Brent NW Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hey Guys, Last week I had nothing to do, so I decided to research some new bootloaders that recently showed up on the net, so I decided to test BOOT-THINKS 1.1.0 this is another thread that is very useful with download links http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168500 I downloaded from http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...en&ie=UTF-8 Use google translate to view it in english So here is what I could learn about it, if anyone has some useful info please add It is about 80% "true" EFI bootloader I installed on EFI partition by selecting efi (dont select booth and boot0) I had freshly installed retail 10.5.4 did not install any custom kext or any mods, rebooted and it booted of EFI partition look very close to real mac without any problem I HAVE MSI WIND EVERYTHING worked EXCEPT audio and 1024/600 video Then I updated to 10.5.7 via software update 100% automatically restarted and it did not boot first, on a second try got blue screen on a third pressed F8 text mode and used -v -x booted into system OK. Installing Custom kexts fixes it in my case VoodooHDA and Custom GMA950 So after exploring for a while I found out that this bootloader loads extensions from EFI partition not /ROOT/SYSTEM/LIBRARY/EXTENSIONS I BROWSED the EFI and its its in DARWIN/SYSTEM/LIBRARY/COMPONENT folder which is hidden there are extra two extensions.mkext F1 is appledecrypt and disabler and F2 is copy of 10.5.7 system extensions that are in /ROOT/SYSTEM/LIBRARY/Extensions not all but all the nesesary ones. So I modified those mkexts added voodoohda I it loaded them with NO PROBLEM from EFI for me it only worked if I put kext into mkext from F2 folder I THOUGH its a very neat feature SO I DECIDED to test it with SNOW 10A380 and it did not boot DVD nore USB no INSTALLED SNOW because it has mach_kernel from 10.5.7 and 10.5.7 Extensions By replacing for mach_kernel 10b and 10.6 equevalents of Extensions which to that mkext /EFI/DARWIN/SYSTEM/LIBRARY/COMPONENTS/F2/extensions.mkext I think might be possible to boot snow I have gone from getting 3 panics to just one "INCOMPATABLE ARGUMENTS USED" or something like that. OR one more thing you need dsmos.kext not appledecrypt to load SNOW I ll try to mess with the kext and add some more info later Hope it helps PS excuse my chicken scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheezmen Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Why didn’t you just post this in that other thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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