Onixs Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 UPDATED: July 26,2009 Chameleon 2.0RC2 Build r640 is out! In this new release of Chameleon 2 they have fixed many annoying bugs and also added some cool new features like NVIDIA graphics card detection, automatic RAID booting, enabling HPET on motherboards without BIOS control, setting the built-in flag for ethernet cards, hiding non-bootable HFS partitions. Chameleon_2.0_RC2_r640.pkg.zip Chameleon 2.0RC1 is out! NEW Build r431 Right before 1st of April, Chameleon Team gladly introducing the Release Candidate 1 version of Chameleon 2.0 for public download. Now supporting GUI booting, and all other features mentioned in the previous articles. Credits Thanks to bumby, cosmo1t, Dense, dfe, fassl, Galaxy, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, kalyway, mackerintel, netkas, sckevyn, Turbo, XyZ. UPDATE: Official Installer Package NOW available. For additional help, log-in to irc.voodooprojects.org channel #chameleon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Already posted in the news section: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=159882 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Works great on my system so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippo choi Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Where is the download link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colaly Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Where is the download link? Official Chameleon Team HomePage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermx3 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 installed it on the machine in my sig, gets ready to boot, then goes to black screen, then no signal to monitor then reboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingMac Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Don't know how to install it yet, will wait for tutorial, don't wanna screw up my Hackintosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabyl Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Well done Team,Just added it to INSTAHackintosh and doing some tests. Looking Good... It's just RC1, so you don't want to add it, you want to final version. Of course, you can test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadGhost Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Looking very good!!! great patch bundled into a nice bootloader only thing that doen't work for me(i'm a noob) is booting on my old XP but it works for vista. just for testing. Thanks to Chameleon team for sharing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I made an 2.0RC1 installer app out of an older chameleon installer. So you must not do terminal commands or knowing your disk/part numbers. Select your HD/partition by the installer. For me it worked on MBR HD. Also worked to boot XP from an different (other) HD. For EFI EXTRA (boot132) install you must do some more (terminal) work. Read the readme of orig. chameleon installer or hints below here. Chameleon_V_2RC1.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabyl Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I made an installer app out of an older chameleon installer.So you must not do terminal commands or knowing your disk/part numbers. For me it worked on MBR HD. While you're thanked for doing this, we're not going to support it, so I hope people don't come to us asking for support when using this installer. And the reason for this, is because you don't know the new options and specifics of the booter to be able to make a proper installer. We have an installer in the works (with few bugs left). Thanks for understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilr Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 worked for me too. thanks for the installer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osik Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 mitch_de thanks for the installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overflow1972 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I made an installer app out of an older chameleon installer.So you must not do terminal commands or knowing your disk/part numbers. For me it worked on MBR HD. Hi mate, I have Leopard Retail on my machine (installed on a dedicated GUI hard disk), with Chameleon DFE for HDD (that uses an EXTRA folder for the patched kexts). Can I use you installer to try the new version of Chameleon ? Where do I need to put my patched kexts (that I now have in the EXTRA folder) with this new Chameleon version ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramon Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 While you're thanked for doing this, we're not going to support it, so I hope people don't come to us asking for support when using this installer. And the reason for this, is because you don't know the new options and specifics of the booter to be able to make a proper installer. We have an installer in the works (with few bugs left). Thanks for understanding. well, bring it on then. can´t wait for that can you PLEASE (!) tell me if it´ll be possible just install the new bootloader over the previous chameleon version without modifying anything else? i would highly appreciate that as i don´t want to get my machine screwed up (mbr non-raid, dualboot - 1st partition winxp, 2nd partition iatkos 5i with patched dsdt and /extra folder on root). bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sampledi Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Worked for me on the first machine listed in the signature, later I will test on others, all with Retail Leo. One question, I understood that some extra kexts now can be removed? smbios injector? (smbiosenabler or applesmbiosefi..etc) decripter? (AppleDecrypt...etc) PowerManagement disabler? Congratulations to the whole team for the great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aschar1 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Thanks to the Chameleon team. It works for me with Munky´s install method (boot from EFI Volume). Here is what I have done 1. open Terminal 2. (Determine your install harddisk with) diskutil list 3. sudo -s (Enter password) 4. mkdir /Volumes/EFI 5. mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI (Do not forget to change _X with your harddisk number from step 2) 6. mkdir /Volumes/EFI/Extra 6. (Download new Chameleon and put folder on your desktop) 7. (open the chameleon folder and cd to the subfolder i386 in Terminal- just type cd and Space and drag the i386 folder into Terminal) 8. sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdiskX (do not forget to change X with your harddisk number from step 2) 9. sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXs1 (do not forget to change X with your harddisk number from step 2) 10. sudo cp boot /Volumes/EFI 11. (cd to the Extra Folder in your new Chameleon Folder (on your desktop) in Terminal) 12. cp smbios.plist /Volumes/EFI/Extra 13. cp -R Themes /Volumes/EFI/Extra 14. cd Volumes/EFI 15. cp DSDT.aml /Volumes/EFI/Extra 16. cp com.apple.Boot.plist /Volumes/EFI/Extra 17. cd Volumes/EFI/System/booter 18*. cp Extensions.mkext /Volumes/EFI/Extra 19. umount -f Volumes/EFI 20. rm -rf /Volumes/EFI *Note before Step 18. If you have AppleSMBIOS or similar kext in your Extensions folder on your EFI Volume and you want to load smbios.plist - remove this kext form your Extensions folder and rebuild Extensions.mkext before copying this file to the Extra folder. cd /Volumes/EFI/Extensions rm-R AppleSMBIOS.kext cd .. sudo ./update.sh The only issue with my install is, that i cannot boot WinXP from separate MBR partitioned disk. Windows7 is booting from the same disk. I have Easybcd 2.0 installed on that disk. Selecting WinXP Partition gives me immediate reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Yeah, I am also unable to boot a Windows XP install on a separate hard disk. Can we remove dsmos.kext now? I'm going to test that out when I get back home. This is probably the most exciting development in OSX86 since the first PC-EFI last year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Hi, i have success with F8 , new 2.0 Bootscreen and selecting an XP (NTFS) Partition for booting. Worked ! Be sure that you select right partition for the install of chameleon. My HD has 3 Partiitions, 1. XP,2 +3 OS X. I installed chameleon on 2. partition (OS X) NOT! the first XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clemsyn Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Looks like I can't wake up with my sleepimage after hibernation. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 System boots more quickly. SMBIOS patching work perfectly. Now I finally got rid of SMBIOS enablers. GUI is beautiful. I changed my theme right away. I just wish I could move from the bootloader screen to OS X without the screen going black (to change resolution). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmcouto Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Looks like I can't wake up with my sleepimage after hibernation. Any ideas? Same here... and im using DSDT.aml on Extra folder at EFI partition, and at the root of main partition ** thanks for everyone who worked on this...... you all made an amazing job with chameleon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhell Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Thanks a lot to the whole Chameleon team for the hard work. It works great on my DP35DP motherboard with SATA hard disk. I have created a convenient shell script to install the Chameleon 2.0-RC1 boot loader to your EFI boot partition. It may prove useful if you have followed this tutorial by Munky to setup your EFI partition as the boot volume. Note that the script is provided for instructional purposes only. Use at your own risk. Do NOT ask the Chameleon team for help with this script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fassl Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 For those not able to resume after Hibernation write ForceWake=y to boot prompt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmcouto Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 For those not able to resume after Hibernation write ForceWake=y to boot prompt. Does not work neither ForceWake=Yes too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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