Using Chameleon as your bootloader, you can boot an infinite amount of operating systems on your PC. It's simple to use a separate hard drive for each operating system.

1. Install multiple operating systems on separate hard drives.
2. Go to CMOS Setup Utility and choose Advanced BIOS Features.
3. Select Hard Disk Boot Priority.
4. Move your Chameleon OS X hard drive to top of list.
5. Boot into Chameleon and choose your Operating System.

The following guide will show you how to put OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same hard drive. You can then use Chameleon to select either Snow Leopard or Windows 7 at boot time. It's a bit trickier, as the Windows installer will set itself as the active partition automatically.You have to manually set the OS X partition active at the end of the process. UPDATE: The latest MultiBeast will take care of choosing boot0hfs instead of boot0 to automatically boot from hfs partition, even if it's inactive.



STEP 1: PREPARING THE DRIVE

First thing to do is format and partition the hard drive. When you choose 2 partitions with a GUID Partition Table, OS X will format the drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 is EFI, Partition 2 will be Snow Leopard and Partition 3 will be Windows 7. The EFI partition is a very small (200mb) hidden partition that holds the OS X bootloader and BIOS information on a real Mac. In a separate guide, I'll show you how to install Chameleon to the EFI partition to leave an OS X install untouched. For now, just know it's installed by default and labeled Partition 1.

1. Boot into your existing OS X installation.
2. Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
3. Select your hard drive in the left column.
4. Click the Partition tab
5. Under Volume Scheme: separate your hard drive into 2 Partitions. You can make them any size you want.
6. Click Options... choose GUID Partition Table, then click OK.
7. Click Untitled 1. Under Name: type Snow Leopard. Under Format: choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
8. Click Untitled 2. Under Name: type Windows 7. Under Format: choose MSDOS (FAT).
9. Click Apply and close Disk Utility.
10. Insert Windows 7 DVD in tray.
11. Unplug all hard drives except this one and reboot.

STEP 2: INSTALL WINDOWS 7

Now you will install Windows 7 to Partition 3. You'll have to reformat it to NTFS in the Windows 7 installer before Windows will let you install. We labeled it Windows 7 in the previous step.

1. Wait for Windows to begin installation process.
2. Accept license agreement.
3. At Which type of installation do you want, choose Custom (Advanced)
4. At Where do you want to install Windows, choose Partition 3: Windows 7.
5. Click Drive options (advanced).
6. Click format.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Next.
   
   

At this point, Windows 7 will install to Partition 3. The installer will reboot the computer a few times- just leave it until you complete the installation process and see the Windows desktop.



STEP 3: INSTALL SNOW LEOPARD

The next step is to install Snow Leopard to Partition 2.

iBoot + MultiBeast - Install OS X on any Intel-based PC

STEP 4: SET THE OS X PARTITION AS ACTIVE (NOT NECESSARY) UPDATE: The latest MultiBeast will take care of choosing boot0hfs instead of boot0 to automatically boot from hfs partition, even if it's inactive.



You now have to set the Snow Leopard partition so that your computer boots from it first. Therefore, Chameleon loads and you can select either Snow Leopard or Windows 7. You will have to issue a few commands to Terminal in order to accomplish this task.

1. Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
2. Type diskutil list
3. Write down the IDENTIFIER of your Apple_HFS Snow Leopard drive. For this example:disk0s2.
4. Type sudo -s
5. Enter your password.
6. Type fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0
7. Type y
8. Type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
9. Type p
10. Type f 2
11. Type w
12. Type y
13. Close Terminal and reboot.

Unplug all drives except the dual boot drive and restart. You should now be able to boot directly into Chameleon, stop the boot countdown and select either Snow Leopard or Windows NTFS as shown in the picture below.

Thanks for reading and I hope it worked for you! Special thanks goes out to the entire OSx86 Hackintosh community! This guide was cobbled together from various sources- I did not invent this method, and do not wish to take any credit beyond putting it into plain English. ;) As always, if you have any issues, post a comment and I'll try my best to help you out any way I can.



-tonymacx86

Using Chameleon as your bootloader, you can boot an infinite amount of operating systems on your PC. It's simple to use a separate hard drive for each operating system.

1. Install multiple operating systems on separate hard drives.
2. Go to CMOS Setup Utility and choose Advanced BIOS Features.
3. Select Hard Disk Boot Priority.
4. Move your Chameleon OS X hard drive to top of list.
5. Boot into Chameleon and choose your Operating System.

The following guide will show you how to put OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same hard drive. You can then use Chameleon to select either Snow Leopard or Windows 7 at boot time. It's a bit trickier, as the Windows installer will set itself as the active partition automatically.You have to manually set the OS X partition active at the end of the process. UPDATE: The latest MultiBeast will take care of choosing boot0hfs instead of boot0 to automatically boot from hfs partition, even if it's inactive.



STEP 1: PREPARING THE DRIVE

First thing to do is format and partition the hard drive. When you choose 2 partitions with a GUID Partition Table, OS X will format the drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 is EFI, Partition 2 will be Snow Leopard and Partition 3 will be Windows 7. The EFI partition is a very small (200mb) hidden partition that holds the OS X bootloader and BIOS information on a real Mac. In a separate guide, I'll show you how to install Chameleon to the EFI partition to leave an OS X install untouched. For now, just know it's installed by default and labeled Partition 1.

1. Boot into your existing OS X installation.
2. Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
3. Select your hard drive in the left column.
4. Click the Partition tab
5. Under Volume Scheme: separate your hard drive into 2 Partitions. You can make them any size you want.
6. Click Options... choose GUID Partition Table, then click OK.
7. Click Untitled 1. Under Name: type Snow Leopard. Under Format: choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
8. Click Untitled 2. Under Name: type Windows 7. Under Format: choose MSDOS (FAT).
9. Click Apply and close Disk Utility.
10. Insert Windows 7 DVD in tray.
11. Unplug all hard drives except this one and reboot.

STEP 2: INSTALL WINDOWS 7

Now you will install Windows 7 to Partition 3. You'll have to reformat it to NTFS in the Windows 7 installer before Windows will let you install. We labeled it Windows 7 in the previous step.

1. Wait for Windows to begin installation process.
2. Accept license agreement.
3. At Which type of installation do you want, choose Custom (Advanced)
4. At Where do you want to install Windows, choose Partition 3: Windows 7.
5. Click Drive options (advanced).
6. Click format.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Next.
   
   

At this point, Windows 7 will install to Partition 3. The installer will reboot the computer a few times- just leave it until you complete the installation process and see the Windows desktop.



STEP 3: INSTALL SNOW LEOPARD

The next step is to install Snow Leopard to Partition 2.

iBoot + MultiBeast - Install OS X on any Intel-based PC

STEP 4: SET THE OS X PARTITION AS ACTIVE (NOT NECESSARY) UPDATE: The latest MultiBeast will take care of choosing boot0hfs instead of boot0 to automatically boot from hfs partition, even if it's inactive.



You now have to set the Snow Leopard partition so that your computer boots from it first. Therefore, Chameleon loads and you can select either Snow Leopard or Windows 7. You will have to issue a few commands to Terminal in order to accomplish this task.

1. Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
2. Type diskutil list
3. Write down the IDENTIFIER of your Apple_HFS Snow Leopard drive. For this example:disk0s2.
4. Type sudo -s
5. Enter your password.
6. Type fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0
7. Type y
8. Type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
9. Type p
10. Type f 2
11. Type w
12. Type y
13. Close Terminal and reboot.

Unplug all drives except the dual boot drive and restart. You should now be able to boot directly into Chameleon, stop the boot countdown and select either Snow Leopard or Windows NTFS as shown in the picture below.

Thanks for reading and I hope it worked for you! Special thanks goes out to the entire OSx86 Hackintosh community! This guide was cobbled together from various sources- I did not invent this method, and do not wish to take any credit beyond putting it into plain English. ;) As always, if you have any issues, post a comment and I'll try my best to help you out any way I can.



-tonymacx86

Using Chameleon as your bootloader, you can boot an infinite amount of operating systems on your PC. It's simple to use a separate hard drive for each operating system.

1. Install multiple operating systems on separate hard drives.
2. Go to CMOS Setup Utility and choose Advanced BIOS Features.
3. Select Hard Disk Boot Priority.
4. Move your Chameleon OS X hard drive to top of list.
5. Boot into Chameleon and choose your Operating System.

The following guide will show you how to put OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same hard drive. You can then use Chameleon to select either Snow Leopard or Windows 7 at boot time. It's a bit trickier, as the Windows installer will set itself as the active partition automatically. You have to manually set the OS X partition active at the end of the process. UPDATE: The latest MultiBeast will take care of choosing boot0hfs instead of boot0 to automatically boot from hfs partition, even if it's inactive.

STEP 1: PREPARING THE DRIVE
First thing to do is format and partition the hard drive. When you choose 2 partitions with a GUID Partition Table, OS X will format the drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 is EFI, Partition 2 will be Snow Leopard and Partition 3 will be Windows 7. The EFI partition is a very small (200mb) hidden partition that holds the OS X bootloader and BIOS information on a real Mac. In a separate guide, I'll show you how to install Chameleon to the EFI partition to leave an OS X install untouched. For now, just know it's installed by default and labeled Partition 1.

1. Boot into your existing OS X installation.
2. Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
3. Select your hard drive in the left column.
4. Click the Partition tab
5. Under Volume Scheme: separate your hard drive into 2 Partitions. You can make them any size you want.
6. Click Options... choose GUID Partition Table, then click OK.
7. Click Untitled 1. Under Name: type Snow Leopard. Under Format: choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
8. Click Untitled 2. Under Name: type Windows 7. Under Format: choose MSDOS (FAT).
9. Click Apply and close Disk Utility.
10. Insert Windows 7 DVD in tray.
11. Unplug all hard drives except this one and reboot.

STEP 2: INSTALL WINDOWS 7
Now you will install Windows 7 to Partition 3. You'll have to reformat it to NTFS in the Windows 7 installer before Windows will let you install. We labeled it Windows 7 in the previous step.

1. Wait for Windows to begin installation process.
2. Accept license agreement.
3. At Which type of installation do you want, choose Custom (Advanced)
4. At Where do you want to install Windows, choose Partition 3: Windows 7.
5. Click Drive options (advanced).
6. Click format.
7. Click OK.
8. Click Next.
   

At this point, Windows 7 will install to Partition 3. The installer will reboot the computer a few times- just leave it until you complete the installation process and see the Windows desktop.

STEP 3: INSTALL SNOW LEOPARD
The next step is to install Snow Leopard to Partition 2.


STEP 4: SET THE OS X PARTITION AS ACTIVE (NOT NECESSARY) UPDATE: The latest MultiBeast will take care of choosing boot0hfs instead of boot0 to automatically boot from hfs partition, even if it's inactive.

You now have to set the Snow Leopard partition so that your computer boots from it first. Therefore, Chameleon loads and you can select either Snow Leopard or Windows 7. You will have to issue a few commands to Terminal in order to accomplish this task.

1. Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
2. Type diskutil list
3. Write down the IDENTIFIER of your Apple_HFS Snow Leopard drive. For this example: disk0s2.
4. Type sudo -s
5. Enter your password.
6. Type fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0
7. Type y
8. Type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
9. Type p
10. Type f 2
11. Type w
12. Type y
13. Close Terminal and reboot.

Unplug all drives except the dual boot drive and restart. You should now be able to boot directly into Chameleon, stop the boot countdown and select either Snow Leopard or Windows NTFS as shown in the picture below.


Thanks for reading and I hope it worked for you! Special thanks goes out to the entire OSx86 Hackintosh community! This guide was cobbled together from various sources- I did not invent this method, and do not wish to take any credit beyond putting it into plain English. ;) As always, if you have any issues, post a comment and I'll try my best to help you out any way I can.

-tonymacx86

Any OSx86 installation guide can seem daunting at first glance, especially when trying to remember cryptic terminal commands and sorting through volumes of misinformation on the web. This guide requires no coding, terminal work, or Mac experience of any kind.

Because Apple is only distributing OS X Lion through the Mac App Store until next month, we've had to rethink our retail installation method. What follows is our recommendation for the easiest, cleanest and most Mac-like installation process. For best results, follow this guide to the letter.

You will need:

A System Running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later with:

• Intel Core 2 or above, 64 bit CPU
• Mac App Store Account + $29.99
• Internet Access to Download 4GB OS X Lion App through Mac App Store
• 4GB space available in /Applications
• 8GB additional free space on your hard drive
• Mac Pro 3,1 system definition and the latest Chimera Bootloader from MultiBeast

Don't have Snow Leopard yet? To install Mac OS X Snow Leopard from the Retail DVDfollow iBoot + MultiBeast.

STEP 1: Purchase OS X Lion from the Mac App Store



1. Boot into your existing Snow Leopard installation.

2. Download the OS X Lion App directly from the Mac App Store - it will automatically open.

3. Click Continue.

4. Target your currently booted Snow Leopard drive and hit Install. This will not install the OS or affect this drive in any way. It will simply install the files necessary to do so later in the process.

5. Click Restart to reboot.

STEP 2: Prepare the Installer Partition

1. Boot back into your existing Snow Leopard installation.

2. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

3. Highlight your Snow Leopard drive in left column.

4. Choose the Partition tab, and Click the + to Add a Partition.

5. Name the secondary partition Installer with a size of 8 GB and click Apply.

6. Click Partition.

7. Close Disk Utility

STEP 3: xMove

1. Download xMove

2. Double-Click xMove, and choose Installer as Destination.

WARNING: DO NOT choose existing Snow Leopard as the Destination.

Do not interrupt the process- it will only take a few minutes. When done, you'll have a secondary partition on your drive containing the OS X Lion Installer!

If xMove fails, you haven't installed the Lion App to your currently booted drive- and it cannot find the necessary files. A quick way to remedy this is to manually mount the InstallESD.dmg and run xMove again.

STEP 4: Boot Installer & Install OS X Lion

1. Reboot- at the Chimera boot screen, choose Installer

2. It will boot directly to a familiar Mac OS X Installer complete with Disk Utility.

3. Install OS X Lion over existing Snow Leopard or onto any empty drive or partition.



If you've installed directly over an existing Snow Leopard installation, you're done! You should already have done proper post-installation steps on your existing Snow Leopard drive, so skip Step 5 and simply reboot into Lion!



STEP 5: MultiBeast

MultiBeast is an all-in-one post-installation tool designed to enable boot from hard drive, and install support for Audio, Network, and Graphics. It contains two different complete post-installation solutions: UserDSDT and EasyBeast. In addition it includes System Utilities to rebuild caches and repair permissions and a collection of drivers, boot loaders, boot time config files and handy software.

Choose one of the following options directly following a fresh installation:

UserDSDT is a bare-minimum solution for those who have their own pre-edited DSDT. Place your DSDT.aml on the desktop before install. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately. Check out our DSDT Database to download your motherboard's pre-edited DSDT.



EasyBeast is a DSDT-free solution for any Core2/Core i system. It installs all of the essentials to allow your system to boot from the hard drive. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately.

1. At Chimera boot screen, choose your freshly installed Lion drive

2. Complete setup and registration routine

3. When you get to the desktop, run MultiBeast

4. If you have a custom pre-edited DSDT, place it on your desktop and choose UserDSDT

5. All others select EasyBeast

6. Select System Utilities

7. Reboot to OS X Lion

You may also use MultiBeast to install further drivers to enable ethernet, sound, graphics, etc... Be sure to read the documentation provided in MultiBeast Features.pdf about each option. Both UserDSDT and EasyBeast install the proper bootloader by default, so you'll not need to check that option.



8. Optionally, you can now use Disk Utility to delete the Installer partition.

Congratulations!

You now have a fully updated bootable version of OS X Lion on your CustoMac! If you have any trouble, there are plenty of folks in the tonymacx86 forum with similar hardware to help out! Special thanks to all the hard work and effort of everyone involved in the community, all of our Mods for testing and retesting this method, and to Adamsmasher and Complx for the new logos!



If you've had success using xMove + MultiBeast, consider a contribution to help keep the sites going. We're constantly updating and tweaking our tools to help you.



Thanks in advance!



-tonymacx86 & MacMan



Related Posts:

Get Ready for OS X Lion

Building a Sandy Bridge CustoMac: Recommended Builds for OS X

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Any OSx86 installation guide can seem daunting at first glance, especially when trying to remember cryptic terminal commands and sorting through volumes of misinformation on the web. This guide requires no coding, terminal work, or Mac experience of any kind.

Because Apple is only distributing OS X Lion through the Mac App Store until next month, we've had to rethink our retail installation method. What follows is our recommendation for the easiest, cleanest and most Mac-like installation process. For best results, follow this guide to the letter.

You will need:

A System Running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later with:

• Intel Core 2 or above, 64 bit CPU
• Mac App Store Account + $29.99
• Internet Access to Download 4GB OS X Lion App through Mac App Store
• 4GB space available in /Applications
• 8GB additional free space on your hard drive
• Mac Pro 3,1 system definition and the latest Chimera Bootloader from MultiBeast

Don't have Snow Leopard yet? To install Mac OS X Snow Leopard from the Retail DVDfollow iBoot + MultiBeast.

STEP 1: Purchase OS X Lion from the Mac App Store



1. Boot into your existing Snow Leopard installation.

2. Download the OS X Lion App directly from the Mac App Store - it will automatically open.

3. Click Continue.

4. Target your currently booted Snow Leopard drive and hit Install. This will not install the OS or affect this drive in any way. It will simply install the files necessary to do so later in the process.

5. Click Restart to reboot.

STEP 2: Prepare the Installer Partition

1. Boot back into your existing Snow Leopard installation.

2. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

3. Highlight your Snow Leopard drive in left column.

4. Choose the Partition tab, and Click the + to Add a Partition.

5. Name the secondary partition Installer with a size of 8 GB and click Apply.

6. Click Partition.

7. Close Disk Utility

STEP 3: xMove

1. Download xMove

2. Double-Click xMove, and choose Installer as Destination.

WARNING: DO NOT choose existing Snow Leopard as the Destination.

Do not interrupt the process- it will only take a few minutes. When done, you'll have a secondary partition on your drive containing the OS X Lion Installer!

If xMove fails, you haven't installed the Lion App to your currently booted drive- and it cannot find the necessary files. A quick way to remedy this is to manually mount the InstallESD.dmg and run xMove again.

STEP 4: Boot Installer & Install OS X Lion

1. Reboot- at the Chimera boot screen, choose Installer

2. It will boot directly to a familiar Mac OS X Installer complete with Disk Utility.

3. Install OS X Lion over existing Snow Leopard or onto any empty drive or partition.



If you've installed directly over an existing Snow Leopard installation, you're done! You should already have done proper post-installation steps on your existing Snow Leopard drive, so skip Step 5 and simply reboot into Lion!



STEP 5: MultiBeast

MultiBeast is an all-in-one post-installation tool designed to enable boot from hard drive, and install support for Audio, Network, and Graphics. It contains two different complete post-installation solutions: UserDSDT and EasyBeast. In addition it includes System Utilities to rebuild caches and repair permissions and a collection of drivers, boot loaders, boot time config files and handy software.

Choose one of the following options directly following a fresh installation:

UserDSDT is a bare-minimum solution for those who have their own pre-edited DSDT. Place your DSDT.aml on the desktop before install. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately. Check out our DSDT Database to download your motherboard's pre-edited DSDT.



EasyBeast is a DSDT-free solution for any Core2/Core i system. It installs all of the essentials to allow your system to boot from the hard drive. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately.

1. At Chimera boot screen, choose your freshly installed Lion drive

2. Complete setup and registration routine

3. When you get to the desktop, run MultiBeast

4. If you have a custom pre-edited DSDT, place it on your desktop and choose UserDSDT

5. All others select EasyBeast

6. Select System Utilities

7. Reboot to OS X Lion

You may also use MultiBeast to install further drivers to enable ethernet, sound, graphics, etc... Be sure to read the documentation provided in MultiBeast Features.pdf about each option. Both UserDSDT and EasyBeast install the proper bootloader by default, so you'll not need to check that option.



8. Optionally, you can now use Disk Utility to delete the Installer partition.

Congratulations!

You now have a fully updated bootable version of OS X Lion on your CustoMac! If you have any trouble, there are plenty of folks in the tonymacx86 forum with similar hardware to help out! Special thanks to all the hard work and effort of everyone involved in the community, all of our Mods for testing and retesting this method, and to Adamsmasher and Complx for the new logos!



If you've had success using xMove + MultiBeast, consider a contribution to help keep the sites going. We're constantly updating and tweaking our tools to help you.



Thanks in advance!



-tonymacx86 & MacMan



Related Posts:

Get Ready for OS X Lion

Building a Sandy Bridge CustoMac: Recommended Builds for OS X

For discussions on this and other topics, register today at tonymacx86.com!