1. Abstract You have the situation that you installed Chameleon for security and compatibility purposes on an external USB-stick. For safety reasons you should consider making a backup. But all diskimaging (either Apple’s Diskutility, Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper) tools fail to create a proper backup since the bootblock is just not copied. So [...]
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[MacOS] Backup Chameleon Boot USB-Stick
March 10th, 2012 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News 
Tags: Backup, boot, Bootloader, Chameleon, hackint0sh, hackintosh, Help, Restore, tutorial, usb, USB-Bootstick, Walk Thru, Walkthrough 
1 Comment »[MacOS] Psystar Accounces OEM Licensing Program
October 6th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN As of yesterday the Miami based company Psystar, which is still in legal trouble with Apple, announced to license their virtualization technology to third party manufacturers. Computers preloaded with Psystar’s DUBL (Darwin Universal Boot Loader) would allow to make “systems Mac OS X compatible. Psystar’s virtualization technology, specifically engineered for Snow Leopard, allows for seamless [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, BIOS, Bootloader, Chameleon, Darwin, DUBL, efi, EPIC, EPOS, Hackingt0sh, Hackingtosh, hackint0sh, hackintosh, Mac OS, Mac OSX, MacOSX, netkas, Psystar, ZEF No Comments »[iPhone] Baseband Downgrading Possible on 3G
April 18th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN We’ve recently reported that exploits can be applied to the baseband bootloader 5.8 to install any bootloader. Now a working exploit has been released via Cydia. As we have not tested this program we strongly recommend not to try this for two reasons: first it seems this package is in violation of Apple’s copyright, as [...]
Posted in News Tags: baseband 5.8, Bootloader, Cydia, Downgrade, EvilPenguins, Exploit, GeoHot, iClarified 3 Comments »[iPhone] Geohot confirms 3G uses new Bootloader
July 14th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Although we didn’t get our hands on a new iPhone 3G yet, things are as expected: the iPhone 3G uses a new bootloader for its baseband modem as confirmed by Geohot. Bootloader versions from the “old” iPhones As far as we are aware the there are those 3 different bootloader versions known on old iPhones: [...]
Posted in News Tags: baseband, Bootloader, Bootneuter, Firmware 2.0, GeoHot, George Hotz, iBoot, iPhone 3G, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone UMTS, Jailbreak, Unlock, yiPhone 3 Comments »[MacOS] Boot native MacOS X with EFI-X USB Dongle
June 12th, 2008 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Update 26.06.2008: Read latest news about EFI-X here… Update 22.06.2008: Read latest news about EFI-X here… The newest on the market is announced to be released on 23. June. It is called EFI-X and seems to be quite a revolution. Technically it is a small USB dongle that contains a bootloader. That bootloader allows booting [...]
Posted in News Tags: Bootloader, efi, EFI-X, EFI-X.com, macos x, native boot, native booting, native installation, netkas, original, os x, PC EFI, plug, retail dvd, usb, usb device, usb dongle, usb port 6 Comments »[iPhone] Pwnage Tool Release Date delayed
April 2nd, 2008 alexander english There has been a plenty of rumor about this new tool called “Pwnage”. But it seems like it’s right before becoming released within the next two weeks. The official iPhone Dev Team wiki pages indicate at least a delay of the release date. However a video has been released to Youtube showing how easy [...]