Chameleon version, part 2

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Update Number 2 :

 

 

Revealing more features, part 2.

 

First of all i would like to mention our default folder for placing all boot loader related material, this is the Extra folder on your partition. There goes the custom Boot.plist, the additional Extensions (either can be an Extensions folder or an .mkext file) the custom theme images. And more…

 

Boot retail DVDs with preboot ramdisk image support.

 

With this feature you can create ‘boot-132’ like bootable iso images without having to use isolinux and that complex method to create such boot CDs. Just simply create a folder, put the cdboot + your Extra stuff + a Preboot.dmg inside with your Extra extensions, then use a single line hdiutil command to create your boot CD.

 

To able to boot retail DVDs you still have to boot from this prepared CD then swap to the retail one. A built-in ATAPI driver would help in the future, but not for now. The ramdisk image should be an uncompressed single partition image using any partition scheme what the booter has support for (MBR, GUID or APM).

 

EFI system partition booting support.

 

This is the method what Munky and Turbo introduced first. You can put your boot loader along with all /Extra stuff to this partition then can safely boot your untouched vanilla install. We have a new experimental FAT32 filesystem support with long file names.

 

Hibernation/Resume support.

 

This is also an already implemented feature in other versions, but we can show a preview image while restoring the sleep image. Have you ever experienced your bootloader wanting to resume even if you haven’t hibernated? Not anymore. If the filesystem was modified after sleepimage was created, the booter will not try to resume.

 

DSDT override support.

 

An optional DSDT.aml file can be loaded by the booter if your hardware needs this cure. This is a similar implementation what mackerintel provided for the old Chameleon version.

 

SMBIOS patcher support.

 

Thanks again to mackerintel to have this ability

 

Is that all?

 

We have many ideas and plans for future versions, but for the next release we’re going to provide these functions. I hope you won’t be disappointed