ashiya Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I successfully installed Kalyway 10.5.1 on my laptop and then updated it with JaS 10.5.3 Combo Update (Kalyway's 10.5.3 broke my installation so I had to reinstall) to get it working again. But now none of my USB devices (whether it's cell phone, MP3 player, USB flash drive, external HDD) are mounting. I looked through the forums and found that this issue is caused by the Darwin kernel and the System.kext versions not matching. I booted into my system using cpus=1 -v, and then doing "uname -a" in Terminal shows that my Darwin Kernel is 9.1.0 while my System.kext is 9.3.0. I've already tried downgrading the System.kext to the original from the Kalyway disc, but that just quasi-broke my installation, so I restored it back to the 9.3.0 System.kext. Booting into the system with "mach_kernel.new" and "mach_kernel.orig" still produce "Darwin Kernel 9.1.0" when I do the "uname -a" command. I also found through Googling that the Time Machine update would update the kernel, but it wouldn't install. I would really like to connect to my external HDD since it has some stuff I'd like to transfer over. How would I resolve this problem, and what do I need to do it? Thanks for your assistance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 After the JaS 10.5.3 update, update the kernel version to 9.3.0. USB will start working. Same problem was with me, I updated the kernel the problem got solved. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/#findComment-797229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashiya Posted June 26, 2008 Author Share Posted June 26, 2008 I'm totally new to this entire scene, so apologies for my cluelessness. How would I update the kernel? So far, I have mach_kernel, mach_kernel.new and mach_kernel.orig from JaS' update sitting on the root drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/#findComment-797677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 I'm totally new to this entire scene, so apologies for my cluelessness. How would I update the kernel? So far, I have mach_kernel, mach_kernel.new and mach_kernel.orig from JaS' update sitting on the root drive. what CPU do you have? If you are intel core duo then you can use original vanilla kernel (you can extract mach_kernel file form original apple 10.5.3 dmg file using pacifist). otherwise go on irc.osx86.hu and get a patched kernel 10.5.3 version. To update it, just replace mach_kernel file and reboot. make sure you give same permissions to the new file (chown and chmod commands) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/#findComment-797703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euthenics Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 One could also use 'pcwiz' Kernel Installer or OSx86 Tools Utility to update the kernel from what I read. Besides the irc channel, is there any other website to obtain a patched kernel or even the latest one? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/#findComment-797782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 One also use 'pcwiz' Kernel Installer or OSx86 Tools Utility to update the kernel from what I read.Besides the irc channel, is there any other website to obtain a patched kernel or even the latest one? I don't think so, I didn't manage to find any kernel for 10.4.11 and I'm still digging Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/#findComment-797822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashiya Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 I'm on a Core2 Duo T5450 1.66Ghz laptop. I think I've managed to update the kernel with one of the ones provided by the JaS update, but I'm still seeing "USBEHCI" errors and being unable to take control from the BIOS. Curiously enough, this usually happens after I've plugged in a USB device in Windows Vista, and then rebooting into Mac OS X. And somehow my kernel update disrupted something to do with my Bluetooth. Though I suspect that this might be linked to either the USB issues or me deleting the AppleSMBIOS.kext in order to circumvent the ACPI error messages I get. Maybe I will try the patched kernel. Is there a specific channel I'm supposed to get it from? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112649-darwin-kernel-update/#findComment-798206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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