Comments on: New Chameleon… say what? (RC4)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:11:23 +0000

Try reinstalling Chameleon RC4 following this guide and see if it resolves your issue. Also, trying copying your com.apple.boot.plist to the Extra folder in the root of your HDD.

By: Nysos

Nysos — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:45:54 +0000

Hello Thomas,

thanks for your response.
It didn’t work.

I’ve checked if the boot file was really copied to / comparing the timestamps:
sudo cp -p boot / (added -p)
The file really went to /…

cat /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Kernel
mach_kernel
Kernel Flags

Timeout
10

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:44:52 +0000

Nysos- Try copying the lines from this file to your com.apple.boot.plist (found in the Extra folder in the root of your hard drive). If the file isn't in your Extra folder, it will be in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration.

By: Nysos

Nysos — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:24:00 +0000

Hello Thomas,

nice tutorial… :)

I still have one problem: chameleon won’t show up at boot time…
Mac OS is directly booted.

I’m using Mac OS X 10.6 and Ubuntu 9.10.
I followed the steps you specified in this post “Booting Ubuntu With The Chameleon Bootloader!”

I am completely new to Mac and installed the chameleon boot 3 times without changes, any clues?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:34 +0000

Verify that OS X is the active/boot partition (Using GParted in Linux), and then reinstall Chameleon.If this doesn’t work then it may be beneficial to attempt to install Chameleon RC3. Also, which Linux distro are you using?

By: farooq

farooq — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:55:05 +0000

Dear Thomas,
I tried it and the commands worked fine this time, but when i restarted, i got three options at chemloeon at the boot time.

1) Linux,
2) Leaopord

When i select Linux, it loads grubu correctly, but when i select Leaopord, nothing loads up, only one message says Loading Darwin and thats it, but there is no real loading CPU is halted etc. This is when i tried with RC4.

But when I install chemloan version1, it does not show any boot time options for Linux etc and loads Mac OS straight away and i get to the Login screen as desired.

Can you please point further out about RC4 setup?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:11:02 +0000

Don't forget the r in front of the Disk Identifier. So you should be entering "sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0s4"

By: farooq

farooq — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:00:50 +0000

Dear Thomas,
I setup grub correctly from inside ubuntu on its own partition instead of MBR. Then i booted in OSx and fired the following command, i get the resource busy message and chameoleon RC4 could not be installed.

$ sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/disk0s4
Password:
fdisk: /dev/disk0s4: Resource busy

Any clue to resolve it out as grub is still the default loader in absence of chameoleon

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:44:05 +0000

Glad it fixed your issue!

By: miaxz

miaxz — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:49:39 +0000

Works great on my laptop, solved my problems on how to hide partitions

Thanks

—miaxz Says:
2. August 2009 at 6:02 AM
Hi there

I am triple booting (XP, OS X, MediaDirect) in my dell 1525 with chameleon
bootloader RC2, its great but i dont want the dell utility partition to appear
in the bootloader menu, is there any way to hide this partition?

thanks a lot

By: Femison2002

Femison2002 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:17:44 +0000

brilliant..solved my problem….THANKS

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:14 +0000

Will chameleon bootloader have Google Chrome OS Support?

Because it should, Its apparently coming out very soon now and I want to be one of the first to start using it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:06:08 +0000

Sorry but I can’t provide support for Boot-132 installs as I have never tried one myself so I wouldn’t know where to begin in troubleshooting.

By: Coluwyvurne

Coluwyvurne — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:16:05 +0000

Hi Thomas,
Using a Boot-132 method, I’ve installed Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) onto my PC laptop.
However, despite finding 64bit kexts, I can’t seem to install them with Kext Utility or Kext Helper; the message tells me that everything installed fine and that I would need a reboot, but the devices still don’t work. (I am using the 64bit versions of kexts I used with 10.5.7 eg. AttansicL1eEthernet -> AttansicL1eEthernet_SL).
Any ideas?

Also, if I use my Boot-132 Mars disk (Boot132 with Chameleon bootloader), I can boot into my Snow Leopard installation. However, if I try to install Chameleon 2.0 RC3, I get Chameleon to show up at boot, but like others who commented, I get stuck at the grey screen with the Apple logo, with the wheel spinning continuously until the computer decides to shut itself off.
Any ideas for this too?

Thanks,
Coluwyvurne

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:50:50 +0000

Although a little more time consuming, you can follow the other guides on this site and then use our Snow Leopard guide afterwards.