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Given my specs which bootloader would you recommend?
Im currently attempting to install release on my laptop (Toshiba M305D--S4831) And i cannot get past the part that displays the kernel name, and computer name, It just freezes in place and stays there. What can i do? · Here are my specs:
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @nfoav8or (12)
495,664 cumulative reads on threads started by @nfoav8or
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Mac OS X LIVE DVD is here [float=right]Thanks to the Dev Team over at InsanelyMac, the dream of a true Live DVD for OS X and OSx86 is here. Original posts by spartango over at InsanelyMac.com: " Not long after REVENGE's call to arms, the OS X live dvd team has… | Releases & News | 212,477 reads 2009-01-03 · 12 notes |
| Dual boot Windows and OS X from different Hard Drives I figured since I posted this material in a different post in a reply recently, I'd throw this out there for people to use. Its an old method and can be found all over the net. This method will use the Windows bootloader on the… | 10.X Core | 125,261 reads 2008-12-23 · 21 notes |
| Voodoo Kernel 2.0 = Darwin 9.6.0 [float=right]from the XNU dev's site: 21 Dec 2008 "Yes, we know the 9.6 kernel sources are up - we started working on it a few minutes after it was made available The bad news is that Apple made a lot of changes in the kernel, most of them… | Releases & News | 46,736 reads 2008-12-22 · 10 notes |
| iPC OSx86 out in public beta [float=right]For those of you who haven't seen the latest news from pcwiz, iPC is out... in public beta format. For more information see the forum: iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 or visit the site pcwiz has set up… | Releases & News | 44,965 reads 2008-12-23 · 17 notes |
| Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface Apple Insider , December 11, 2008 (read through for illustrations): " A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS… | Releases & News | 29,014 reads 2008-12-11 · 14 notes |
| Apple vs. Psycrap - Fire now expanding to whole OSX86 scene [float=right]Taken from: hack int0sh.org/news/319 “ Apple has added a new wrinkle to its copyright infringement lawsuit against Florida-based Psystar. The Cupertino-based media company now claims the Mac clone-maker violated the Digital… | Releases & News | 9,668 reads 2008-12-03 · 9 notes |
| Next Generation iMacs and Mac Minis to Pack NVIDIA Chipsets [float=right]From World of Apple 19DEC08: "A forum post on InsanelyMac.com reveals that buried within configuration files is evidence that the new iMac and Mac mini models will use NVIDIA chipsets. The configuration files which can be… | Releases & News | 6,578 reads 2008-12-22 · 1 notes |
| Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update may be around the corner Apple Insider December 11, 2008: " Apple this week is believed throwing the finishing touches on Mac OS X 10.5.6, the last planned maintenance and security update for Leopard during the 2008 calendar year. Developers on Wednesday were… | Releases & News | 5,900 reads 2008-12-12 · 1 notes |
| Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration [float=right] For those of you with iPhones here's something interesting from Apple Insider: "Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism… | Releases & News | 4,846 reads 2008-12-22 · 1 notes |
| Unnecessary Kernel Extensions... I was recently looking through the system profiler and noticed on the left side under the Contents of Software, there is an Extensions section. When I cycled through the many kexts installed within the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,596 reads 2008-10-08 · 4 notes |
| Pystar Moves to Allow Filing of Its First Amended Counterclaim World of Apple: "On December 9, 2008, Psystar requested that the Court allow entry of its First Amended Counterclaim. A hearing on this Motion is set for January 15, 2009. Attached as exhibits are its proposed First Amended Counterclaim as… | Releases & News | 3,499 reads 2008-12-09 · 1 notes |
| Apple marches towards Mac OS X 10.5.6 and 10.6 iTWire, December 09, 2008: "Apple's making progress on the next two revisions of Mac OS X, according to leaked information provided to developers. Once again, Portuguese language blog HMBT has leaked the developer notes provided by Apple… | Releases & News | 3,124 reads 2008-12-09 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @nfoav8or contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “install the HDAEnabler kext file so the system shows that it works... then make sure you correct permissions and have an updated Extensions.mkext file or just boot with -f to ensure it is using the kext.” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-07 965,272 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “You may be on to something. I'm new at this so I don't recall which bootloader I selected. Given my specs which bootloader would you recommend? the EFIv9 is (supposedly) the new chameleon but I haven't verified this myself. I think the old …” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-03 965,272 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “boot.efi is the file used by real macs to boot to that volume. It sounds like the bootloader you selected didn't install correctly. Either this or you selected the wrong one. How did you customize?” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-03 965,272 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “sounds like a kernel drop. have you checked the proper customizing options? (you can still use voodoo with pentium D) Also, check the BIOS out for better AHCI support, etc.” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-02 965,272 dossier reads |
| iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 “The discussion pertaining to torrents is strictly forbidden. Any further discussions will result in an immediate ban. ahh wow. ok well I guess then some in-house cleaning is expected? (...regarding the many other torrents that have been dis…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-23 965,272 dossier reads |
| Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device" “i am also facing same problem with my SATA HDD. so, pls anyone help me, how i will install mac leopard 10.5 in sata hdd in intel chipset? my pc config: Mother board : Intel D102GGC2 Processor : Intel PentiumD Memory : 1GB Hdd : SATA 160GB T…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-28 538,220 dossier reads |
| Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device" “The biggest resource is the HCL. I'm linking you to the 10.5.2 HCL because the other ones have not been fully updated yet. Yours isn't listed. I've only seen the P4P800 series board in other versions of the HCL... but the two boards are rel…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-28 538,220 dossier reads |
| Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device" “Have you tried switching the drives around so the DVD drive is primary and HD is secondary. I wouldn't rule out buying a SATA HD and retrying with your DVD on Primary IDE as well. Some boards are just finicky and you may also need to try ot…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-27 538,220 dossier reads |
| Possible solutions for "Still waiting for root device" “before... during the countdown of the Install DVDs, press f8 to enter the boot flags shown above. After installation... during the countdown of the system startup from the Hard Drive, press any key to enter the boot flags.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-11-26 538,220 dossier reads |
| *Updated 11/12* DMG mounting issues Sandbox.kext/Seatbelt.kext “This should probably be placed with the rest of the [How-To] guides. I'll leave that up to you (since you are also a moderator :)). I agree... very well written.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-22 334,965 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “So I can apply this to an exernal hdd as well ? -transfer the image i want to use unto the MAc hdd -plug in my external hdd (formated to HFS+) -Select restore and select my iso as the source and my externall as the destination -open the cha…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-05 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “Alright, so I have been trying my best to follow this, and I've noticed this on my own machine. My very first installation attempt installed OS X onto my 8GB flash drive. It was not until after that installation that the Mac OS installer wa…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-11-19 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “my USB memory after reboot just only see itself as a HDD. I can only see USB memory name on booting option as HDD. I cant see my HDD and it cant see while booting. the problem still exists how can I see HDD from USB memory? when you say fla…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-11-03 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “when you boot with "-s" you need o mount the drive using have you done this? EDIT: if you are booting off of a USB stick, why recreate the .mkext? just rm it and then reboot so it has to load everything and recreate it then.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-25 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “what mistake? I might add that a 4GB flash disk is barely enough room to hold an OS such as OS X. I use an 8GB stick to place my installer DVDs on so I can mess with them to make sure they will install the proper things for me.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-22 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “By using disk utility to do a simple "restore" to my flash disk from the Install DVD file stored on my computer, I have been able to put together a lot of specialized fixes and applications all on that same flash disk (having an 8GB flash d…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-22 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “Boot up normally into OS X and then run Disk Utility. Either insert the DVD or find the .iso you used to write the DVD (the .iso is faster) and select the flash drive on the left. Then select Restore on the top tab and place the respective …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-19 232,072 dossier reads |
| How Can I burn The MAC OS X distro to USB flash memory “just make sure you enable a bootloader such as chameleon or EFI to make the partition on your flash drive.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-19 232,072 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “thats a good school. Hope you get all A's Glad to hear that you won't be set back too much. This is a big BIG reason I am an advocate of being a part of this forum, whether it is to ask a question or to give help where it is needed, you are…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-02 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “looks like it could have used the Archived pkg to create two (one within itself)... zeph, any thoughts?” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-01 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “Oh alrighty then. So when AMD Patcher does that in the future that means the .pkg doesn't need patching? no. I was only telling you that this one in particular doesn't need patching... something else was causing this to occur with your syst…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-01 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “When trying to patch the iTunes 8.0.2.mpkg with AMD Patcher 0.31 I get this far (See attachment) then nothing. Edit: didn't screen capture the right window! Why are you patching this installer? it works without patching on AMD.” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-01 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “Thanks P-J. I've been following this site pretty close so its nice to see when I take a break from looking at it that something has changed. I agree with Dies on the cpuid issue... why have them there if the system can remove them and then …” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-24 230,773 dossier reads |
| AMD Patcher 0.31 available to download “Well thats nice BHAST but since no one is making the new voodoo kernel available except to the testers, you seem to be one of the few who has it. I just want to say thanks for pointing that out again and again (yes over at your site as well…” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-23 230,773 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X LIVE DVD is here “I think if the ramdisk size was changed in the initial build you could make it work with less RAM.” | Releases & News | 2009-01-24 212,477 dossier reads |
| Mac OS X LIVE DVD is here “I wood like a ISO of it. apparently the new Leo4All install DVD will have this feature. This is why I'm not going to upload mine. I've gotten my LiveDVD to work for my system and a few others but I don't want to post this and have everyone …” | Releases & News | 2009-01-15 212,477 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Not to throw this into the wrong discussion but with the voodoo_beta kernel, my original TSC delta was -235690 and the new delta with CPU1 is 36. Is there any way to narrow the gap down closer to 0?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-10-11 134,652 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “if you know the speed of your RAM select the SMBIOS speed from this or just use the AppleSMBIOSEnabler and a standard SMBIOS file. Don't include the DSDT patch since you don't need this in 10.5.6... just in the beta update (and that doesn't…” | 10.X Core | 2009-01-04 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “I had this idea when talking to ~pcwiz about it, the problem is that we'd need to create packages for every motherboard, which is tons of combinations of drivers and kernels and all kinds of stuff. This takes up a lot of space on the DVD, a…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-22 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “I think is waiting on the release of the new voodoo kernel... but that would make it obsolete because after that kernel comes out, people can just use their modified retail disc.” | 10.X Core | 2008-11-14 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “if you are a member of his forum you could ask him there.” | 10.X Core | 2008-10-25 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “Simply put... you now have created your own version of OSx86. (I guess) I don't know exactly since I don't have anything to do with grouping or classifications. EDIT: Where are you planning to host? green monster or the network? Figured I'd…” | 10.X Core | 2008-10-17 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “NICE!... it could just be that the mkext wasn't properly created. Oh well now right! Great to hear you got it working. Can't wait to try it!” | 10.X Core | 2008-10-16 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “haha... sorry... didn't realize you were working with a different chipset for your board... didn't read it too well; just applied my own approach for my board. ok. can you show a few screenshots of what your system profiler looks like when …” | 10.X Core | 2008-10-15 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “Just include the AppleNforceATA that is included in so many other releases in to the booting extensions. This should allow the SATA DVD drive to read. re-kextcache from the Extensions for the mkext (or don't include a working mkext... like …” | 10.X Core | 2008-10-15 127,513 dossier reads |
| Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5) “I think this sounds like a rockin distro! I only wish I had the time and energy to make my own updatable distro. But alas, not to be so I'll rely on those better than me. Keep up the awesome work and thanks for introducing this to us all. :” | 10.X Core | 2008-09-25 127,513 dossier reads |
| Dual boot Windows and OS X from different Hard Drives “This is a simple edit when using windows and OS X. There are a lot of other options out there but until the new chameleon version comes out, none are as simple to noobs.” | 10.X Core | 2009-02-15 125,261 dossier reads |
| EFI Partition Booting - Zero Modification installs on Intel SSE2 or better “I don't have com.apple.Boot.plist in my EFI partition, since it didn't work when I put it there, but I'll work on that later. Currently my desktop is acting strange again, but that's not for this thread Fixed in IRC.” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-22 118,590 dossier reads |
| EFI Partition Booting - Zero Modification installs on Intel SSE2 or better “Just when I boot, I don't get a timeout it just gives me the prompt where I can enter "-v" etc what does your Boot.plist look like that you've placed on the EFI partition? (for me, I placed this in the native directory tree on the EFI parti…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-22 118,590 dossier reads |
| EFI Partition Booting - Zero Modification installs on Intel SSE2 or better “This works great! I updated flawlessly to 10.5.6, just a few more things I need to sort out. - Audio isn't working anymore (Alcinject & AppleHDA), however I'm using the kexts that worked before (on 10.5.6) - How can I make the bootloader bo…” | 10.X Core | 2008-12-21 118,590 dossier reads |