New DUET based EFI Bootloader! - Page 5

fbifido · #41 03-04-2011, 07:26 PM

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 · #42 03-07-2011, 10:16 AM

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 · #43 03-08-2011, 11:27 PM

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 · #44 03-11-2011, 10:02 PM

sorry, but what version iboot is at now ?

tdtran1025 · #45 03-11-2011, 11:15 PM

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 · #46 03-12-2011, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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

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 · #47 03-24-2011, 08:46 PM

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

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

Appreciate your help :]

afd_sg · #48 03-29-2011, 05:33 AM

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 · #49 03-29-2011, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.)

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 · #50 04-02-2011, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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!

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...