Ignored com.apple.Boot.plist

[fakeuser]

Good morning!!

I'm not sure if this is a bug but recently I installed Snow Leopard (dual boot with Windows 7) on my new computer and I noticed that com.apple.Boot.plist is ignored by Chamaleon RC4, it's important because I haveto type the flag arch=i386 every time because my graphics card just need it to work properly (ATI Radeon HD 5770)

I readed something similar in this post

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,790.msg3536.html#msg3536

I've saved the file on /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration but it's algo ignored

Any sugestions?

[Blackosx]

Make sure your com.apple.Boot.plist is in /Extra and Chameleon will read it just fine.

[fakeuser]

It's in that folder too and the same problem... is completely ignored

[leader86]

Maybe you are using a pre-release version of Chameleon that wants "32" instead of "arch=i386"?

Anyway there is a modified version of Chameleon pre-RC5 by Trauma that allows to use a ROM image for ATI 5770 (and others 5xxx) that make possible to boot in x86_64 without ATY_init by Netkas. Make a Google search for "chameleon boot9".

Good luck.

[fakeuser]

Hi again!

I'm using Chamaleon RC4,I noticed that the file is ignored not only for the kernel flags, also timeout, legacy logo and other keys are not applied and I want to, I'm going to try that modified version of Chamaleon but it only solves a "piece" of the problem but thanks for the info!

Regards

[Gringo Vermelho]

zip your Boot.plist and attach it here, or post the contents of it in a codebox.

com.apple.Boot.plist can become corrupted/mal-formatted and this can cause what you describe.

[fakeuser]

Here is my com.apple.Boot.plist file, I checked it and I think it's ok

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
        <string>mach_kernel</string>
        <key>Timeout</key>
        <string>2</string>
        <key>Kernel Flags</key>
        <string>-v</string>
        <key>Graphics Mode</key>
        <string>1960x1080x32</string>
        <key>Hide Partition</key>
        <string>hd(0,1) hd(0,3)</string>
        <key>Legacy Logo</key>
        <string>yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>



[Blackosx]

Hi fakeuser

Your com.apple.Boot.plist does look OK, although I don't think your screen resolution is 1960x1080?
Anyway, it's possible you have Chameleon installed in more than one place and you therefore have two /Extra folders.
http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,754.msg3298.html#msg3298
http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,366.0.html

[Gringo Vermelho]

LOL yes..good call, it wouldn't be the first time that has happened to someone (clears throat)

fakeuser:

I've made an identical com.apple.Boot.plist from scratch using the plist editor from Apple Developer Tools, for use in your extra folder.
Try it and see if anything changes - if it works, please let me know, and tell me which editor you've been using to modify the file.
From what I've seen, some editors (which ones are unknown to me so far) can corrupt the formatting of plists but not in a way visible to the naked eye.

I've also included an unmodified com.apple.Boot.plist that you can place in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/.

[fakeuser]

@Blackosx I think that's not my problem

@Gringo Vermelho I've tested this two files and no one works, in the same way the default theme (/Extra/Themes/Default) isn't applied.

I'm using myHack installer to build my hackintosh, after installing it in my Mac OS X partition I noticed that the default myHack Chamaleon theme wasn't applied. My Mac OS X is installed in a logical (not primary) partition, could be that be the problem? It's the only difference with my other installation.

Man y thanks for you help 

[Blackosx]

That might be something to do with your trouble and maybe your OS X install needs to be on a primary partition but I don't know for sure as I have only ever used GPT for the HDD's in my hack. Hopefully somebody else with more knowledge here can give you some input.

[Azimutz]

Fakeuser,

post a

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diskutil listA logical partition shouldn't matter, but last time i checked (not long ago) i couldn't load Chameleon from a logical partition, either with RC4 or RC5. Note that i said "load Chameleon" not boot a system; booting a system on a logical partition was fine.
With those symptoms, if you were using RC5 and boot0hfs, i'd say you have a FAT partition before the OS X one.

[fakeuser]

That is the output, I'm using chamaleon RC4 and it is installen on "Mac OS X" partition

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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:               Windows_NTFS System Reserved         104.9 MB   disk0s1
   2:               Windows_NTFS Windows 7               144.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:               Windows_NTFS Other                   289.9 GB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X                65.3 GB    disk0s5

[Azimutz]

My recommendation is, get rid of that layout. Format that HD with 4 partitions (think 3 is enough) so win 7 installer doesn't create the SR partition; install win 7 on the first; install OS X on the second, boot it, install Chameleon RC5 with boot0hfs instead of boot0; boot0hfs looks for a hfs partition first, instead of a Active one, which allows you to keep the win 7 partition Active, which is needed by win for a number of things; reboot and Chameleon will be waiting for you and you can do whatever you like with the rest of the HD. This is guaranteed to work!
All the help you need is on this forum.

[fakeuser]

Finally I get my Hackintosh installation working!!

I manually created 3 primary partitions with diskpart tool, when I tried to create the partition scheme with the partition manager included in the Windows Installation Program, the SR partition was created too!

Now, all is working just fine, included mi Sapphire Radeon HD 5770

Thanks guys!!!