BladeRunner Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Mine freezes at the Apple Logo screen also. Here is error with -v: -- snip image -- With -v -f: it freezes at the mDNSresponder line this is a few up from bottom. It works fine with my USB or CD Boot-132. Could it be a problem with the Stage-2 as noted in the post here: GPTEFIboot Thread Its the very last line of first post. I am using 10.5.5 also. I have 2 drives which were installed from the retail dvd - one internal ata and the other external usb. Both are getting the same result as you are seeing here. Lucky for me, I also have a third partition which can still be booted from the boot-132 iso. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 21, 2008 Author Share Posted September 21, 2008 GPTEFIBoot is a similar but unrelated project, so I cant really comment on it. Did you place System.kext on your EFI partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 Update:I have a copy of leopard 10.5.0 on a small 8GB partition on my second HD. I can use this boot method to boot that partition just fine. Further more, the alternate kexts are being loaded since I have PS2 support. My primary partition has 10.5.5, so something is definately broken here. I'm pretty sure you need the correct version of System.kext in the /System/Booter/Extensions folder on the EFI partition. Give it a try. What kind of hardware are you using? Core cpu or pre-Core? Which kernel? bladerunner can u try this also please? if u are using a 9.4.0 kernel (10.5.4) then please use the 9.4.0 / 10.5.4 System.kext in your /System/Booter/Extensions folder on the EFI partition. to mount: sudo -s mkdir /Volumes/EFI mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI to unmount once finished: sudo -s umount -f /Volumes/EFI rm -rf /Volumes/EFI please also make sure u copy the kexts as root (sudo -s). otherwise permissions errors may be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokinawa Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 I do not think I have the system.kext. I will try when I get home. I used all the kexts from my initrd.img off my boot CD. I can still boot with the boot-132 no problem. I am using a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4. With a Q9550 CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidm Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 ok, successful install from the retail dvd, updated to 10.5.5 via software update without problem something weird, Efi strings don´t work Q6700@2,66 ghz 4gb RAM GA-P35-DS4 Nvidia 7600gt / 8800gt Vanilla kernel at boot detect the correct fsb:cpu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 yay! first success story. yes, EFI strings will NOT work, as the stage2 booter is NOT Chameleon, but a fork of dfe's bootloader. means you have to go back to injectors or whatever, or wait for the next Chameleon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Dman Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Can I use extensions.mkext file with this method ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 3dman: good question. the answer is.... i dunno, i'll ask the devs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeRunner Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 yay! first success story. yes, EFI strings will NOT work, as the stage2 booter is NOT Chameleon, but a fork of dfe's bootloader. means you have to go back to injectors or whatever, or wait for the next Chameleon... Teh EFI strings may be what is causing the hang on my systems. I have been using them in place of the nvinject kect. I am working on changing that not. Results later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Try it using nvkush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 EFI strings?!! ahhh heck. lemme remove mine.. still no go.. we'll see what happens. I'm getting a dump panic error regarding iodevicetree:/options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemon Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 looks like there is some guys having the same results with 10.5.5 post 377 getting to e certain point in the loadin and then it keeps crashes retries and keeps on crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Dman Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 BTW is there any big difference between EFI strings and injectors ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidm Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 With Efi strings the system hangs before the GUI, with Nvkush & Nvinject i only have resolutions, with Natit full QE/CI (10.5.5). BTW is there any big difference between EFI strings and injectors ? i have better results in OpenGL Extensions Viewer tests with natit than nvinject , nvkush or efistrings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 no efi strings, still crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Who is the Munky......You da Munky! I works, it works, it works!!!!!!! I had finally gotten my Asus P5Q to work Retail using 132cd, and was looking at using a usb....... then I found this thread. It worked 100% first time. Installed on one of my external drives and it booted up with no issues. Cool I can now get some sleep.......no wait.......the laptop is yet to be retail......stumped on that one........so far......the talk about system.kext has given me an idea Thanks........and I'll keep you posted on the progress Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 heh nice one mate. please can u post the list of kexts in your /System/Booter/Extensions directory? did u use System.kext? BigKahuna : please try with a *minimal* set of kexts - ie dsmos, disabler, smbiosenabler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 reinstalling now. will post progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krassi Vassev Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Hi Munky, I only have Vista installed on my "Zepto"-laptop. I've tried your iso and boot with it, than I replaced the "Retail" into CD-ROM and after "press any key.....", I hit F8 and I've got the options to write a command. So far, so good. I really don't know how to determinate "X" and "Y", or uuid. Is there any way to do that in Vista. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Hi Munky,I only have Vista installed on my "Zepto"-laptop. I've tried your iso and boot with it, than I replaced the "Retail" into CD-ROM and after "press any key.....", I hit F8 and I've got the options to write a command. So far, so good. I really don't know how to determinate "X" and "Y", or uuid. Is there any way to do that in Vista. Thanks in advance. For your "X" and "Y" you should be able to do a "-s" boot from DVD and do "diskutil list disk0s1" and it will give you your partitions. It being a laptop I guess you only have one disk, so we know "X"="0". If more than one disk (external?) it may be "diskutil list disk1s1"......just be sure you find the right one. Also, this must be done on a disk partitioned "guid" not "mbr"......if only Vista, you may be using mbr. Hope it helps. Munky, Will post full list of kext later today Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorfuel Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Hello, I did try your method on a EP35-DS4 but I had no luck. Is there a way to restore chameleon bootloader, as I used that before? I can still boot with 132 so nothing is lost, really. Thank you for the effort. Later I'll be making backups so that I can reinstall and retry your method. Maybe I did something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kahuna Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Hello, I did try your method on a EP35-DS4 but I had no luck. Is there a way to restore chameleon bootloader, as I used that before? I can still boot with 132 so nothing is lost, really. Thank you for the effort. Later I'll be making backups so that I can reinstall and retry your method. Maybe I did something wrong. What types of errors are you getting? I'm asking since we have similar hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 harrobbed: if u can still boot with boot-132 then just boot up and reinstall chameleon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 An other success only problem is My mac adress is 0:00:00:0 or something like that btw it's the precore P4HT DC7100 SFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Hello, I did try your method on a EP35-DS4 but I had no luck. Is there a way to restore chameleon bootloader, as I used that before? I can still boot with 132 so nothing is lost, really. Thank you for the effort. Later I'll be making backups so that I can reinstall and retry your method. Maybe I did something wrong. Chameleon bootloader. There is a version found here that will install it on your hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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