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3,781 reads · 2008-02-21 – 2008-02-25
Note Leopard 10.5 AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce

extreme Boot Time

I installed 10.5.2 on: AMD Opteron 180 DFI Lanparty-UltraD nforce4 Geforce8800GT 2GB DDR2 with EFI-MBR, TOH 9.2.0, forcedeth, nvinject+the other geforcefiles with 512MB, ac97sound (I hope I didn'T forget something) and unchecked all the…

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@CmdCOM Published 2008-02-21
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Leopard 10.5
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3,781 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 5 dispatches) · 2008-02-21 – 2008-02-25
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@CmdCOM (4)@eddie11c

I installed 10.5.2 on:

AMD Opteron 180
DFI Lanparty-UltraD nforce4
Geforce8800GT
2GB DDR2

with EFI-MBR, TOH 9.2.0, forcedeth, nvinject+the other geforcefiles with 512MB, ac97sound (I hope I didn'T forget something) and unchecked all the other stuff

installation was fine, BUT...

after rebooting with "-v" the system hangs extremly on

MDNSResponder
IOKitWaitQuiet
InterfaceNamer

the last lines in the image, I made a "real" screenshot with my camera

Please can you help me? the OS works fine, but booting takes 10Minutes!

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @CmdCOM

Author Update #1 @CmdCOM 2008-02-21

hm, if i remove this driver i have no internet

where can i get the right marvell yukon drivers for my board?

i will try booting with "-f" tomorrow

EDIT:
Can be confimed that this is the right driver for a marvel lan on a dfi nforce4 ultra-d?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=15700 ↗

grml … download down

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @eddie11c 2008-02-21

you tried removing forcedeth and see if you have the same long boot time? Those MdnsResponer messages are totally normal though, I am not sure about the IOKitWaitQuiet though. You try rebuilding your cache? boot with -f.

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@CmdCOMPrimary Author42008-02-21 → 2008-02-25
@eddie11cContributor12008-02-21