BootCDMaker

[oldnapalm]

What a shame.

 

As a former user of HMBT forum I feel sorry about that.

 

Thanks Trauma for your work.

[f41qu3]

Trauma, plz drama over kk? Topic deleted and no more to talk/to do.

 

Peace.

[Trauma!]

Software updated to version 1.6.1

 

New Bootloader, Chameleon RC3 patched with PCEFI 10.5. No new features in this release, that's mostly a bug fix update :

 

1. Fixed a bug who was preventing GraphicsEnabler to work properly, thx to stellarolla who has noticed that bug.

 

2. BootCDMaker will also check if you've made a bad configuration to prevent GraphicsEnabler and or EthernetBuiltin injection to fail.

 

3. I've also improved the legacy ISO part, no more EBIOS errors in this mode too.

 

4. And now every features of the software should work fine with spaces in paths names.

 

5. New bootloader.

[oldnapalm]

Hi Trauma,

 

does your site have some kind of restriction? I can't access it.

 

darwinx86.org. 1715 IN A 213.186.33.87

 

Could you provide a mirror download link?

 

Thanks.

[macusers]

Software updated to version 1.6.1

 

New Bootloader, Chameleon RC3 patched with PCEFI 10.5. No new features in this release, that's mostly a bug fix update :

 

1. Fixed a bug who was preventing GraphicsEnabler to work properly, thx to stellarolla who has noticed that bug.

 

2. BootCDMaker will also check if you've made a bad configuration to prevent GraphicsEnabler and or EthernetBuiltin injection to fail.

 

3. I've also improved the legacy ISO part, no more EBIOS errors in this mode too.

 

4. And now every features of the software should work fine with spaces in paths names.

 

5. New bootloader.

 

 

Trauma,

 

I have been trying for weeks to boot up from CD with no success until i ran into yours, i 1st try the regular CD maker, it

 

didn't work, then i try Legacy and Voila it boot up SL beautifully, i haven't install it yet, because i have to move some of

 

my files but it seems to work great with Legacy CD, i will post the result once i have it installed. I have tried so many

 

different method and wasted so many cd, nothing work on my system but this, I currently have snow running but i use

 

the usb method. Once again thank you for your hard work.

 

For other folks, who want to try this, if you have the same hardware spec as the one in my sig if the regular Boot CD

 

doesn't work for then I suggest you should give the Legacy CD a try.

[APCTK]

Hi trauma,

first of all thanks a lot for your fantastic application: I've tryed BootCD Maker with both Leopard and Snow Leopard and it works fine for me (Asus P5Q and Gigabyte EP35).

 

I would ask you if it's possible to customize in some way the theme directory, putting i.e. translated instruction or other background...

 

Thanks a lot,

APCTK.

[deanoh7]

Hi Everyone,

 

 

 

Thanks for your great work and contribution. I’ve been reading for the past two months in this forum and all I managed was a 10.5.7 install from the usual distros! I bought an SL retail DVD now and although Trauma’s app looks great, I had no success with your method.

 

 

 

I used a dsdt.aml (created only to fix RTC0), an smbios, a kernel flag cpu=1 -f and only three kexts from di524up (first post page) as standard and I tried all possible combinations between:</SPAN>

 

1^st. mach_kernels of .432, .voodoo (Voodoo Based XNU 980 v2) and .voodoo (Voodoo.alpha3),

 

2^nd. “arch” i386 and x86_x64 options (the only ones available in my Leopard installation) and

 

3^rd. The “Make CD” and “Make Legacy CD” options.

 

 

The hardware is a P5WD2 Premium (socket 775) with a P4 (@3.2), 4GB Ram, 2 x nvidia 8400 GS, 2 x HDDs, DVD RW, that all worked with 10.5.7 except the onboard firewire.

 

 

So I end up with two situations and that is with mixed combination of the above.

 

 

1^st. The Chameleon with a grey backround for ever (more than 45 minutes) or

 

2^nd. The message:

 

 

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0043E213): “Unable to find driver for this platform: \”ACPI\”.\n”@/Users/doobz/Desktop/XNU/xnu-1228.15.4/i…(the rest of it is not within the screen)…kit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1411 and another seven lines of numbers.

 

 

Anyone understands this and is willing to give me some help please?

 

 

Many Thanks,

 

 

Deanoh

[grimmwerks]

I'm getting the *same* /Users/doobz panic -- did you fix it? And... how?

[fireedo]

Need other mirror please....cant download from first post link...thx

[Northern Paladin]

Need other mirror please....cant download from first post link...thx

 

Try direct from the authors site:

http://darwinx86.net/applications/utilitai...169-bootcdmaker

http://trauma.perso.neuf.fr/softwares/BootCDMaker.zip

[sonotone]

main page is still available here: http://darwinx86.net/software

[fireedo]

---Edited---

Reason : succes

----------------------------

Thanx a lot for your BootCD Maker...it really works !!! (see my sig) .... thx

[uniaoracial]

olá pessoal estou disponibilizando minha pasta de boot cd's para mac osx, coloquei varios boot cd's nessa pasta incluindo a versão 3.0 do boot cd da HMBT.

http://www.megaupload.com/?f=MZGE224V

[Jakoozie]

BootCDMaker for Windows?

[XLR]

Nice app, but i have couple of questions.

 

1) If i want to update the bootloader, do i have to replace both of those files?

 

2) After creating the iso, i'd like to add a folder with Chameleon installer and couple of kexts.

Is it possible to resize the iso somehow, in order to free up some space on it for additional files?

 

Thanks in advance.

[MaLd0n]

1) If i want to update the bootloader, do i have to replace both of those files?

for chameleon "cdboot"

for isolinux(legacy) "boot"

 

2) After creating the iso, i'd like to add a folder with Chameleon installer and couple of kexts.

Is it possible to resize the iso somehow, in order to free up some space on it for additional files?

 

Use "isodir"

 

add whatever you want

and then create the cd

 

 

I use this

Chameleon RC5, kernel 10.4.0, Extensions.mkext...

http://www.mediafire.com/?bv0h7443sbex83i

[XLR]

Thanks MaLd0n!

[XLR]

Now i have another two questions:

 

Is it necessary to put mach_kernel in it, shouldn't it automatically load the kernel from retail DVD?

 

And if i want to activate Graphics Enabler - do i have to write it in the Extra boot.plist only, or the one inside Preboot.dmg, or both?

 

I've seen people doing it differently, some prefer to do it this way:

	<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>

And some prefer to put it in Kernel Flags like this:

	<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>GraphicsEnabler=Yes</string>

What's the right way of doing it?

[MaLd0n]

Now i have another two questions:

 

Is it necessary to put mach_kernel in it, shouldn't it automatically load the kernel from retail DVD?

I never tested to work without the kernel

if it does work

you will not have a full support

an example is the processor "Core i"

these processors is fully supported on 10.6.4(10.4.0)

Snow Retail 10.6 or 10.6.3, has no such support

 

And if i want to activate Graphics Enabler - do i have to write it in the Extra boot.plist only, or the one inside Preboot.dmg, or both?

Use Automatic graphics injection and and Save settings

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>

 

 

--> bootcd/Extra/Preboot.dmg/Extra/com.apple.boot.plist

[tdtran1025]

How do change the initial boot screen with my own set of default icons?

[MaLd0n]

How do change the initial boot screen with my own set of default icons?

 

isodir/Extra/Themes/default/...

[tdtran1025]

Thank you MaLd0n. I spoke too soon. I was on 1.6. I got the latest now and it is sweet.

It lets me enjoy my own boot screen. Too many kexts loaded. I will have to make another CD with only minimal kexts since I run Vanilla.

[ptesone]

this is awesome, I've been wanting to make a custom BCD for my AMD setup for snow leopard for sometime, thx for this!

 

note: it's for an phenom on an xfx nforce btw, I've already made a successful boot 132 BCD for 10.5.8

[ptesone]

This is actually really convient and easy to use. If I'm correct in saying this, this could be used to create a bootcd to install SL on an AMD machine with the right kernel.

 

did you make one for AMD successfully yet?

[spd5mx]

Thnx for this, i just replaced the cdboot from BootCDMaker.app/Contents/Resources/loaders/chameleon/usr/standalone/i386 , with the one from chimera r877 and add my extra folder from SL installation in BootCDMaker.app/Contents/Resources/Preboot, builded the cd and was able to install Lion DP4 with no issues at all. works great. Thnx a lot. Regards