mattodefou Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Hi, This is my first post here. I think I have a problem. I have Leopard 10.5.6 retail installed on my hackintosh + chameleon 2.0. The problem is when chameleon boots I can choose only between hard drives to boot. No installation disks even when they are in drives. So I have leopard hdd, Windows hdd, Windows installation cd and Leopard installation dvd but chameleon shows me only hard drives to boot? In the upper left corner is written: Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon v2.0 r431 Any suggestions? tnx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Try change your boot drive over to your DVD in Bios. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1149380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattodefou Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 Try change your boot drive over to your DVD in Bios. No that is not what I meant. I installed Chameleon 2.0 change the theme to bootcamp and when I was browsing around for more themes and info I have noticed that Chameleon on another installation had some options my computer lacks: I don't have the loading screen 0:18 - 0:20 (time when it appears on the recording). I don't have the "press any key for boot options" 0:25 - 0:30 And I can't see Installation disk if inserted in the optical drive (don't know if that is featured in this release). Normally I can boot from dvd's. Without chameleon. tnx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1149393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmacman Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 No that is not what I meant. I installed Chameleon 2.0 change the theme to bootcamp and when I was browsing around for more themes and info I have noticed that Chameleon on another installation had some options my computer lacks: I don't have the loading screen 0:18 - 0:20 (time when it appears on the recording). I don't have the "press any key for boot options" 0:25 - 0:30 And I can't see Installation disk if inserted in the optical drive (don't know if that is featured in this release). Normally I can boot from dvd's. Without chameleon. tnx To solve the loading time issue. Boot into OSX (your leopard HD) and look in /Extra folder which Chameleon creates at the root level of your HD (hopefully you know what I mean). In this folder is where all your modified kext go, etc. Also here is your modified com.apple.Boot.plist. You can open this file using TextEdit. There is a string you can add that will cause that a delay in that loading screen you mention. It's called "Timeout" Here's what my com.apple.Boot.plist looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>-f</key> <string></string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>2</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string></string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>None</string> <key>device-properties</key> <string>ab02000001000000020000003f0000000100000002010c00d041030a0100000001010600001e 101060000017fff0400160000006200750069006c0074002d0069006e00000005000000016002000 0d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000010101060000007fff04000e0000004e005600 0004d000000200000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000022000 005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069007a006500000008000000000000201c 000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656 740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b000000646973706c617922000000400030002c0064006500 6006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c617922000000400031002c0 6400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179100000006d 06f00640065006c0000001a0000006e5669646961204765466f72636520393430302047542000000 400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d 16314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d411 000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d42200000 0400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564 6163100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c000000000000070000 0001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646 61204765466f7263652039343030204754204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string> </dict> </plist> To allow that delay, set Timeout to be how many seconds you want. I don't recall if there is a max setting, but probably 5 is enough. As you can see I only use 2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1149764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattodefou Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 I will try that later and post the results. tnx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1149776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattodefou Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 @ gmacman ok. that worked. still the 3rd question. am I able to boot installations form optical drives? as in themes there are optical drive icons device_cdrom.png and device_fat16.png. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1149834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompic823 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 mattodefou- I too am facing this issue becuase I would love to be able to boot discs directly from within Chameleon. Any help would be greatly appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1150047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 It's not possible to boot from optical media yet with Chameleon 2.0. You'll have to use the BIOS for now. The only way to get Chameleon to boot optical media is to make a Chameleon boot CD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1150083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompic823 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Alright thanks for the help cause I was extremely confused. I found a great tutorial on making a Chameleon BootCD so I'll get started on that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165168-chameleon-20-rc1-question/#findComment-1150291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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