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Yeah it is interesting! I am definitely using Partition and not Erase... also the AHCI setting was correct - I checked that about 20 times lol. Thank you for the help - I'll see if I can get Mavericks back for now and check this out again soon. Thanks!

Hey Patel, on Step 33 when you say: 33. Let it boot to the drive/partition that you installed Yosemite to.. Should I select the actual hard drive in which I just installed Yosemite or the thumb drive? I only ask because of the post installation steps that copy over extra etc. and not being able to get into the OS without booting from USB so far... Thanks! Edit: Okay tried everything again after removing the hard drive, connecting it to a Windows machine, complete wiping the drive, and doing a new clean install ... same outcome unfortunately. Going to head back to Mavericks for now. Thanks!

Edit: I selected 1 partition/GUID/Journaled and applied it. * I may just try to do a new completely clean install again if you think that is best. Edit 2: Well, went through and did a completely clean install with the same results... so strange. Still see that "Windows is installed" message in the Chameleon log too ... completely wiped the drive during install. *shrug* - very strange! I will likely just head back on Mavericks for now. Thank you Patel and everyone! Edit 3: This has to have something to do with that strange "disk1" I mentioned before ... I looked at the Chameleon install log where I created the USB drive (This was done on a separate but identical machine) and it makes no mention of that 3rd disk - there is only disk0 and disk1 (disk1 in this case is the USB drive ... so the entire Mac OS etc. is all on disk0 but according to the Chameleon install log from the post install here - there are 3 'disks' ...) Very strange. Wonder if I can figure out a way to see all of these and completely verify that the drive is wiped before I install. If I find anything I'll let you know - but this one is crazy!

Hi Patel - I ran through the post-install initially and just tried it again (installed Chameleon to "Macintosh HD") then ran the sudo ... post install script, rebooted, and have the "No Boot Device Found" error still. One weird thing I noticed is that in the Chameleon install log, it says the following: - Running Standard postinstall script - Target volume = /Volumes/Macintosh HD on /dev/disk1 - NOTE: Target has existing unrecognised bootcode in the MBR. Leaving as is. - Detected a Windows installation on this volume. Which is impossible as I wiped the drive before the install and it hasn't had Windows since! (Originally wiped for Mavericks). It shows /dev/disk0, /dev/disk1, and /dev/disk2 at the top (/dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1 are Mac related with /dev/disk0 showing disk0|disk0s1|disk0s2|disk0s3 and /dev/disk1 showing disk1 as an identifier) ... /dev/disk2 is the thumb drive. It says that /dev/disk1 is the "Logical Volume on disk0s2" if that helps. Thanks for the help!

Hi Patel - I am trying this now and will let you know how that goes. I did notice it went back into the installation before which I found odd. Let's see if that works. Thanks!

Hi Pluto - I tried pressing the left arrow key repeatedly at several different points and it always goes to the "Not Boot Device Found" screen unless I plug in the USB - which then just boots to the Chameleon selection menu... Can't find the hidden menu! Another oddity is that when I get into the OS and open the Chameleon Wizard it says that it can't find the org.Chameleon.Boot.plist although I can click Open and it is in /Extra/ at the root ... Thanks!

Hi Everyone - First thank you Patel for the amazing guides! Also let me say that I am still new to this although I followed Patel's Maverick's guide also. I have gone through the Yosemite install and now get "No Boot Device Found. Press any key to reboot the machine" when I try to restart. If I boot from the USB drive I can select it from the "boot from" menu which I believe is in Chameleon menu (?) and boot into Yosemite just fine - however if I select the hard drive in the Chameleon boot menu it gives me the "Can't find /System/Library/Kernels/kernel" and "Can't find /mach_kernel" errors which is strange as I opened up chameleon wizard in Yosemite (downloaded new version) and after selecting the .plist file it doesn't reference the mach_kernel etc. From what I understand it looks like the files are in the right place, it just doesn't find the hard drive when I try to boot... BIOS settings are all correct as far as I can tell too. Does anyone have any idea how I can make it boot directly from the hard drive? If it helps I have the same spec's as Patel's machine (see below) and while I did have issues the first couple of tries this is the furthest I've made it and have all of my information ported over so saving this install would be great! Here are the specs: 2.40 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 (Just added another module) NVS 3100M 512 MB BIOS version A14 Hard Drive: 250GB Broadcom Wireless card (works fine) Thanks for any help!