Shufflemoomin Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Hi everyone, I'm new to this whole OSx86 thing, so please be kind if possible. I've got the Kalyway disc which I thought I'd fire up and see how far in the process i'd get without messing with patches and things. The disc boots, it loads up Darwin fine, then it changes the resolution to 1024x768 and just sits at a black screen. There's no further disc activity. I've tried it with the '-x' command and the 'cpus=1 -v -f'. I don't get any errors that I can see, it just hangs. Can anyone offer advice on what to try? My specs are: P4 3Ghz with HT 512Mb Ram Radeon 9250 SiS-648fx Motherboard with SiS661/fx Chipset Are these specs incompatable with OSx86 or is there anything else I could try to get past the blank screen? thanks for any and all advice offered Shufflemoomin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103899-kalyway-hanging-before-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anubis111 Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 does your p4 works with see3 instructions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103899-kalyway-hanging-before-install/#findComment-740105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufflemoomin Posted May 8, 2008 Author Share Posted May 8, 2008 I believe so. SiSoft Sandra reports that is does anyway. I've been messing about and still no further forward. Anyone any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103899-kalyway-hanging-before-install/#findComment-740209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balto Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Your Pentium 4 may have SSE3 instruction set (P4 since Prescott) , but you need to have a multicore CPU to have EFI emulation. You'll need EFI emulation for the Darvin Bootloader to work. I'm sorry but do you have a multicore processor? That might work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103899-kalyway-hanging-before-install/#findComment-740233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufflemoomin Posted May 8, 2008 Author Share Posted May 8, 2008 OK, I see. I see some other people have oOSx86 running on a P4. Is there something I need to do to avoid EFI emulation? I haven't come across any special instructions for installing on a single core CPU. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103899-kalyway-hanging-before-install/#findComment-740297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balto Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Which version of the Kalyway disc do you have? Some reported that it works, but that depends on your version. You might want to try out other kernels under installation options just before you start the install and if there's an EPI option, that'll be what you should avoid checking. Play around with the choices. You can give Leo4All 10.5.2 installation disc a try. It is said to work with P4. You'll have to play around with the options such as what to install and what not as above before starting the install. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103899-kalyway-hanging-before-install/#findComment-744969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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