didn't notice at the time but I have now confirmed that I no longer need to disconnect my external drives with my Time Machine backups on them to boot. I get through the spinner with them connected, no problem. This could be a result of a fix to Chameleon. Or it could be a change in the Time Machine backups on the disk in that somehow they have changed in a way that Chameleon no longer hangs when it encounters them.
 
Just wanted to thank whoever provided the solution of "Scan Single Drive." That fixed this problem for me.

Out of the blue this past Saturday the secondary drive disappeared from the desktop on my wife's Hack. When I tried to reboot, it got stuck at the blinking hyphen. I'd had this happen some months ago, so I knew exactly what to do...disconnect that drive. Note that this is not a Time Machine drive. It's just data storage.

I put that drive in a docking station and attached it to my Hack and lo and behold it mounted fine and everything seemed to be intact. I ran disk verify and even disk repair from Disk Utility and it said the drive was just fine.

So that got me to searching and I found this thread. This morning I added that string to my boot.plist and voila! everything is fine again.

I did go ahead and order a new 4TB drive from Amazon before I found this fix. I will probably go ahead and swap the drive out since this is the second time this has happened. Would sure love to know what causes it.
 
I've been having this problem on and off for a few years. Something goes wrong with my Time Machine internal drive. Last few times, I reformatted that drive, but the Single Scan Drive solution is working for me and much better than reformatting and copying 2 TB of data for no good reason. BTW, I'm using Chimera 2.1.2. Do newer versions eliminate this bug?

What exactly goes wrong with the Time Machine drive that would cause Chimera to think it was a bootable system drive?
 
No clue what causes it. To the best of my knowledge, this bug has not been fixed in Chimera/Chameleon. However, it does not exist in Clover, which seems to be the new standard in Hackintosh. I migrated my system to Clover a couple weeks back with minimal difficulty.
 
I migrated my system to Clover a couple weeks back with minimal difficulty.

Is it possible to overwrite Chimera with Clover? I'm stuck at Mountain Lion for compatibility with Pro Tools 10. I have a pretty old motherboard, with a DSDT file, if that helps.
 
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