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- Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5
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- i7-8700K
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- RX 580
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Hello all,
FIrst of all, I apologize if this is posted in the wrong area as I couldn't figure out where to put it, so let me know if I need to move this elsewhere. I set up my system as a dual-boot years ago (Mac OS 10.6 on one drive and Windows 7 on another) and have been using it without too many hiccups ever since. I am not well versed in the way things work under the hood and would appreciate any advice you can offer on my challenges. I managed to upgrade the Mac boot drive to 10.8 at some point using instructions from this site. I want to add a third boot drive for the latest Mac OS, but leave my 10.8 drive intact because it is running an older version of ProTools (10.3) and I still need to use it. I tried disconnecting drives, but I don't quite understand where Chameleon is installed and how it interacts with everything. And I realize this site is about Macs, but when I boot into Win7 and attempt to upgrade it to Win 10, it restarts at some point, but never continues the upgrade because Chameleon intercepts? I have a feeling it is related to where the boot partition is, but maybe I am confusing myself here. So here is my system:
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R rev 2.0 with FH BIOS
CPU - i7 950 (LGA1366)
RAM - 12 GB (6 x 2GB)
Video - Nvidia GeForce GT 240
Hard Drive A - SSD 256GB Mac OS 10.8 drive
Hard Drive B - SSD 256GB Windows 7 drive
Hard Drive C - 2TB data and media drive
not sure where Chameleon is
Audio - Realtek ALC889
LAN - Realtek RTL8111E
Here is the portion of the boot file for the parameters that work for me:
<dict>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>"1920x1080x32"</string>
</dict>
Mixing in ProTools is the main function for this computer. Here are my questions and I do appreciate any feedback or suggestions you can provide:
Thanks,
Damien
FIrst of all, I apologize if this is posted in the wrong area as I couldn't figure out where to put it, so let me know if I need to move this elsewhere. I set up my system as a dual-boot years ago (Mac OS 10.6 on one drive and Windows 7 on another) and have been using it without too many hiccups ever since. I am not well versed in the way things work under the hood and would appreciate any advice you can offer on my challenges. I managed to upgrade the Mac boot drive to 10.8 at some point using instructions from this site. I want to add a third boot drive for the latest Mac OS, but leave my 10.8 drive intact because it is running an older version of ProTools (10.3) and I still need to use it. I tried disconnecting drives, but I don't quite understand where Chameleon is installed and how it interacts with everything. And I realize this site is about Macs, but when I boot into Win7 and attempt to upgrade it to Win 10, it restarts at some point, but never continues the upgrade because Chameleon intercepts? I have a feeling it is related to where the boot partition is, but maybe I am confusing myself here. So here is my system:
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R rev 2.0 with FH BIOS
CPU - i7 950 (LGA1366)
RAM - 12 GB (6 x 2GB)
Video - Nvidia GeForce GT 240
Hard Drive A - SSD 256GB Mac OS 10.8 drive
Hard Drive B - SSD 256GB Windows 7 drive
Hard Drive C - 2TB data and media drive
not sure where Chameleon is
Audio - Realtek ALC889
LAN - Realtek RTL8111E
Here is the portion of the boot file for the parameters that work for me:
<dict>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GenerateCStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GeneratePStates</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>darkwake=0</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>"1920x1080x32"</string>
</dict>
Mixing in ProTools is the main function for this computer. Here are my questions and I do appreciate any feedback or suggestions you can provide:
- Is there a benefit to switching to another bootloader as opposed to Chameleon? If so, which one and what are the benefits?
- How do I make the Win7 drive appear as a solitary drive during boot so that I can upgrade it? And then hopefully reset it back so I can go back to my bootloader config?
- What is the best way to add a 3rd boot drive for the latest MacOS. I thought the Mac drive had to be the first in the chain (SATA 0) if I recall. Or is that for the bootloader?
- How can I configure these drives so that taking any one out (disconnecting) doesn't affect the rest? Or is this ok for any drive except the bootloader drive perhaps?
- Is there a way to get rid of the message that comes up during boot about a 5 second delay? Considering this is using SSDs for boot drives, it does feel like it takes a while to load.
Thanks,
Damien