Chimera boots itself in text mode, and graphics mode problem

I've installed SL 10.6.3 Retail using iBoot, on usb-flash (32Gb, GPT).
Then i restored my 'jetsnow' partition from usb to 'snowleo' partition on MBR-mode HDD.

ran multibeast, set up my SL, comboupdate 10.6.7, lan+wifi ok, dsdt ok, installed chimera on both flash and hdd drive.

But when i boot from bios using HDD - i get text mode chimera menu.
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If i boot from flash - i get Graphic mode menu. :?
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If i boot from hdd, and type "Graphic mode"=1280x1024x32 , SL boots in 1280x1024, with gray apple logo.
if i edit boot.plist, nothing happens, so i have to type every time.



If i boot chimera from flash, and select to boot my hdd partition 'snowleo' - i dont have to type anything, it just boots into 1280x1024 by itself, and in verbose (-v) mode.


so boot.plist definitely doesnt affect chimera loader .. :?

here is it:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>GUI</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>


So the question is:
how can i permanently set my graphics mode to 1280?
why chimera booting from HDD works in text mode?
why booting from flash and booting from hdd results in my SL running 1280(verbose) or 1024(logo) with the same boot.plist...

Moved to Installation Support - this is a general bootloader question rather than Chimera specific.

Why did you not install stration on a GPT formatted HD? And then run MultiBeast as per the iBoot install guide ?

The issue is that Chimera can't find your /Extra folder - I got this no GUI option when I booted to a drive where I had renamed the /Extra folder in the root.

notshy said:

The issue is that Chimera can't find your /Extra folder - I got this no GUI option when I booted to a drive where I had renamed the /Extra folder in the root.

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ohhhh that's it! Thanks!

hmmm but Extra\Extensions.mkext loads ok. .... very very strange.

notshy said:

Why did you not install stration on a GPT formatted HD? And then run MultiBeast as per the iBoot install guide ?

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I have data on my 500gb hdd, and i can't reformat it without losing it.
and in february i had SL10.6.2 installed there, using flash with chameleon booter to boot hdd partition.

i saw somewhere that chimera supports mbr and gpt, so i thought mbr works too.
so gpt is the only way right?

maybe there is some program that will allow me to convert without losing data.

I've spent one more day fixing me SL install
and now it works! finally.

Got myself 2TB external USB drive from friend, backed-up my data, reformatted hdd as GPT and did a clean install with iboot. Chimera has GUI now, and it reads settings from extra\boot.plist )

Now i dont even have to use ElliotRTC, only fakesmc.

If only there was a HD3000 working kext ..


Thanks guys.