Bootloaders - how do they work?

[therealgiblet]

Hi

I've successfully used multibeast to help build my hackintosh which has been very successful. I used the Chameleon bootloader which works perfectly.

Since Chimera has been released I've been trying understand exactly what a bootloader does.

I cannot find any really 'good' information on Chameleon, Chimera or bootloaders in general. (Yes I have read tonymacx86 wiki entries).

From what I can gather, the bootloader, in this case Chimera, emulates EFI and passes information about the hardware in the system to the Operating System to enable it to work with native kexts / drivers.

1 - Am I correct?

2 - Does anyone have any good resources for me to read regarding bootloaders?

3 - As Chimera is regularly updated what exactly is being added to it? New hardware ID's?

Thanks in advance

giblet

 

[notshy]

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.p ... 767.0.html

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.p ... 351.0.html

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.p ... 754.0.html


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[therealgiblet]

That seems to cover it...

Cheers