2012年2月28日星期二
about Chameleon (Mac OS X Bootloader)
Chameleon is an open-source EFI bootloader project for BIOS-based x86 systems. It is designed to replace Darwin and PC_EFI bootloaders with new features, such as GRUB and Windows Bootloader compatibility. Chameleon is often used as the bootloader for computers running OSx86. (Computers running OSx86 are often called "Hackintoshes".)
Chameleon is combination of various boot loader components. It is based on David Elliott's fake EFI implementation added to Apple's boot-132 project.
Features
Device Property Injection via device-properties string in com.apple.Boot.plist
hybrid boot0+boot1h loaders for both MBR and GPT partitioned disks.
automatic FSB(前端总线) detection code even for recent AMD CPUs.
Apple Software RAID support.
stage2 loader (boot) can be placed as a regular file in the boot partition's root folder. It has precedence over the embedded startupfile.
Graphical Interface
Chameleon currently uses a text based interface like most bootloaders. The next version of Chameleon, 2.0, is going to have a GUI with support for true 24-bit PNG image files, with transparency support. Currently, a release candidate of the version 2.0 is available for download by anyone on the official website.
变色龙是为基于BIOS的x86系统提供EFI bootloader的开源项目。它诞生就是为了取代Darwin和PC_EFI引导工具，它具备和GRUB以及Windows引导工具兼容的特点，变色龙经常被用于在PC机上引导Mac OS X。
Chameleon is combination of various boot loader components. It is based on David Elliott's fake EFI implementation added to Apple's boot-132 project.
Features
Device Property Injection via device-properties string in com.apple.Boot.plist
hybrid boot0+boot1h loaders for both MBR and GPT partitioned disks.
automatic FSB(前端总线) detection code even for recent AMD CPUs.
Apple Software RAID support.
stage2 loader (boot) can be placed as a regular file in the boot partition's root folder. It has precedence over the embedded startupfile.
Graphical Interface
Chameleon currently uses a text based interface like most bootloaders. The next version of Chameleon, 2.0, is going to have a GUI with support for true 24-bit PNG image files, with transparency support. Currently, a release candidate of the version 2.0 is available for download by anyone on the official website.
标签： Chameleon, Mac OS X, OSx86
// 发贴者：放牛娃的春天 @ 二月 28, 2012 
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