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Weird mkext issue, seeking to clarify best placement of specific kexts
I'm getting this strange issue where if I make an extensions.mkext for /Extra/Extensions I get a kernel panic at boot. so basically I have to not have one there at all. also it seems to boot significantly faster with no extensions.mkext in /System/Library for /System/Library/Extensions most of the time.. which is backwards to what I thought it was, that the mkext makes things faster
so just to make sure, with Chameleon RC3 and netkas PC EFI 10.5
am i understanding this correctly? also, when I had smbios.plist in /Extra/Extensions it booted fine considering the rest was ok, but when i put smbios.plist in /Extra it took damn near forver to load Last edited by spalek83; 10-29-2009 at 11:19 PM. |
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about the smbios, it took forever because it was actually being loaded. not sure about the rest. DSDT is placed in Root.
Computer: Gateway 838GM | 9.5.0 Vodoo Kernel |2.0 RC4 Chameleon Bootloader | Processor:Intel Pentium 4 630 / 3 GHz | RAM: 512MB | OS: Windows 7 32BIT, OSx86 iPC 10.5.6 | Mainboard Chipset: Intel 915G Express | Graphics Card:Integrated Intel GMA 900 | Video Memory: Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 | Audio:ALC 860 |Card Reader:8 in 1 Integrated| Hard Drives:1x 200GB SATA(Win 7), 1x 320GB SATA(OS X) Both Internal
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so every time it will take forever to load smbios? i read somewhere that smbios was just cosmetic, is this true? cause if so, it has no real purpose but cosmetic i'm gonna skip it since 4 minutes to boot a joke
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sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions DSDT.aml goes in /Extra by default (you can put it anywhere you want if you put "DSDT=/some/where/mydsdt.aml" in chameleon's boot.plist smbios.plist is in /Extra too but samely can be put anywhere with "SMBIOS=some/smbios.plist" AsRock P45TS | C2D E8200 | GeForce 8600GTS Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 + Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7600 + Fedora 11 |
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thanks for explaining that. as for the extensions.mkext, I use kext helper and it makes that.. I also reinstalled snow from snow and everything seems to work, depsite the boot being not as fast as it could be (it pauses at the baby blue screen for like 40 seconds before actually loggin in)
I put dsdt.aml in /Extra and nothing seemed to change and i removed smbios.plist cause of it being only cosmetic. i could care less what system info says as long as it's doing what it's supposed to be internally |
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I dont really trust the old kexts installers for sl, anyway I think that mkext in old location is ignored.
If you have a patched dsdt you should def note some difference. Remember that chameleon always do smbios patching, even w/out a smbios.plist (unless you explicitly disable it). AsRock P45TS | C2D E8200 | GeForce 8600GTS Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 + Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7600 + Fedora 11 |
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removed the extensions.mkext in /System/Library
do I also remove it from /Extra ? 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. |