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Author Topic: Make Installer prevent accidental install to a "normal" Mac's boot disk  (Read 2546 times)

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tempolo

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I meant to investigate this first more, but before I totally forget it (I still have some other projects going), I better document it here, at least:

It sometimes happens that someone accidentally installs Chameleon on his Mac, making it not boot any more.

I am not sure why this happens yet, but one suspicion I have is that Chameleon overwrites the EFI Partition's first sectors, which are unused when booting OS X on a PC, but necessary for booting on a real Mac.

Thus, I propose that the Installer tries to detect this. E.g, if it's really as I think, then the check would be to see if the first two sectors where boot1h gets written contain "EFI PART" in the first 8 bytes.

But maybe this is not the right solution. In any case, please add something to avoid this accident from happening, if possible.


Lord Anubis

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Quicksilver 2002 Case - GB EP45-DS3P - 8Gb Kingston mem. - Q6600 - Asus 7300GT Silent 512Mb - 6 SATA drives - 1 IDE drives ( using F12/Chameleon for booting, not visible in OSX ) - 1 external Sata Samsung DVD - OSX 10.6.8 server retail - Chameleon 2.0RC1 + Cartri Bios