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Chameleon => Feature Requests => Topic started by: crabhunter on November 21, 2010, 09:24:40 AM

Title: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 21, 2010, 09:24:40 AM
It would be nice if the boot screen that comes up with the default partition/hard drive and countdown timer also showed the other partitions/hard drives as well.
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Azimutz on November 21, 2010, 01:34:16 PM
Makes no sense to me, Crabhunter :P
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 21, 2010, 06:58:56 PM
I think it would be more obvious to the rest of my family what choices they have when they boot the computer.
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on November 22, 2010, 05:59:05 AM
Chameleon can already do that, please read the documentation.
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 22, 2010, 07:26:01 AM
I'll have to read it again, I found how to force it to the choices screen but then you loose the countdown.
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Azimutz on November 22, 2010, 12:28:59 PM
You just need to press any key while in countdown to enter the menu and see all choices.
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 22, 2010, 02:41:36 PM
as I said in my original post, I would like to see the choices displayed as the timer is counting down.
Not one or the other.
I would like my cake and be able to eat it as well ;)
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on November 22, 2010, 03:32:43 PM
I misread you before.

AFAIK what you want is not possible, you can only have the countdown bar on the screen that shows the "default partition".

You can use Instant Menu=y to go straight to the graphical device selector. But Instant Menu=y will override the timeout setting..so you'll have to manually select which partition to boot.

Looks like you can have your cake, but someone else will be eating it for now.  :o

/EDIT

Oh damn, I AM going crazy, we're in the feature requests sub-forum. lol
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Azimutz on November 22, 2010, 04:49:33 PM
as I said in my original post, I would like to see the choices displayed as the timer is counting down.
Not one or the other.
I would like my cake and be able to eat it as well ;)
Mike
yeah, i got it, but still doesn't make sense to me. What's the point? The usefulness?
I think it would be more obvious to the rest of my family what choices they have when they boot the computer.
Mike
The best you can do for them is have no Timeout at all, go straight to menu.. i think ;)

Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 22, 2010, 05:04:08 PM
ha, ha, you're mad, you're losing it.
calm down and have a stiff drink.
All this stuff does your head in.
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Azimutz on November 23, 2010, 03:51:02 PM
?? Are you talking to me Crabhunter?
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 23, 2010, 05:24:53 PM
Yes, but to the reply before last.It was meant in good humor, sometimes things don't come across right on the net.
Cheers.
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Azimutz on November 23, 2010, 06:23:20 PM
Reading my posts again, i can't make a connection...
yeah probably i'm loosing it, because i can't understand why this
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You just need to press any key while in countdown to enter the menu and see all choices.
should cause that answer.
Think i already lost enough time here...

Stay safe.
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on November 24, 2010, 04:52:19 AM
I believe he was referring to this:
Oh damn, I AM going crazy, we're in the feature requests sub-forum. lol
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: crabhunter on November 24, 2010, 07:15:55 AM
Sorry Azimutz, yes I was. It's me going mad, my head is spinning with this at the moment.
Mike
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Azimutz on November 24, 2010, 04:06:09 PM
Ok Crabhunter... i felt that there was some misunderstanding here, but i'm in a low patience phase lately and... well, sorry for that too. I need a vacation from the scene, before i loose it for good! :P
Anyway, going to the point... you made a request and i gave my opinion. That's all i can do...

Well talk later here (http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,1694.0.html) ;)
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: bruck on November 17, 2011, 09:41:32 PM
I agree with this original request.  First of all because most of the gorgeous themes don't really make sense unless there are more than 1 choice to make - and secondly because a "default" partition should have a timeout. Imagine you're working remotely on your machine and need to reboot it - now you can't use instant menu or your machine will not complete the reboot without manual interaction. I see no reason why these options have to purposefully be kept as mutually exclusive.
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on November 17, 2011, 09:51:50 PM
It has already been established in this thread that the default partition has a timeout, unless you have set Instant menu=y.

Your remote control argument does not apply to this situation because even if it was showing all your drives with a timeout under the default drive, you still would not be able to control Chameleon remotely.

If you're working on your Hackintosh remotely, you can edit your org.Chameleon.boot.plist before rebooting if you want it to boot another partition on next reboot.

If you want to switch between Windows and OS X remotely, you must have Chameleon installed on a partition that is accessible from Windows so that you can modify the boot.plist from there when you want to boot OS X. A script or small app could be handy for this purpose, most likely it already exists out there somewhere.
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Methanoid on April 05, 2013, 01:14:35 PM
It has already been established in this thread that the default partition has a timeout, unless you have set Instant menu=y.

Your remote control argument does not apply to this situation because even if it was showing all your drives with a timeout under the default drive, you still would not be able to control Chameleon remotely.

If you're working on your Hackintosh remotely, you can edit your org.Chameleon.boot.plist before rebooting if you want it to boot another partition on next reboot.

If you want to switch between Windows and OS X remotely, you must have Chameleon installed on a partition that is accessible from Windows so that you can modify the boot.plist from there when you want to boot OS X. A script or small app could be handy for this purpose, most likely it already exists out there somewhere.

Don't understand what is meant by the remote control but like Crabhunter, I too would like to see ALL my partitions (unless actively hidden) AND to have a countdown before it boots the default partition.

It strikes me as rather strange that it has to be one or the other and not able to be both!!
Title: Re: Boot screen
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on December 31, 2013, 12:53:46 AM
Don't understand what is meant by the remote control

I was replying to this:

Imagine you're working remotely on your machine and need to reboot it - now you can't use instant menu or your machine will not complete the reboot without manual interaction.

If you're working remotely on your machine you will not be able to do anything until the operating system is done booting. You will not be able to control Chameleon remotely. So if you're logged in remotely, it doesn't matter how many partitions are visible during the countdown because you won't be able to see them anyway.