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[rekursor]

Hi folks, it's been a while I didn't update my chameleon preference pane open source developments,

as many people seem to have difficulty with the open sources to figure out how that works I decided to help again by adding new features like:

- new rescue boot disk creation in the Boot Setup panel (old scripts from Lizard were there for a while but not integrated, now it is and it even easier than it was in lizard ...)
- new direct edit features for Partition renaming + Partition hiding (visual partition editing in the table view)
- New boot information dynamic tooltips on each chameleon boot partition
- new AppleSMBIOS Extraction and Parsing feature
- completely new partition extractor engine not relying anymore on diskutil redeveloped in objective c from scratch, now partition uuids (as read in OSX) are available. that latest feature is only displayed for info as for today. This is because the chameleon booter uuid format is not compatible for windows partitions with the format (4-2-2-2-6) displayed in OSX, we'll sort that out hopefully later with our other chameleon team devs.
- Dropped support of Leopard, now focusing only on SL and Lion.

Binary package available for V2.2.0 r465 :
- Added partition hiding + boot information tooltip new features

http://forge.voodoop...6/Chameleon.zip


readme:
 README.zip   1.41K   289 downloads

Sources are also availables as usual here:
http://forge.voodoop...ameleonPrefPane

Dunno yet on Lion as I don't have it installed yet but should be ok too.
*EDIT* Works fine on my newly installed Lion 10.7.2 partition
Note that it is assumed that you used a rather recent chameleon 2 rc5 bootloader, older chameleon bootloader support is not guaranted nor tested.

Please let me know if you like that new features

[TUFF Stough]

Just to confirm. It's not working under Lion.

[akimoa]

works here on 10.7.2 like a charm  FYI

Thanx

always liked it a lot

[myska]

Thanks for your release but it doesn't work for me in Lion 10.7.1 (I'm using Chameleon 2.1 r1700). It says that it's impossible to load chameleon preferences window.

[cyberbabacool]

same for me, impossible to load chameleon preference window (chameleon 2.1 R1700 / Lion 10.7.2)

[Zprood]

It works under 10.7.3 (beta). THX

[karacho_ak]

Tested under Lion 10.7.2...works flawless with latest Chimera but after installation all files and folders in /Extra are hidden

[rekursor]

karacho_ak, on Nov 20 2011, 03:59 PM, said:

Tested under Lion 10.7.2...works flawless with latest Chimera but after installation all files and folders in /Extra are hidden

mmm this is very strange as the only thing I edit is the org.chameleon.Boot.plist file ...
Were you able to reproduce it ?

Thank you for your feedback ;-)

cyberbabacool, on Nov 20 2011, 01:55 PM, said:

same for me, impossible to load chameleon preference window (chameleon 2.1 R1700 / Lion 10.7.2)

What mode did you choose for install (local to user or global all users install) ?
Normally when you double-click the panel it should ask you how you want it.
I always debug as with  user install, but checks occasionally all-users install.

I also noted that sometimes one has to completely remove the panel (right click on it then delete)
before installing a new version
Then always favour exiting and reopen the preferences pane (though many times it will work without that operation).


Thanks,
-Rek

[karacho_ak]

rekursor, on Nov 22 2011, 01:28 AM, said:

mmm this is very strange as the only thing I edit is the org.chameleon.Boot.plist file ...
Were you able to reproduce it ?

Thank you for your feedback ;-)

The 1st time i installed it local user only and get that issue. Removed it completely and re-I
installing global for all user works fine. All files in /Extra are visible

[TUFF Stough]

Install globally means place it in System\Library\PreferencePanes?

[DarwinX]

TUFF Stough, on Nov 24 2011, 08:18 AM, said:

Install globally means place it in System\Library\PreferencePanes?

Correct.

[rekursor]

Hi I fixed a privilege problem occurring when running the new rescue boot disk image creator, I'll post a 368 version in few minutes on my first post

[cyberbabacool]

I first installed it for all users and tried also to install only for one user (tried the updated version on first post) still the same : impossible to load chameleon preference window.

[TUFF Stough]

DarwinX, on 24 November 2011 - 09:22 PM, said:

QUOTE (TUFF Stough @ Nov 24 2011, 08:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Install globally means place it in SystemLibraryPreferencePanes?
Correct.

Still not working

[XLR]

It works, just requires one small restart. ^
First remove the previous Preference Pane, install the new one by double-clicking on it, and restart.

@ Rekursor, how can i add more files to the Rescue Boot CD iso? Is it possible somehow during the creation of the CD, or afterwards?

[TUFF Stough]

XLR, on 27 November 2011 - 12:39 PM, said:

It works, just requires one small restart. ^
First remove the previous Preference Pane, install the new one by double-clicking on it, and restart.

Been there, done that.

[rekursor]

XLR, on 27 November 2011 - 12:39 PM, said:

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@ Rekursor, how can i add more files to the Rescue Boot CD iso? Is it possible somehow during the creation of the CD, or afterwards?

Not at the moment, but if you want to hack it here's what to do:
You can remove the last rm command in the sh embedded script named cdBootCreate.sh in the Resources folder of the package:
edit that file go to the end and add a # at the beginning of that last line starting by rm -rf
then run the script from the preferences pane by using the interface
and then go back to /tmp/newiso/Extra
you should find a Preboot folder that will contain your kexts and other vital files.
you could add files (like tools) from this folder and the run again the command from the preference pane,
at that time the second generated iso (and all subsequent ones) should contain your files ...
-Rek

[Wayang-NT]

works fine in 10.7.3 with Chameleon r1684

[rekursor]

TUFF Stough, on 27 November 2011 - 12:45 PM, said:

Been there, done that.

Try open the console
clear its content
then remove and add again the pref pane (only for one user first)
And log your console output here I'll try to help

[TUFF Stough]

rekursor, on 28 November 2011 - 01:46 AM, said:

Try open the console
clear its content
then remove and add again the pref pane (only for one user first)
And log your console output here I'll try to help

Will try it again tonight if it's not being hijacked by my kids.