S Corbishley Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 hey everyone, it's been a very long time since I built a hackintosh (10.4.7 is my memory is correct), alot has changed and this community is just booming! I love what has happened to the OSX86 community. It's been puzzling me for a while, how pc-efi and chameleon fit it, obviously for booting and what not, i'm really confused with efi strings and how u obtain them and use them. I see chameleon and all that makes install WAAAY easier, but I don't wanna be ignorant, I'd like to know what happens behind the scenes that allows a once complicated process to be so easy. If anyone has a link to some history or explanations, or is willing to post back, i would be truly grateful... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208956-explanation-of-how-pc-efi-and-chameleon-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Termite Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 ok chameleon is a boot loader that has a very friendly UI pretty much a spitting image of bootcamp (no mouse support unlike bootcamp) that is specifically built for PCs (hackintoshs) that allows users to boot into any OS installed including Mac OS X on your machine, now what makes chameleon so good is that it is very open source so you can add / edit code very easily. For example you could tell chameleon about your graphics card so you get the best quality possible, and same applies to sound and network card also known as Drivers if you are speaking in windows terms. another feature that i like about chameleon that came in the RC4 release is that you can hide specific drives while booting so that you don't have the click the left and right button so many times while trying to boot if you want to know about chameleon just go to the official chameleon page which will be your best resource... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208956-explanation-of-how-pc-efi-and-chameleon-work/#findComment-1395321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
S Corbishley Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 ok chameleon is a boot loader that has a very friendly UI pretty much a spitting image of bootcamp (no mouse support unlike bootcamp) that is specifically built for PCs (hackintoshs) that allows users to boot into any OS installed including Mac OS X on your machine, now what makes chameleon so good is that it is very open source so you can add / edit code very easily. For example you could tell chameleon about your graphics card so you get the best quality possible, and same applies to sound and network card also known as Drivers if you are speaking in windows terms.another feature that i like about chameleon that came in the RC4 release is that you can hide specific drives while booting so that you don't have the click the left and right button so many times while trying to boot if you want to know about chameleon just go to the official chameleon page which will be your best resource... cool! thanks! does it overwrite or push a changed version of com.apple.Boot.plist on the fly, making the efi strings (for gfx and such easier), i see it picks up your hardware and helps with that.. am I correct in my thinking? So how common is it to still get efi strings and is PC-EFI still used? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208956-explanation-of-how-pc-efi-and-chameleon-work/#findComment-1395330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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