iDeneb Endless reboot loop...
 

So i finally managed to install iDeneb 10.5.4 V1 on my system (specs in sig). It finishes the installation fine.. and when it said to reboot i pressed the reboot button and it just hung with a grey screen and the pointer.. so i manually rebooted it. Took the disc out and it tries to load but after a couple of seconds it reboots.. loaded into -v mode but it loaded everything too fast to know what it was upto when it reboots.

I formatted the hard drive with disc utility (Mac something journal?) and that was all fine. What could be the problem?

Cheers,
Fman

EDIT: I didnt customise my installation just did a standard one

I had the exact same issue on my install (detail in this thread).
Because it didn't give me any proper error to work with I soon forgot about iDeneb and tried iPC.
Of course iPC also wasn't flawless the first time but at least it booted and gave me the ol' "Still waiting for root device".

Since you already mention it in your sig. my advise would be to try iPC. The only customization you should do is add support for your chipset.
(I don't know anything about which one you should use but I'm sure you can find it here or on InsanelyMac).

Good luck!

Nothing :(
 

I might have to forget about iDeneb.. I'll download iPC's release tonight and patch all the latest PPF's to them..

If anyone still has any idea's on why iDeneb won't boot then please post stilll..

Cheers,
Fman

Instant reboot is normally caused by the incorrect choice of kernel.

You may find a vanilla kernel is installed if you don't select anything, so just reinstall and make sure you choose a patched one like voodoo.

Thanks!
 

Thanks very much.. I'll try and install voodoo and we'll see how it goes..

umm is it possible just to change the kernel and then once everything is up and running add more drivers (kexts? is that what they are called) etc?

Cheers,
Fman

Edit: There is no Voodoo kernel so i'll just try the other ones

Which kernel do i use for my system? on iDeneb V1 10.5.4

Reboot Loop
 

Hi I found a solution to a reboot loop error I had with an old kaliway 10.4 disk and a newer iPC 10.5.6 disk. This error occurred on 3 different PCs; A Lenovo Idea Center k210, a new HP Elite PC (intel i7), and a new ASUS laptop.

I found a website that explained all the flag options to pass to the bootup loader after pressing F8. http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/02...t-options.html

I typed this: -v -x cpus=1

@fman1234
There is an description on the bottom of the installer. If your processor is sse2 I think you have to choose voodoo kernel. It should work then.