anyone tried?

I will after a repartition of a disk...

Yup, I'm using it right now. It's quite nice actually. Plus it displays @ 1920x1200 too.

Well I installed, and rebooted several times because I adjusted the SMBIOS values (tested several).

On the lappy I don't use much the bootloader since I only put it on sleep.


Tonight I will intall it on the desktop hack.

I am having problems booting my XP disk (disk 0) from Chameleon menu (on Mac OS GUID with EFI partition munky method aka disk 1)

Do I have to install boot0 on disk 0 too?

OK just a quick rundown:

there is an official installer on the chameleon site.

it can be used with a simple hdiutil command line and a preboot.dmg to create a preboot cd which will boot a retail DVD with a somewhat more elegant procedure than isolinux/boot132 preboot. however I haven't managed to create a orking one myself as yet. Follow the basic pattern of the guide for rebuilding a dvd with chameleon cdboot on the chameleon site.

it can easily be installed to the EFI system partition *without modifications* simply:
(as superuser)
fdisk -f boot0 -you -y /dev/rdiskX
dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXs1
mkdir /Volumes/EFI
mount -tmsdos /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI
cp "boot" from chameleon 2 & your extra folder to /Volumes/EFI
set the EFI system partion active (with fdisk & f 1 )

A rew neat details gleaned from IRC:

in com.apple.Boot.plist you can:

add a theme with: <key>Theme</key> <string>NameOfTheme</string>

set a default partition to boot with: <key>Default Partition</key> <string>hd(x,y)</string>

add a usb sleep fix with: <key>USBBusFix</key> <string>y</string>

disable gui with: <key>GUI</key> <string>n</string>


you can also:

mount any file as a device from the boot prompt with:
?rd
?rd mount <path>
?rd umount

read files with ?more

example: ?more rd(0,0)/Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist

(both of these currently require GUI disabled)

many thanks to zef, Kabyl & fassl, as well as the whole chameleon group & #chameleon on irc.voodoprojects.org

Special booter commands:
?memory Displays information about the computer's memory.
?video Displays VESA video modes supported by the computer's BIOS.
?norescan Leaves CD-ROM rescan mode.

Additional useful command-line options:
config=<file> Use an alternate Boot.plist file.

Options useful in the com.apple.Boot.plist file:
"Boot Graphics"=Yes|No Use graphics mode or text mode when starting.
"Quiet Boot"=Yes|No Use quiet boot mode (no messages or prompt).
Timeout=8 Number of seconds to pause at the boot: prompt.
"Instant Menu"=Yes Force displaying the partition selection menu.

GUI=No Disable the GUI (enabled by default).

USBBusFix=Yes Enable the EHCI and UHCI fixes (disabled by default).
EHCIacquire=Yes Enable the EHCI fix (disabled by default).
UHCIreset=Yes Enable the UHCI fix (disabled by default).

Wake=No Disable wake up after hibernation (enbaled by default).
ForceWake=Yes Force using the sleepimage (disabled by default).
WakeImage=<file> Use an alternate sleepimage file
(default path is /private/var/vm/sleepimage).

DropSSDT=Yes Skip the SSDT tables while relocating the ACPI tables.
DSDT=<file> Use an alternate DSDT.aml file
(default paths are /DSDT.aml or /Extra/DSDT.aml).

SMBIOSdefaults=No Don't use the Default values for SMBIOS overriding
if /Extra/smbios.plist doesn't exist, factory
values are kept.

Rescan=Yes Enable CD-ROM rescan mode.
"Rescan Prompt"=Yes Prompts for enable CD-ROM rescan mode.

Well, selecting my Win XP disk on boot menu or by <key>Default Partition</key> <string>hd(x,y)</string> does not work.

also my legacy HDA kexts doesn't work if the had layout ID as 12 only as 888 (alc 888 of course) but I don't know where it came.

same here

whats the status of voodoohda? anyone tried it?

Apparently it works:

code.google.com/p/voodoohda

the source are avalable,anyone tried to compile?

i type make

then got boot file, but size is wrong.

i don't understand,please explain.

sorry default theme must be compiled in fiel boot too or turn off image support.
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