hiya again
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Originally Posted by nfoav8or
one thing to keep in mind with nForce systems is there finicky nature with Large amounts of RAM. (>4GB to be exact) are you using kexts that counter this?
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as far as i am aware I have no kexts relating to larger amounts of ram, I must have missed that on my trawling of the forum. ( I don't really want to remove memory from the system physically as it's there for Lightwave3d, graphic and video work.)
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Originally Posted by nfoav8or
It doesn't sound like something is really wrong with your system except that from you posting back what you did, things seem to have gotten switched around a bit.
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I'm pretty sure i have followed everything you have advised but there is always a possibility I have missed something or got mixed up somewhere along the line
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Originally Posted by nfoav8or
did you follow what I wrote to you for directions to the letter?
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I followed the info regarding the 9500gt drivers and followed that exactly (hopefully) but as it stands I still cannot boot into normal mode and i still have basic resolution in safe mode. (though at one point I did have extra resolutions in safe mode but would go to blank blue screen when changing. kernel panics when attempting to boot in normal mode.
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Originally Posted by nfoav8or
what is your voodoo kernel named?
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my kernel (from memory as I am work now) is called mach_kernel.voodoo the 1.0 version.
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Originally Posted by nfoav8or
what does your com.apple.Boot.plist file look like. do you currently have dsmos.kext? This is like AppleDecrypt but older...
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I cannot be 100% sure of what the boot.plist says exactly but i do recall it having the same name for the kernel as the voodoo.
I do have a dsmos.kext but this was not installed as i assumed it was obsolete due to the appledecrypter.
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Originally Posted by nfoav8or
Did you ensure permissions were correct after you installed the kexts or did you just use the GUI app? I recommend booting with -s
Code:
sbin/mount -uw /
cd /System/Library/
chmod -R 755 Extensions/
chown -R root:wheel Extensions/
rm -Rf Extensions.*
reboot
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All kexts were installed with kext helper, i recall doing the single user stuff at some point but can't remember if it was at that stage.
Before the update to 10.5.5 I have the following working installation which boots up fine with no boot options required but of course no accelerated graphics as the drivers are not installed at this point.
Lawless 10.5.4 distro with working ac888 audio and working rtl8211b network.
AppleDecrypt, AppleSMBIOSEFI and Disabler installed.
This has been imaged to a dmg file on a second partition on the same drive so I can at least recover when 10.5.5 goes wonky.
Will revert to the 10.5.4 image tonight and will go through all the information again.
What steps would i need to take to update 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 and having it booting ok in normal mode? if i can get to this stage then i can image it again so i don't have to keep going through the updating process each time i screw up
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