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Hi All,

 

I tried to get my 6400 running with IDeneb v1.3 10.5.5,

 

I'm dual booting with XP, I installed OSX completly with no errors and all was going great until i rebooted after the install.

 

"still waiting for root device" appears in the diagnostic boot up.

 

Basically it goes no further.

 

* I selected no options during setup. Everything default.

* Partitions are setup like this...

1) UNKNOWN

2) WINXP

3) MAC_OSX

4) SHARED_DRIVE

 

In the BIOS there are no options for SATA, so i can't switch anything there.

 

I also tried rd=disk0s2 / rd=disk0s3 to see if that would work. No joy.

 

Also, i disabled Dual CPU's in the BIOS. And i also tried cpus=1 option.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Kwikk

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Hi All,

 

I tried to get my 6400 running with IDeneb v1.3 10.5.5,

 

I'm dual booting with XP, I installed OSX completly with no errors and all was going great until i rebooted after the install.

 

"still waiting for root device" appears in the diagnostic boot up.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Kwikk

ahh, the dreaded "you got the blues news" from apple. did you try to boot with one of the following options?

a) platform=X86PC -v

b ) platform=ACPI -v

c) -x -v

d) -f -v

also look at this and this (Q1.5)

I swear there is a thread somewhere on the forum that is dedicated just to this problem but I cannot find it, sorry.

also, you list your partitions, are you sure that is the logical order of them in the partition table? you may want to try s1 or s0 also

 

and more. seems like others with Ideneb 10.5.5 have similar problems, look here

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Howdy, folks!

 

My first post in this thread, but I'm a E1505 owner who recently started with Kalyway 10.5.2, and after some trials and tribulations, successfully upgraded to 10.5.6. I couldn't have done it without this thread, and in particular some insightful posts from TheGreatDeceiver, so I thought I'd come document my steps here in hopes of helping others.

 

Before I begin, I'll note my E1505 still has the original 50gb Hard Drive, so I didn't both trying to dual boot with it. So, I don't know much about whether I'm using GUID or MBR boot style. I did preserve the hidden Dell recovery partition, and on the very first install of 10.5.2 had to go through some kind of "fixmbr" because it would sometimes take several boot attempts to make it into the OS, so I think it's MBR, but don't quote me.

  1. Begin with a typical Kalyway 10.5.2 install. Amongst the setup options, I went with the kernel_vanilla_922, NVinjectGO, sigmatel_9200_inspiron_9400, left the network cards alone but added broadcom in the wifi section, AppleSMBIOS-27-Default, cpus=1 flag, and that's it. I left out the power management bundle because I'd pick it up later.
  2. After install and successfully booting into OSX 10.5.2, go through the normal setup putting in your password and all. Also, go enable the root account and set a password for it.
  3. Next, I downloaded and installed Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer v1.4.1 (It's the bottom most one in the first post, be careful!). Options I picked up here were: Sigmatel 9200, Broadcom 440X, Safe Updates and SD Card Reader. I reloaded the sound and network drivers, in case there was anything newer than kalyway's DVD, but I'm not sure it was necessary. I skipped the power management stuff, choosing to wait until after I put 10.5.6 in place. DO NOT MISS SAFE UPDATES! This is critical to surviving the update.
     

    I'm going to break in here, and mention that I had some misses with Sonotone's patcher. About 4 kexts didn't install properly, and before I could even get to the normal repairing permissions errors popped up which said (paraphrased): "Unable to load [FILENAMEHERE]. This extension does not seem to have been installed properly."..and a bit more in that vein. If you reboot, you'll continue to see those errors every time it tries to load those particular files.

     

    I found two methods to solve it. In both cases, start by removing the bad kext from your /System/Library/Extensions folder. Then for the first method, download
    and use it to view the install package for Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer. With this tool, you can install individual packages embedded inside the installer. This worked on 3 of the 4 files I had problems with. For the last, I used Pacifist to extract the kext file to a temporary folder. Then I used
    to install it. This seemed to work better. Don't forget to Repair Permissions, just in case.


     

  4. Next, go to Software Updates and from the menu select the "Download Only" option. This brings down the 10.5.6 update without installing it. At this point, go have a biscuit and some tea.
  5. When the download is finished, open a Terminal prompt. Type in sudo su and hit enter. Give it your password, and then you'll be at a new prompt. Type in the following:
    while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done
    Hit enter, and the Terminal will seem to hang. It's fine, it's doing what you've just told it, which is to wait for a certain kext to appear and annhilate it as soon as it does. Leave this running.
  6. Using Kext Helper, install this kext here. It's an addon which fixes built-in keyboard and trackpad issues post-10.5.6 update. Without it, you'd better have a usb keyboard and mouse on hand after the update.
  7. Now, go to your Downloads folder and install the 10.5.6 combo update you downloaded there. After you do, it will ask you to reboot. Before you do, peek inside /System/Library/Extensions and make sure the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext is, indeed, missing. Then reboot.
  8. At this point, if all has gone well you'll reboot a few times and wind up in 10.5.6. We're nearly done! First, run Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer again. This time, I used it to load Lid Sleep, and the DualCore Kernals for 10.5.6. After that, and repairing permissions (of course), you can finally go take the cpus=1 out of your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
  9. After a quick reboot, visit Superhai's website and grab the Voodoo Power kext (install with Kext Helper). I also like the Generic CPU Power Management application for watching your SpeedStep in action. I can't remember, but I may have installed the Voodoo Battery kext as well.
  10. Post update, my sound stopped working. Remove the AppleHDA.kext and HDAEnabler.kext from /System/Library/Extensions, then reinstall the Sigmatel 9200 drivers with Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer
  11. Post update, your System Info will also be a bit off. OS X's ability to detect what hardware you have is through the AppleSMBIOS extension, and there's a couple of ways to fix this. There is, of course, some hacked copies in Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer. However, I opted to use AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext which adds to, instead of replaces the stock AppleSMBIOS.kext. There's a couple in there, I'm using the next-to-latest version AppleSMBIOSEFI_b2.zip, which even detects my Dell Service Tag as my serial number. Although, I did briefly try the latest AppleSMBIOSEFI_28.zip and it worked just fine too.

This is all I can remember right now. Post any questions or comments here...if I've made a mistake, I'll try and correct it. If I left something out, ditto. Hope this helps someone.

 

InkBlot

 

Update: I noticed today that my video settings weren't optimal. Namely, "Core Image" was set to Software and "Quartz Extreme" showed as unsupported. You can see this in System Profiler, where CI should be Hardware Accelerated and QE should, of course, be supported. The fix:

  1. Somewhere in my process, I wound up with too many driver files. In /System/Library/Extensions I had NVInjext.kext and NVInjectGo.kext. So first, move NVInject.kext to the trash.
  2. Open terminal, and begin with sudo su to get yourself into admin mode.
  3. Type nano /System/Library/Extensions/NVinjectGo.kext/Contents/Info.plist to begin editing the Info.plist for the NVIDIA file you are keeping.
  4. Look for this:
    <key>IOProbeScore</key>
<integer>6000</integer>


    Mine was set to 6000, yours might be different. Change the number right under IOProbeScore to 0.

  5. Save and exit the plist file. Repair permissions and reboot.
     
    Booting took a bit longer, and had me worried for a bit (especially since I didn't figure this out correctly the first time...believe me, I'd had to boot into safe mode a few times), but everything is working great.

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Howdy, folks!

 

My first post in this thread, but I'm a E1505 owner who recently started with Kalyway 10.5.2, and after some trials and tribulations, successfully upgraded to 10.5.6. I couldn't have done it without this thread, and in particular some insightful posts from TheGreatDeceiver, so I thought I'd come document my steps here in hopes of helping others.

 

Before I begin, I'll note my E1505 still has the original 50gb Hard Drive, so I didn't both trying to dual boot with it. So, I don't know much about whether I'm using GUID or MBR boot style. I did preserve the hidden Dell recovery partition, and on the very first install of 10.5.2 had to go through some kind of "fixmbr" because it would sometimes take several boot attempts to make it into the OS, so I think it's MBR, but don't quote me.

  1. Begin with a typical Kalyway 10.5.2 install. Amongst the setup options, I went with the kernel_vanilla_922, NVinjectGO, sigmatel_9200_inspiron_9400, left the network cards alone but added broadcom in the wifi section, AppleSMBIOS-27-Default, cpus=1 flag, and that's it. I left out the power management bundle because I'd pick it up later.
  2. After install and successfully booting into OSX 10.5.2, go through the normal setup putting in your password and all. Also, go enable the root account and set a password for it.
  3. Next, I downloaded and installed Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer v1.4.1 (It's the bottom most one in the first post, be careful!). Options I picked up here were: Sigmatel 9200, Broadcom 440X, Safe Updates and SD Card Reader. I reloaded the sound and network drivers, in case there was anything newer than kalyway's DVD, but I'm not sure it was necessary. I skipped the power management stuff, choosing to wait until after I put 10.5.6 in place. DO NOT MISS SAFE UPDATES! This is critical to surviving the update.
     

    I'm going to break in here, and mention that I had some misses with Sonotone's patcher. About 4 kexts didn't install properly, and before I could even get to the normal repairing permissions errors popped up which said (paraphrased): "Unable to load [FILENAMEHERE]. This extension does not seem to have been installed properly."..and a bit more in that vein. If you reboot, you'll continue to see those errors every time it tries to load those particular files.

     

    I found two methods to solve it. In both cases, start by removing the bad kext from your /System/Library/Extensions folder. Then for the first method, download
    and use it to view the install package for Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer. With this tool, you can install individual packages embedded inside the installer. This worked on 3 of the 4 files I had problems with. For the last, I used Pacifist to extract the kext file to a temporary folder. Then I used
    to install it. This seemed to work better. Don't forget to Repair Permissions, just in case.


  4. Next, go to Software Updates and from the menu select the "Download Only" option. This brings down the 10.5.6 update without installing it. At this point, go have a biscuit and some tea.
  5. When the download is finished, open a Terminal prompt. Type in sudo su and hit enter. Give it your password, and then you'll be at a new prompt. Type in the following:
    while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done
    Hit enter, and the Terminal will seem to hang. It's fine, it's doing what you've just told it, which is to wait for a certain kext to appear and annhilate it as soon as it does. Leave this running.
  6. Using Kext Helper, install this kext here. It's an addon which fixes built-in keyboard and trackpad issues post-10.5.6 update. Without it, you'd better have a usb keyboard and mouse on hand after the update.
  7. Now, go to your Downloads folder and install the 10.5.6 combo update you downloaded there. After you do, it will ask you to reboot. Before you do, peek inside /System/Library/Extensions and make sure the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext is, indeed, missing. Then reboot.
  8. At this point, if all has gone well you'll reboot a few times and wind up in 10.5.6. We're nearly done! First, run Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer again. This time, I used it to load Lid Sleep, and the DualCore Kernals for 10.5.6. After that, and repairing permissions (of course), you can finally go take the cpus=1 out of your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
  9. After a quick reboot, visit Superhai's website and grab the Voodoo Power kext (install with Kext Helper). I also like the Generic CPU Power Management application for watching your SpeedStep in action. I can't remember, but I may have installed the Voodoo Battery kext as well.
  10. Post update, my sound stopped working. Remove the AppleHDA.kext and HDAEnabler.kext from /System/Library/Extensions, then reinstall the Sigmatel 9200 drivers with Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer
  11. Post update, your System Info will also be a bit off. OS X's ability to detect what hardware you have is through the AppleSMBIOS extension, and there's a couple of ways to fix this. There is, of course, some hacked copies in Sonotone's Dell Laptop Post Installer. However, I opted to use AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext which adds to, instead of replaces the stock AppleSMBIOS.kext. There's a couple in there, I'm using the next-to-latest version AppleSMBIOSEFI_b2.zip, which even detects my Dell Service Tag as my serial number. Although, I did briefly try the latest AppleSMBIOSEFI_28.zip and it worked just fine too.
     
    This is all I can remember right now. Post any questions or comments here...if I've made a mistake, I'll try and correct it. If I left something out, ditto. Hope this helps someone.
     
    InkBlot

 

Awesome post InkBlot, thanks for the info, i have an identical machine (European 6400), but as i stated earlier, i tried to dual boot it which i suspect may be the cause of my problems! If i can't get it working, i'll wipe XP and just go through your steps.

 

ahh, the dreaded "you got the blues news" from apple. did you try to boot with one of the following options?

a) platform=X86PC -v

b ) platform=ACPI -v

c) -x -v

d) -f -v

also look at this and this (Q1.5)

I swear there is a thread somewhere on the forum that is dedicated just to this problem but I cannot find it, sorry.

also, you list your partitions, are you sure that is the logical order of them in the partition table? you may want to try s1 or s0 also

 

and more. seems like others with Ideneb 10.5.5 have similar problems, look here

 

Thanks TGD, i'm going to try those when i get out of work, maybe they'll sort it out!

As a side note, the whole reason i'm doing this is so that i can start iPod Touch development on my machine....

Do you think this is possible? I mean would i be able to develop and publish on the appstore with my Hackint0sh?

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Awesome post InkBlot, thanks for the info, i have an identical machine (European 6400), but as i stated earlier, i tried to dual boot it which i suspect may be the cause of my problems! If i can't get it working, i'll wipe XP and just go through your steps.

 

 

I haven't followed your issues here, so forgive me if this has been mentioned. Since you mention booting issues, and I had a few myself, I started to look through the search for the fdisk command I used before. I found this thread specifically about dual booting which might help you.

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Howdy, folks!

 

My first post in this thread, but I'm a E1505 owner who recently started with Kalyway 10.5.2, and after some trials and tribulations, successfully upgraded to 10.5.6. I couldn't have done it without this thread, and in particular some insightful posts from TheGreatDeceiver, so I thought I'd come document my steps here in hopes of helping others.

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InkBlot

 

brilliant. thank you for taking your time to write this up and post it. A great instruction to refer people to with Inspirons. thank you!

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I got 10.5.6 to run and its stable. I'm using a hacked MacBook Pro SMBIOS from Sonotone. I also have the default ACPI BAttery and Powermanagement.bundle installed also from Sonotone. I'm also using sonotone's patched 9.6.0 Dual core Kernel.

 

The problem is that everytime I click on a .DMG my screen goes to the black and it tells me to restart in like 20 different languages. =[

Other than this, my install is perfect....I did exactly what sonotone said, (replaced seatbelt and system.kext as well as IONetworkingfamily and IObluetooth thing.kext) I'm using Voodoo Power 1.2.1 and i replaced the trackpad pane as well as using the keyboard fix (nub). I did install voodoo battery alongside ACPI Battery, but when it showed two batteries, I got rid of Voodoo Battery...I honestly can't think of anything else fpr what might be wrong...All my applications run, and I have dual core support...As well as USB Storage and everything. I Just can't mount .DMGs for some reason....Help please

 

Kosmas

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I got 10.5.6 to run and its stable. I'm using a hacked MacBook Pro SMBIOS from Sonotone. I also have the default ACPI BAttery and Powermanagement.bundle installed also from Sonotone. I'm also using sonotone's patched 9.6.0 Dual core Kernel.

 

The problem is that everytime I click on a .DMG my screen goes to the black and it tells me to restart in like 20 different languages. =[

Other than this, my install is perfect....I did exactly what sonotone said, (replaced seatbelt and system.kext as well as IONetworkingfamily and IObluetooth thing.kext) I'm using Voodoo Power 1.2.1 and i replaced the trackpad pane as well as using the keyboard fix (nub). I did install voodoo battery alongside ACPI Battery, but when it showed two batteries, I got rid of Voodoo Battery...I honestly can't think of anything else fpr what might be wrong...All my applications run, and I have dual core support...As well as USB Storage and everything. I Just can't run .DMGs for some reason....Help please

 

Also Lid Sleep and Power Button sleep work but menu sleep doesn't (hibernate mode 3)

In 10.5.5, Lid Sleep, Power Button Sleep, and Menu Sleep all worked...was then using AppleSmartBattery.kext and GenericCPUPowerManagement.kext

 

Kosmas

 

if you use sonotone's 9.5 kernel (patched for c2d) and you reverted back to seatbelt and system.kext from 10.5.5 you should have no problems with dmg files. use kexthelper or osx86tools to install the kexts from 10.5.5. The issue is that your kernel must match seatbelt and system kext. e.g. if you use vanilla 9.6 kernel then you need seatbelt and system kext from 10.5.6. do you have sonotone's patched 9.6 kernel installed? then you need to use the 10.5.6 seatbelt.kext.....

I already forgot your hardware and it would make it easier for people to help you with your sleep issues if you tell us what graphic card you have.

good luck

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You truly are an OSX86 Genius Great Deceiver. Absolutely Amazing.

I followed your post and stupidly kept the seatbelt.kext and system.kext for backup and now I'm running vanilla 10.5.6, whereas you are running voodoo 10.5.5.

 

So I just need the 10.5.6 seatbelt and system kexts? (suggestions on where to find them :])

 

Also, what kexts regulates sleep. As in, does Voodoo power or pm.bundle or ACPI Battery or GenericCPUPowerManagement.kext have anything to do with if my system sleeps or not?

 

Thanks GD.

 

Kosmas

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You truly are an OSX86 Genius Great Deceiver. Absolutely Amazing.

I followed your post and stupidly kept the seatbelt.kext and system.kext for backup and now I'm running vanilla 10.5.6, whereas you are running voodoo 10.5.5.

 

So I just need the 10.5.6 seatbelt and system kexts? (suggestions on where to find them :])

 

Also, what kexts regulates sleep. As in, does Voodoo power or pm.bundle or ACPI Battery or GenericCPUPowerManagement.kext have anything to do with if my system sleeps or not?

 

Thanks GD.

 

Kosmas

not so genius I guess, :rolleyes: just saw you actually wrote that you use sonotone's 9.6 kernel. Note that this is not vanilla, even though the info will say so (sonotone patched the timing part to make it work for Dell's older c2ds). you can download the 10.5.6 updater from apple and use pacifist to extract the kexts. that will also give you a stock of pristine 10.5.6 kexts just in case you mess things up. sleep is dictated by your graphics card and the kernel. e.g. my onboard gma950 can't do hibernatemode 3. all I have is deep sleep (1 or 7). again, I forgot what you have. if you have an nvidia I hope others can help you how they fixed their sleep issues (NYCoyote for example). pm.bundle will give you a battery meter, cpumanagement will give you speedstep. Since sonotone's 9.6 patched kernel only addresses dell's older c2ds I suggest you use the latest voodoo kernel as this will likely address all current sleep issues. that will also solve your problem of not having the kexts from 10.5.6. good luck

 

As a side note, the whole reason i'm doing this is so that i can start iPod Touch development on my machine....

Do you think this is possible? I mean would i be able to develop and publish on the appstore with my Hackint0sh?

I don't think this should be a problem.

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if i use ipc what should i check on the installer??

 

and as far as the retail way, is their a definitive pack that i should go with? (working all the way)

sorry, I did not use that myself. If I had a list of options (unfortunately it's difficult to see them on his post, is there a doc that contains them? will look at my own disk later also) I could give you a list of check marks.

I personally used a 10.5.4 retail disk. I just found that there is actually a 10.5.6 retail disk on the green demon. To do a retail install with your particular system you need to follow sonotone's instructions, who also provides all the files and the iso to do everything.

 

 

Just a quick question, why did you keep the IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.5.5?

 

ps. i thought 1 and 5 are hibernate and 3 and 7 are safe.

did I? if I did then because I thought this may fix my ethernet. it's not working just like for many others. since I use wireless only it doesn't really matter.

sleep modes: yeah. 1 and 5 are deep sleep. 3 and 7 are safe. but I only got the 7 wrong :rolleyes: . they are all called by hibernatemode in terminal.

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{censored}. I installed system.kext, seat belt.kext, IONetworkingFamily.kext, and IOBluetoothFamily.kext, and now I can't boot. Im getting a Kernel Panic. Right at the white apple loading screen. I have no clue what it might be. Says something regarding

 

"Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\" ......../iokit/kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1411

 

I'm thinking this might have something to do with the IONetworkingFamily.kext, because of the Broadcom 440X drivers I use, got them from the IDeneb v1.3 DVD, so there might be an entry for them at IONetworkingFamily.kext. UGH. I'll try to replace IONetworkingFamily.kext from my 10.5.5 partition by booting it up then just dragging and dropping, then using DiskUtil to repair permissions.

 

Any suggestions?

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{censored}. I installed system.kext, seat belt.kext, IONetworkingFamily.kext, and IOBluetoothFamily.kext, and now I can't boot. Im getting a Kernel Panic. Right at the white apple loading screen. I have no clue what it might be. Says something regarding

 

"Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\" ......../iokit/kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1411

 

I'm thinking this might have something to do with the IONetworkingFamily.kext, because of the Broadcom 440X drivers I use, got them from the IDeneb v1.3 DVD, so there might be an entry for them at IONetworkingFamily.kext. UGH. I'll try to replace IONetworkingFamily.kext from my 10.5.5 partition by booting it up then just dragging and dropping, then using DiskUtil to repair permissions.

 

Any suggestions?

 

hmm, why didn't you just use the voodoo kernel? if you can replace the kexts, yes, start with both bluetooth and networking. if it still doesn't boot go for system.kext.

another thought is that it might be appleacpiplatform which you may have to revert to 10.5.6. not sure what you have right now.

also, remember that xnu's IntelEnhancedSpeedStep.kext.1.4.5 will not work if you make your system almost vanilla.

for the future. always change one item at a time (unless they go in pairs), otherwise it's hard to figure out which one is at fault.

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When i repair permissions I get a lot of "User differs on...."

 

Is that right?

 

I replaced all of them (System,networking,seatbelt,bluetooth) and I'm still getting the kernel panic. I'm lost, I don't want to loose this install.

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When i repair permissions I get a lot of "User differs on...."

 

Is that right?

 

I replaced all of them (System,networking,seatbelt,bluetooth) and I'm still getting the kernel panic. I'm lost, I don't want to loose this install.

no, that is not right. it seems that the repair utility fixed the permissions to your 10.5.5 installation...

can you boot with -v -x -f?

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I think you're right, even though I repaired the Permissions for the correct install. I can't boot with just safe mode, but I can boot with -v -x -f.

Now what lol

 

once you are back in with -v -x -f use kexthelper to install your previous kexts back again (note that some kexts append themselves to existing kexts when you drag and drop them). I'd even delete them from the extensions before I install them with kexthelper. your system is still alive, just one or more kexts didn't get installed correctly. Definitely run diskutility to repair permissions to the entire partition. I think your 10.5.5 diskutility may have messed with the 10.5.6 kexts.

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Ok I just reinstalled all four kexts from 10.5.6 and repaired permissions in both OSX86Tools and Disk Utility and Kext Helper.

 

Now I just have to boot...

 

Oh, and why should I use Voodoo over Sonotone's 9.6.0 Kernel? I didn't think my C2D was that old?! Its a Centrino C2D T7200.

 

Damn. I got the panic, and now I can't even get in with -v -x -f. It runs then panics after a little. I'm screwed. Is my install dead? X(

 

 

*I also deleted APPLESMBIOS and reinstalled that too*

 

EDIT: Installed System.kext from 10.5.5 from within 10.5.5 installation, and 10.5.6 partition boots with -v -x -f !!!

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Ok I just reinstalled all four kexts from 10.5.6 and repaired permissions in both OSX86Tools and Disk Utility and Kext Helper.

 

Now I just have to boot...

 

Oh, and why should I use Voodoo over Sonotone's 9.6.0 Kernel? I didn't think my C2D was that old?! Its a Centrino C2D T7200.

if you have a 6400 then your bios and chipset are too old for vanilla kernel to work with both cores of a c2d. it's not the age of the processor but the system board.

 

edit: oh boy :thumbsup_anim: . doesn't look good. what happened? my only explanation is that the diskutility from your 10.5.5 install messed with the kexts. all you did is replace a few kexts and put them back....

last resort: go back into your 10.5.5. now install 10.5.5 kexts of the ones you installed and put them into your 10.5.6. do one at a time.

 

edit2: you read my mind ;) , I'd try the other kexts also.

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FIXED IT!!!! YEEESSSSSS!! THANK YOU SO MUCH GD FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

 

I reinstalled each 10.5.6 kext one by one, and the broken kext infact was the IONetworkingFamily.kext just as we had presumed. Now i have a fully functional 10.5.6! Thank you SO MUCH!

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FIXED IT!!!! YEEESSSSSS!! THANK YOU SO MUCH GD FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

 

I reinstalled each 10.5.6 kext one by one, and the broken kext infact was the IONetworkingFamily.kext just as we had presumed. Now i have a fully functional 10.5.6! Thank you SO MUCH!

 

phew :unsure: !! that was close ... glad you got it. And remember, only ONE kext at a time next time... , now I can sleep :)

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