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

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AndrewNZ
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EDIT:

Changed it to "AHCI Mode" OSX boots fine, so it seems to be a bug with "RAID Mode" on the GA-EP35-DS3P motherboard.

 

Hi.

 

The same RAID mode prevents Chameleon from booting on my box, which has a GA EP45-DS3R MB, so I agree that it's not a problem with your board - rather a bug in Intel's RAID BIOS implementation.

 

Haven't found a solution for that despite looking long and hard. As a workaround, I boot into Chameleon for my 2x OS X installs and my single Win7 install via AHCI.

 

When I need to boot Vista which is installed on a RAID0 array, I change to a second BIOS setting with RAID turned on and use F12 to load the BIOS bootloader and I boot the RAID from there.

 

Not an elegant solution, but hey, it'll do until I stumble on some kind of better fix. :)

 

Cheers.

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Thanks for the great release, works perfect on ASUS F3SV!

 

Is there any configuration that needs to be done for hibernation to work properly? I noticed in the readme there are some flags to do with sleep images etc, can anyone confirm they have hibernation working and if they had to do anything extra to get it to work?

 

Thank you!

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I just installed Chameleon 2.0RC1 and now when I choose to boot to Macintosh HD it results in a kernel panic while loading the OS every time. I'm using a freshly installed copy of 10.5.6 with vanilla kernel and I've so far I've just been using a BOOT-132 CD to boot. I was about to install Chameleon 1.0.11 before I found out that 2.0RC1 had been released. What are my options? Can I install 1.0.11 over my 2.0RC1 install? Or can I somehow fix my 2.0RC1. I'd prefer to do the latter. Thanks everyone.

 

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz

Gigabyte EP45-DS3L Motherboard

ASUS Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB

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i istalled it manually and with the installer

tryed 2 builds

when i restart nothing happens some text appear on the right side but cant read its too fast and my pc reboots

can someone help?

 

oh

leopard updated on 1 hd IDE guid just one partition (and EFI)

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I discover something different after 1 week of usage.

I had to reinstall Win7-7048 from a reformatted partition in GPT with EFI. It was a no-go. It worked OK before v2-r431. Now Win7 would not install in GPT partition anymore. I don't want to go back to Chameleon9-EFI.

What's my alternative?

 

PS: I did try all previous releases of Win7 but still a no-go.

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i istalled it manually and with the installer

tryed 2 builds

when i restart nothing happens some text appear on the right side but cant read its too fast and my pc reboots

can someone help?

 

oh

leopard updated on 1 hd IDE guid just one partition (and EFI)

 

bump

anyone?

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I got a small problem with the new release. I can't boot with it. All I get it a boot1: error. I figured out its the "boot" file in the root directory. If I replace it with PC_EFIv9 version, it will boot fine. Replace it with the 2.0RC1-r431 version, I get the above error. Here is my setup:

 

EDIT:

Changed it to "AHCI Mode" OSX boots fine, so it seems to be a bug with "RAID Mode" on the GA-EP35-DS3P motherboard.

The same RAID mode prevents Chameleon from booting on my box, which has a GA EP45-DS3R MB, so I agree that it's not a problem with your board - rather a bug in Intel's RAID BIOS implementation.

Thank goodness. I was going crazy trying to figure out why I couldn't load this thing. I'm running a GA-EP45-UD3P and I get the same "boot1:error" message. My setup is almost identical to Chevelle's. I have OS X on a single drive, but Vista on 2 drives in a RAID1 configuration.

 

I found that PCEFIv9 works with the Intel controller set in RAID mode on my board, but I've only had it work when I install it with ~pcwiz's UInstaller app. A manual installation, or the standalone installer package gave me the same boot1:error that Chameleon 2.0 did.

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jjduro
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yes its 5 secs....

 

 

try to press any key on boot. chamelon should stop loading.

But, before, check what is your graphics config on com.apple.Boot.plist.

Can you do that?

if you have something like this: 1280x800x32@60hz, remove the frequency so it looks like so: 1280x800x32. (this is an example, of course)

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I tested chameleon 2 RC on a asus barebone with gma950 with iPC XL.

 

It worked fine - however I experienced problems with usb / keyboard recognition. Once in a while my usb keyboard was not detected. Rebooting solved the problem. Anyway, I did not have this effect with the old chameleon version.

 

What i still don't understand (I would read the manual if there would be one): What do I have to do that the extensions in the "extra" folder are loaded while booting?

 

I extracted the kexts for the barebone from the iPC install dvd with pacifist and copied these files to extra - but nothing happens when I reboot. No gma 950 driver, no sound - although I kopied the kexts to extra.

 

Am I missing something here?

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I tested chameleon 2 RC on a asus barebone with gma950 with iPC XL.

 

It worked fine - however I experienced problems with usb / keyboard recognition. Once in a while my usb keyboard was not detected. Rebooting solved the problem. Anyway, I did not have this effect with the old chameleon version.

 

What i still don't understand (I would read the manual if there would be one): What do I have to do that the extensions in the "extra" folder are loaded while booting?

 

I extracted the kexts for the barebone from the iPC install dvd with pacifist and copied these files to extra - but nothing happens when I reboot. No gma 950 driver, no sound - although I kopied the kexts to extra.

 

Am I missing something here?

 

hi, try creating an Extensions.mkext:

 

put your kexts to /Extra/Extensions/ folder

 

run these commands:

 

sudo chown -R 0:0 /Extra/

 

sudo chmod -R 755 /Extra/

 

sudo kextcache -a i386 -m /Extra/Extensions.mkext /Extra/Extensions

 

sudo mv /Extra/Extensions /Extra/Extensions1 (to make sure the .mkext file is loaded)

 

hope it helps.

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It worked fine - however I experienced problems with usb / keyboard recognition. Once in a while my usb keyboard was not detected. Rebooting solved the problem. Anyway, I did not have this effect with the old chameleon version.

I'll confirm this. I'm afraid I have the same problem with Chameleon 2. About 1 in every 3 boots my USB keyboard is not detected so I can't select anything to boot from. A hard reboot always fixes this. The previous chameleon version didn't show any keyboard detection problems.

 

Q6600, MSI7502 m/b, Geforce 8600GT

 

Kudos to the developers though, Chameleon 2 is an amazing, versatile and beautiful piece of work.

 

Update - tried with a USB wireless keyboard the receiver for which flashes when keyboard data is sent or received. Normally this is initialized by the bios so early in the boot sequence (long before chameleon appears) it flashes.

 

During the 1 in every 3 boots that the keyboard isn't detected the receiver doesn't flash, though a reboot always cures this.

 

Is it possible that something in Chameleon 2 shutdown code is sometimes putting my USB bus into a strange state for the next boot, so that a hard reset is required to fix this and allow the keyboard to be detected correctly?

 

If I boot using the earlier Chameleon bootloader from an external disk the USB keyboard receiver invariably flashes and the keyboard is detected correctly.

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It even works on my old hackie Asus p4 p800se with a P4 3Ghz cpu.

 

Edit: Found out it actually seems I can´t boot in to Win XP (got two seperate hard drives on the old hackie, one for XP one for OSX). Still works to hit F8 during boot though so I still can choose boot drive. Pretty much back to the way it was before I guess. Well I´ll wait a bit before I install it to my main hackie.

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try to press any key on boot. chamelon should stop loading.

But, before, check what is your graphics config on com.apple.Boot.plist.

Can you do that?

if you have something like this: 1280x800x32@60hz, remove the frequency so it looks like so: 1280x800x32. (this is an example, of course)

 

Tryed removing just the frequency and everything (graphics entry on the file) but didnt work

Something appers before reboot i think its GPT boot error then a wheel strats spinning and reboot

My leopard is on a IDE HD but i have 2 satas maybe some conflict?

 

i managed to see the text on the boot

 

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: done

after that it reboot

maybe my themes files arent on the right place?

its on /Volumes/EFI/Extra/Themes

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I have a multi-OS X systems, Vista64 and Ubuntu each on their own internal SATA HDD and multi-OS X systems on an eSATA External HDD......

 

Chameleon 2.0_RC1 seems to have problems booting to the Vista HDD and the Ubuntu HDD from both the internal OS X HDD and the eSATA External HDD......

 

I have for the present gone back to Pre-Chameleon bootloader for OS X volumes, and use EasyBCD1.7.2 in Vista to boot to either OS X or Ubuntu or Vista......

 

EDIT BTW the OS X HDDs are MBR partitioned.......

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_Wolverine_
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yeyyyy :rolleyes:

i managed to make it work!!!!

thanks a lot for your help jjduro

i have no idea of what i did :(

i used munky efi tuturial and a script to "convert" it to the 2.0

i deleted some kext and rebuild the extensions.mkext (basically following puffo83 post above)

deleted some folders of munky tuturial (System and Extensions folder i think)

and added the resolution trick without the frequency u asked me

now i can even boot my vista (separate HDs) i dont know how i managed this...

im using EasyBCD from here maybe something helped

EasyBCD Insanelymac Topic

but i found more update builds here

EasyBCD Updated

 

i have just one last question :P

is there a way i can change the default partiton when booting?

 

i think i found it

just add to your com.apple.boot.plist

<key>Default Partition</key>

<string>hd(0,2)</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

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It even works on my old hackie Asus p4 p800se with a P4 3Ghz cpu.

 

Edit: Found out it actually seems I can´t boot in to Win XP (got two seperate hard drives on the old hackie, one for XP one for OSX). Still works to hit F8 during boot though so I still can choose boot drive. Pretty much back to the way it was before I guess. Well I´ll wait a bit before I install it to my main hackie.

 

The problem isn't your P4. It's Chameleon that doesn't seem to boot other OSes, than OSX, on separate HDD. I have the same problem on my P4, running OSX Retail/XP, and on my two C2D running OSX Retail/Kalyway/XP/Ubuntu.

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