Comments on: How to repair your REAL Mac if you broke it with the chameleon bootloader.

By: Conti

Conti — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:08:31 +0000

stein: Delete /boot with a terminal. Write a new MBR to the drive. Delete /Extra. And the bootloader is gone.

By: stein

stein — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:42:39 +0000

Hi , how can i remove Completely Chameleon [ or Myhack or Iboot, or any boot'er ] and their text’s, and have a fresh HD again , and then install a different boot’er ? thnx

By: Conti

Conti — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:27:46 +0000

MikeG/David: No. You MUST edit the partition table (MBR/GUID) as described in this guide to remove the chameleon bootloader itself, AND delete the files from /Extra . Just deleting the files will not be effective.

By: MikeG

MikeG — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:05:36 +0000

@David – I am in exactly the same boat as you – afraid to reboot – hoping I can just delete the new folders in root – did it work?

Thanks

By: iFailed

iFailed — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:30:03 +0000

So iBug is in my boot, this persistent line that doesn’t get listed in any “*.* /logthisbugforgodsake.log” but after a while I’ve got it written down and it is like:

“Bug: launchctl.c:3557 (23930):17: ioctl(s6, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, &ifra6) != -1″

I am digging around with it there’s some 3 or 4 full reset and reinstalls of 10.6.4 in my MacBook Pro.

I remember that once I’ve just blinded installed chameleon and lots of other hacks just because I was getting a lot of crashes from an old patched CS3 suite.

It never prevented me from booting or anything else, but lately this “Bug: launchctl.c:3557 (23930):17: ioctl(s6, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, &ifra6) != -1″ persisting in my boot is making my day.

Formated, zero out, reinstalled, reseted pram, smc and lots of other were done with any luck.

By: Stupid Geek

Stupid Geek — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:17:12 +0000

Man, you’re a genius!! The GUID solution worked for me – no sweat. I almost reinstalled OS X. Thanks a lot!!!!!

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By: Andrew Buchman

Andrew Buchman — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:24:46 +0000

the GUID fix did not work for me but restarting into safe boot by holding the left shift key logging in and then restarting again did work for me (that is what apple care told me to do)

By: david

david — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:02:33 +0000

Hi,
Thanks so much for all the work you’ve done, and particularly, for the great, clear documentation!!
Amazingly, despite this, i did manage to miss the big red warnings etc., and accidentally installed to my mac’s internal hd. I haven’t rebooted (or done anything else other than come here & post this) since, and am hoping maybe i can just delete some files or something, without having to mess with the partition table? in disk utility, the drive isn’t showing up any differently than before – same name, partition scheme (single), etc.. everything is working fine (i’m writing this from my mac).. can i just delete the “Extra” folder and the “pfix” that are now in my root folder? or have actual changes already been made, even though I haven’t rebooted?
thanks so much in advance for any help you can offer my foolish self!!

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:05:35 +0000

GUID solution worked perfect for me. I resized it down a bit, applied, then resized it back to full (to keep all of my hard drive space). Thanks for posting this, made my idiot mistake bearable.