plympton Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Upgrade from 10.4.6 - Not working: Network (no network cards showing up) - have installed 8139 card, was automatically recognized in 10.4.6/7 - Get error of "Can't use Intel 915.kext" (have to get wording) on boot - Crash on About this Mac, but we all knew that Hardware: Asrock Conroe-945-DVI Conroe e6600 (2.7 GHz) 3 GB Ram -Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marchuck Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Install from new DVD by JaS - Messed up AppleHDA.kext - Same GUI crash when trying to view "About this Mac" - Problems with boot loader, doesn't load, HardDisk tweaked by Installer. - When permission on Intel 915.kext it load, but screen is messy blue. - iCal is very screwdup. HW: Asus P5LD2-VM SE Celeron 331 P.S. Tryed both available kernels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgb Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I edit the FSB value to 500, the speed is WOW!!!! Much much faster than the pervious system. Here is my benchmark: http://www.geekpatrol.ca/browse/2006/?view&id=8494 core2duo e6600 overclock to 3.7ghz I have no idea to make my display work. Not working hardware: HIS x1600xt ICEQ Working: AD1986a onboard sound (output only) Yukon lan card Intel Pro 100 Lan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giandal Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Tried both kernels - Messed up AppleHDA.kext, indeed - Same GUI crash when trying to view "About this Mac" - iCal is very screwdup. - no QE/CI - can't see network so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkW Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 d915gag intel board with celeron d 346. using mifki kernel 915G kext doesn't load Airport kext doesn't load for my atheros pci card (worked flawlessly before) No sound No crashes when about this mac, and Ical is simply corrupt. Just copy it over from working installation and it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Intel915 kext error on startup GUI crash on About this Mac iCal damaged no QE/CI (GMA950) description mistakes in installer (mifkis/semthex kernel) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 hp zd8000 intel 915g chipset p4 presscot 630 3.0ghz ati x600 pcie at restart iam getting the message "ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM" fixed this by doing the disk erase using 10.4.6 then installing 10.4.8 conexant ac97 working broadcom 802.11g not working OnBoard-Network Realtek RTL8139 no longer working x600 m24 (3150) got qe/ci going with koverg patch,but when loading callisto003_fixed now gives a black screen ical broken and about this mac crashes apart from that its ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reed187 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 The OSX 10.4.8 works much more stable. BUT Network-Card is not functioning. It worked on 10.4.6 Sound: like on almost every Asus-Board. If I use the actual microphone jack, the sound works fine. Asus P4P-800X OnBoard-Network Realtek RTL8139 P4 3,0GHz SSE3 1,GB RAM iCal and the DVD-Player didn't work at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSimizeDenver Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 First time the install failed, the second time it works well. I just installed w/o any language or printer driver selected. Only the box for Semthex kernel was checked and it installs like a charm. See my hardware spec in the signature, please. What doesn't work: -Sound (haven't tried to patch, will do this soon...) -About this Mac (GUI crashes) -System Profiler doesn't present overall spec infos, other infos were presented smoothly (ata, memory, graphics etc.) -iCal is corrupt -network doesn't work (using my Marvell Miniport ethernet, SMB also) -can't boot from harddisk, have to use the install disc (means there is no option to boot up in verbose mode or something else...) -x1600Pro --> BorisBadenov patch 3.2 won't work, after installing the patch OSX will hang up while booting (just see the bue status bar with the message "Starting OSX") I will try mifkis kernel, too. Most annoying is the f++king network problem and the issues with the ATI x1600 card. But good work Jasser...thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Fresh install from nothing Working: Everything except 2d/3d and audio Not working: QE/CI(no callisto yet), audio(always worked in every version before 10.4.8, i have to find out how to patch it), corrupt iCal CPU: Pentium 4 prescott 3GHz SSE3/HTT Audio: Intel HDA Network: Intel PRO VE/100 Graphics: Radeon X800 XL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donniedarko Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 i really don't understand as soon as i click skip dvd verification there is an error i have burn the dvd 2 times at different speed then re download the iso same things i really don't understand on a p4 sse 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm_webd Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Just tried to install, but I get the "Still waiting for root device" error. ---- EDIT ---- This error appears when booting the installer(with the -v flag) --------------- My mainboard is: ASUS P5ND2-SLI (nForce4) DVD drive is connected as secondary master (I switched it from primary master as I thought it might make a difference). Also a HDD drive is connected as primary master, along with 3 SATA discs. Is there any known problems with Nforce4 for 10.4.8, and perhaps some kind of workaround? Perhaps there's some way of using a generic IDE driver - if anyone knows, please post. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiroo Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Working well so far: following this tip: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=31724 I booted into 10.4.6 jas dvd, used disk utility from there to redo the partitions (wanted to create a backup partition) and then erased each partition with HFS+ journaled. rebooted using 10.4.8 jas dvd, installed, rebooted without dvd and it went right into the new install. everything seems to work except for Apple system profiler, which seems to crash the Finder, which automatically reloads (the Finder). So I can't use ASP to find out about Quartz Extreme and Core Image, but adding a new widget to Dashboard produces the ripples so it appears to be working out of the box. But am stuck at 1024x768 res... so I download the Neophus 3.5 ATI driver installer and install that, which gets me 1680x1050 back, and QE/CI seem to be still with me. Currently loading Final Cut Pro Suite from original disks and will report on that. so far, so good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 everything seems to work except for Apple system profiler, which seems to crash the Finder, which automatically reloads (the Finder). So I can't use ASP to find out about Quartz Extreme and Core Image, but adding a new widget to Dashboard produces the ripples so it appears to be working out of the box. I believe that "About this Mac" crashes, but System Profiler should still work (although it has problems) Go to the Utilities folder and run System Profiler from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalMACNUT Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Just tried to install, but I get the "Still waiting for root device" error. Same here, I'm going to see if vmware will install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam0r Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 It installs, but I don't think I'll stick with it. I need to boot from the DVD every time (Leave the DVD in and let the installer timeout and it'll boot). Although that way i can't set the FSB. So I put the fsb sped in com.apple.Boot.plist and it seems to be faster. But sorry to say, nothing that worked in 10.4.7 works in this release. GMA900 doesn't work, Realtek 8139 doesn't work, Sound doesn't work. Finder falls over when clicking 'About this Mac'. No offence intended here JaS but I wouldn'tve released this until the new kernel was a bit more polished. Although you did much better than I could! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm_webd Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Same here, I'm going to see if vmware will install. Why didn't I think of this . I think I'll give it a try too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plympton Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 No offence intended here JaS but I wouldn'tve released this until the new kernel was a bit more polished. Think of it as a giant Beta-test. That's what I'd like to see in this thread - trends. Looks like Network cards are having trouble, and some errors with specific Kext's on bootup. Gives us pointers on what to look at. Keep the posts coming - please limit them to: Hardware used, Upgrade (from what?) or fresh What works, what doesn't What errors are you seeing when you boot up (kernel panic, dialogs, what crashes, etc). Thanks! -Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trexplorer Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Black screen on Dell 6400 laptop - Initial grey Mac screen, then Black screen (no curser, no GUI). System seems to keep on booting. Tried to boot with Jas DVD. Compiled semthex kernel and installed. Compiled mifki kernel and installed. Tried various BIOS and boot parameter changes (-s -v -x cpus=1, platform=acpi, etc...). Result - Black screen. Even verbose mode goes to Black Screen after initial kext loads (I believe ACPI is the last to load). Dell 6400 Laptop Core DUO 1.6 GHz GMA 950 graphics It appears this kernel or the kexts may not provide GMA 950 graphics support (or support for laptop LCD ...) ? This laptop also ships with ATI graphics - Anyone get it to work ... ? Cheers ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 hahahah, a giant beta test, thats a nice one lol, 4.7 gb betas all round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 ROFLMARFO f***in mental a 4.37 gig beta nice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapo Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Working well so far: following this tip: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=31724 I booted into 10.4.6 jas dvd, used disk utility from there to redo the partitions (wanted to create a backup partition) and then erased each partition with HFS+ journaled. rebooted using 10.4.8 jas dvd, installed, rebooted without dvd and it went right into the new install. everything seems to work except for Apple system profiler, which seems to crash the Finder, which automatically reloads (the Finder). Same here, but "about this Mac" works for me, om my P5B Deluxe Core 2 Duo E6600. Now, after install Macvidia 1.0.8 Osx wont boot :-( Sapo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekno Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 made new partition with 10.4.6 dvd. installed 10.4.8 jas dvd . selected customize install: semthex kernel,just the language i need and the printer driver i need. applied neopheus ATIX1x00_3.5.mpkg . modified the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext . intel lan ok. USB externel drive 250gb is now working too !!! not working: ical about this mac (system profiler is working) P.L.U.R Tekno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Can you guys use DVI with your X1600,10.4.8 kernel and NeoPhus Installer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Yah i can use DVi, but i edited the files manulally Oh and JaS, that was only a joke so dont take it seriously (liek you already are) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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