Download the latest Chameleon 2.0-RC4 Boot Loader from the website and save it to your Desktop. Take a look at the “Latest Release” column and look for the file that says “bin.tar.gz” instead of “src.tar.gz”. This chameleon usb flash drive will boot with Yosemite, Mavericks and Mountain Lion USB installers on Most Laptops: Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell. Go to the website link for links of kexts. I want to use the chameleon bootloader to boot a windows 7 installation, windows was installed in EFI mode on a GPT partitioned disk. When chameleon loads I see options of Linux and Windows, If I select windows from the chameleon bootloader it complains about some mis-configuration in /Boot/BCD.
Background Information / My Reasons:
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I want to use the chameleon bootloader to boot a windows 7installation, windows was installed in EFI mode on a GPT partitioneddisk.
When chameleon loads I see options of Linux and Windows, If I selectwindows from the chameleon bootloader it complains about somemis-configuration in /Boot/BCD.
Windows will boot fine if I boot the disk in EFI mode but not fromchameleon.
My Question:
How can I have this windows installation boot via both an EFI bootloader and a legacy bootloader?
I probably just need to copy some files onto the disk, maybe from the windows CD, I just don't know how or which ones.
1 Answer
The answer to your question is, NO you can't.
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- Here it stress that If Windows is installed in EFI mode, then you must boot the machine in EFI mode.
- and in 'Chainload non-EFI Linux from EFI Linux' it says, no boot managers can chain load from EFI mode to BIOS/CSM/legacy mode, unless it is Your firmware's boot manager or rEFInd boot manager. So chameleon bootloader is out.
The answer to your problem is, if you only need to copy some files, then the easiest solution is to boot from Live-CD, or enable the BIOS/CSM/legacy mode, then boot into whatever Linux system you have, e.g., from USB key. Then mount the NTFS system within Linux, and do your copying.