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Chameleon won't go GUI and Can't Time Out


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I installed Iatkos L2 on three xw8400s (10.7.4). Everything went great using "arch=i386" and "pmVersion=0" and installing the kexts for Audio, Network and GFX were easy-breezy.

 

However, for the life of me, I can't get this system to timeout, quiet boot or simply go to the GUI.

 

I've tweaked all the settings with Chameleon Wizard app and have attempted multiple versions of installs all with the same black screen prompt (non-gui).

 

Here's an example of my org.chameleon.Boot.plist

 


<?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>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=i386</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>10</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

And here's an example of my com.apple.Boot.plist (from Preferences)

 


<?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>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

I've installed the latest version of Chameleon (v2.1V5r1817) via Champlist 2.4.

I noticed that I have an additional com.apple.Boot.plist in the .Chameleon hidden folder.

Do I need to edit that one also?

 

I guess I'm confused why when I type "Boot Banner" "yes" and always check GUI that I never see it.

This is not installed in on the EFI partition just on the main drive.

 

Could really use some advice because I need these systems to auto-boot into OSX.

 

Thanks,

 

//DJF

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Chameleon documentation, some of it outdated, here:

http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk/doc

And here: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/board,1.0.html

 

Delete the hidden /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist and keep org.chameleon.Boot.plist.

Don't touch the plist in /System/Library/Preferences.

 

"Quiet Boot" does exactly what it says and should therefore be set to no (which is the default anyway so you might as well remove it entirely) if you want to use the timeout.

 

Chameleon doesn't display a GUI (or your timeout) if you don't have valid theme files.

 

Themes go in /extra/themes in their own folders and are loaded via org.chameleon.Boot.plist:

 

theme

default

 

More info here:

http://forum.voodoop.../board,7.0.html

 

Both your plists are strangely missing the kernel=mach_kernel line. I wonder why that is.

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You can use OSX86Tools to make edits but don't use it to apply them, apply them manually instead. OSX86Tools is too old and doesn't know about org.chameleon.Boot.plist. It also has some unnecessary and by now very obsolete functions, so be careful. Always try to go to the source for information, in this case the Chameleon documentation and well, literally, the source:

http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk

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