More info in the Chameleon site!!!!

Whoa! And I just logged to see if any news regarding Chameleon was out (after, 3weeks away from boards)

Installing!

alguien puede decirme como instalarlo, no entiendo bien las instrucciones que trae

Installed, working great! However, didn't appear to detect my Ubuntu 8.10 installation...

Loving the ability to use new Apple logo's for the boot graphic.

works perfectly on GUID partition, EP35-DSL3L, previously using munky's method and kext's from Delicious Soup thread (some updated).

Ubuntu 8.10 shows up (on a different drive), as well as Windows 7 (also on different drive). Also my backup drive shows up, maybe they could only add drives that are bootable?

And for when people come looking, this is how I installed it:

1. download file
2. unzip file
3. open up terminal
4. cd /
5. mkdir /Volumes/EFI; mount_hfs /dev/disk<drive>s1 /Volumes/EFI; cd /Volumes/EFI
6. mkdir Extra; cp -R /Volumes/EFI/Extensions /Volumes/EFI/Extra
7. if you have a modified com.apple.Boot.plist, cp it to /Volumes/EFI
8. cd into Chameleon download directory (cd ~/Desktop/Chameleon-2.0RC1-r408-bin)
9. cp -R smbios.plist Themes /Volumes/EFI/Extra
10. sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk<drive>
11. sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk<drive>s2
12. sudo cp boot /Volumes/EFI
13. umount /Volumes/EFI
14. reboot

Where <drive> is a number 1+, you can find in disk utility by right clicking on a parition and clicking information.

Works great! Detected my MAC, Windows and even my USB boot device that was plugged in . Thanks guys!

It also looks great!

After a long wait, finally the GUI bootloader is here. Thanks to the Chameleon team for their effort. Waiting to install, will post the results after installation. Thanks again.

can anyone confirm for me whether this works with the windows 7 beta?? or does it corrupt the install? Id love to get off of vista and onto 7 and this would be insanely good if i could!! thanks alot guys,

flash

EDIT: I see that guy above said it detected win7, was that on a seperate drive or same hdd?

It's on a separate hard drive, OSX is on one by itself, so is Ubuntu.

@elitee:

Thanks dude, no problem. Does anyone know how i might go about this with one hard disk?

-flash

I assume you're not booting off of the EFI partition (if you're using GUID), so you'd pretty much follow the readme and activate the OSX partition, and hope it works.

I was using the efi partition not long ago and then had to change because of the inabilty to boot windows off of rdisk0s1 before now. I need windows for some things and im sick of my p4 laptop. Win 7 id like to go with but ive had troubles with the boot sector going mental and saying that a neccessary device is missing or something because windows 7 boots differently than other windows (This happens after install chameleon). Abit off topic sorry, but if anyone has win7 on the same hdd and is using cham2rc1 id love to know how!

thanks again

-flash

Has anyone successfully applied customized bootscreen for widescreen monitors with this Chameleon 2.0RC1?

Kudos Chameleon Team!

Working on my MSI Wind and Gigabyte EP35 Board.

Thanks!

Works on my Intel_D945GCLF2,
Just have to add AppleSMBIOS patch from AvN, otherwise seen as 3GHz unknown CPU

Boots Leopard, WinBlows XP, WinBlows Vista!!
Changed the boot.png to fit Widescreens and VIOLA!!

"Best Software 2009" Candidate??

SticMAC

Anyone tested it on an MBR Type OS X HD ? (i use chameleon V11/12 on that ).

I cannot find a download link anywhere or the Charmeleon page... What is the address???

EDIT:

Found it

charmeleon.osx86.hu

This works fine on my MBR Leopard 10.5.6 retail install. It sees the other discs in my system too, but won't boot my Windows 7 installation. Says the bootloader is missing. Meh.

suggestion for developers - do not enable vga text mode after osx partition was choosed to boot and before kernel runs.(in verbose boot mode)

in other words, can verbose bootloader outputs it's verbose messages to vesa console ?

it would be nice to see output in some subwindow

Works! Boot time took half the time it took with previous release!

Good morning,

I have OSX Retail installation with Chameleon for Hdd. Can I use this new Chameleon version ? Where can I find the instruction to install it ?

Thanks

instructions is in readme, in archieve, u need to install boot1h and boot/


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btw, you dont need to install smbios.plist if you are ok with what booter set by default, u may need to correct memspeed and serialnumber with smbios.plist, that's all, rest of aluse in default smbios.plist might mess up system profiler a bit

How to install this on USB-stick ?

It's looking good,but I have a question.
Can graphic boot used in isolinux method?

I make GUID partiton on my usb , then i install chameleon .. when i boot from usb it load but only black screen ... don`t work for me

better to make mbr partition, less problems with usb stick.

I followed this to get Leopard booting on my Hac, I take it I just wipe the Macloader partiton and install the new bootloader on it? Will download now, will take ages on this slow connection.. grr

I have Mac OS X on my master HD, Ubuntu 8.10 on my slave HD, and an NTFS storage drive attached via USB. My Mac OS X drive has two GUID partitions, one for the main system, and the other for iPC X-DL. When I boot, it detects "Macintosh HD", "iPC X-DL", and "Media Drive", which are HFS+. HFS+ and NTFS respectively.

It does not see the Ubunu 8.10 drive at all. Is there anything I can do to solve this? Even reinstalling Ubuntu?

Hi,
Everything runs fine here. ( GUID disk, dualboot XP/OSX)
Thanks for this news release.

Also, I made theme alternative theme, more in the "bootcamp way".
I attach it here. (just replace "default" theme from Extra with this one.)

EDIT: Just added a border on the chameleon, use this png if you want.

EDIT2: i've opened a thread for user's themes.
Mine is there now.

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

hi sonotone, any plans on incorporating that into your retail installer for Dell Inspirons?

thanks

I'm running iPC 10.5.6 installed on GPT with Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel and PCEFI9 Chameleon 10.0.12. It's the only OS on the drive.

I drop the themes folder in /extra and install the bootloader (following three steps in the readme, making sure to use the right diskXsY).

Instant reboot. I've tried three times now to make sure I didn't type anything wrong, also tried with a DSDT.aml without graphics and LAN fix and it does the same thing.

Something about GUID flashes by before it reboots. I'm pretty sure it's installed correctly..

Any ideas?

Asus P5Q-E, Pentium 4 651, ICH10R in AHCI mode (IDE mode doesn't work either)

(I've restored 1.0.12 and can boot normally again)

Edit

I installed Chameleon on my USB stick (I formatted it as GPT) and it runs and shows the menu. But when I choose my OSx86 partition it reboots, just like when it's installed on the HD. It can load Vista (it's on a separate drive) just fine.

Edit fixed

Removed old "boot" file from root and removed refresh rate from graphics boot flag in com.apple.boot.plist before installing.

Fully working.

This is amazing.
Does anyone know how to get the default OS X boot screen back?

how do you change the apple bootscreen with this? am i right in thinking that you can overcome the stretched apple and spinner when using a widescreen monitor?

No, you don't need to wipe the partition. I just updated my MacLoader partition with the new Chameleon and it works wonders. The readme inside the Chameleon folder has all that you need to know. Follow it and you should be done. However, on the last step instead of doing as it tells you to you should use this command instead:


That should copy the boot file to the root of MacLoader. Once done copy the "Themes" folder from the Chameleon Extra folder over to MacLoader's Extra folder.

Reboot and Enjoy!

How can I get my inserted CDROM recognized by the boot loader? What is that "cdboot" file in i386 folder?

i can't believe there's only 2 pages of posts about this! lol. got it working on the EFI partition. it's beautiful. i'm so glad there's finally an attractive and simple way of booting multiple OS's. been waiting for this for a long time.



i second that. and does anyone know how to use the default boot logo on the grey apple screen. my first thought is to just remove the png from the theme folder. correct??

cdboot is so you can make a bootable cd for a retail dvd.

"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." from chameleon website

then just burn that stuff to a cd

Ahhh so if it's that easy, then I should be able to get this booting off of my Boot-132 USB stick....but HOW? Anyone got any ideas?

@elitee: Thanks for your answer!

But I still have the other "problem". Does CD recognition not work at the moment or is it just me?

The same usb flash boot fine on my HP laptop ...
Gigabyte P35DS3P bios v.11 Q6600@3.6Ghz Nvidia 8600 GT 256MB .. and when i formated my usb MBR don`t help continue too boot on my HP laptop , but not work on my mobo.

Installed this and it looks lovely. nice work Zef and Team

Video

I am in love with it already! Any way for it to only show bootable drives? I have a load of partitions and extra drives in my machine for time machine etc and it looks a little messy..

Chameleon FTW!

There is already an installer in chameleon's website.

SticMac.

How do I fix the 3.0 ghz problem? I have an SMBiosEFI.kext so I'm pretty sure I can't use the patched SMBIOS kext. Should I use that instead?

thanks

This is cool, but I'm not smart enough to figure out the rest by myself.

Can I make a working Preboot.dmg with hdiutil -srcfolder nameoffolder?
What about the name of the volume inside Preboot.dmg, should it be preboot or can I call it Doris if I want to?
It's not crystal clear if the Preboot.dmg goes in the extra folder or in root?

Anf finally, what's the proper hdiutil command to make the ISO bootable?

hdiutil makehybrid -o boot.iso path-to-folder-with-stuff/ -iso -eltorito-boot path-to-folder-with-stuff/cdboot -no-emul-boot

results in an unbootable .iso (tested in Parallels) and 'man hdiutil' doesn't help me...

/EDIT

Sonotone has posted a guide here (thanks!):
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=160234

Anyway to make the progress bar move in the opposite (left to right) direction?

I second that... Other than a few minor cosmetic issues, its amazing!

in the smbios.plist, set the SMmaximalclock to 1600

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SMbiosversion</key>
<string>MP31.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091544</string>
<key>SMmanufacter</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMproductname</key>
<string>MacPro3,1</string>
<key>SMsystemversion</key>
<string>1.0</string>
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>WWW234JHYA4</string>
<key>SMexternalclock</key>
<string>333</string>
<key>SMmaximalclock</key>
<string>1600</string>
<key>SMmemtype</key>
<string>19</string>
<key>SMmemspeed</key>
<string>800</string>
<key>SMmemmanufacter_1</key>

edit: Found this on the forum to do the unknow issue

SticMAC™, is there any way to change processor information through the smbios.plist? I have an Intel Atom in my nettop and it is seen as "unknown" because obviously the Atom isn't in the Apple hardware database... just a thought...