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Chameleon => General Discussion => Topic started by: wysegy66 on April 23, 2010, 12:13:03 AM
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When my netbook boots and Chameleon pops up I see 3 boot options: OSX, Linux and Linux.
Where are these "names" or "labels" pulled from?
I want to change the labels to show the real distribution name (E.g. Ubuntu and FreeBSD)?
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Chameleon looks at the file system and labels the drive/partition from that.
You can see how to "rename" partitions/drives here:
http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,1305.0.html
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That's what I thought but when I boot with "Parted Magic" the two Linux ext3 partitions are labelled correctly as Ubuntu and Backtrack (I incorrectly mentioned FreeBSD earlier).
However at the bootloader screen when I press tab I see the following:
hd(0,2) OSX
hd(0,3) Linux
hd(0,5) Linux
Also within OSX when I do a "diskutil list" they show up as "Microsoft Basic Data" with no label.
I wanted to do a "diskutil rename" but for that I need to mount and I cannot (incorrect super block)
Any ideas?
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Correction to last post - "diskutil info" does show the correct labels.
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One thing at a time! :)
You can see how to properly label the disks in the Chameleon GUI by following the link I posted.
What you see when running Mac OS or Parted Magic is another matter.
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Thanks - I read through the link but I totally missed the "Rename Partition" option.
However when I added the string to the "com.apple.Boot.plist" it doesn't work.
I'm using what I see in the Chameleon boot screen (after pressing tab) as input:
hd(0,2) OSX
hd(0,3) Linux
hd(0,5) Linux
Thus I have added the following to /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist:
<key>Rename Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,3) Backtrack;hd(0,5) Ubuntu</string>
However when I boot it still shows Linux and Linux.
I know this is the correct plist and it is being used as changing the "timeout" parameter has an effect.
I see screenshots of Chameleon boot screens from Feb 2009 with renamed partitions so I know my version (2.0-RC3-nbi) should be OK (I believe "Hide Partition" is available as of RC4)
Any ideas?
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Actually after doing more research I believe the "Rename Partition" feature is only available as of RC4.
As I am using a Dell Mini 10v, my Chameleon bootloader is a customized NetbookInstaller version so I don't think I want to upgrade Chameleon directly - I'll wait until a new version of NBI is out incorporating Chameleon 2.0-RC4.
Thanks for your help.
(and let me know if I've gotten anything wrong).