@KusariNinja

Hiya Guys Firstly I would like to say well done on all the amazing wealth of info you provide in this forum. I have an AMD System which is currently running Vista Ultimate x64. This is installed on a sata drive but will be disconnected…

Hiya guys and gals I have searched all over the forum but not been able to find an answer to my problem. I have an Acer Aspire 5630 laptop, Intel core 2 duo 1.66ghz, (T5500) Memory 4GB HD 500GB SATA (partitioned into 4 sections, window…

Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0 Voodoo Release 1.0 panic cpu 0 caller 0x0017DE2F): "pmap_steal_memory"@/VoodooKernel/xnu-1228.78/osfmk/vm/vm_resident.c:628 Hiya guys DOn't know if any one can help but when I try to load up in safemode (-x) i…

“thanks lawlessppc, and nfoav8or for pointing me in the direction I needed to be, granted i did not get it right the first few dozen times lol but I got there in the end”

“WHOOOOO! my perseverance paid off! After trying a few other things out i finally got 10.5.5 booted in normal mode.. no audio/network/acc gfx as yet as I did things a little differently this time. I did a fresh install of lawless 10.5.4 dist…”

“Okay i am back to the working (albeit with basic video) 10.5.4. What is the best course to take from here to upgrade to 10.5.5? Are there any specific criteria I need to follow before applying update? Are there any specific files I need to …”

“hiya lawless I have done that but i still get the issues I have a minimulist(sp?) installation as far as I am aware. I have installed with your 10.5.4 distribution (only distro that actually gets a bootable system for me) with only nforce c…”

“oh well it looks like it's not going to happen... i've spent the whole week trying (4 nights working on it from 6/7pm to 5am in the morning) and I am at a loss. There's only so many times i can wipe and install and curse before the novelty …”

“here is a screen grab of error after starting up with -v (10.5.5)”

“hiya again one thing to keep in mind with nForce systems is there finicky nature with Large amounts of RAM. (>4GB to be exact) are you using kexts that counter this? as far as i am aware I have no kexts relating to larger amounts of ram, I …”

“Hiya nfoav8or... many thanks for the files btw… did i do anything bad in my last two posts? if so i can easily recover to a state before the stuff i did in the last two posts. Oh and what is Pacific? D'oh, it's Pacifist.. (google is my fwen…”

“did the following… rm -Rf Extensions/ATI* rm -Rf Extensions/GeForce* rm -Rf Extensions/NVDA* rm -Rf Extensions.* reboot then got a kernel panic on reboot.. i think I did a do do Can Still login in safe mode though”

“ok the three kexts, AppleDecrypt, AppleSMBIOSEFI and Disabler were installed with kext helper, rebooted, installed 10.5.5, rebooted, machine reset on loading. rebooted with -x -f and was able to login with safe mode, rebooted with -f and ha…”

“One little side note, my ps/2 keyboard did not work after booting kernel, I had a mac usb keyboard from my dead dual 867mhz g4 floating about which worked a treat. Will hopefully have a working 10.5.5 done sometime this evening”

“I dunno if i am going off on the wrong track here but i was reading a post by nfoav8or iatkos install fine but no booting back regarding 3 specific files needed beofre updating to 10.5.5. I have checked my Extensions folder and I have none …”

“is there anything that needs to be done after installing 10.5.5 such as patching it to work or replacing any files once the install has completed? It says it has completed the install successfully but then when i reboot it resets the machin…”

“Backed up with Working audio, network Voodoo kernel... Now to screw it up again by updating it”

“restore frommy backup using Disk utility worked fine. going to reinstall network and audio and kernel again then backup again from that point lol”

“downloaded 10.5.5 update from apple, installed, rebooted, machine resets. rebooted and used flags -x -f system hangs at a blue screen but mouse is movable. :'( edit: last line appears to be localhost kextd[10]: IOKitWaitQuiet time out waiti…”

“ok, I now have working network, audio and Voodoo Release 1.0 :xnu-1228.7.58 installed … So far so good”

“many thanks for the response Lawless right so far to make life a bit simple i have temporarily disabled the SATA altogether. I have a 250GB HD installed on IDE Master, partitioned into 2. Lawlessppc 10.5.4 installed with just the nforce chi…”

“well i removed all osx native graphics drivers, added ps/2 fix, removed the extensions.kext repaired permissions etc via install dvd's disk util (still can't use kb in single user) and still blue screen.. addition: well the saying goes If a…”

“very good suggestion though i have to get the keyboard working first lol, i think i need the ps/2 fix seeing as it's a laptop keyboard. though i can access the drive with macdrive on the vista side of the laptop so i guess i can butcher it …”

“i installed no graphics for that exact reason. i learnt that from my phenom install heehee”

“Samurai & Ninja sacred enemies coming together. heehee, I bet he did not see me coming either”

“with the desktop system, press F8 when you see darwin bootloader appear and type "maxmem=2048" or "maxmem=3072" without the "". When you get the configuration section, just add the nforce chipset drivers, leave sound and lan alone for the t…”

“Hiya I have a 9600 phenom system with an nforce chipset also. I used nForceLAN on 10.5.4 but that would not work in 10.5.5 when i updated. I then used forcedeth and that works great. I have upped the nForceLAN kext here for you to try out. …”

“many thanks nfoav8or, will install those when i get home from work”