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I'm unable to boot OS X with Chimera 3. It kicks me out and reboots when I run with any combination of -x -s -v. I made a new Unibeast installer, but when I choose that from my mother boards boot settings, it just sits with a blinking underscore on the top right of the screen. I do have access to Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 on this computer though. I could also mount my boot driver externally on my mac to fix/downgrade Chimera.

Oops, my flash drive was formatted incorrectly, I have now been able to downgrade to Chimera 2.2.1
 
I'm unable to boot OS X with Chimera 3. It kicks me out and reboots when I run with any combination of -x -s -v. I made a new Unibeast installer, but when I choose that from my mother boards boot settings, it just sits with a blinking underscore on the top right of the screen. I do have access to Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 on this computer though. I could also mount my boot driver externally on my mac to fix/downgrade Chimera.
Why do you think it's Chimera when you are having issues booting from UniBeast?
 
Deleting the /Extra folder, and doing a clean install with Chimera 3.0.1 works, however there is no GUI and no org.chameleon.Boot.plist. Copying back the Themes folder and the plist that I had from Chimera 2.2.1 resulted in the same issue as before. I am currently slowly adding things back in and seeing what breaks Chimera 3.0.1.
 
I figured out what was breaking it. I was hiding and renaming partitions from org.chameleon.Boot.plist, and apparently one or both of these features doesn't work.

This is what I had in my plist (worked through Chimera 2.2.1):
Code:
<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(1,2) hd(1,6)</string>
<key>Rename Partition</key>
<string>"SystemReserved" "Windows 8"; "Terra" "OS X"; hd(1,3) "Ubuntu"</string>

When I deleted these 4 lines from the plist, I can boot without and issue. The good news is that I can boot from Chimera 3.0.1, but I can no longer hide or rename partitions.
 
I figured out what was breaking it. I was hiding and renaming partitions from org.chameleon.Boot.plist, and apparently one or both of these features doesn't work.

This is what I had in my plist (worked through Chimera 2.2.1):
Code:
<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(1,2) hd(1,6)</string>
<key>Rename Partition</key>
<string>"SystemReserved" "Windows 8"; "Terra" "OS X"; hd(1,3) "Ubuntu"</string>

When I deleted these 4 lines from the plist, I can boot without and issue. The good news is that I can boot from Chimera 3.0.1, but I can no longer hide or rename partitions.

Before seeing your post, I actually determined the same thing on my end and was commenting about it in the other thread. I hope there is still a way to rename the partitions. Hiding Partitions still works for me without issues just not the rename partitions...:banghead:
 
Having the same issue, removing the hide partition argument didn't help (don't have a rename partition argument in mine.)

I tried and removed every argument, still could not get it to get past the blinking underscore. Going back to the previous version for now.
 
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