Comment 1 by Peter DiCamillo, Feb 21, 2011
I discovered that Chameleon supports using partno on the multiboot command line to specify a partition to use. With partno specified, Chameleon ignores all but the specified partition. That's close to what I need, but doesn't work because I want Chameleon to use two partitions, one with my Extra folder and the other with the OS X to boot. For example, if I specify partno for the partition with Extra, then using Default Partition to specify the OS X to boot doesn't work. I realized that the solution to my situation is the opposite of partno. When I'm booting one version of OS X, I want Chameleon to ignore the partition with the Extra folder for the other version of OS X. I implemented a "skip_partno" parameter, which causes Chameleon to ignore the specified partition. Using that works perfectly. The code changes for skip_partno are almost trivial, and I've attached the svn diff file. The attached file also shows how I use it in grub. Ideally, skip_partno would accept a list of partitions to skip rather than just one. In any case, it would be great if skip_partno were included in a future version of Chameleon.
- skip_partno_patch - 2.65 kB
Comment 2 by Cosmosis Jones, Jun 2, 2011
mek, this may help fix teh multi boot.
Status:
Accepted
Owner: meklort
Owner: meklort
Comment 3 by Evan Lojewski, Jul 9, 2011
I've applied the patch to trunk (revision 1137)
Status:
Fixed
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Reported by Peter DiCamillo, Feb 17, 2011