With the release of Chameleon 2.0 and it’s many features including a fantastic looking GUI I have decided to write a brief guide on some of the options open to users. The bootloader itself comes in 3 parts; boot0 which is written to the MBR of a disk, boot1h which is written to the bootsector of a partition and finally a ‘boot’ file which is loaded from the root of a HFS+ partition. These files need to go in different locations depending on how you wish to set up your system. Click Read More to continue.

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This is a quick glossary of common OSx86 terms.

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Many wireless LAN cards are supported by OS X, especially PCI and mini-PCI ones. For the ones based on the broadcom chipset see this tutorial.

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Here we look at the most common way to get soundcards from various manufacturers with Intel High Definition Audio chipsets to work under OS X.

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The Darwin bootloader is used to boot OSx86 as it is compatible with BIOS unlike the usual method for booting OS X on a real Mac using EFI. Barely any motherboards have EFI so using Apple EFI to boot is not a good solution, however there is work being done to boot a virtual EFI partition from BIOS and also to flash Intel EFI compatible motherboards with Apple EFI modules. However we’re going to look at how you can use the bootloader to your advantage.
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