Download, Install Chameleon RC4 Bootloader

Chameleon is a perfect bootloader for multibooting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X [Hackintosh] OSx86

Chameleon RC3 brought a number of Stability fixes. Chameleon RC4 was released recently, adds couple of New Features that can come handy:

Hide Partition
Define all partititions that you wish to hide from boot menu. e.g. define following in com.apple.Boot.plist to hide partition 2 on BIOS drive 0 and partition 6 on disk 2:

<key>Hide Partition</key>
<string>hd(0,2) hd(2,6)</string>

PciRoot
This is similar to what you  find in PC EFI v9 : The default value is ‘0’ but you can set to any value:

<key>PciRoot</key>
<string>1</string>

Fixes in RC4-r684

Fixed booting the default partition when using timeout. Added Intel Core i5 support, fixes to stage 1 loaders, SMBIOS CPU detection patch, system-id patch, ead_lba register saving patch, fix to handle 2GB+ file sizes, ported ATI device injection EFI64 tables and hibernation fix from PC_EFI.

Download from here

How to Install Chameleon Bootloader:
Assuming your Root disk is /dev/disk0s1

Step 1. Gain Root priveledges and navigate to Chameleon Directory

sudo -s
cd Desktop/Chameleon-2.0-RC4-r684-bin/i386

Step 2. Install boot0 to the MBR:

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0

Step 3. Install boot1h to the partition’s bootsector:

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1

Step 4. Install boot to the partition’s root directory:

sudo cp boot /

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