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3,133 reads · 2009-07-18
Note Leopard 10.5 Chameleon / Boot-132 Voodoo / XNU Kernel Gigabyte G31M / P35

p35-ds4 10.5.6 10.5.7 vanilla boot reset

i know it's kinda classic but i got the nasty reboot thing when using the vanilla kernel. chameleon comes up, kernel loads and right after the kexts are loaded and the resolution change should happen i get a happy reboot/reset tried 10.5.6…

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@tham50 Published 2009-07-18
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Leopard 10.5
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3,133 historical reads · 0 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2009-07-18
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i know it's kinda classic but i got the nasty reboot thing when using the vanilla kernel. chameleon comes up, kernel loads and right after the kexts are loaded and the resolution change should happen i get a happy reboot/reset
tried 10.5.6 and 10.5.7 kernels.

p35-ds4
c2d e6320
8800gts
sata disk

the funny thing is i can boot snow leopard just fine (using its vanilla kernel).
so what's the matter with 10.5?

any hints are welcome

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Follow-up dispatches by @tham50

Author Update #1 @tham50 2009-07-18

okay had some success using cpus=1 but this sux...

Author Update #2 @tham50 2009-07-18

are there some things like bios settings or kexts e.g. the vanilla kernel is known to reject?

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