BootThink 2.3.18 Released! With better Snow/DVD support!
 

From the website, it does NOT support Snow Leopard...
As of 2.3 it does support Snow Leopard and smbios.plist!

Edit:

Update 2.3.17

1. Boot retail Snow Leopard from DVD.
2. An improvement in loading Darwin/S/L/Extensions/*.kext



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Update 2.3.16

1. (only for windows)fixed the bug that will cause Boot Think installation failure when multiple disks in system.
2. fixed the bug that maybe result in Boot Think failure if there are fat32 partitions in system.

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Download:

BootThink 2.3.18_Mac
BootThink 2.3.18_Win

How to update form previous version
 

Please let me know how to upgrade from Boot Think v1. Thanks

You have to overwrite v1.

so can put the new snow lepoard on my lenvo y510 with this? or do I need the iATKOS v7....

read the very first sentence of the very first post in this thread....

There will be a new version soon, which will support Snow Leopard.
They've announced it for version 2.3 along with better system support and stability.

Do you know if the new version will support a dsdt patch (using dsdt.aml file like on chameleon/pcefi)? I have tested boot think v2.2 and it was running fine on my system.

About my system:
Motherboard: Supermicro H8DAE-2 with nVidia MCP55 Pro chipset which supports up to two Six-Core AMD Opteron 2000/8000 processors
Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Aplus Products | Motherboards | H8DAE-2
Processor: 1x Opteron 8214 (for the time being) :-)
Ram: 4 GB Samsung DDR2 667 Registered ECC Unbuffered
Graphics Card: Nvidia 9400 GT
I also have two SATA hard disks, 120 GB and 640GB , a Sony IDE DVD reader and an Optiarc DVD Recorder. http://www.infinitemac.com/../../ima...c/progress.gif

boot think supports dsdt override since v1, just place your dsdt.aml into Darwin folder and you're done

2.3 released!

Update 2.3 has these functions added to it.

1. support Snow Leopard
2. support smbios.plist

http://rapidshare.de/files/48302260/...3_Mac.zip.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/48302259/...3_Win.rar.html

Did they fix the problem with voodoo trackpad? Before, the trackpad goes erratic with Boothink 2.2

try it out and let us know!
you can do it with any usb stick. just install boot think there, put your kexts/dsdt/boot.plist/smbios.plist and boot from it. no need to mess with your primary bootloader.

Tried with success in my PC (see sig.), only 10.5 for now. It boots perfectly Windows XP from other hard disk.

Putting AHCI or SATA extensions into /Darwin/System/Library/Extensions it can boot from Leopard DVD.

Both commands "# p=-" (hide non bootable partitions) and "# b=3" (timeout for default partition) work well.

Really nice, its on par with Chameleon now I think, unless I'm missing something.
They should really release the source code though, they havent released it yet I think...

Stupid question
 

Hi,

Can I use BootThink 2.3 with a true Mac Intel Computer (as there is a Mac install version) ?

Thanks in advance
Kind Regards

no no nooo!
both mac and win installers are for hacks - you can choose where to install BootThink from.
on a real mac you have the original BootCamp, no need for other bootloaders.

Original mac->refit
 

Zarac is right! If you install chameleon or boot think on an original mac,it will not be able to boot after that!
If you want to install a "similar" bootloader on an original mac you can try rEfit,which is a bootloader with lots of options for EFI-based machines. Chameleon/Boot Think are for BIOS-based machines,not for macs....

can this version detect and enable graphics cards like chameleon?
sorry for my English.

Not that I'm aware of such function, but dsdt can hand GFX and it loads it fine.

On to my problem. :p

I can't install Boot Think from SL (USBkey with BootThink is used to boot SL) to SL hard drive's EFI partition. The option to install to EFI partition is disable even after deselecting Boot1 and Boot1h options as stated in the description of the installer. Anyone else have this issue?

I can't get this to boot 10.5 at all? I normally use boot132, and have my extensions in an initrd.img file, I've extracted them and added the extensions.mkext file, and I just get KP on boot!

Is there a way I can force cpus=1?

Updated first post with newer version, version 2.3.18 :)

The files in the 1st post says "deleted by author"

MIRROR - rapidshare.com :)

where can i download BootThink 2.3.18 Released!

How to load windows with boothink
 

tried to load windows xp on a system with iatkos first windows 7 with boothink
then snowleopard retail. and it over wrote bootthink.

Has any on tried the default partition option? b=x.
If so how did you use it?
Can you show me how you wrote the flag cause I can't find an example any where.