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Voyn1x · 07-01-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by pαuℓzurrr.

I don't know much about DSDT, since i don't need it...
But you may need to, if you're facing problems with the booting of osx

(If someone else knows what it is and how it works, could they post it here?

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DSDT (Differentiated System Description Table) contains configuration information about the base system such as the processor, audio, lan, power management etc.

A dsdt.aml is a dump of the systems DSDT which you can patch and modifiy accordingly. You can patch it to inject certain information into the system on boot. For instance I use it to insert information about my onboard ALC883 audio which allows me to use the vanilla AppleHDA without the use of HDAEnabler. I've also cured the common UUID 35 console errors and fixed Time Machine using this method.

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Originally Posted by Gurruwiwi

For instance, netkas released PC Efi 10 based on Chameleon... I thought these two were two completely different methods, first for retail and apple direct upgradeable, the second for multibooting purposes...

They both share the same codebase and perform the same function ie. boot OS X. For the average user, PC_EFI_v10 is just Chameleon 2.0 but with Snow Leopard support.

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Originally Posted by Gurruwiwi

And with this version 10 it does not load without a dsdt.aml file present... But how do I know if I need it not? How did you find that out?

I think you answered yourself there...

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Originally Posted by Gurruwiwi

Oh, also, what are the consequences of the constant CMOS reset? Is there a fix? Wasnt this install method upposed to be better than the Leo distro? Never had an issue with them!

I haven't tried the new v10 bootloader yet so i can't answer that, lets hope so! I don't know of any fix to date, i've got a dual bios on my board so I can just restore from that but it's certainly not ideal. This way is better, distro's are the old way of doing things. Retail installs are the future, you can't argue against the ability to use software update (and be legal)!