Chameleon boot loader, how do i check which version i have and edit OS choices?

[jangaboo]

Hi

 

I have Chameleon installed when it boots and I have 4 choices but only really 2 operating systems installed (XP and OSX 10.6)

 

It says NTFS, Mac1, NTFS, NTFS

 

if i select the last two NTFS it just reboots the computer, i'd like to change the labels of them if possible and delete the last two options...What file do I edit (I'd prefer to use text edit vs terminal )

 

Most of the searches i've done for CHameleon have people editing in terminal/bash, is there no GUI way to edit it?

 

thanks

[blackosx]

Hi jangaboo

 

You can find out which version of Chameleon you have installed by running the following command in Terminal: (Tip courtesy of Zhell from here)

strings /boot | sed -nE 's!^Darwin/x86 boot.+(Chameleon.+)!\1!p'

 

And for your NTFS partitions/drives showing in Chameleon you can add a couple of boot options to your /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist which can be edited in TextEdit. I think the Hide option is available from RC4 and the Rename option is available from RC5, but I could be wrong.

 

Hide Partition usage:

"Hide Partition"		Remove unwanted partition(s) from the boot menu.
=partition			   Specified, possibly multiple times, as hd(x,y), an
 [;partition2 ...]	   UUID or label enclosed in quotes.

 

Rename Partition usage is:

  "Rename Partition"	  Rename partition(s) for the boot menu.
=partition <alias>	   Where partition is hd(x,y), UUID or label enclosed
 [;partition2 <alias2>   in quotes. The alias can optionally be quoted too. 
 ...]

 

 

Some useful links:

Chameleon FAQ

Official Docs up to RC4

[jangaboo]

Hi jangaboo

 

You can find out which version of Chameleon you have installed by running the following command in Terminal: (Tip courtesy of Zhell from here)

strings /boot | sed -nE 's!^Darwin/x86 boot.+(Chameleon.+)!\1!p'

 

And for your NTFS partitions/drives showing in Chameleon you can add a couple of boot options to your /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist which can be edited in TextEdit. I think the Hide option is available from RC4 and the Rename option is available from RC5, but I could be wrong.

 

Hide Partition usage:

"Hide Partition"		Remove unwanted partition(s) from the boot menu.
 =partition			   Specified, possibly multiple times, as hd(x,y), an
  [;partition2 ...]	   UUID or label enclosed in quotes.

 

Rename Partition usage is:

  "Rename Partition"	  Rename partition(s) for the boot menu.
 =partition <alias>	   Where partition is hd(x,y), UUID or label enclosed
  [;partition2 <alias2>   in quotes. The alias can optionally be quoted too. 
  ...]

 

 

Some useful links:

Chameleon FAQ

Official Docs up to RC4

 

 

thanks

 

Chameleon v2.0-RC2 r

 

and i'll read up more

[jangaboo]

when i edit the com.apple.Boot.plist i don't have admin permissions to save, how would i change the file access so i can save?

 

in windows explorer i would right click file, uncheck read only but I don't see a method in Finder

[3.14r2]

when i edit the com.apple.Boot.plist i don't have admin permissions to save, how would i change the file access so i can save?

 

in windows explorer i would right click file, uncheck read only but I don't see a method in Finder

Right click on file > Get Info> Click lock icon (in the bottom part of the window)> change permissions. Or use a PlistEdit Pro. It will ask you the password to save settings. Also you may try a Lizard App to manage settings and kexts.

[jangaboo]

Right click on file > Get Info> Click lock icon (in the bottom part of the window)> change permissions. Or use a PlistEdit Pro. It will ask you the password to save settings. Also you may try a Lizard App to manage settings and kexts.

 

awesome thanks guys

 

found out the Hide won't work with version of Chameleon i have, and not sure if i should update since i'm on AMD processor will have to read more into that

[PippoX0]

Thanks, This is what i was looking for ....

 

"You can find out which version of Chameleon you have installed by running the following command in Terminal: "

strings /boot | sed -nE 's!^Darwin/x86 boot.+(Chameleon.+)!\1!p'

[nyolc8]

You can find out which version of Chameleon you have installed by running the following command in Terminal: (Tip courtesy of Zhell from here)

strings /boot | sed -nE 's!^Darwin/x86 boot.+(Chameleon.+)!\1!p'

Is that normal if I don't get anything for that command?

It worked before, but on chameleon 2.1 r2011 it doesn't do anything.

[blackosx]

Hi nyolc8

 

The command works fine.

Make sure you're pointing the command to the location of Chameleon's boot file.

 

For an example now, I have just downloaded the latest build of Chameleon to my Desktop and compiled it.

$ cd ~/Desktop/trunk/sym/i386
$ strings boot | sed -nE 's!^Darwin/x86 boot.+(Chameleon.+)!\1!p'
Chameleon v2.1svn r2011

 

Alternatively, I could have entered:

$ strings ~/Desktop/trunk/sym/i386/boot | sed -nE 's!^Darwin/x86 boot.+(Chameleon.+)!\1!p'
Chameleon v2.1svn r2011