pleased to hear it

Hey Lawless, Progress!!!
 

OK, so I installed windows 7 Beta, and then immediately booted into my Lawless PPC distro. Once installed I booted into the OS via the hard drive, which I can only do if i select change boot order and select the hard drive. It won't boot unless I do so, it gives me an error saying can't locate boot/Plist. I need to fix that so I can just push power and let it boot. When I booted it told me that my broadcom wireless card kexts arent working and need to be reinstalled. But the touchpad and keyboard built into the laptop were working. When I rebooted they weren't working anymore.

So I love the distro, worked great, I just need help with a couple of things

The laptop is a HP dv2125nr

Problems:

1. I can't boot directly into the HD, I have to press escape at first of boot to change boot device order, then I have to select the HD. I want to be able to power on the laptop and let it boot into the OS.

2. Built in touchpad and keyboard aren't working, I want to be able to use them, obviously.

3. Mini-PCI Broadcom Wi-Fi card doesn't work. Any suggestion on kexts to install?

I will keep you updated on my progress. Hope to hear some help soon.

Thanks everyone, and especially you LawlessPPC!!! Great distro!!!

ok when you boot next use the arguments -v -f at the darwin prompt screen if you have the ps2 kexts they should work. then get kexthelper and reinstall the needed ps2 kexts you'll find them you may need a different 1 for the touchpad worst case scenario plug a usb mouse in to do this and use mac built in on screen keyboard. This will give you the functions you need to be able to get touch pad and keyboard working


Try this for your wireless should work like an airport once done http://www.neonkoala.co.uk/index.php...eless&Itemid=3

Also you need to tell the bios to have your osx drive as the first one to boot from in boot devices. Thats entering the bios not just escape for temp drive boot. Probably get to the bios with f2 or delete. Then I would reinstall chameleon bootloader from within OSX

Update on HP dv2125nr Install
 

OK, I remember seeing PS2 kexts when booting in verbose. the weird thing is, the mouse and keyboard will work at random times, but never right after boot, and sometimes they don't work even if I leave the hack running for a couple of hours. And which kext would I install besides the one that is there?

I checked my wireless card and it is using the 4311 device id, so it is installed in the directory and running. When I did the steps after adding some other possible device id's it said that i didn't have permission, and I am logged in as the admin.

My hard drive is my first boot option in my bios, I think the problem is that I need to have "cpus=1" added to the boot.plist and can't figure out how to do that. Also when I just boot and let darwin do its thing, it gives me the error that it can't find com.apple.boot.plist.

Also, how would I reinstall chameleon bootloader from within OSX?

One more thing is that the audio works sporadically like the keyboard and mouse??? Not real sure, I figured it would be a working or nonworking thing all the time, not variably.

Sorry for being such a noob, I just really want this to work, and can't figure it all out on my own.

EDIT: Ok, found the com.apple.boot.plist and added the boot flags that I have to use to boot, namely -f cpus=1.

Something broke.
 

Ok, after erasing and re-installing and updating I have a nice working install.

Except... Before when I installed, I installed sound by using an ALC883 Package I downloaded. It worked fine. Some installs afterward I used a driver and it gave me all the available ports, Included the Headphone and Mic Port at the front panel.

Now none of the drivers seem to work. System Profiler says:

Intel High Definition Audio:

Device ID: 0x1458A002
Audio ID: 883
Available Devices:
Line Out:
Connection: 1/8 inch Jack
Microphone:
Connection: Internal
Line In:
Connection: 1/8 inch Jack
Headphone:
Connection: 1/8 inch Jack
S/P-DIF Out:
Connection: Optical

but I have no sound, the option to show the vol control in the menu bar is there but upon enabling it there is just a blank space where it's supposed to be?

How do I remove those ALC883 packages and start over?

Or...fix my problem? :-/

Kernel Panic?
 

After completing the install of Lawless PPC 10.5.4 I reboot and go through the Darwin bootloader then the Mac logo pops up with a pinwheel. Then it just stops, and eventually I get a message that says I need to reboot (in about 4 languages). So I reboot, and the same thing happens again. I tried -s and -v boot flags but they don't help. Can you provide some advice as to what to do next to get it up and running - this is the 1st distro where I've gotten this far.:D

OK the easy times are now over (this is not used to cause offense). You have all the information you need to move forward. Now you should be using google as searching for how to add kexts, kext helper, chameleon bootloader and all other things mentioned. The ps2.kext you would need is the same but unless permissions are set correctly they wont work correctly. So you should also be looking up how to set permissions. Half of a learning cure is the struggle and the research. This is why i have not just punched in the answers. Well I tell a lie but if you search everything I out in my previous post you would see they answer all.

Let me know how you go on

this is not a release specific issue and info on audio drivers/kext is abundant i have no way of knowing which kext you used previously all i know is if you get the alc883 package that i used on the distro you should click customise during the install all will become clear after that

have you tried an ide dvd drive also i need to know what message you get when you boot with -v

Re: Kernel Panic?
 

No, I have not tried an IDE DVD drive. I don't have one. The message(s) I get when booting with -v are many... not sure what constitutes an error but here is a sampling of fishy looking stuff before my screen goes blank:

AppleNForce found 0 units
mDNS responder[27]: couldn't read user-specified local host name; using.....
IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out wiating for kernel symbols
AppleNForce found 0 units

then it goes to a black screen and I have to reboot

I also tried -v -f with the same result. I did a little bit of poking around and found this kext IOATAFamily.kext. Will this help me?

UPDATE: I retried this installation with a 100GB USB drive - it worked! I was booted into the mac video and set up my system. No sound, no Ethernet. Now that the system is working, can I install additional kexts and eventually transfer the image to another HDD? I realize you don't have time to provide me with all the answers, but a short response is appreciated - this is my first successful install of OSX86. Thanks Lawless!