[SOLVED]Chimera not working from HDD

[Attanar]

Hi there.

I got my OS X install fully working. However, I can only boot it from the Unibeast USB Chimera.

I installed Chimera on my Mac HDD (I have different physical disks both for OS X and Windows) but when I try to start the system from that disk all I get is:

boot0: GPT
boot0: test
boot0: test
boot0: doneXiauhfp(¨@689j#wimne ... (and 4 more lines of weird symbols and characters).

I don't even see the boot menu options.

Things is, if the Chimaera installation with Unibeast works fine (just setting GraphicsEnabler=No), can't I just copy that installation to my HDD and boot from it? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[beelzebozo]

Chimera not working from HDD

You also need to install FakeSMC.kext, did you do that?

 

[Attanar]

Chimera not working from HDD

You also need to install FakeSMC.kext, did you do that?

Yeah, I installed it.

Anyway, I guess this kext is not requiered to reach the Chimera boot menu, but to boot MacOS X, am I right?

My problem is I can't even select the OS to be booted.

Thanks for your help.

 

[beelzebozo]

Chimera not working from HDD

Please list your main hardware specs including hard drive where OS X is installed to.

 

[Attanar]

Chimera not working from HDD

Please list your main hardware specs including hard drive where OS X is installed to.

The main specs are:

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z77M-D3H (rev. 1.0)
Processor: Intel i5 2500K
GPU: Sapphire HD7850 Dual-X 2GB
Hard Drives:

1 - SSD SATA Crucial M4 64GB - 2 Partitions
- System required partition (I guess MBR?)
- NTFS with Windows 7 Install

2 - SSD SATA Crucial M4 64GB- 1 Partition
- HFS+ Journaled with OS X 10.8.3

I have another NTFS SATA disk, but it does not have any installed system (just Windows storage), so it can be ignored.


Thanks again for your attention.

 

[beelzebozo]

Chimera not working from HDD

Connect your OS X SSD to SATA Port 0 and Windows to Port 1.

 

[Attanar]

Chimera not working from HDD

Connect your OS X SSD to SATA Port 0 and Windows to Port 1.

OK I will try that as soon as I arrive home. Thank you.

Anyway, could you give any details on why this would cause Chimera to fail from my HDD while it works OK from the USB?

 

[Attanar]

Chimera not working from HDD

Well, did that, same problem.

This is how the disks are arranged, I was wrong, Mac disk has 200MB EFI partition as well as the HFS+ partition (it is disk 0 in the picture)

Windows is disk 2, disk 1 is storage NTFS.

 

[Attanar]

OK, SOLVED!

Downloaded Chameleon Wizard and made a new install with the latest revision using boot0md instead of boot0.

Working like a charm now.

Thanks beelzebozo for your help. Maybe you can change the topic title to [SOLVED] or something, so anyone who has the same problem can find the solution here.