New DUET based EFI Bootloader!

[OS_Ninja]

:::EDIT::: 11/18/2010 Major Bug Fix Snow Leo hang is fixed with kext patch working!!


This is a DUET based Bootloader that uses EFI over BIOS on Efi compatible PC's..

At minimum you need a Core based processor and a 945 based chipset or higher.

This efi bootloader consists of an Efildr20 file and an efi file structure.

There are two different Efildr20 loaders. One is for NVIDIA card owners and the other is for all other card owners.

It has a nice GUI, READ-ME and user feature's!

It is capable of booting Win7, Linux Fedora and OS X 10.4-10.6.x.

rEFIt run's natively from any os x partition. Just like on an Intel Mac!

The efi loader application uses Apple's own boot.efi for the boot process!

It is also capable of loading efi strings, dsdt, additional kext files and efi modules.

I encourage all that are interested in this to come join #iboot on irc moofspeak.

Greeting's

OS_Ninja

*NEW RELEASE* iBOOT is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?pcgzi2dwamk9gz8

*all material inside is respective to the copyright individual listed...!

All screenshots here: http://www.mediafire.com/?si1qoomc8e870c5

[Cartri]

Please enter in contact as soon as possible!

[OS_Ninja]

Please enter in contact as soon as possible!

Cartri what contact do you mean?

How to get in contact with me?

[Cartri]

Please enter in contact trough private message, i did send you one.
Or contact me in my site in the forums... please identify you are the boot.efi loader guy.
I have ideas on it, we can do something spectacular depending on the stage of your actual work

[B666]

Ninja, first, thank you for your job. Second, sorry for the noobish question but, how to install this bootloader on a usb pen drive?
Thank You.

[STLVNUB]

More info in general is needed.

[OS_Ninja]

More info in general is needed.

The READ-ME included in the iBOOT download link always helps...;)

You need to format your usb pen drive to the FAT32 file structure. Using OS X in disk utility you would format it to the MS-DOS(FAT) file system.

You can then use the DuetToHdd bootsector tool that is also included in the iBOOT download and includes it's own READ-ME...;)

If you were running windows you might have a problem getting your usb pen drive set up because I'm not done with the windows bootsector tool yet. Maybe in a couple days it will be done.

Hopefully that is all you will need to get started for now. It is such an elegant interface to use. "True" EFI is a beautiful thing.

[STLVNUB]

The bit that doesn't make sense is the files.
What do you do/where do they go on the USB stick.

[blkhockeypro19]

hey guys, i just got iboot installed to an SD card. Boots up wonderfully, i wish it saved my resolution settings, but thats ok. I was able to successfully boot rEFIt from Macintosh HD, but I cannot boot any OS. Selecting Macintosh HD to boot from yields a greay screen with no HD light activity for a very long time

My install process consisted of running the DuetToHD from terminal, and it successfully installed to my USB SD card reader. I then copied the "efi" folder over, and removed strings.dat as well as AppleDecrypt.kext, because I use fakesmc.kext instead. The root of my SD card looks like this:
efi (folder)
Efildr20
Efivar.bin

[STLVNUB]

Will try that.The readme DOESN'T say to put the efi folder onto USB,
Where did you get Efivar.bin from ??

[blkhockeypro19]

Will try that.The readme DOESN'T say to put the efi folder onto USB,
Where did you get Efivar.bin from ??
It automatically makes the file when you use it.

[STLVNUB]

ok will try. thanks

[blkhockeypro19]

Well I can state that this does not work for me. Something is off, and it is not only with the DUET bootloader, but also XPC. I select the disk I want to boot from, then it just goes to a grey screen. The hard drive light is inactive. It would be great if there was a sure way to get this working for everyone. Can we have some guidance? I am not new when it comes to this stuff, and I understand exactly what I am doing, but the files simply do not work for me. For the sake of me as well as inexperienced users, a simple guide would be great. And the readme is not nearly enough.

P.S. I can even load rEFIt if it is on macintosh HD, but yet again, it will not actually load the OS.

[STLVNUB]

Mine tries to boot DVD errors out (no dvd in drive) then appears to lock up.
Haven't tried with DVD.More info would be great.

[OS_Ninja]

Well I can state that this does not work for me. Something is off, and it is not only with the DUET bootloader, but also XPC. I select the disk I want to boot from, then it just goes to a grey screen. The hard drive light is inactive. It would be great if there was a sure way to get this working for everyone. Can we have some guidance? I am not new when it comes to this stuff, and I understand exactly what I am doing, but the files simply do not work for me. For the sake of me as well as inexperienced users, a simple guide would be great. And the readme is not nearly enough.

P.S. I can even load rEFIt if it is on macintosh HD, but yet again, it will not actually load the OS.

There is a slight delay booting Snow Leopard right now. The efi partition table is hidden in SL and there are some 64bit functions in boot.efi that it scans over before loading the file. I am in the middle of fixing it.

Leopard loads extremely fast. I can reach the desktop from the GUI in about 5 seconds.

Tiger loads even faster.

[blkhockeypro19]

There is a slight delay booting Snow Leopard right now. The efi partition table is hidden in SL and there are some 64bit functions in boot.efi that it scans over before loading the file. I am in the middle of fixing it.

Leopard loads extremely fast. I can reach the desktop from the GUI in about 5 seconds.

Tiger loads even faster.
5 seconds, that is incredible. What is your hardware? I will try a leopard DVD. How long should I wat for snow leopard to load? I have given it quite some time (15 minutes with nothing but a black screen). I am using a GA-EP45T-UD3LR with AHCI, 64bit HPET, and for the record chameleon is installed on the drive, i hope that isn't conflicting.

Drop me a message on AIM if you feel like chatting about this, blkhockeypro19
I know some people that have some really great ideas of how to expand upon this.

[OS_Ninja]

8/5/2010 Major Bug Fix Snow Leo hang is fixed with kext patch working!!

New DL URL in first post :)

[bdrako]

Hi !

I´ve just tried the last version (via irc) and

-> where is the smbios patch ?
-> a bug with > 4gb ram, SL just report 3,2 the same problem if i boot linux with this booter
-> the kexts in extra_kext just load in 32 bit mode

my specs:

X58A-UD3R - 6GB RAM - Xeon W3520 - GTX260

[blkhockeypro19]

Hi !

I´ve just tried the last version (via irc) and

-> where is the smbios patch ?
-> a bug with > 4gb ram, SL just report 3,2 the same problem if i boot in linux with this booter
-> the kexts in extra_kext just load in 32 bit mode

my specs:

X58A-UD3R - 6GB RAM - Xeon W3520 - GTX260

There is no SMBIOS patch at the moment. Boot with arch=x86_64 by pressing M at the GUI and adding your boot flags. fakesmc.kext fails to load in64bit with iBoot, so drop it in S/L/E. Come to IRC and talk to "Bryan" if you need more help.

[bdrako]

I´ve just compilled uefi edk/edk2 duet (both) booted up my linux drive and it seems the 4gb ram "bug" is there too, so it's not related to iboot..

edit:

i´ve just found if i use acpipatcher.efi in modules and i add a couple of fake .aml tables the bug is gone, lol dirty but it works

http://www.imagehut.net/images/xm2pzkjoq5h69w5deces.jpg
http://www.imagehut.net/images/u75o6fcuzv6ve26bb7r.jpg


btw: very nice work guys, congrats , sorry if i didnt say it in my previous post

[CelciusCool]

Hi

After a while this message is displayed on screen

Native resolution initialized!
NVidia Graphics = 0x05E3
Could not find NVidia - Unsupported

My card is a XFX Nvidia GTX 285 Black Edition: 10de:05E3

just to let you know this.

[osmarbcn]

Hello OS_Ninja, yor link not work, can´t you post one new link for download please
great work,


thanks

[OS_Ninja]

Hello OS_Ninja, yor link not work, can´t you post one new link for download please
great work,


thanks

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in the project. The link in the first post is updated.

I do incourage you to join the irc channel as it is the most current way to interact with the project and DL iBOOT.

Its kind of hard to maintain 2 topics at once ya know?

[kirasir]

Does not work with patched DSDT — KP.

[osmarbcn]

Hello Os_Ninja, Your boot fail not work
your IRC fail
your guide fail

Last login: Sat Sep 4 17:27:58 on ttys000
osmar-dallass-iMac:~ osmardallas$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# sudo ./DuetToHdd DiskIdentifier Efildr
sudo: ./DuetToHdd: command not found
bash-3.2# sudo ./DuetToHdd /dev/rdisk0s4 ./Efildr20
sudo: ./DuetToHdd: command not found
bash-3.2# ./DuetToHdd usb /dev/rdisk1s1 Efildr20
bash: ./DuetToHdd: No such file or directory
bash-3.2#

and you?.......jajajajajajaj

Thanks!!!!!!!

[OS_Ninja]

Hello Os_Ninja, Your boot fail not work
your IRC fail
your guide fail

Last login: Sat Sep 4 17:27:58 on ttys000
osmar-dallass-iMac:~ osmardallas$ sudo -s
Password:
bash-3.2# sudo ./DuetToHdd DiskIdentifier Efildr
sudo: ./DuetToHdd: command not found
bash-3.2# sudo ./DuetToHdd /dev/rdisk0s4 ./Efildr20
sudo: ./DuetToHdd: command not found
bash-3.2# ./DuetToHdd usb /dev/rdisk1s1 Efildr20
bash: ./DuetToHdd: No such file or directory
bash-3.2#

and you?.......jajajajajajaj

Thanks!!!!!!!

UHM........ You need to cd to the DuettoHDD dir and then run the command from terminal.

[kirasir]

patched DSDT? Криворукие пользователи пусть учатся сами

[hacktrix2006@li]

Hi bud any chance of a reup of the iBoot UEFI, i'd like to test it as i'm trying to make the choice between using a UEFI or Charm Based install.

Thanks

[hacktrix2006@li]

hi i managed to get the lastest from the IRC channel. There is a issue with booting from USB to a 10.6.4 install on my Hardrive it KP's its something to do with VoodooPS2 kext file. Do you know of any 64bit versions of all voodoo kext files for the Card Reader, HDA and Battery including the Mouse as well. Thanks

Its a Nice Idea even though my Windows 7 Install doesn't show but thats down to it being 32 bit and not 64bit UEFI installed.

[nesnfsn]

:::EDIT::: 8/5/2010 Major Bug Fix Snow Leo hang is fixed with kext patch working!!

This is a DUET based Bootloader that uses EFI over BIOS on Efi compatible PC's..

At minimum you need a Core based processor and a 945 based chipset or higher.

This efi bootloader consists of an Efildr20 file and an efi file structure.

There are two different Efildr20 loaders. One is for NVIDIA card owners and the other is for all other card owners.

It has a nice GUI, READ-ME and user feature's!

It is capable of booting Win7, Linux Fedora and OS X 10.4-10.6.x.

rEFIt run's natively from any os x partition. Just like on an Intel Mac!

The efi loader application uses Apple's own boot.efi for the boot process!

It is also capable of loading efi strings, dsdt, additional kext files and efi modules.

I encourage all that are interested in this to come join #iboot on irc moofspeak.

Greeting's

OS_Ninja

iBOOT is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?f7uz8flf4abfboc

*all material inside is respective to the copyright individual listed...!

All screenshots here: http://www.mediafire.com/?si1qoomc8e870c5

Here's the info from the screen once you go to this URL link:
Invalid or Deleted File
The key you provided for file download was invalid. This is usually caused because the file is no longer stored on Mediafire. This occurs when the file is removed by the originating user or Mediafire.
Click here to view our help resources (http://support.mediafire.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view)




I would love to see how this works, as I have a GigaByte GA-EP45-UD3L based system using Cartri's 0.8 BIOS Mod currently, and have another system waiting to be build with an Asus P6T, i7 930 CPU, 12 MB DDR3 RAM, etc. Thought I would try iBoot, and came across this thread doing a google search tonight.

Updated link, PLEASE???

nesnfsn in sunny South Florida

[OS_Ninja]

For those having problems with 64bit kexts versus 32bit kexts loading while booting 10.6.x, please use the boot flags provided.

32bit arch=i386

64bit arch=x86_64

This should help. If you have problems booting in 64bit mode, then boot in 32bit mode and vice versa.

BTW iBOOT has taken on an entirely new look with many new features!

Try it out!!

P.S. If you have any questions that are involved or in depth, I advise to join my irc channel on Moofspeak.net IRC #iboot. Thanks

[OS_Ninja]

iBOOT now supports laptops and trackpads.

I also fixed USB Ownership problems in new release.

[williamparker]

Pardon me but I am quite confused.
Is having a UEFI booting capable motherboard a requisite for the boot-loader in under discussion?
If this works with UEFI can Chameleon booter be completely done away with and iBoot be used to boot a OS-X install on the hard-drive?
Thanks

[jacoweb]

where can i found acpipatcher.efi ??

[fbifido]

what size usb stick can i used IBOOT on.

can i use 2 partition on a 4gig usb stick as in 100mb for 1st partition ans the rest for 2nd partition?

[fbifido]

did a lot of test just to get the IBOOT files working

i format 2 usb stick, a 2gig and a 4gig as FAT16, not FAT32

then run the windows IBOOT setup, click format->select the usb disk (H:), when it finnish format do not click "OK", just pull the usb out and wait 5 sec then put it back in, then click "OK"
select the other button, and wait till it's done. Properly remove the usb disk. then put it back in.

copy your dsdt.aml file to the /efi/dsdt/ directory
and copy fakesmc.kext to /efi/kext/ directory

properly remove the usb stick. now when you boot from the usb, if you get a blank scrren, just press W and wait a few sec that press D, if it is still blank press D again.

[jacoweb]

but where can i found acpipatcher.efi anyone know where? Because that can fix the ----ing memory problem in lion so far :)

[fbifido]

my notes above only works on a ibm thinkcentre m52
i have a few other system which iboot will not boot on, I get the dreaded blinking white cursor.

if it boots on one computer, that means the IBOOT usb stick was created properly. so why is it not working on other machine?

OS_Ninja, can you modify or create a copy of iboot to work on 800x600 screen with GUI as default?

Thank you.


BTW: can you tell me the minimum requirement for iboot to work on a pc?

if i have no HDD and no CDROM what elese will affect the boot process:
this info is just for iboot to work.

cpu:_________________________________
x64/x32 board:________________________
type/amount/speed mem:_______________
type/make/brand bios:__________________
usb type: [ ]-2.0 [ ]-1.0 [ ]-3.0 ; just put a x in the braket
type/make/brand video:_________________
video card slot/speed: [ ]-AGP [ ]-PCI [ ]-PCIx speed: _________
serial port: [ ]-disable or port/address:______

[fbifido]

how about a debug version that shows us what is going on, where it hangs, etc...

[fbifido]

This is a first for me, it's frustrating, to think that a x86 boot manager, is not working on so mush x86 machine.

Can one one make a cdrom version, or make a img image of a working bootable with GUI usb stick and upload it.

[fbifido]

i did a few test to see why my x86 can not display the GUI of iboot.

1) i found the iphone makeusb.bat file and did this:
a) run the makeusb.bat h:, remove the usb and put it in my pc, restart my pc, all i got was the blinking cursor in the top left of the screen.
it seems as if it is not loading anythink out of efi directory or the efildr20 file, Why?

b) i run the iboot windows file as admin, click the Format usb drive button, unplug, plug it back in,
click setup iBoot, then click done, when it's finish. click the usb drive, select eject, then put it in my other computer, got the same think (blinking cursor at the top-left of the screen.)

[Paranoid]

Am i correct in it dont work on a GPT disc...

I have installed it to the EFI partition on the drive i have Lion on and when it "boot" the drive it say:

GPT Start!
GPT Error!

I have the EFI folder on the EFI Partition and on the first Partition where Lion is installed.

Also on another note iBoot here dont like my DX58SO motherboard it trows out a error on it.

[tdtran1025]

First off, this is the one boot loader with so much potential. I finally got the correct forum.
I have been dying to get an answer as to how to boot Windows. Can you include a HowTo file for booting Winsdows? Thanks Ninja_OS!

[fbifido]

sorry, but what version iboot is at now ?

[tdtran1025]

I am using 1.4, with no support for Windows boot sector yet. I wish to encourage OS_Nijna to keep improving this loader. I really want to put this on a hard drive once it's complete.

[tdtran1025]

:::EDIT::: 11/18/2010 Major Bug Fix Snow Leo hang is fixed with kext patch working!!


This is a DUET based Bootloader that uses EFI over BIOS on Efi compatible PC's..

At minimum you need a Core based processor and a 945 based chipset or higher.

This efi bootloader consists of an Efildr20 file and an efi file structure.

There are two different Efildr20 loaders. One is for NVIDIA card owners and the other is for all other card owners.

It has a nice GUI, READ-ME and user feature's!

It is capable of booting Win7, Linux Fedora and OS X 10.4-10.6.x.

rEFIt run's natively from any os x partition. Just like on an Intel Mac!

The efi loader application uses Apple's own boot.efi for the boot process!

It is also capable of loading efi strings, dsdt, additional kext files and efi modules.

I encourage all that are interested in this to come join #iboot on irc moofspeak.

Greeting's

OS_Ninja

*NEW RELEASE* iBOOT is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?pcgzi2dwamk9gz8

*all material inside is respective to the copyright individual listed...!

All screenshots here: http://www.mediafire.com/?si1qoomc8e870c5

OS-Ninja,

I took the liberty to modify the icons (I have a habit of doing this) to make the boot screen look consistent with all my rigs, regardless of what boot loader I use, from rEFI, your iBOOT and even Chameleon. I always honor the author's logo and boot theme. I merely change the HD icons to my liking.
I really, really like your latest version 1.4. It boots 10.6 just as easily as it does 10.7. I am waiting for your next version that can handle Windows boot environment, and hopefully the capability to reside on a single drive with MBR.

[Yamcha]

I can't get iBoot working correctly, what happens is the GUI doesn't show up, instead I get a different type of GUI

Screenshot
http://i52.tinypic.com/fejxcp.jpg

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I've tried the Windows Setup Tool.. Still no success..

Appreciate your help :]

[afd_sg]

Hi OS_Ninja - I believe that you are on to something very special here and I cannot wait to get it working. I have had best results with the 1.5 file you have on your iRC link, but that results in a KP and a screenshot is attached.

Version 1.5 appears to select its own DSDT, that did not work well and I replaced the DSDT with my own which works very well with Chameleon but really no different that the one that the installation picked up.

Other anomalies are my apple wired keyboard( USB) does not work with the bootloader, but when I attach an old and basic logitech usb keyboard that does work. You will also note from the screenshot that it appears to be loading the 10.7 (Lion) kernel although I am using 10.6.7.

I would also ask for a dummies guide of sorts as the "readmefiles" are confusing as I am using an USB stick and have not had a lot of luck with the OSX installaion, I have been playing with this for two days and have already corrupted one disk, but no prob as I always have backups. But I have used your windows option to format and load the files on the USB stick. This version 1.5 from the IRC link downloads into a 1.4 folder adding to my confusion.

The system here is a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R 12Gig of DDR3 Ram and an intel i7-930 and Graphics is a Radeon 5770 - I would love this to work - however please be wary of others out there who appear to steal stuff. You have the making of something good, thanks for this and for more information on how to get it to work. From the info supplied you advise about booting into 32 bitor 64 bit but where and how do you do that. I am not a total noob but the directions are confusing and I look forward to seeing it working here without the KPs..

Thanks.

Update wednesday 30 March.

I downloaded the IBOOT 1.5A version today from your IRC links and after placing the amended DSDT in efi/acpi/patched it actually works very well...

Thank you. I have tried to link to your irc but it is always offline, what hours do you operate?

The apple USB keyboard will not work to access the IBOOT options but works fine once OSX 10.6.7 is loaded - strange?

But thanks for this I am very impressed.

Brgds/Tony.

Thank you for

[afd_sg]

i did a few test to see why my x86 can not display the GUI of iboot.

1) i found the iphone makeusb.bat file and did this:
a) run the makeusb.bat h:, remove the usb and put it in my pc, restart my pc, all i got was the blinking cursor in the top left of the screen.
it seems as if it is not loading anythink out of efi directory or the efildr20 file, Why?

b) i run the iboot windows file as admin, click the Format usb drive button, unplug, plug it back in,
click setup iBoot, then click done, when it's finish. click the usb drive, select eject, then put it in my other computer, got the same think (blinking cursor at the top-left of the screen.)

I had this problem - it was my apple usb keyboard, I replaced it with an old Logitech USB keyboard and it worked fine.

(See my post below)

[iPhoneTom]

:::EDIT::: 11/18/2010 Major Bug Fix Snow Leo hang is fixed with kext patch working!!

This is a DUET based Bootloader that uses EFI over BIOS on Efi compatible PC's..

At minimum you need a Core based processor and a 945 based chipset or higher.

This efi bootloader consists of an Efildr20 file and an efi file structure.

There are two different Efildr20 loaders. One is for NVIDIA card owners and the other is for all other card owners.

It has a nice GUI, READ-ME and user feature's!



I have never seen such an incompetent loser like OS_Ninja.

This kid steal my work, and sell it as hims!

He came into my #uefi-boot channel, talked some sh** about helping on development, with no idea what efi is, and after weeks of begging me on knees for getting my code, he said al over the world he coded "iBoot".

What the heck is wrong with you kid? You are at least not able to talk any word to me about your stupid doings?

Sorry, but you are an such poor loser...

Best thing is: some days ago, Ujen, ninjas little helper on getting working sourcecode, tried once again to get my work for patching smbios. Hard to belive, but true... ;) ;)

[STLVNUB]

Why not "RELEASE" your code so everyone can use it??

[tdtran1025]

iPhoneTom,
In your latest two revisions, .82.30 and .82.31, you mention that mkext has be to be on root of Lion partition for the the extra kexts to load. Can you clarify this, since Lion deoesn't use mkext, or does it?

[afd_sg]

Can a moderator of this group please advise what is going on.

There is so much plagiarism these days where people steal work and put there own name to it and ask for donations.

I was told off by the moderator of another OSX website that are also working on an EFI boot, for suggesting that the participants take measure to protect their work, or even charge for it. The genuine and very talented guys who do this work deserve recognition for their efforts.

If you are correct iphoneTom the moderators here should advise us so we can give the credit where it belongs.

This is very sad.

[NIZGTR]

I have never seen such an incompetent loser like OS_Ninja.

This kid steal my work, and sell it as hims!

He came into my #uefi-boot channel, talked some sh** about helping on development, with no idea what efi is, and after weeks of begging me on knees for getting my code, he said al over the world he coded "iBoot".

What the heck is wrong with you kid? You are at least not able to talk any word to me about your stupid doings?

Sorry, but you are an such poor loser...

Best thing is: some days ago, Ujen, ninjas little helper on getting working sourcecode, tried once again to get my work for patching smbios. Hard to belive, but true... ;) ;)
I'm sorry but this is quiet childish imho. and you say "Sorry, but you are an such poor loser..." but look at wut your doin, is it any less "poor"?

I agree that everyone should start workin as a team instead of biting each others ass's.
it should have happened a long time ago.;)

[Yamcha]

Anybody know why I am unable to boot using iBoot, I don't see the GUI at all.. Has anyone else encountered the same issue? I used the iBoot Windows Setup Tool..

So I have no clue where I'm going wrong.. If anyone knows I'd appreciate your experience..

Thanks

[afd_sg]

Anybody know why I am unable to boot using iBoot, I don't see the GUI at all.. Has anyone else encountered the same issue? I used the iBoot Windows Setup Tool..

So I have no clue where I'm going wrong.. If anyone knows I'd appreciate your experience..

Thanks

Hi - due to the bitching here I would suggest you keep an eye on http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2008 - These guys are getting it together...

[kocoman]

There seems to be a 450 post limit on "Printed version" of threads in the invision boards.
So its hard to search the posts.

I tried both iBoot (1.5a) and XPC (82.33) on MSI p6n2 mb, but only gets "BStart rt" then blank screen.

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here is my result.. if anyone understands it

MD5 (DuetToHdd) = bcddeed0b013f82635767808cc35e0fc
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xpc modded hdd (or no parameter in DuettoHDD) - gets Bstart rt! then black screen (LCD inverter lamp still at full, press all keys, no response)

MD5 (Efildr20) = c00d5077ed32bec945de53fe6f5f0c7d

xpc modded USB - gets Berr rt! - stuck there
MD5 (Efildr20) = abeb48da7a1e6cf16b1d98f73b45faf9


xpc original
MD5 (Efildr20) = f360a2278ddef04e785218ae3b3d114e


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iboot 1.5a mooded AND original!!
MD5 (Efildr20) = 8164f6e3b6b4cf972546edd50a2d9c5c


iboot patch with HDD (no parameter) - Bstart, then black screen with LCD inverter still at full
MD5 (Efildr20) = 2123f531c42a636b19b476c3c55e1e4c

(arrgh, textedit autocorrects iboot into boot) iboot patch with usb - Berr rt!
MD5 (Efildr20) = 1acc97b2c5d60a9f16965fc1afd01fe7

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It seems that Duet bootloader only with with MBR, while SL and Lion needs GUID to install. It seems to be going backwards with MBR..

anyway might need another MB.

Is there a wiki of working MBs for Lion? it seems all info is scattered all over the place..
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Not done properly. Try XPC .0.82.33, It has OS X formatter, making it the job a lot less cumbersome.
loader: http://www.mediafire.com/?7zz5auzknab66nz
USB stick setup: attached file

I did try 0.82.33 before, I got the link from the irc room at moofspeak uefi-channel, same goes for iboot..

I could not find a "OS X formatter" in the XPC package, the one linked by you is "Made by caine for applelife.ru users. http://caine.in" (http://caine.in")

The md5 stuff came from the DuetToHDD app

I tried the one "Made by caine for applelife.ru users. http://caine.in" (http://caine.in") (also attached by your post), and it only says "MBR start" then same blank screen.

I disabled serial port.. but still same..

I tried Netkas RC3 patched, but got double panic with "can't preform kext scan" (on the Base Install Image)

using C2D E6400

I wish there was some debug version with more output ?

thanks

EDIT: I am looking at this file,

http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?...ost&p=13091 (http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1999&view=findpost&p=13091)

It boots in text to say "ABCE

"welcome to efi world"

we'll see what I can do with that
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ok, I tried 2 other XPC (unknown version) at (they are both the same I believe)


http://applive.org/Hacklion.zip
http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?...ost&p=13096 (http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1999&view=findpost&p=13096)
(the Archive.zip)

and it boots fine, with GUI. The "Wait" was more "normal"

But I get

Loading System\Library\Extension\Extensions.mkext not found
Loading efi\xpc\dev-prop.dat Not found

I went to replace the bootx64.efi file, and got this

(hand typed without double checking, so might have typo)

XPC 0.82.33 loaded from Acpi(PNP0A08,0x0)/Pci(0xB,0x1)/USB(0x3,0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0x54455544,0x3F,0xF0FFB4)
XPC © and build by iPhoneTom
No VBE interface found, XPC will quit now.
Press [Return] or [ESC] to exit.

tried to search google for above message, but come up empty..
It seems like newer versions removed support of some things...

this forum is very overloaded.. get database error/can't connect

I tried to replace with another bootx64.efi file,

it says
(hand typed without double checking, so might have typo)

Welcome to XPC v.0.651, © by iPhoneTom 2009,2010
XPC-Efi-Boot is an EFI GUI Bootloader application.
Latest version download and information under

www.efiboot.de

Starting GUI…
(hangs there)

I tried to go to www.efiboot.de site, but the site is 'blank'

For the one that worked (I mention in the beginning of THIS post), it does not show version number..
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edit: I tried the working Efildr20 from the 2 links in this post, but mixed it with iboot 1.5a,

to do that, you need to copy out the iboot.efi from /efi/boot/iboot/iboot.efi into (and RENAME it) /efi/boot/bootX64.efi, then put the rest of the iboot files, now iboot boots ok.

can't locate smbios protocol, not found

then

there were errors converting smbios system table : not found

how to fix this problem? where to put the smbios.plist ??
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also, your usb stick should be flashing if the computer is not hung..

there are at least 3 version of Iboot

1) the one from Osninja
2) the tonymac86 one
3) xiezhy in beijing one

Its hard to search in google because they don't match up.

[OS_Ninja]

Oh Boy....! Give it up iPhoneTom... Nobody needs/wants your code.

BTW, the only code I ever got from you would never compile, and when I finally got it to compile, it never booted os x...

As for me "not knowing" what EFI is.... A monkey can program EFI. Its written in the most simple programmer language, "C"..

Now.. About Ujen trying to "steal" your smbios code... Are you really being serious? Is that what you really think...? Stealing code eh? How many lines of code did you actually write yourself when you supposedly coded XPC out of thin air...?

The last time I looked at "your" code it was a messy copy/paste collection of REFIT, Chameleon, EDK2 and some code from sources that i will not mention so you can save some degree of dignity. ;)

Hmmm... Does this look like "XPC" code to you?

VOID PatchSmbiosTables(IN VOID *Smbios)
{
SMBIOS_STRUCTURE_POINTER SmbiosTable;
CHAR8 *AString;

// Get Table Type0
SmbiosTable = GetSmbiosTableFromType ((SMBIOS_TABLE_ENTRY_POINT *)Smbios, EFI_SMBIOS_TYPE_BIOS_INFORMATION, 0);
if (SmbiosTable.Raw == NULL) {
AsciiPrint("SmbiosTable: Type 0 (Bios Information) not found!\n");
}
if(AsciiStrLen(gSettingsFromMenu.VendorName)>0){
// Get Vendor
AString = GetSmbiosString (SmbiosTable, SmbiosTable.Type0->Vendor);
// Patch Vendor
AsciiStrCpy (AString, gSettingsFromMenu.VendorName);
// Print Patched Vendor
AsciiPrint("BiosVendor: ");
AsciiPrint(AString);
AsciiPrint("\n");
}

// Get Table Type4
SmbiosTable = GetSmbiosTableFromType ((SMBIOS_TABLE_ENTRY_POINT *)Smbios, EFI_SMBIOS_TYPE_PROCESSOR_INFORMATION, 0);
if (SmbiosTable.Raw == NULL) {
AsciiPrint("SmbiosTable: Type 4 (Processor Information) not found!\n");
}
// Patch Processor Info
if (SmbiosTable.Raw != NULL) {
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorType=0x03;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorId.Signature.ProcessorSteppingId=gCPUStru cture.Stepping;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorId.Signature.ProcessorModel=gCPUStructure .Model;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorId.Signature.ProcessorFamily=gCPUStructur e.Family;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorId.Signature.ProcessorType=gCPUStructure. Type;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorId.Signature.ProcessorXModel=gCPUStructur e.Extmodel;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ProcessorId.Signature.ProcessorXFamily=gCPUStructu re.Extfamily;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ExternalClock=gCPUStructure.ExternalClock;
SmbiosTable.Type4->MaxSpeed=gCPUStructure.MaxSpeed;
SmbiosTable.Type4->CurrentSpeed=gCPUStructure.CurrentSpeed;
SmbiosTable.Type4->ThreadCount=gCPUStructure.Threads;
SmbiosTable.Type4->CoreCount=gCPUStructure.Cores;
SmbiosTable.Type4->EnabledCoreCount=gCPUStructure.Cores;
}
return;
}

EFI_STATUS PatchSmbios()
{
EFI_STATUS Status;
EFI_SMBIOS_PROTOCOL* gSmbios;
EFI_PEI_HOB_POINTERS GuidHob;
EFI_PEI_HOB_POINTERS HobStart;
VOID *Smbios;
UINTN Index;
// Get SMBIOS Tables
Smbios = GetSmbiosTablesFromHob ();
if (Smbios == NULL) {
return EFI_NOT_FOUND;
}
// Locate SMBIOS Protocol
Status = gBootServices->LocateProtocol (&gEfiSmbiosProtocolGuid,NULL,(VOID**)&gSmbios);
if(!EFI_ERROR(Status))
{
// Patch SMBIOS Tables
PatchSmbiosTables(Smbios);
}
// Get Hob List
HobStart.Raw = GetHobList ();
// Iteratively add Smbios Table to EFI System Table
for (Index = 0; Index < sizeof (gTableGuidArray) / sizeof (*gTableGuidArray); ++Index) {
GuidHob.Raw = GetNextGuidHob (gTableGuidArray[Index], HobStart.Raw);
if (GuidHob.Raw != NULL) {
smbiosTable = GET_GUID_HOB_DATA (GuidHob.Guid);
if (smbiosTable != NULL) {
//
// Check if Smbios Table exists in E/F seg,
// According to UEFI Spec, we should make sure Smbios table
// is kept in memory of specified type
//
ConvertSmbiosSystemTable(gTableGuidArray[Index],(VOID**)&smbiosTable);
if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
InitDesktopGUI();
DrawLogo();
InitPointer();
ShowPointer();
Print_On_Error(Status,"There were errors Converting SMBIOS System Table!");
ShowIcon(Stop);
}
}
}
}

return Status;
}

I didn't think so.. So why not stop running around making false claims.

HEY, I have a GREAT Idea!!! Since you say Ujen tries to steal your code and iBoot is "your" code, make me look like a fool by posting the code i supposedly stole from you. ;)


To Mods: Please remove iPhoneTom posting from this thread, it is flooding the topic. To guarantee of bogus iPhoneTom claims, I guarantee he doesn't show supposed code he claims is stolen.

To iPhoneTom: Doing things like this does nothing to help the community. Jealousy is a wicked disease..

[FlyingPig]

This whole topic is a joke, and both "iBOOT" and "XPC" are rapidly being left in the dust by the properly opensource alternatives which are attracting people more interested in progress than ego.
My suggestion would be for everyone to concentrate on finding a standard directory structure and modular scheme so that the various UEFI preboot/bootloaders will conform to the same standard as they emerge.

It is beyond doubt that people have bahaved badly and selfishly, but focusing on this & banning/flaming each other only lessens both your projects. As this, in fact leads people to contribute to more unified and open alternatives, it is of no consequence, and you must feel free to carry on bashing until you wake up one day to find you have been forgotten as a footnote on the way to better things.

Cooperation & openness wins friends & creates progress, Fighting just leaves you both bruised in the gutter.

[kocoman]

I feel that iBoot 1.5a and XPC development will stop for good

[OS_Ninja]

kocoman and FlyingPig, iBoot is opensource for those who have a true interest in it's development. We are always looking to expand our team.

Maybe if the both of you actually participated and had a true interest in iBoot, you'd both have a different outlook...

[FlyingPig]

OS_Ninja: what you describe is the opposite of opensource: Your attempt to recruit people to your closed project simply proves my point. If you are opensource, please post a link to a repository where the code is available. Open to "team members only" = closed.

I have been following (U)EFI developments closely since the MacEFIX86 project all those years ago, I think if you had seen as many projects come & go as I have, *your* outlook would be different.

It's your call: join the world or stay locked in your little corner, calling for assistants.

[thebigO]

I have been trying all day with this thing, both the windows bootsector patch and mac version. I am not getting the .bin file that the users are reporting. I adhered to the instructions and the only file i put in was my dsdt. My GA-x58A-UD3R says in red letters "MBR START!" while performing DMI services and then goes to a black screen... Any help will be greatly appreciated. BTW I think this is awesome that someone made a true EFI emulation with the capability to run .efi shells. You don't have to take heat from the community for not being opensource too. You are being appropriately protective of what you made so only those with true intent of contributing to your work instead of ripping from it get the source.

[kocoman]

kocoman and FlyingPig, iBoot is opensource for those who have a true interest in it's development. We are always looking to expand our team.

Maybe if the both of you actually participated and had a true interest in iBoot, you'd both have a different outlook...

I had already tried it, but it just give me black screen (with "no cursor") after the MBR Boot. I then tried/replaced an older version of EFILDR20, which booted iBoot 1.5a, but then when I tried to boot OSX Base Install in Lion, I get

can't locate smbios protocol, not found

then

there were errors converting smbios system table : not found

how to fix this problem? where to put the smbios.plist ??


I don't really mind open source or not, because C programming is not easy to understand, unless you can run a debugger while booting...

I did post about this problem in the previous messages in the same thread

Also where to ask for support? I go to IRC #iboot but no one answers/talks there

[thebigO]

While working through the EDK source to figure out how the modular system of DUET works, and testing OS_Ninja's bootloader on a few other computers I have concluded that he did not add support for the X58 northbridge and i7 processors. Core and Core 2 chips are entirely functional though. Besides, Gigabyte just released it's hybrid EFI beta for the GA-X58A-UD3R so it should be able to run a boot.efi if I mess around with it a bit :).

[iPhoneTom]

Oh Boy....! Give it up iPhoneTom... Nobody needs/wants your code.


LOL! Yeah, i see. iBoot is there since you steal my code... Everybody knows it, oh boy.

Your poor, incompetent loser. Like i said.

[iPhoneTom]

OS_Ninja's bootloader

He has no bootloader, he has my bootloader.

[thebigO]

He has no bootloader, he has my bootloader.

All he probably did was laid a crap UI over it and jacked it up. Idk how someone can beg for code, EDK is SIMPLE to build just look at tianocore and you'll figure it out eventually. Besides, UEFI is coming into PCs now so with a few extra .efi extensions it will be able to boot up into Mac with no hax :D. If you don't think that it will work because "Mac is not true EFI", well it is, just an old version (1.10) that bypasses the EFI BIOS screen. UEFI has backwards compatability so with an hfs+.efi you can boot with the mac "boot.efi" file. That is effectively what Tom is doing here with DUET.

Btw Tom, is this Core i7 problem because it is not in you EDK compilation?

Koco are you using an x58/i7 build too?

[kocoman]

From sunki at this thread
http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2008&st=520

iBOOT Source - http://iboot-efi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/iboot-efi/



edit:
Using this source

http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2079

They can get 32bit Atom booting Lion ...

[kocoman]

I don't know where everyone gone, but for now, only EFI (Duet Emulation) would boot lion for now


I hacked around the efi shell and ...

(if you AT least boot into the screen where it tell you have XGB ram, and cpu type and speed, then you can use this method. )

I have find a way to "solve" the iboot's SMBIOS Not found problem that nobody answered before..
(I haven't fully tested yet - will sleep now after this post)

this will need you to have complied your own edk2(64bit only, must match your Efildr20 type) or clover (still need look at fixing it for 64-bit compile), you will need to add Smbiosdxe and smbiosgen to the dsc file.. (can also explain how to if needed)

with my Efildr20 (64bit file) from hacklion.zip, (the others Efildr20 does not work for me (MSI Nvidia based motherboard), just stuck at WELCOME TO EFI WORLD, or black screen etc) I was able to boot into a shell, (I will explain how to do this if needed) -


then from there I just use these commands

fsX: your drive (X = drive, use map to find it, ie: USB0)
cd to the dir of the smbios*.* file
load smbiosdxe.efi
load smbiosgen.efi
cd to iboot dir
iboot.efi

then iboot didn't complain about smbios not found anymore.. and tried to boot mach_kernel..

can also try load vbox things from clover, etc, but try that later..

you could use "devices" shell command to see whats loaded, but for some reason smbios does not show up.. (its not a "device")

you can't run the smbiosdxe.efi directly, it will say "image is not an application"

I hope this help others in the future.

later I need try figure out what *.efi file is the vesa driver (XPC complain no vesa driver)

[OS_Ninja]

I don't know where everyone gone, but for now, only EFI (Duet Emulation) would boot lion for now

Im still here, but everyone is selling out!!! iPhoneTom post's shit and everyone jumps on his "bandwagon"....

So, this is probably my last post on infinitemac, I maintain this subject elsewhere now..

Btw, iBOOT was the first loader to "boot" Lion, ya know Mac OS X 10.7, and now that the source is released every other bootloader does too, including XPC ;)


cya

[kocoman]

I had gone to use netkas/anV's chameleon (not the latest svn, which actually does not work), and its working fine with Lion.

the main problem was the double panic/masked IRQ problem..

[vinobaje]

Im getting error when i trying to boot via iBoot
what im getting is

´´Remove disks or other media.
press any ke to restart´´


Can you please help me
thanks
M.Vinoth