blaugrana Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 About the new options SMBIOS Finally you can specify your smbios.plist location using a device selector prefix like “SMBIOS=rd(0,0)/Extra/smbios.plist”. VideoROM You can pass an alternate video ROM image file to the system. VBIOS Using this boolean switch, you can control the injection of your video BIOS to device-properties. We got various reports if this switch is really needed to make your graphics device handled correctly by the system. h t t p://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/chameleon-20-rc3-with-snow-leopard-and-large-disk-support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLR Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 First! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirloui Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Great, thanks; looking foreward to testing :censored2: edit: this "first" thing really needs to stop... @SticMAC™ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Second! Great, thanks; looking foreward to testing :censored2: edit: this "first" thing really needs to stop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddyoquinn Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Someone should probably put together a installer image while the offical one is being made, and can someone explain what setting the VBIOS in the bootloader? if it means a fix to my crappy x1300 mobility card then i will get down on 1 knee and marry these guys! Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeRunner Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Well, since I couldn't sleep well I was up late and found this new release. I have installed it and it boots my SnowLeo system just fine. I really appreciate this new release. I have a problem using the Graphiceenabler option but that is no different than the previous release. I posted a feature request for an enhancement to that option over in the voodoo Projects forum. This will be great because now I can keep a copy of Leopard and Snow on the same disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk1nhead Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 im having sound assertion on boot (about 5-7 times) on Snow Leopard which i dont usually get on RC1, my audio is fine though... working fine here except that issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoRdaN FiRsT Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Installer Here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184766 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsalac Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Yeah-yeah-yeaaaah!!!!!!!!! Finally! Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingu Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 It's much harder to boot in 32-bit with this new Chameleon RC3. Regardless of the 32-bit kernel flag I put in Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist, Chameleon RC3 always boots 64-bit! What I have to do is when the chameleon GUI shows up, I hit Tab, that brings me to the Darwin bootloader. From there, I select the Snow Leopard partition and type at the promt arch=i386. That gets me to boot in 32-bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 With this RC3 we can install and boot without NETKAS PCEFI 10.1 boot file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shatterhenner Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 hi folks...tryin for weeks now...little problems here assuming i got a guid drive with first partiton 10.5.8 bootin from hidden efi partition 2 partition 10.6 with Extra/Extensions how can i force chameleon to boot Extra/Extensions from second partition.... thanx for helpin out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorcho Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 With this RC3 we can install and boot without NETKAS PCEFI 10.1 boot file? Yep. Installed using Terminal and it works. It didn't break either my SL or 10.5.8 install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAppleFreak Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Can't wait for an official installer package to be released; this sounds amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 So if this version RC3 only boot in 64bit, we can have some issues with 10.5.8? I mean I am using the RC2 version and works fine. I am scary to damage my stable system just for a bootloader that is only optimized for SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 for Snow Leo better use RC1 + boot 10.1 ... too many issues on the new one ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorcho Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 So if this version RC3 only boot in 64bit, we can have some issues with 10.5.8? I mean I am using the RC2 version and works fine. I am scary to damage my stable system just for a bootloader that is only optimized for SL.Using it just dandy to triple boot 10.5.8/10.6/Win7, but then again there's little reason to upgrade unless you need to use a newer feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdtran1025 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I followed the link from Dr.Hurt and used the RC3 installer package. After reboot I don't notice any visual changes during boot. Is it too subtle for me to notice or is it the installer package didn't do anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeehaa Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 It's much harder to boot in 32-bit with this new Chameleon RC3. Regardless of the 32-bit kernel flag I put in Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist, Chameleon RC3 always boots 64-bit! What I have to do is when the chameleon GUI shows up, I hit Tab, that brings me to the Darwin bootloader. From there, I select the Snow Leopard partition and type at the promt arch=i386. That gets me to boot in 32-bit. that is because the 32 bit bootflag for PC EFI is "-x32" and for chameleon it is "arch=i386"!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 "arch=i386" Thanks ! I read in the Chameleon comment postings, someone said use: arch=i386 -legacy for -x32 exchange (PC EFI 10.x) I never used -legacy, but know that this is an known kernel flag 8some needed very early at 10.4.3 times. Is someone using this -legacy , or is "arch=i386" enough for Snow Leopard (-x32) And also, because readme isnt really complete, the /EXTRA content structure seems also to be changed. Now i can see an 10.5 and 10.6 and an COMMON folder with/for different kexts. Is that needed or can i stay with my old structure (if that actually works good) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitmac Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 My extras folder has: fakesmc - legacyappleahci - openhalt - platformuuid - and sleepenabler whether i use -x32 or just -v I get these errors on boot... Failed to load executable for kext com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart. Can't load kext org.netkas.fakesmc - link failed. [com.superhai.driver.PlatformUUID]: The Mach-O file is malformed: Invalid magic number: 0xfeedface. ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out then it just stops at: AppleRTL8169Ethernet: phyWaitForAutoNegotiation TIMEOUT What am i doing wrong here???????????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 -x32 didnt work with RC3, thats only for the EFI PC 10.x boot !!!! You must use arch=i386 ! I will NOT update , because my 10.5 / 10.6 system runs very well with RC2 + EFI PC 1.1 boot. Perhaps in a few months with final CH version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I just installed RC3 on both a USB stick and on the EFI partition on my OSX drive. Seems to work fine for Snow Leopard. A few cosmetic improvements from the PC 10.2 cdboot I was using...the SL bootloader only shows the SL boot disks and not the Data disks...cleans things up a bit. Also, I wasn't always able to get my hd(1,1) [Windows 7] to be my default partition. Tried 10 times in a row on reboot and default partition seems to be fine now too. So far, so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabblefish Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Installer Here:http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184766 Thanks a million Dr. Hurt! And, of course, much love to all of the geniuses who made RC3 happen! This installer package is working beautifully so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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