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Chameleon => General Discussion => Topic started by: Windows04 on August 20, 2009, 09:41:24 PM

Title: Chameleon countdown is very slow
Post by: Windows04 on August 20, 2009, 09:41:24 PM

Hi everybody,

I installed Macintosh on my new pc with a GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard and the Timeout key in my com.apple.boot.plist is 5 seconds. But when the chameleon bootscreen comes up, the countdown is very slow and only after about 20 seconds macintosh boots automatically... Very weird :s... does anybody has that problem also?

Title: Re: Chameleon countdown is very slow
Post by: LEN on May 03, 2012, 10:17:53 AM

Same issue here with the same motherboard.
It never worked for me since 2009 till now with latest chameleon.

This is my org.chameleon.Boot.plist:

<?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>CSTUsingSystemIO</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>GenerateCStates</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>GeneratePStates</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>Graphics Mode</key>
   <string>2560x1440x32</string>
   <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
   <key>Kernel</key>
   <string>mach_kernel</string>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string>darkwake=0</string>
   <key>KeyLayout</key>
   <string>mac-de</string>
   <key>PciRoot</key>
   <string>1</string>
   <key>SystemId</key>
   <string>00000000-0000-1000-8000-00xxxxxxx</string>
   <key>Theme</key>
   <string>wetOS-light</string>
   <key>Timeout</key>
   <string>1</string>
   <key>UseKernelCache</key>
   <string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>


I appreciate your help.

Thanks
Len

Title: Re: Chameleon countdown is very slow
Post by: Blackosx on May 08, 2012, 06:41:00 PM

I haven't used the timeout option for a long time as I'm always booting directly to the device selection screen so I can choose which system to boot. But if I remember this was discussed before and from memory I think the timeout value, when used with the GUI, doesn't actually reflect genuine seconds, but an approximate count. 

If you want to check the source then maybe a starting point would be the animateProgressBar() (http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk/i386/boot2/gui.c#L1772) function in /i386/boot2/gui.c ?

A workaround might be to disable the GUI and use the darwin text loader, or maybe if you always want to have Chameleon automatically boot your OS without intervention then use the Quiet Boot option.

Maybe it's something to do with the MTRRs as discussed here (http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/issues/113/)?

I'll try it out on my system and see what happens.

Title: Re: Chameleon countdown is very slow
Post by: LEN on May 08, 2012, 09:24:12 PM

Thanks for trying to help!

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Maybe it's something to do with the MTRRs as discussed here?

I think it's the same issue!