The "Unofficial" Empire EFI Support Thread - Page 7

InteliMacPro · #61 01-16-2010, 01:16 AM

I don't but I've been meaning to get my dsdt and video bios dump to Prasys to try and get it working using the boot disc. I looked into it awhile back but didn't get very far. I'll do that this weekend.

InteliMacPro · #62 01-16-2010, 02:58 AM

Ok Prasys, I'm working on that NVEnabler thing. Let me know if you still need that and my dsdt. I'm assuming I need to take out the graphicsenabler option in chameleon to use the enabler, correct? I don't have any other injectors or efi strings that i know of.

Also wanted to add that I tried booting using 1.085 and it shuts my computer down right before the OS loads. FIrst one that hasn't worked for me (other than the gtx260 issue, of course).

hecke92 · #63 01-16-2010, 03:19 PM

Must I use 10.6 retail or will a 10.6.2 retail also work?

traylor1 · #64 01-17-2010, 11:16 PM

OK, question....

I need an answer here. Is my following post
a: horribly written
b: am I an idiot for asking, or
c: is it something no one knows the answer to?

I have been posting this question around the net at various sites and can not get a reply from anyone. And I am seriously stuck.

I can burn the modified files onto a CD, it just will never boot when I do.

rt

Quote:

Originally Posted by traylor1

I apologize if this is covered elsewhere, I did a search, but was unsure of what subject specifically to search for in this case.

I have a dual HDD system with Windows on one and Snow Leopard on the other. I am booting off of the Empire EFI CD.

I have installed a new video card and as a result I have updated com.apple.Boot.plist that I need to modify on my EFI CD. However, now when I take the 2 updated file folders and make them into an ISO file and burn them to a CD, I am not able to boot from the CD, it always goes directly into windows instead of the EFI menu.

What step have I missed? I have used 2 different windows based ISO creators and I am burning the ISO disk using Roxio.

Any advice would be appreciated.

monsteroyd · #65 01-19-2010, 10:43 PM

Either you are making a data cd or the writing software is messing up. I stay clear of roxio anything, but that is just me, Try imgburn from imgburn.com. It worked great for me. an ISO is a disk image, so when you look at the cd after burning, do you see the .iso file? if so, that is a data cd - not what you want. after burning the .iso you should see what was inside the .iso on the cd. Make sense?

]Monty[

traylor1 · #66 01-19-2010, 11:42 PM

monsteroyd:

Thanks for the reply! This version of Roxio has never steered me wrong, but that isn't to say it isn't this time. I have used imgburn in the past at work and it did do a nice job for me. Let me see how it turns out for me.

To answer your other question, after burning, I see the exact same thing that appears on my working CD, before making changes.

Like I said I will try imgburn and see what I get.

Thanks again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by monsteroyd

Either you are making a data cd or the writing software is messing up. I stay clear of roxio anything, but that is just me, Try imgburn from imgburn.com. It worked great for me. an ISO is a disk image, so when you look at the cd after burning, do you see the .iso file? if so, that is a data cd - not what you want. after burning the .iso you should see what was inside the .iso on the cd. Make sense?

]Monty[

traylor1 · #67 01-20-2010, 02:36 AM

Well I tried imgburn and no go. it boots to the CD, but then stops dead in it's tracks without even starting up Empire EFI.

VisionaryCynic · #68 01-29-2010, 04:06 AM

I'm using the "Empire V1.08 (for ATI 48xx series graphics card and nVidia GeForce GTX2xx series along with support for i5/i7 8xx series and P55 chipset)" version of Empire EFI, but I get a kernel panic immediately after all the kexts from the DVD load. Booting with cpus=1 -f -v -x and maxmem=1024 doesn't help at all.

My Specs:
ASUS G60VX
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz
Motherboard Chipset: Intel PM45 (Cantiga-PM) + ICH9M (Enh)
Total Memory Size: 4 GBytes
Video Chipset: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M (G92-890)
Video Memory: 1024 MBytes of GDDR3 SDRAM
Hard Drive Controller: Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Hard Drive Model: Seagate ST9320423AS
Hard Drive Capacity: 305,245 MBytes (320 GB)
Disc Drive Model: HL-DT-STDVDRAM GT30N
Disc Drive Controller: Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s
Audio Adapter: Intel 82801IB ICH9 - High Definition Audio [A3]
Network Card: Intel® WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Network Card: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

Backpacker · #69 01-29-2010, 10:54 AM

Hi there,

I am getting an error message after the installation started and wondering if it has something to do with the Empire Efi version, the BIOS settings or my SL installation disk.

The message is "The installer could not copy the necessary support files".
In the installer log: "Failed to verify BaseSystem.pkg". It tries three times and than abort the installation.
A couple of tries before it stopped at verifying the BSD.pkg package.

Im tried the installation with the DVD, but got only Ebios timeout errors, so now I am using Empire Efi and an USB-stick.

The installation hard drive is partitioned and formatted as it is supposed to be.
I also tried copying the packages to the installation disk myself, but still getting the "failed to verify" message.

I tried the earlier Empire Efi versions but got nowhere with them. Just the latest update (empire efi V1085 for intel core processors) brought me to the installation screen, but not any further. I tried the legacy version too.

I also read that I should remove some RAM and so I did. Tried with 8GB, 6GB, 4GB, 2GB, used different slots and so on - didn´t work.

Here my hardware specs:

Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9400 4x 2,67GHz 6MB Cache 45nm
nVIDIA GeForce 9800GT 512MB
Mainboard ASUS P5QL-Pro Intel P43 Chipsatz ICH10R
22x DVD/RW Duallayer +/- Multi SH-S223
8GB DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400
500GB SATAII NCQ 16MB Cache 7200rpm

I got no idea, where the problem is coming from (DVD, bios settings, empire efi version)???

Does anyone knoe how to go on from here?

Thanks a lot for any input.

Backpacker

InteliMacPro · #70 01-30-2010, 07:38 PM

Prasys, I've been using NVEnabler for awhile now and it seems to be working great. I disabled graphics enabler in my extras boot.plist and it is working better with nvenabler. Using graphicsenabler=y my hdmi input wouldn't work, but it does using nvenabler. I now want to create a custom empire efi disk including nvenabler and the new chameleon rc4 with integrated restart/hardware detection etc. I'll be looking into doing that but if somebody can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Also, if anybody has any idea why 1.085 causes my computer to shut down right before the desktop comes up please let me know.