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New Chameleon Announced!


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Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today:

 

<strong>How do you mean customizable?</strong>You can replace all the images, the icons, the funny chameleon artwork, the fonts. Also you can set the background color, the transparency levels, the dimensons, positions of certain user interface elements. The image resource files can be either embedded into the booter or can be loaded at runtime by using a special .plist style configuration file.  

 

<strong>Doesn’t embedding the images makes the boot loader too large?</strong>

 

With the current set of icons, images, fonts embedded, the booter size is about 300k. Without embedding the resources you will get about a 110k large booter. The maximum size of the booter is 392704 bytes (383.5k).

 

<strong>What image formats are supported?</strong>

 

The booter has built-in support for true color 24 bit PNG images with 8 bit transparency layer. We wanted to offer a high quality lossless image format which can be created, edited with many graphics applications across all platforms.

 

<strong>What if I still prefer the text mode interface?</strong>

 

We can’t switch between text mode and graphical mode at the moment after the booter has been started, but you still have a Boot.plist option to disable the GUI. This way you get the well known text based Darwin boot menu.

 

.....Read the rest on the Chameleon blog page here.

 

Hi Res images are available on their blog. <strong>IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING</strong>

 

<strong>24.png</strong>

 

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I know, I'm using ChameleonSM and mine is set up as iMac9,1.

So I'm using -nomacmodeloverride with the kernel since ChameleonSM already takes care of that. I haven't tried using both at the same time..

 

AnV's first 9.6.0 kernel did the MacBook Pro thing by itself on my last install. Plus in the logs I found that something was looking for something in users/Andy, which I wasn't very happy about.

 

I saw that AnV has made his own SMBIOS injector too, maybe I should try that out. ChameleonSM doesn't have the board-id and board-manufacturer overrides.

 

/edit

 

I've gone back to using Chun Nan's AppleSMBIOSEFI, Voodoo 9.5.0 and Chameleon 10.12.

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very nice. but I don't know what is it for.

has anyone test efix? who can use from efix? what kind of hardware is needed?

can we install leopard original dvd without patch on our pc?

when we can do this?

I have not enough money to buy mac, and I really love mac.

so what should I do?

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Hi

Did someone say this is now released?

 

I think the upcoming features are being discussed; however, the final release has not been put out for public consumption. I assume you will see that as a headline on the insanelymac home page.

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has anyone test efix? who can use from efix? what kind of hardware is needed?

can we install leopard original dvd without patch on our pc?

when we can do this?

 

Why dont' you visit the efix website and find out.

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good! installed by the guide and all ok.. but now my ram is 667! how can I set it as 800mhz? thanks

 

i wont understood the instructions of readme file...........can you please explain the process after extracting the files to desktop or somewhere...........

 

 

thanx..........

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I've installed it and it's working great here... now I'll try to customize the boot screen...

 

hey please post the exact steps what you used to install this new version...............i wont understood the readme instructions....so please help us........

 

thanx........

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Is there a forum for this release? I can't get the bootloader to fit my screen properly. I use Nject my loading screen has never fit the entire screen. can anyone guide me to the right place? thanks

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Zef posted this on the Chameleon site today:

Hi Res images are available on their blog. <strong>IT IS NOT OUT YET SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING</strong>

 

<strong>24.png</strong>

 

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That my friend is Sweet Action

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I 've installed this release

 

ON a reboot, all i get is a backslash en cursor on my screen ????

No problem with chameleon 1,0,12

 

 

Anyone have info on this

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Installed this yesterday and it seems hit or miss sometimes it hangs and sometimes it boots right in. I can select my 3 versions of os-x no problem but I cant seem to boot into xp-64 it gives me a loader error but i can boot into drive when chosen as first boot device in bios. I also cannot boot into my kubuntu same as with xp still bootable if selected as first boot device. It also shows all volumes on drives as bootable even if they are not. If i could load both xp and kubuntu and possibly windows 7 with it reliably it really would be the best thing since sliced bread.

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Excellent ! Was waiting for this release ! Gonna try it tonight !

 

Hope I won't {censored} up my dual boot with Vista, I am using PC_EFI right now on EFI partitions...

 

Keep up the good work zef !

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can I use just the bootloader to boot ubuntu, xp and windows 7? (No OSX)

 

Thanks,

Alec

 

btw, I have osx on another system and it is really nice, just for this system I dont need it

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I'm using Acronis to do the Multi-boot (some oses on disk0, some on disk1), right now. But I'm pretty sick of that Windows7 always kill the AcronisOsSelector periodically. So I'd like to try Chameleon 2. Just downloaded the file "Chameleon-2.0-r431.pkg.zip". And what now?

 

Which OS should I install (/set active) it in to have that selection screen when boot? Or should I just make a blank partition on disk0s1 to do it? or....... I had never try grub before, so I don't know how it work in relation to Chameleon.

 

Any step by step instruction can help me understand how it work.

 

Thanks

 

Thomas

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