@bunglehaze

been browsing here for a while but only just registered as I am having a whole bunch of trouble installing SL on my machine, by rights though it should not be failing so I do not know which kext I am missing that might make it work. My…

“d-spice, boot up with the flags maxmem=4096 and busratio=20 and you can patch using marvins, just done mine this second although I still cannot boot without maxmem=4096. Going to use kexthelper now GL buddy.”

“It looks as though you have to do this from single user mode prior to boot. The problem here though is I am not totally sure how to do this. There is a guide on here somewhere on using Marvins but it speaks of a patch directory of which I c…”

“ok some progress.. instead of using the -force64 flag on boot try using maxmem=4096 and busratio=20, that way it boots normally and applications seem to work fine.”

“No im afraid nothing really works other than the very basics and as it seems to be only the two of us I am not getting too far in working around it either - I got bored and booted back into ubuntu for the time being again.”

“I did on a couple of install attempts which just ended in failure on all fronts. The way I figured it I should be able to get in using the bare minimum of kexts which is why the first successful attempt was just kernel, chipset and patches.…”

“To be honest with you all attempts to get 32 bit working have failed just as much, it seems my system only wants to play with a 64 bit flavor I actually dont mind putting in a boot flag to get it to run in the first place if I knew where to…”

“hmm it seems that despite my best efforts I cannot get SL to do anything other than basic functions, each time I try and open an application such as kexthelper I get a force close, if I click to open marvins nothing happens. Any pointers on…”

“-force64 and -v gets it through to standard desktop now, got a boot message I need to have another look at and also just seconds before booting a load of messages about nvenabler so I dont think there are too many issues to work through - h…”

“Currently posting this from a safe boot on Snow Leopard using hazards disc (I persevered). I got into it using the same setup as before with boot flags : -force64 -cpus=4 -busratio=20 -x The odd thing is I rebooted and tried to load using t…”

“Thanks matey, which version of lawlessppc did you use? I can only find 10.5.4 which is obviously Leopard and not SL or is there a new package/update script out there?”

“Tried Blacknights 10.2.0 kernel with a stripped out lists of kexts, basically just the kernel, amd patch and chipset. Initial boot shutdown but I have tried -force64 -f -v and it has not got to what appears to be a preboot screen for OS X -…”

“ANV Kernel again and this time it shus down the pc on boot.”

“Hmm, same deal again. SleepEnabler KP. Anyone able to shed some light on kexts I should or should not be including to get this sucker to boot? It wont even boot into safe mode and its getting VERY old now... In fact I am starting I am start…”

“Trying another clean install as I can mount hfs+ in ubuntu but apparently have no write access to copy over the kexts. At least the last attempt managed to show me a reason for a KP rather than a sraight system shutdown - I must be getting …”

“Safemode does not help to be honest. I keep getting a KP this time though it looks narrowed down to SleepEnabler. Back in Ubuntu now and I am going to see if I can sort the kext from here. The video card is not the issue, it is fully suppor…”

“I have not tried safe mode yet but will give that a go. Distro as mentioned above is the Hazard Snow Leopard. I think I have installed this thing about 15 times now - erase and install of course - and I think I must have tried every logical…”