The "Unofficial" Empire EFI Support Thread - Page 7

carveboarder13 · #1 01-11-2010, 03:03 AM

Hey- great work...

Couple issues/questions:

I have one internal drive on my sony vaio (i know they can have issues), and I need to install SL on one partition and Win7 on another.

I tried the SL installation on a separate hfs+ journaled partition but it had to be GUID not MBR (as opposed to my kalyway 10.5.2 I had)....and disk utility would not be able to change the partition to GUID w/o altering the whole HD.

What is the best way to install SL so I can run it in a dual boot mode with windows 7? I will have a USB 8 gig stick if that helps, and will have another USB HD handy as well (blank but wish to eventually use it for shared files w/o OS)

Concerns: Installing SL/WIndows in MBR/GUID...I have only one hard drive to create 2 partitions...from my understanding, an entire disk must be MBR or GUID...

I still have the 10.5.2 kalyway disc if its easier to install this way...

Thanks.

Samppaa · #2 01-14-2010, 07:58 PM

Hey! I tried empire efi 1.08 today, both legacy and normal and it saw the drive as HD. I don't have ACHI mode on my bios if im right. I got AMI bios. So what I should do, got intel core 2 duo processor, nvidia 8800gt. Should I maybe try older version or something?

InteliMacPro · #3 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 · #4 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).

wetzelskid · #5 04-08-2010, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InteliMacPro

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).

I tried empire EFI per your suggestion in the other thread, using the latest one on his site (1.085) and I get this exact problem. Seems to install fine (I do get the install failed but that's supposed to happen), then when I restart and boot from the disc and select my installed HD, it says some stuff and shuts down the computer.

edit:

that said, GraphicsEnabler=Y PciRoot=0 does let me use my gtx260 to run the installer.

Also I just realized I tried with the standard release instead of the R2. Going to try the R2 now.

hecke92 · #6 01-16-2010, 03:19 PM

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

InteliMacPro · #7 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.

Richdave · #8 01-31-2010, 03:05 AM

I am trying to load Snow Leopard on my PC using Empire EFI

I get the EFI screen showing the HDD's, insert OSx disk in drive and press F5 to continue, but nothing happens.

Initially I get icons representing the EFI CD, and my HDD's with W7 and Vista on it but not the blank drive.

Then when I insert the OSx DVD and press F5, after about 2 minutes I get Icons for all the HDD's inc the blank drive but I cannot select the blank drive and the CD icon has disappeared!

any ideas?

didb · #9 01-31-2010, 11:10 AM

My hardware would be:
* Mainboard | MSI MS-7204 Ver: 1.A
* CPU | Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz
* RAM | 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
* GPU | Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT 512 MB

So, at first I tried the regular V1.08 and I got the sweet "Memory allocation error".
Then I thought, why not try the Legacy Version for once. And, in fact: The boot menue came up successfully and I changed the disk in the drive.
Fenomenal, even that one was regocnized. With full motivation I chose the disk on the screen ... and then ... well ... BAAAAM! ... the PC just simply rebooted. A very warm welcome to Windows XP. Woohooo. Well, that wasn't quite what I expected...

I hope at least someone of you got an idea, how I'd get on.

Greetings,
Dan

Richdave · #10 01-31-2010, 12:49 PM

Ok I have progressed a little further... it is all in the timing!!

You MUST wait 10 -20 seconds before loading the SL disk after ejecting the Empire EFI disk.

You MUST wait the 30 -60 seconds before hitting the F5 key after loading the SL disk.

failure to do so caused system hangs requiring reboots

Now I am getting the Mac OS to start loading then gets to a point where its says "still waiting for root device"

I am now trying to tweak the bios to get things to progress...

BTW my system specs are:-

* Mainboard | GA EP35-DS3R Ver: 2.1
* CPU | Intel E8400
* RAM | 4 GB Kingston HyperX PC6400
* GPU | ATI HD4850 512MB