Jack Flash
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I am ENDLESSLY getting the Circle with Slash through it despite typing in -f EVERY time I boot.
I bought a Cirago BTA-3210 and it was recognized natively by OS X.Can anyone make a Bluetooth suggestion? I want to add it to my setup for keyboard and mouse. What is the word on buying a USB bluetooth or a PCIe?
Originally posted by: Eastwind
So, I am not off to a great start. Still going slowly and carefully, but I am stuck. I have booted the BootCD and swapped out for Leopard (using a retail 10.5 DVD). I enter ''9f", enter, loading Darwin X86 and then the computer reboots. We all know what happens next.. (Boot failure...). I have tried several times, I have tried -v booting but I don't get any reporting. The screen says Starting Darwin and then reboots.
I have poured over Kaido's Leopard Soup and rechecked the BIOS, but no luck. The CD-ROM and HD are on the SATA0 and SATA1.
Anyone have any ideas?
You certainly wouldn't go wrong with a P35-DS3L for what you want to do, and yes, I'd say it's one of the 'easiest' to get up and running, thanks in no small part to Kaido's excellent documentation of it. For what you're describing, a P35 would perform very well.Originally posted by: DownAndOut
Is the preferred/recommended/easiest to get up and running/most compatible motherboard and cpu still the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L and Intel Q6600 2.4ghz Quad-Core CPU as listed on the first page of this thread for the monster workstation rig? I am looking to run Plex (hopefully 1080p), rip/encode movies (my own, purchased of course) and maybe download a few legal torrents all as a media center pc connected to a high def tv.
Originally posted by: Eastwind
Moss,
9f is what comes up, I tried 9e, but entering the wrong one does nothing but bring the boot prompt back up. I have been trying for hours.. I am now making a custom ISO to boot and install. This is really frustrating. I expected to have issues, but not this soon and so confusing.
Edit:
Ok. Now I made a 10.5.5 custom DVD and its gets 1-2 seconds farther. It looks like the install is going to happen as I get a light grey screen with the dark grey apple and then instant freeze requiring a hard reset. <big sigh>
Originally posted by: Eastwind
Kaido,
I am pulling my hair out and I don't want to be bald...
I can't even get to the point where I can install Leopard. I have the BootCD, then all is well until Darwn starts. That causes the computer to reboot. A few dozen retries and I made an install DVD from a new Macbook. That froze at about the same point. I did a -v as saw the kernel panic. Just before it was the appleacpiplatform.kext saying it had dual dependencies and then the panic. After that the traceback seemed to point to com.apple.driver.Apple EFIRuntime(1.2.0)
Any thoughts?
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: Eastwind
Kaido,
I am pulling my hair out and I don't want to be bald...
I can't even get to the point where I can install Leopard. I have the BootCD, then all is well until Darwn starts. That causes the computer to reboot. A few dozen retries and I made an install DVD from a new Macbook. That froze at about the same point. I did a -v as saw the kernel panic. Just before it was the appleacpiplatform.kext saying it had dual dependencies and then the panic. After that the traceback seemed to point to com.apple.driver.Apple EFIRuntime(1.2.0)
Any thoughts?
I think I have next Tuesday off...we should do a forum-wide IRC chat for anyone who needs project help. What do you guys think? If Zaap and mosslack can make it, I'll sign up
Originally posted by: Eastwind
Ok, so here is what happened with my E7AUM install. I have some more ideas left, maybe someone can make suggestions, maybe this might help someone else.
BootCD w/Retail - Rebooted immediately.
Custom 10.5.5- Kernel Panic
Then I read a thread where someone used an external USB drive. I have several small ones. I setup a 30GB with 2 15GB partitions. I installed a restore of 10.5.5 install CD on one and then installed 10.5.5 on the other. I am leaving some details out, only because I'm beat. I did have to use the OSinstall.mpkg to get 10.5.5 to install and I replaced that on the installer side of the 30gb HD too.
Then I used UInstaller and that got me farther. I hit a kernel panic due to an AppleIntelCPU kext that needs to be removed. Then after removing that I rebooted and got another kernel panic. This time over the NVEthernet. I did get a persistent error using UInstaller about the EFI Ethernet (Time Machine Fix) and I suspect this is the cause of the kernel panic the last time. I have been unsuccessful to remedy this and since it is late, I am going to try again tomorrow.
Just as I was ending things for the evening, I also learned that my DSDT is for a quad core and I have a dual. So that will be a problem, if it isn't being one already. I do have the correct DSDT file, but I can't figure out a manual install, nor can I get Uinstaller to acknowledge that it is in the correct folder. It's been a long day...
Originally posted by: Eastwind
I don't know the time zones involved, I'm on the left coast. By the way did I mention that I am running my first hackintosh build?
Moss- Thanks! I just got it running. I reinstalled the OS to not confuse things and eventually got it running.
I'm going to explain what I did a bit better later.