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Chameleon RC4 is out!

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In addition to the many patches a fixes included in this new version, a few new features for the bootloader made this cut.

We’re back again with this new RC4 version. Since the last RC3 release, we received many patches and fixes, and also backported some important features like ATI graphics device injection, EFI64 tables and PCI root configuration. Also added a new boot option for hiding unwanted foreign partitions from the boot menu.

 

Hide Partition

Using this option you can enumerate all your partitions what you would like to remove from the boot menu, the syntax is similar to the Default Partition option but here you can specify many volumes in your com.apple.Boot.plist:

 

 

PciRoot

This is a similar option what you can find in PC_EFI, but we’re doing this a bit different: The default value is still 0 but you can set to any arbitrary value.

 

Visit http://chameleon.osx86.hu for more info and download links.

 

Credit goes to:

Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef

Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ

 

Installer

Dr.Hurt has put together an installer package which is available for download here

As mentioned please do not report problems related to the installer to the Voodoo Team

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DieBuche

DieBuche 6

Posted

Hi All

 

Many thanks to all for their work here:

 

I've not used Hurt's installer but have used boot and boot0 from RC5pre8 and latest Cam' pref 2.

RC5 Pre8 is working just fine - but I am noticing a slightly longer boottime, 16 turns rather than 11.

 

pref pane 2 looks fantastic but doesn't see my SW RAID setup:

Cheers

D.

 

Could u post ur diskutil list ?

FKA

FKA 9

Posted

Could u post ur diskutil list ?

 

of course:

 

/dev/disk0
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
  1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
  2:                 Apple_RAID                         319.7 GB   disk0s2
  3:                 Apple_Boot Mac RAID Boot 1         134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk1
  1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
  2:                 Apple_RAID                         319.7 GB   disk1s2
  3:                 Apple_Boot Mac RAID Boot 2         134.2 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk2
  1:               Windows_NTFS Windows7 Boot           104.9 MB   disk2s1
  2:               Windows_NTFS Windows 7 x64           250.0 GB   disk2s2
/dev/disk3
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk3
  1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk3s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS Music                   333.4 GB   disk3s2
  3:                  Apple_HFS Pictures                333.4 GB   disk3s3
  4:                  Apple_HFS Video                   332.8 GB   disk3s4
/dev/disk4
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk4
  1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk4s1
  2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Backup             249.7 GB   disk4s2
/dev/disk5
  #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
  0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh RAID         *639.5 GB   disk5

 

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DieBuche

DieBuche 6

Posted

I've never used SW Raids, is the resulting volume always without partition identifier? (eg. disk5 instead of disk5s2)

Acid_Burn

Acid_Burn 0

Posted

HAve you tried hard resetting CMOS (you can see how to do it in your mobo manuals)

Yes, but no luck.... :)

FKA

FKA 9

Posted

I've never used SW Raids, is the resulting volume always without partition identifier? (eg. disk5 instead of disk5s2)

 

seems to be yes.

I have E/E on disk0s3 and 1s3 - having followed nathan7's guide here

 

Not sure how may people use this method and if it's worth incorporating to pref pane??

 

D.

mikeetastic

mikeetastic 0

Posted

anyone know what's is this on my log? can it be remove or fix? it shows after executing fsck.

 

localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/chum.plist
localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/pilotfish.plist

 

or should i just ignore it? i believe i remember seeing "launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist" before but no the other 2. Thank You.

scrax

scrax 5

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anyone know what's is this on my log? can it be remove or fix? it shows after executing fsck.

 

localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/chum.plist
localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/pilotfish.plist

 

or should i just ignore it? i believe i remember seeing "launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist" before but no the other 2. Thank You.

the compare because of x code, i have them too, it's not a problem but if i can find i way to avoid it I'll post.

 

the compare because of x code, i have them too, it's not a problem but if i can find i way to avoid it I'll post.

 

SOLVED: deleting them. No problem so far...

mikeetastic

mikeetastic 0

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the compare because of x code, i have them too, it's not a problem but if i can find i way to avoid it I'll post.

 

 

 

SOLVED: deleting them. No problem so far...

 

cool, why did'nt i think of that! it works by deleting them but hopefully it doesnt have an ill effect on my system.

 

Thank you BTW.

MacUser2525

MacUser2525 80

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cool, why did'nt i think of that! it works by deleting them but hopefully it doesnt have an ill effect on my system.

 

Thank you BTW.

 

The better idea is to move them somewhere then if after awhile you can delete them, this way you always have them to restore in case of problems.

scrax

scrax 5

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The better idea is to move them somewhere then if after awhile you can delete them, this way you always have them to restore in case of problems.

+1

danif

danif 14

Posted

hi everybody!

 

is there anyway to hide my 2 windows sof-raid hdds to mac os x...

 

everytime i boot in mac they are detected by macos and i´m proposed to initialize or expulse them...

 

i know that this is not exactly related to chameleon but maybe someone here could tell me...

 

thanks in advance,

dani

DieBuche

DieBuche 6

Posted

seems to be yes.

I have E/E on disk0s3 and 1s3 - having followed nathan7's guide here

 

Not sure how may people use this method and if it's worth incorporating to pref pane??

 

D.

 

ok, thx. I'll get to fix as soon as i got time.

 

hi everybody!

 

is there anyway to hide my 2 windows sof-raid hdds to mac os x...

 

everytime i boot in mac they are detected by macos and i´m proposed to initialize or expulse them...

 

i know that this is not exactly related to chameleon but maybe someone here could tell me...

 

thanks in advance,

dani

 

Have a look at fstab. link

danif

danif 14

Posted

Have a look at fstab. link

thanks for answering diebuche, i read the link but i cannot get UUID for that drives/raidgroup in diskutility...

 

LABEL is not going to work (imo) as the info from the raid is not accesible for mac... i think...

 

so is there any way to get UUID for those partitions... maybe in windows?

 

thanks,

dani

 

ps: anybody having problems to post in this forum with firefox... i have to use safari for posting here as in firefox i cannot write in the message body box

outragedtony

outragedtony 0

Posted

@ danif:

Please open a new topic for your problem. I can confirm that sl diskutility shows uuid only for hfs formatted partitions, not for fat/ntfs. Quick google turned up this, maybe it is of help.

Full reply does not work with firefox here either, but fast reply does.

 

 

@rekursor

thanks for your dedication to this (nightshifts and all)! RC5pre8 brings no bold, noticeable improvements on my system, but works perfectly fine and from reading this thread I am sure there have been a lot of fixes and improvements "under the hood" (only problem left for me is usblegacy trouble).

 

lost track a bit who is responsible for what here, sorry... nevertheless a big THANKS FOR YOUR WORK! to all of you!

 

@ prefpane

Looks great, works great... well done! two minor points:

- the icon in System Preferences is a drive with question mark - chameleon logo would be cool!

- maybe the "locked" status on start could be more "in your face" visually (I realize this is a bit nitpicking... nevermind.)

 

@ installer

works great! two things:

- installing onto a fat(32) formatted usb stick completes with "success!", but destroys the partition layout, so at the next mount it will be unreadable. The same thing happens to me when manually dd-ing boot1f32 to a fat32 partition. Either boot1f32 is broken, or it must be installed differently.

In any case, it would be a good idea to integrate a warning before this is resolved, because it trashes all data on the stick.

- when installed to usb or EFI, the prefpanel ends up there instead of being copied to your OSx root.

 

p.s.: have the kexts coming with rc4 been left out on purpose?

scrax

scrax 5

Posted

@ prefpane

Looks great, works great... well done! two minor points:

- the icon in System Preferences is a drive with question mark - chameleon logo would be cool!

- maybe the "locked" status on start could be more "in your face" visually (I realize this is a bit nitpicking... nevermind.)

 

you can use the chameleon.icns included instead of the .tiff if you change the corrispoding line in the info.plist inside the .PrefPanel after that you need to reinstall...

This is the result:

post-464373-1265932788_thumb.png

 

the installe and the release are not the final one and so there are only the things that need to be tested, like the prefpanel or the bootloader...

outragedtony

outragedtony 0

Posted

the installe and the release are not the final one and so there are only the things that need to be tested, like the prefpanel or the bootloader...

all right! will try the chameleon.icns. just wrote up everyhting I noticed.

55318008

55318008 0

Posted

Ill have to try this out.

blackosx

blackosx 1993

Posted

you can use the chameleon.icns included instead of the .tiff if you change the corrispoding line in the info.plist inside the .PrefPanel after that you need to reinstall...

Thanks for that tip scrax. If it had been posted before then I'd missed it. I much prefer that.

Greggen

Greggen 0

Posted

Using RC5pre8 (either from EFI partition or from the SnowLeopard partition) i get a "couldn't allocate memory for table"-error. The boot contiunes as normal but I can't find any infromation about what it means. I would like to find out, and possibly try to fix it.

 

Thanks for a great job!

 

EDIT: Also, the memory speed is incorrect from RC4 and up. RC3 showed 800mhz which is correct for my RAM, but RC4 and RC5 shows 667mhz. Does this effect the acctual speed or is just incorrect info?

rekursor

rekursor 15

Posted

Using RC5pre8 (either from EFI partition or from the SnowLeopard partition) i get a "couldn't allocate memory for table"-error. The boot contiunes as normal but I can't find any infromation about what it means. I would like to find out, and possibly try to fix it.

 

Thanks for a great job!

 

EDIT: Also, the memory speed is incorrect from RC4 and up. RC3 showed 800mhz which is correct for my RAM, but RC4 and RC5 shows 667mhz. Does this effect the acctual speed or is just incorrect info?

 

Thanks, this is a display regression bug happening since the recent functionalities addon.

I fixed that.

 

But was is important for you here is that instead of this message, it should have displayed that your DSDT.aml was not found...

 

So you should check the location of your DSDT.aml and make sure it is in your /Extra folder as an example.

 

Thanks also for reporting the memory problem, I think i have an idea from where it can come ...

Greggen

Greggen 0

Posted

Thanks, this is a display regression bug happening since the recent functionalities addon.

I fixed that.

 

But was is important for you here is that instead of this message, it should have displayed that your DSDT.aml was not found...

 

So you should check the location of your DSDT.aml and make sure it is in your /Extra folder as an example.

 

Thanks also for reporting the memory problem, I think i have an idea from where it can come ...

 

Aah I see, not a problem then as I acctually dont even use a DSDT-file. Havent really seen a use for it on my system.

 

Just realized that the restart dont work though. I know that its duvell300s code so I should probably ask for help in another thread just want to make sure that I aint missing something first. It should work out-of-the-box, correct? Anything that I might have to change in the BIOS or anything else?

 

About the memory speeds, dont mention it, i love to help out in any possible way! =)

Master Chief

Master Chief 8

Posted

...

About the memory speeds, dont mention it, i love to help out in any possible way! =)

This is what I use / changed: 

static int sm_get_memtype(char *name, int table_num)
{
   if (Platform.RAM.Type)
return Platform.RAM.Type;
   else
return SMB_MEM_TYPE_DDR2;
}

static int sm_get_memspeed(char *name, int table_num)
{
   if (Platform.RAM.Type)
return round2(Platform.RAM.Frequency / 500000, 2);
   else
return (Platform.CPU.Mobile) ? 667 : 800;
}

Simply because 800MHz DDR2 RAM is more likely to be used in desktop PC's.

ps2pk

ps2pk 0

Posted

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, let me introduce...

 

A fully working, Windows friendly, installer.

It installs Chameleon 2 RC5 pre8 and the preference pane 2.0.0 RC4 to your HDD or USB stick.

 

Advantages:

  • Windows Vista/7 boot loader will no longer break.
  • Chameleon boot loader will start even if the Windows partition is the one set active. (fixes Windows sleep issue).
  • All the advantages of the new boot loader and prefpane.

============================================================================

 

I have just finished modifying blackosx's code as required, integrated it in my installer's script, installed it and Windows 7 still boots. :):)

This is still experimental. Please use at your own risk, and report how it goes.

It's always recommended to have a Chameleon boot CD at hand.

 

I'll release it to beta testers here once I get the permission from blackosx. [Edit: Ooops, you've beat me to it. Thanks]

Was the modified boot0, which allows Chameleon to start without the OS X partition set active, been integrated into the trunk yet?

 

Edit: R2 contains a small cleanup.

 

Wow. Awesome work. Installed it and now I can boot OSX and Win 7 w/out any problems and no boot usb/cd. Seriously thanks a lot! Works perfectly with a theme as well! Woot!

Smith@@™

Smith@@™ 85

Posted

Rek, sorry for the question, but what is the utility of the "override NVCAP"? Help me to understand :blink:

 

Rek, the pre9 is very very fast, wow :D

blackosx

blackosx 1993

Posted

Rek, the pre9 is very very fast, wow ;)

Thanks for the heads up smith@@, I'll build it later ;)

Good to see you're back on it Rekursor


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