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[rals2007]

[Update: July 24, 2009]

Just a small fix for booting system without DSDT.aml system was stalling on motherboards like gigabyte, where bootloader fails to find pointer to acpi 2.0 table, fixed.

if you dont have the problem - no need to update.

 PCEFIv10.1.zip   190.81K   1164 downloads


Latest and greatest PC_EFI, based on chameleon2



patches added for better Snow Leo compatibility,

they include: emulating 64-bit efi pages, removed setting IODT://options by bootloader, changed smth in hibernate, for better ati compatibility (wasnt tested yet), by default it boots 64-bit snow leo kernel on 64-bit cpus, flag -x32 will force loading 32-bit kernel

known issues: boot stalls if DSDT.aml isn't present.

If having kernel Panic on Boot, put flag -x32


 PCEFIv10.zip   767.49K   1858 downloads


To install on system with installed chameleon2 just replace boot file with the one provided, otherwise follow chameleon2 installation guide.

[Konami®]

No thanks, using chameleon 2 rc1 without the need of dsdt.aml

[Cheezmen]

what does this mean

"emulating 64-bit efi pages, removed setting IODT://options by bootloader,"

[netkas]

chameleon2 emulates efi tables of 32-bit efi, 32-bit efi runtime services cant be used with 64-bit kernel on hackintosh,so they doesnt pass efi runtime services table to 64-bit kernel

64-bit efi tables has no such problem

[Konami®]

netkas, on Jun 30 2009, 08:21 AM, said:

chameleon2 emulates efi tables of 32-bit efi, 32-bit efi runtime services cant be used with 64-bit kernel on hackintosh,so they doesnt pass efi runtime services table to 64-bit kernel

64-bit efi tables has no such problem

Does that mean, if you don't have a proper configured dsdt.aml it will not work?

[mattrb]

idSoftware™, on Jun 30 2009, 08:33 AM, said:

Does that mean, if you don't have a proper configured dsdt.aml it will not work?

Either that or maybe that it loads for a while, like the firewire full-secure lagness from the past.

[netkas]

idSoftware™, on Jun 30 2009, 06:33 PM, said:

Does that mean, if you don't have a proper configured dsdt.aml it will not work?

it can be just  the dump of your original dsdt.

[Iseeutoo]

Hello All, i have problem with it... After select partition to boot with -v flag i got KPanic with information about AppleACPIPlatform bla bla bla something about Unable to find Hardware profile?

DSDT generated in DSDTPatcher GUI + NewHPET
MoBo GA P31-DS3L Bios Version F10a or b just actuall beta.

System Works fine with Munkey efi6.1... i had loaded AppleIntelCPUPowerManagment and AppleHPET, on Chameleon 2.0 RC1 Aint. PCEFIv10 KPanic At start.

Any ideas?

[Konami®]

Majki, on Jun 30 2009, 03:03 PM, said:

Hello All, i have problem with it... After select partition to boot with -v flag i got KPanic with information about AppleACPIPlatform bla bla bla something about Unable to find Hardware profile?

DSDT generated in DSDTPatcher GUI + NewHPET
MoBo GA P31-DS3L Bios Version F10a or b just actuall beta.

System Works fine with Munkey efi6.1... i had loaded AppleIntelCPUPowerManagment and AppleHPET, on Chameleon 2.0 RC1 Aint. PCEFIv10 KPanic At start.

Any ideas?

That's why I keep Chameleon 2 RC1, why change to another bootloader when chameleon is working like a charm!

[rals2007]

idSoftware™, on Jul 1 2009, 04:33 AM, said:

That's why I keep Chameleon 2 RC1, why change to another bootloader when chameleon is working like a charm!

Simple... For You,Yes. For Others, Not.

[Beerkex'd]

6/30/09 23:54:25  kernel ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure.

..seems to be gone now.

(There's a discussion about this over at the Voodoo Labs forums, apparently when you see the above message it means that Firewire DMA transfers are disabled causing higher CPU load and slower speeds, causing higher latency when using Firewire audio gear for example. It's been acknowledged and fixed for the next official Chameleon release).

Anyone with Firewire equipment seeing an improvement?

[rals2007]

Beerkex'd

Fixed with big improvement on firewire transfer speed/rate.

[riws]

Yeah, the FireWire mess is gone

[digital_dreamer]

With this update, can we create and use a mkext file in /Extra for SL, or should we stick with /Extensions?

regards,
MAJ

[Exia25]

One question: where do I put e boot file? I first time using chameleon 2.0. Can anyone tell me?

[rals2007]

digital_dreamer, on Jul 1 2009, 04:04 PM, said:

With this update, can we create and use a mkext file in /Extra for SL, or should we stick with /Extensions?

regards,
MAJ

You can create mkext in /Extra. If having kernel Panic on Boot, put flag -x32

Exia25, on Jul 1 2009, 05:05 PM, said:

One question: where do I put e boot file? I first time using chameleon 2.0. Can anyone tell me?

Put boot in / (overwriting the old one)
If having kernel Panic on Boot, put flag -x32

[snam11]

i've installed chameleon2 and efi10 on my laptop (acer travelmate 8215wlhi) with ipc 10.5.6 vanilla.
everything works fine, but the firewire error is still there.
my pcmcia fw800 doesn't work at full speed (worked fine with 10.5.1).

how this issue can be solved?

[Beerkex'd]

What version number and compile date do you see in the upper left corner on the Chameleon boot menu screen?

If you don't see June 30th, you haven't installed v10 correctly and you would still get the firewire error.

[bs0d]

snow leopard compatibilty has been in rc1 ... netkas added fake efi64

and his own options ..  original options of rc1 are

arch=i386 for 32bit
arch=x86_64 for 64bit

the same as apple use.

still a problem with loading kexts on snow .. but make a mkext and you'll be fine.

[snam11]

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What version number and compile date do you see in the upper left corner on the Chameleon boot menu screen?

If you don't see June 30th, you haven't installed v10 correctly and you would still get the firewire error.

on the upper left i see:

Darwin/x86 boot v.5.0.132 - Chameleon v.2.0-RC1 r
Build date: 2009-06-30 13:40:25

so i suppose i've installed latest version

does efi10 fix also firewire error on laptop or only on desktop?