Chameleon RC3 won't countdown for boot

[invisiblesurfer]

Hi folks,

 

I experience a weird issue when trying to add a countdown for boot to Chameleon with EFIstudio.

 

I enter the amount of seconds and click on "write to com.apple.Boot.plist" and when I check the file itself the entry is there. I reboot, but then Chameleon does not count down. Upon logging back in, the entry is gone from boot.plist!!! pic below

 

 

 

What am I doing wrong and how can it be fixed please?

 

Regards.

 

PS. Also, as you can see from my plist, it appears I boot in 32bit. How can I change it to 64?

 

My system is a C2D 2.8G running Vanilla 10.6.1

[derekreid]

Are you editing the right boot.plist (in /Extra, not in /Library/Preference/SystemConfiguration)?

 

Try to edit in terminal:

sudo nano /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist

[Ichixgo]

Are you editing the right boot.plist (in /Extra, not in /Library/Preference/SystemConfiguration)?

 

Try to edit in terminal:

sudo nano /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist

in order for your changes to be saved you need to edit the boot.plist as root

after following derekreids command you can just navigate through the document after editing the countdown time just press CRTL+X

and then Y and afterwards just hit enter

then reboot and see what happens ; )

[gs3xr_fun]

 

 

What am I doing wrong and how can it be fixed please?

 

<?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>Kernel</ key>
       <string>mach_kernel</ string>
       <key>Kernel Flags</key> 
       <string>arch=i386</string> 
       <key>Timeout</key>  
       <string>5</string>
       <key>Graphics Mode</key>   
       <string>1280x1024x32</string>
       <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key> 
       <string>y</string>
       <key>Graphics Enabler</key>
       <string>y</string> 
</dict>
</plist>

 

to boot to 64bit just delete the line in between the string value below the "Kernel Flags"

 

if you want it to countdown, you have to add the Timeout line and the string after that