[drewblank]

Hi, well I've had my 10v for a couple months running snow leopard and I LOVE it. My brother set it all up for me, (I couldve done it, he just did it for me because he got one too so he did both together) and he also put linux mint on it which I never used. One of the reasons I never used it was because it didnt work. The computer would boot showing a WHITE screen (mac style) letting me choose between linux of osx and I never chose linux because if it tried it would give me some sort of error, I dont remember what it was. So for some stupid reason I tried to install ubuntu on my system, and while I WAS going to install it on the linux partition I screwed up and accidently installed it along side creating ANOTHER partition. Now the problem came when I booted up after installing ubuntu. Intead of booting up into that white boot loader that let me choose between osx and linux, it boot up into GRUB. It showed all 3 operating systems. Mac OSX (it said like 64 bit version and 32 bit versions) Ubuntu ( and an ubuntu with recovery mode) and the linux mint. Now when I tried to boot into osx it would NOT work whatsoever.It would show a black screen for about 3 seconods then shut off. So I went into ubuntu, opened up disk utility and deleted a LINUX labled partition. DUMB MOVE. I booted up again with a screen showing: No Operating System Found. Great. So then I put chemelon bootloader on a flash drive and booted up. It show OSX and Linux. I tried booting OSX, no dice. I can boot up into linux mint still but thats it. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!!! All I want is my OSX back, thats it. I could care less about any of the linux operating systems. If any one could please please give me some advice I'd really appreaciate it. THANKS!!!
-Drew

[Shooter]

Boot Ubuntu as live cd. open package manager and install gparted. run gparted and look on the far right at each partition. your going to see two descriptions boot and hidden. the first partition approx. 200 mb should say boot and hidden. the second partition should say hfs+ this will be SL it should say hidden, if it doesn't just say hidden change it by going to the menu under partition and choose manage flags and change it. the remaining partitions will be your linux and they should say nothing. since grubs booting at least one of them says boot change that.

Should boot up fine after you make these changes. exit out of linux and let it boot naturally should have chameleon back.

[drewblank]

thanks for the advice! I did exactly as you sayed and changed the boot options but unfortunatley, no dice. I did notice however whenever I booted OSX from chamelon on my flash drive it said "hibernate image is too old by 12175601 seconds. Use forcewake=y...something like that. Is this part of the problem?

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so right now I'm installing osx back on my flash drive so that I can go back into osx and instead of installing opening terminal and deleting that sleepimage file. is this a good idea?

[Shooter]

I would re-run NBI first with the default items checked and re-create your chameleon boot script.