[UPDATED] Chameleon 2.0RC2 is out! With Official Installer

[spanakorizo]

works great!

tested on a 10.5.6 retail DVD , installation via boot132,then munky's method and now this

1 question closest to the vanilla:

what kexts should be patched? (apart of vga or sound or net)

now i have a lot in my extra/extensions, think that i start testing with less

install the vanilla back in system/library/extensions

[blackosx]

Great work Chameleon team. This is wonderful and works a treat.

Thank you.

[_banana]

It just seems to restart after choosing to load from my OS X partition. The only way I can get it to boot up is by using the Ignore Boot Caches option. I've tried deleting my extensions.mkext, etc. but it still won't boot up normally. My com.apple.Boot.plist looks like this:

 

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel.voodoo</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32@60"</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a0100000001010600000e

01060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730
69007a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000
50000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006469737
6c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000
0646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000
000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e56696469612047
5466f726365203838303020475420000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006
00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d006500000012
000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d00650000001200000
4e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d0070006100740069006200
c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e0056004300410050000000180000000
000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d00720065007600690073
069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765466f7263652038383030204754204f70656e4
4c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string>

</dict>
</plist>

 

Any ideas?

[Brandon2004]

It just seems to restart after choosing to load from my OS X partition. The only way I can get it to boot up is by using the Ignore Boot Caches option. I've tried deleting my extensions.mkext, etc. but it still won't boot up normally. My com.apple.Boot.plist looks like this:

 

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel.voodoo</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32@60"</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a0100000001010600000e

01060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730
69007a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000
50000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006469737
6c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000
0646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000
000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e56696469612047
5466f726365203838303020475420000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006
00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d006500000012
000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d00650000001200000
4e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d0070006100740069006200
c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e0056004300410050000000180000000
000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d00720065007600690073
069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765466f7263652038383030204754204f70656e4
4c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string>

</dict>
</plist>

 

Any ideas?

You have to take the refresh rate off of the Graphics Mode string. I was having the same problem and that took care of it.

[_banana]

That worked, but now it's using a low resolution instead of the 1680x1050 that I have set. I tried making it "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32", and then "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050". Both will boot, but with a much lower resolution than that.

 

(When I select Ignore Boot Caches it uses the correct resolution)

[spacer]

Wahou it works realy great on my system ! Thanks a lot to the Chameleon Team.

 

The only drawbacks I've found is that the bootloader show me 2 partitions for windows 7.

One is the system reserved partition (this partition boot) and the other is the real partition (this partition can't boot).

 

Is it possible to hide for the list the partition that don't boot ?

[digital_dreamer]

few usefull keys to add to boot.plist on partition where bootloader installed

 

<key>Default Partition</key>

<string>hd(1,2)</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1400x1050x32</string>

one sets video mode for chameleon screen, another one sets defauult partition to boot, for chameleon, u can look at partitions list by pressing tab durring in chameleon.

The default partition key is pretty cool, but isn't this disk identifier going to be a bit unpredictable when drives are added or removed? Is there a way to use the UUID for the partition selector or add it in a future release?

 

Thanks for all your work, guys!!

 

regards,

MAJ

[ѕӎѳѳ₮ңӌ]

can this be used to rectify the "stretched apple" on widescreen monitors?

[chunbiao1618]

how to change the Themes?

only cp the Themes file to /Volumes/EFI/Extra?

i do it and it didn't changed.

[sonotone]

dude this is awesome

the theming is full customizable

 

i had take a quick look in one and start playing so far:

 

 

amazing work in this bootloader

 

Just an information, the topic for custom themes is here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=159974

[chunbiao1618]

who use the GPT must be use with AHCI

[tormentor]

It just seems to restart after choosing to load from my OS X partition. The only way I can get it to boot up is by using the Ignore Boot Caches option. I've tried deleting my extensions.mkext, etc. but it still won't boot up normally. My com.apple.Boot.plist looks like this:

 

 

Any ideas?

 

I had the same issue some time ago and solved it cleaning the caches (with osx86tools ... )

[iSynapse]

Hi... i've installed the new chameleon....and it works very well but I've got a little problem...

When i choose to boot into win...it gives me a black screen with an "_" in the upper left corner and nothing hapens..

I read on some threads that it could be solved if i put chain0 on the win HDD...but it didn`t worked...

 

Can someone tell me what should i do..or what did i do wrong... (i have 2 HDD OSX on GUID Retail and XP on second MBR)

 

 

Thx

[chunbiao1618]

hi,

i want to change my themes .

and i use the Chameleon PKG-installer install it to my GPT disk.

i type this

cp -R /Users/iCore/Desktop/Chameleon-2.0RC1-r408-bin/Extra/Themes /Volumes/EFI/Extra

 

then reboot.

and i see no change.

 

how i can do it?

[Onixs]

hi,

i want to change my themes .

and i use the Chameleon PKG-installer install it to my GPT disk.

i type this

 

 

then reboot.

and i see no change.

 

how i can do it?

 

chunbiao1618

 

because it still using the default one. go to /extra/Theme/, rename twilight to Default. youl see changes.

[chunbiao1618]

chunbiao1618

 

because it still using the default one. go to /extra/Theme/, rename twilight to Default. youl see changes.

 

let me have a try,

thank you~~~

[ѕӎѳѳ₮ңӌ]

how does one run the voodoo kernel from the EFI partition with this?

[Pink Waters]

how does one run the voodoo kernel from the EFI partition with this?

 

I would like to know that too

[DarkUser89]

have Chameleon 2.0 on a USB stick installed!

invites OSX perfectly from HDD but unfortunately not on DVD :-(

what should I adjust?

[zef]

have Chameleon 2.0 on a USB stick installed!

invites OSX perfectly from HDD but unfortunately not on DVD :-(

what should I adjust?

 

Quote from Chameleon's site (features part #2 article on 8th February):

 

Boot retail DVDs with preboot ramdisk image support.

 

With this feature you can create ‘boot-132’ like bootable iso images without having to use isolinux and that complex method to create such boot CDs. Just simply create a folder, put the cdboot + your Extra stuff + a Preboot.dmg inside with your Extra extensions, then use a single line hdiutil command to create your boot CD.

 

To able to boot retail DVDs you still have to boot from this prepared CD then swap to the retail one. A built-in ATAPI driver would help in the future, but not for now. The ramdisk image should be an uncompressed single partition image using any partition scheme what the booter has support for (MBR, GUID or APM).

[smoothdvd]

Greate Work!

 

Usb boot disk using chameleon 2.0rc1 to works successfully!

Boot to OSX with gpt and ahci!

 

Now i will install win7 to same harddisk to test multiboot!

 

some need to fix:

my q6600 with asus p5q pro is know as (3.0G hz), i think it should be 2.4G hz

and Geekbench still report system is Hackintosh, not Mac Pro

[netkas]

Greate Work!

 

Usb boot disk using chameleon 2.0rc1 to works successfully!

Boot to OSX with gpt and ahci!

 

Now i will install win7 to same harddisk to test multiboot!

 

some need to fix:

my q6600 with asus p5q pro is know as (3.0G hz), i think it should be 2.4G hz

and Geekbench still report system is Hackintosh, not Mac Pro

 

 

 

dont put the provided smbios.plist into Extra, or, if u want, remove externalclock key from it.

[BartNijland]

Works great!!! Thanks!!

 

Just one question. How do I change the resolution of the bootloader? "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32" only works for the actual boot, but not the bootloader.

 

Again, many thanks!

[smoothdvd]

dont put the provided smbios.plist into Extra, or, if u want, remove externalclock key from it.

 

Just find it:)

[Azimutz]

Works great!!! Thanks!!

 

Just one question. How do I change the resolution of the bootloader? "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32" only works for the actual boot, but not the bootloader.

 

Again, many thanks!

 

At boot prompt, use arrow down to "Video Info" and check available resolutions. Only Vesa ones can be used.