Chameleon Wizard - Utility for Chameleon.

[janek202 185]

Hi all. I made a new utility for Chameleon. It helps to install, update and download latests revs of this bootloader.

Features:
Installing Chameleon with boot0, boot0hfs and boot0md install methods.
Updating Chameleon only by replacing boot file.
Downloading latests revs from server.
EFI Partitions are supported!
org.chameleon.Boot.plist editor.
SMBios.plist editor.
Modules manager.
Themes downloader.
bdmesg diagnostic messages reader.
DSDT: Compiling, Deassembling, Patching and Extracting.

Works on Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks.
Universal binary: x86_64 and i386.

Download link:
http://wizards.osxlatitude.com/chameleon/download.html


Please report me any bugs or ideas for new features.
I would never make this application without support and ideas by osx86.org.pl team. Thank you, guys!
Thanks a lot to the whole Chameleon team for the awesome work.
Thanks to q64ceo for allowing me to host my applications.


If you want me to add your theme into the Chameleon Wizard's theme downloader, just write me an email with zip package, thumbnail, description, and your nick to janek202.osx86 (a) gmail [dot] com

Translations:
Chinese with both TW+CN by crazybirdy
German by !Xabbu
Italian by iFabio
Indonesian by Wayang-NT
Korean by MacGuyber
English by janek202
Polish by janek202
French by fantomas1
Portuguese Brazilian by slipttees
Portuguese Portugal by artur_pt
Russian by Awesome
Spanish by juanerson
Swedish by Greggen


Thanks to all, who translated this application.
All outdated translations removed. You can find them here: http://dl.dropbox.co...ranslations.zip

If you want to translate, here's required files:
http://dl.dropbox.co...er/en.lproj.zip

 

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[MacKonsti 5]

Excellent idea janek202! Great work!

I think what I can add for future versions is perhaps a radio button to select between Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion (I hear that Lion wants a special parameter like UseKernelCache=Yes) and also the installation and use of modules in /Extra/modules path. To be honest, I installed Resolution.dlyb and don't know how to activate it or what to do to see it works

Does your application inform itself of its own updates, too?

[polkaholga 20]

Yes... very nice, i'll test when i'm back home.

 

A cool feature would be if one could install to EFI too, i.e. i prefer to have everything there and leave

the OS untouched...

[Wayang-NT 482]

works great ... i've tried for SL and Lion ... ... good work janek202 ....

[LIMITER 1]

Awesome app but needs one more feature : current chameleon version, which could be implemented like this

 

strings BOOT_FILE_HERE | grep "Chameleon v"

 

eg.

strings /Volumes/Snow\ Leopard/boot | grep "Chameleon v"
Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon v2.0-RC5 r823

[Regi Yassin 66]

thank you

very usefull tool.

 

waiting for open beta released

[jaymz60 3]

Thanks working fine on my system

[downlord 1]

Yes... very nice, i'll test when i'm back home.

 

A cool feature would be if one could install to EFI too, i.e. i prefer to have everything there and leave

the OS untouched...

 

Yes, would be a nice feature.

[DarwinX 112]

Hi all. I made a new utility for Chameleon. It helps to install, update and download latests revs of bootloader.

 

Features:

Installing Chameleon with boot0 and boot0hfs install methods.

Updating Chameleon only by replacing boot file.

Downloading latests revs from server.

 

Works on Snow Leopard and Lion.

Universal binary: x86_64 and i386.

 

Download links:

Beta 1.1: http://cl.ly/6vJA

 

Please report me any bugs or ideas for new features.

If anyone knows how to build Chameleon's sources on linux without Xcode, please let me know.

 

I would never make this application without support and ideas by osx86.org.pl team. Thank you, guys!

 

Amazing! Truly, you're a genius, Janek. I am desperately fighting the urge to donate you money for all of this quality coding. If you don't mind my asking, are you a programmer? Few with your level of expertise are willing to produce such treasures with zero compensation and scant praise. I applaud you for doing this, you are truly a generous spirit. This community desperately needs this to expand and accelerate its development. Your last two products stand above the primitive and limited tools that most of us had to resort to streamline and accelerate the processes of various operating system machinations.

[buoo 490]

Amazing! Truly, you're a genius, Janek. I am desperately fighting the urge to donate you money for all of this quality coding. If you don't mind my asking, are you a programmer? Few with your level of expertise are willing to produce such treasures with zero compensation and scant praise. I applaud you for doing this, you are truly a generous spirit. This community desperately needs this to expand and accelerate its development. Your last two products stand above the primitive and limited tools that most of us had to resort to streamline and accelerate the processes of various operating system machinations.

 

I agree!

 

Thanks janek202

 

[rDrG 0]

Worked like charm! I just needed to reinstall Chameleon due to my Win7 SP1 update and your app arrived at perfect time to save me a manual installation. Thank you for your good work!

 

rDrG

[janek202 185]

New Beta version 1.2:

Links in the first post.

Added:

Showing installed Chameleon's revision. Thanks LIMITER!

New option: Backup boot file.

 

If you don't mind my asking, are you a programmer?

No. It's just a hobby. I'm studying at the moment.

 

Edit: Small update. Installed Chameleon's revision is now updated after installation.

[Dr. Hurt 224]

Love the idea. Works great here.

Thanks

[crazybirdy 447]

Hi all. I made a new utility for Chameleon. It helps to install, update and download latests revs of bootloader.

 

That's a very usefull tool, Thanks a lot.

[ileikcaek 3]

Thank you for this excellent app, it's a very good idea and really helps as previously getting the latest builds of chameleon was quite tedious!

 

One thing though, when I first run this app and updated chameleon it broke chameleon themes and I just got a text based selector, I reinstalled the old version of Chameleon and then installed with this app again and my chameleon themes still work!

[MasterLen 0]

Great app!

Very usefull!

 

Thanks

[RN95 9]

Hi all. I made a new utility for Chameleon. It helps to install, update and download latests revs of bootloader.

 

Features:

Installing Chameleon with boot0 and boot0hfs install methods.

Updating Chameleon only by replacing boot file.

Downloading latests revs from server.

 

Hi Janeck,

 

Yet another great idea after Kext Wizzard.

 

I have a suggestion:

 

Is it possible to have an option which allowws you to install from a local i386 folder. This would be handy when internet connection is not available.

 

 

 

Keep up the good work,

 

best regards

[janek202 185]

Is it possible to have an option which allowws you to install from a local i386 folder. This would be handy when internet connection is not available.

 

If I understood You correctly, It have been arleady implemented. Just select tab: "Folder on disk", and select Chameleon's i386 folder.

[RN95 9]

If I understood You correctly, It have been arleady implemented. Just select tab: "Folder on disk", and select Chameleon's i386 folder.

 

 

Hi Janeck,

 

I apologise. I posted before testing it.

 

 

Regards.

[bbeepp 28]

Great idea! Thanks for sharing

[crazybirdy 447]

If I understood You correctly, It have been arleady implemented. Just select tab: "Folder on disk", and select Chameleon's i386 folder.

 

Great job, Is it possible to support EFI partition? It seems only support MBR partition.

[janek202 185]

Great job, Is it possible to support EFI partition? It seems only support MBR partition.

 

Currently it works only with "normal" HFS+ partitions. No matter is it MBR or GUID (GPT).

 

I will think about it, but personally I don't use EFI partition, so others would have to test it.

Maybe I will only add support for updating Chameleon on EFI partition, not whole installation.

 

Edit: Are this commands OK for updating chameleon on EFI partition?

mkdir /Volumes/EFI
mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI
cp boot /Volumes/EFI
umount /Volumes/EFI
rm -rf /Volumes/EFI

 

As I mentioned earlier, I don't use EFI partition myself...

[crazybirdy 447]

Currently it works only with "normal" HFS+ partitions. No matter is it MBR or GUID (GPT).

 

I will think about it, but personally I don't use EFI partition, so others would have to test it.

Maybe I will only add support for updating Chameleon on EFI partition, not whole installation.

 

Edit: Are this commands OK for updating chameleon on EFI partition?

mkdir /Volumes/EFI
mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI
cp boot /Volumes/EFI
umount /Volumes/EFI
rm -rf /Volumes/EFI

 

As I mentioned earlier, I don't use EFI partition myself...

 

Thanks for your reply, I don't use EFI partition, too. That's my friend's reply, doesn't work with EFI.

So, I don't know the exact commands. Sorry~

[STLVNUB 462]

Excellent work.

Just a couple of suggestions though.

 

Seeing as you recommend Boot0hfs, set this as default or switch it to top.

 

Is it possible to name the app with version number so when it gets downloaded it has right filename.

e.g Chameleon Wizard-1.2.app instead of Chameleon Wizard-1.app (which happens if you already have Chameleon Wizard.app in your download folder).

 

No real big deal JMHO.

 

Thanks for sharing this great app.

 

Source code??

[iRipper 40]

Great little app! Thanks!