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From the website, it does NOT support Snow Leopard...

 

Boot Think 2 update

 

1. Support files are installed under Windows

 

2. In support of Windows under the direct replacement / Darwin / System / Library / Extentions.mkext drive buffer

 

3. More accurate identification of Windows systems (XP, Vista, Windows 7)

 

4. Support for any NTFS partition directly from Windows systems to guide

 

5. Ubutun enhance the grub on the Linux system boot, etc.

 

6. Set the default boot partition, and the countdown

 

Upgrade 2

 

1. Installed in windows

 

2. Update / Darwin / System / Library / Extentions.mkext under windows

 

3. More accurate identification of Windows systems

 

4. Boot windows from any NTFS partition

 

5. Better support for the grub

 

6. Setup default boot partition and countdown

 

Download

 

for Windows:

Boot Think 2.1.0_Win.rar

 

for Leopard:

Boot Think 2.1.0_Mac.zip

 

BIN file:

Boot Think 2.1.0_Bin.zip

 

Mirror

WIN

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tenynzhnijy

MAC

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?imjmzmnmyqm

BIN

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gzzudnjmt5e

 

 

They also got a english manual now!

 

Boot Think 

1、 Who can use it? 

Boot-think is for those Hackingtosh users who want to boot Mac OS in standard 
PC machine and also other OS like XP, Vista, Win-7 or Linux in the same time.  

2、 What is Boot Think? 

Boot-think is a multi OS bootloader for standard PC machine to enable multi OS 
boot management especially for Mac OS original kernel. 

3、 Why use Boot Think? 

Boot-think is designed to enable the standard PC to boot the original Mac OS 
with GUI(graphic user interface). Windows OS is also supported. 

4、 What you should know before you install Boot Think? 

a、Boot-think only support the Mac OS with original kernel in standard PC, the 
supporting configuration of the PC for Mac OS can be referred at 
[url="http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6"]http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6[/url]. 
b、Boot-think can also support Mac OS with cracked kernel. 
c、Boot-think 2.1.0 supports to be installed into HFS+ (On MBR disk it must be 
major partition ) under Leopard or to be installed into NTFS under windows. 

5、 Boot-Think Functions 

Function Description 
Support GUID and MBR partitions  
Support EFI partition installation  
Support HDD and USB drives USB drive is suggested. 
Support file boot  
Support multi OSs and HDDs Leopard, XP, Vista, Win7 and Ubuntu … 
GUI Interface  
Support original Mac OS 
installation DVD to boot 

Support quick key  
Boot Management  
Show only Bootable Partitions  
Choose Default Partition Boot  


6、 Boot Management Setup 
(only for having setting the default boot partition,except ‘c’for the DVD ) 
Boot quick key Description 
c Leopard original DVD boot and installation 
Alt(Option) Go into Boot Management and choose the boot 
partition 
Shift Safe mode 
Ctrl(Command)+v Verbose mode 
Ctrl(Command)+s Single user mode 
(■ new or update) 
Key Description 
# b=x Select default bootable partition and x seconds 
countdown (0<= x <=32767) 
# b=~ Cancel default bootable partition 
# p=- Show only bootable partitions 
# p=+ Show more partitions 
# g=WxHxDEPTH Set the boot screen resolution g=1024x768x32  
# g=~ Cancel the resolution setting 

7、 Boot Think installation 
The latest version of Boot-think installation package can be downloaded from 
www.apple163.com. You can choose the partition during the installation process, 
the default selection is the root partition.(if Leopard Please only select HFS+) 



After choosing the installation partition, you can choose the installation mode: 
Three Installation Modes: 
1) Choose Boot1h only.  
By this installation method, it only write the boot1h file into the HFS+ sector 
with this command line “dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY”. Boot0 or fileboot can 
search and find the boot1h to continue boot your machine. 
2) Choose Boot1h and Boot0 at the same time (Default installation mode). After the 
installation, the pc will boot into the boot management GUI by Boot-think so 
that you can choose the boot partition. By this installation method, it will 
write the boot0 file into the first leading sector of the HDD MBR with this 
command line “fdisk –f boot0 –u –y /dev/rdiskX”  no matter which partition 
method you are using(Fat32, NTFS or GUID) in addition of the method 1. 
3) Choose the EFI.  
please cancel the selections of boot1h or boot0 manually. 
It will install the Boot-think into the EFI hidden partition of the GUID 
partition automatically. The EFI partition will be formated into HFS+ 
automatically.  
During the installation process you should select a partition on the GUID disk 
as an entry-partition for EFI, it will tell Boot-think which disk to install 
and it will be used to 
store some files for Boot-think. For example, the file 
update.command in entry-partition/Darwin/,it can update the Extensions.mkext 
in EFI partition automatically by putting *.kext files into 
entry-partition/Darwin/S/L/E/ or Extensions.mkext file into 
entry-partition/Darwin/S/L/. 

It is suggested to use the default installation method for the 
beginners. 

8、 Usage 

After into the boot management GUI, you can choose the bootable partition with 
up/down or left/right arrow keys to boot the selective OS. You can input the command 
line for Mac OS after press the F8 according to the 6 table. 

9、 Other suggestion 
1) Boot-think only contains limited necessary drivers, you can add your own if you 
need other drivers. 
2) Boot-think defaults use the file icoDefault for all partitions icons except 
cdrom. You could remove the underscore of the files inside /Darwin/rc/ like 
icoApple_, icoWindows_, icoLinux_, to get the Crystal picture as icons. 
You 
can also do some icons, if interested in. Please refer to 
www.apple163.com 

10、 Uninstall 
To run the file ‘Uninstall’ inside /Darwin/, the MBR and DBR will be restored. 
Reboot your computer. If OK, to delete the following files: boot,btldr, 
btldr.mbr and the folder Darwin. 




2009-07-06 
www.apple163.com

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Anyone try this yet? Is it good? Or should we just stick with Chameleon?

 

I have the same questions, Chameleon 2 has been working extremely well and is very stable in my system.

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Pros:

Starts very quickly.

Boot Windows and OS X instantaneously.

Doesn't break windows Vista/7 bootloader like previous version.

Looks and feels very similar to boot camp (Theme, and transition from bootloader to OS X without black screen)

Hiding unbootable partition finally works properly. It only shows Windows 7 and Macintosh HD. Lovely. biggrin.gif

Finally, some English documentation.

 

Cons:

No support for SMBIOS.plist

Extensions.mkext contains too many (164) unneeded kexts - but you could easily erase it put in your own.

Harder to use than Chameleon - complicated folder structire.

Not as customizable as Chameleon - but it's current theme is insanely beautiful and boot camp like.

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  • 4 weeks later...

Finished 1st Year of Med School. Overall Grade "B".... YESSSSS!! :D

 

Congratulation on your first year with "B" average. By the time you graduate,Apple will have run out of BIG CAT names for their OS.

 

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Giving them time ( a week or two), they'll figure out how to insert the 64-bit boot argument. I had to go back to Chameleon because of this lack of 64-bit arg. (for SL) and customize my own theme. But I used it and loved it.

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