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2 Chameleon Boot Loader
3 =====================
4
5 What is it?
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7
8 Chameleon is combination of various boot loader components. It is based
9 on David Elliott's fake EFI implementation added to Apple's boot-132
10 project. Chameleon is extended with the following key features:
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12
13 Features
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15
16 - Device Property Injection via device-properties string in com.apple.Boot.plist
17 - hybrid boot0+boot1h loaders for both MBR and GPT partitioned disks.
18 - automatic FSB detection code even for recent AMD CPUs.
19 - Apple Software RAID support.
20 - stage2 loader (boot) can be placed as a regular file in the boot
21 partition's root folder.
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24 Installation
25 ============
26
27 Normal Install (non-RAID):
28 --------------------------
29
30 Suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk0s2
31
32 - Install boot0 to the MBR:
33 sudo ./fdisk440 -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0
34
35 - Install boot1h to the partition's bootsector:
36 sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2
37
38 - Install boot to the partition's root directory:
39 sudo cp boot /
40
41 No need to use startupfiletool anymore!
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44 RAID Install:
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47 Suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk3, which is either a mirror- or a
48 stripeset consisting of /dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1
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50 Mac OS X creates a small helper partition at the end of each RAID member disk,
51 namely /dev/disk0s3 and /dev/disk1s3
52
53 - Install boot0 to the MBR of both disks:
54 sudo ./fdisk440 -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0
55 sudo ./fdisk440 -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk1
56
57 - Install boot1h to the bootsector of each boot partition:
58 sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s3
59 sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s3
60
61 - Install boot to both helper partition's root directories.
62 diskutil mount disk0s3
63 cp boot /Volumes/Boot\ OSX
64 diskutil unmount disk0s3
65 diskutil mount disk1s3
66 cp boot /Volumes/Boot\ OSX
67 diskutil unmount disk1s3
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69 Support:
70 --------
71
72 If you have any questions, issues etc. feel free to join us
73 at irc.voodooprojects.org #chameleon
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76 Source Code
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78
79 For downloading the source code please visit the project page at
80 http://chameleon.osx86.hu
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83 Licensing
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85
86 Chameleon is released under the terms and conditions of
87 Apple Public Source License (see APPLE_LICENSE).
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