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AppleACPIPCI link failed, halts and resets BIOS on boot


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Hi.

 

I've tried following the guide on my machine (a Pentium D box), which incidentally works fine on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

 

I get the following error whenever I try to start up (using -v -f):

 

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I am using Chameleon rc 2.640 with the replaced boot file. I have the following Extensions in the Extras/Extensions folder of my EFI partition:

 

AppleRTC.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

dsmos.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

fakesmc.kext

 

I also have a dsdt.aml in the root of my drive.

 

I am using the mach_kernel.test7 kernel.

 

Whatever I try I can't avoid the error shown above. It seems to be choking on AppleACPIPCI every time. The error only shows up for a few seconds and then the machine turns off. When I restart the CMOS checksum is invalid and I have to set my BIOS settings back from default.

 

Any suggestions?

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Well I seem to have got past the DSDT and AppleACPIPCI issues, but it still shuts down.

 

The issue seems to be this:

 

/dev/disk1s4: Can't initialize disk cache

 

I have tried booting into single user mode and it gives me the same error if I try to run fsck manually.

 

If I boot into Leopard it can run fsck_hfs -f over that that volume without an error.

 

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  • 2 weeks later...
The issue seems to be this:

 

/dev/disk1s4: Can't initialize disk cache

 

Adding maxmem=4096 to my boot parameters resolves this issue. I suspect the modbin kernel doesn't support >4Gb too well. Hopefully when a sources patched kernel comes out for older/non-intel CPUs this problem won't be present.

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Have you gotten 10.6.x working properly on this machine? I ask because I have a similar issue. It won't boot, and when i try to, it resets my BIOS to defaults. Leopard works flawlessly on this machine. If you got it to work, what did you do to get it to stop resetting the BIOS?

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