Cleaned Up Chameleon With Extra's

LawlessPPC · #1 01-20-2010, 12:14 AM

Tweaking Your System: Get Rid of Restart Kexts & New Chameleon RC4 Development
Posted by tmx86 on Friday, January 15, 2010

Chameleon 2.0 RC4 open source development has been fast and furious over the past couple of weeks. I've hardly been able to keep track of all of the fixes being developed, but I thought I'd report another leap forward.

With new tweaks to the codebase of the Chameleon 2.0 RC4 bootloader, you can now remove any restart kexts such as OpenHaltRestart.kext or EvOReboot.kext from your /Extra/Extensions folder. The fix was originally developed a few weeks ago by Duvell300 on the Insanelymac forums. You can read more about this development here.

More interestingly, user AsereBLN of the EFI-X forums has wrapped a host of tweaks and code improvements together. He has been working with the Chameleon code as well, incorporating automatic memory recognition in System Profiler, the Platforum UUID fix, Duvell300's RestartFix by default, and more. Other than rolling everything together, one of the coolest new features is that your system will report memory information correctly including manufacturer (Corsair, G.Skill, etc…) to the System Profiler. You must remove all of the Memory information from your smbios.plist for this to work. Check out AsereBLN's original post for the full documentation.

Original article here http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/...f-restart.html

LawlessPPC · #2 01-20-2010, 12:15 AM

Im using it at the moment its nice nice nice

eMatoS · #3 01-20-2010, 04:07 AM

Test in progress, I'll get back later to tell you the results.

EDIT: I'm back after a couple of issues, finally I couldn't boot with this version, I get an instant reboot after the extra kexts loads. Tried injecting PciRoot, PCIUID and other things but... Well, I'm back to PCEFI 10.5 but I'll keep on trying.

zypheruk · #4 01-20-2010, 01:34 PM

Working perfect on the system in my sig.

jedapm81 · #5 01-24-2010, 08:50 AM

I tried this method and it works I encountered only one RAM slot and the system freezes, I have q reboot several times, in the end I reinstalled Chameleon 2rc3 and pcefi 10.3

any idea why my system freezes?

aryajuanda · #6 01-28-2010, 05:47 PM

working good so far...

Gurqn · #7 02-06-2010, 01:39 PM

Update Version 1.1.8:

1.Fixed the font swapping bug (small & console font) for the Booter with an embedded theme.
2.Fixed an issue with memory detection for some mainboard (2 slot only mainboards).
3.Added support for PM45 northbridge memory controller.
4.Added memory manufactor lookup for: Hynix, Nanya, KingMax, Qimonda and SuperTalent.
5.Added nVidia GT240 device lookup.
6.You can now hide HFS partitions too using “Hide Partition” in com.apple.Boot.plist.
7.Made the verbose output the using nVidia/ATI ROM’s more useful.
8.Fixed a bug with sprintf (rek).
9.Merged hibernation fix from Chameleon repo (46).
10.Made verbosity at early bootstage useable.
11.Bugfixes.

pitashen · #8 02-21-2010, 06:34 AM

I am still on 10.5.8 and is too lazy / no time to update chameleon or 10.6... but wow, the bootloader is just getting better and better.

ep3hatch03 · #9 03-07-2010, 01:10 AM

works for me. thanks

williamsmith · #10 04-12-2010, 09:17 AM

its great information for many people...sounds good to me