OTAKiNG Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Alright, currently I installed the 10.4.4/5 disk everyone has simply by letting it boot up before my hdd's. No problems with that. (except...I couldn't have the printer drivers didn't install...but that's no big deal) Then when I went to boot the os up for the first time (I'm dual booting using chain0 and have no problems with this part), it says something to the effect of "Before you begin" and "Please plug in your keyboard." My keyboard was plugged in (it's a ps2); however, I use a usb mouse. From what I hear this is a hard combo for 10.4.4/5. Well from there, I searched the forums and Macgirl said that if you install it in vmware and then run native, the combo should work later. So I thought of doing 2 things, 1. Just trying to run the os I have installed and see if I can get past the plug in keyboard screen to have it work or 2. Reinstall in vmware and then run it in native as described here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11314&st=0 Well, both ideas have failed. With my first idea, "Just trying to run the os", I get the 10 sec darwin countdown and then this text appears: http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/8070/osboot3jc.jpg Before it begins saying "still waiting for root device" vmware says "Your virtual machine has sent an ATAPI (CD-ROM) command that is supported only when programming the drive via DMA...." With my second idea, the reinstall, all seems well until I have to select my drive/partition. The usb drive is not being recognized. http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/6024/di...lnodrive8vo.jpg To quote Soldat: The problem is, on step 4 that you listed above, I don't see my harddisk, much less any partitions except for the virtual ide cdrom drive. It is as if vmware/osx cannot initialize the usb controller or the USB drive to which I wish to install OSX. As a note, for the second idea, the keyboard is working in vmware with the installer...that's why I have hope for that method. Also, earlier before I tried using vmware I used macdrive to copy and replace my appleps2controller.kext with the 10.4.3 version. (I did this because I read ps2 and usb worked with 10.4.3...and I also did it after I found that ps2 wasn't working for me) Could this be problematic with say...my first idea? thank you in advance for any help you give me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I didn't say that, what I said is since VMware emulates your keyb and mouse as PS2 even if they are USB, so it let you install 10.4.4/5 What I always say is in order to get a PS2 keyb and a USB mouse you need to attache another mouse in a PS2 port, even the cheapest/ugliest PS2 mouse do the work. I have PS2 KB, PS2 mouse and USB mouse in my box because in order to gain all the buttons of the mouse it needs get conected in USB, but it can't work if I do not connect a PS2 mouse also. I don't know if a simple circuity can make the PS2 mouse port activa, like a dongle. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-73736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 ah ok well I have my old ps2...and it is infact plugged in the entire time so...if someone were to help me get the install to work, should I keep all 3 plugged in the whole time or what? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-73761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Yes, all the time. Another way is to have only USB KB and Mouse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-73763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 well if I had a usb keyboard I wouldn't be having any problems ;p so...can anyone help with my vmware issues? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 In order to have access to USB Device you need to tell VMware which device you want to the virtual machine will use. Also you can map the usb drive to VMware as physical drive/partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 Well I'm not exactly sure what you mean. As of now, the hard disk I have set up in vmware devices is the usb drive. When selecting it earlier I followed the instrustions to "Use a physical disk" and then made it independant-persistant. Also, I just tried adding USB Controler to the device list and that did nothing for me. Is that what you mean? As I said I'm slightly confused. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 There is two ways of doing it. I should choose to map the drive directly in VMware instead of VMware recognizing the USB drive inside the Virtual machine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 I thought that's what I have... here...I'll post a pic: http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1776/vmwaredevices2bm.jpg thx for the quick replies Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Do not use SCSI Disk as Mac OS does not have the drivers for the emulated SCSI adapter of VMware, use IDE. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 umm...so is there a way to do that with an external hard drive? or are all usb hd's scsi? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Sometimes VMware es something obstinate. If you create a new HD image it let you create as IDE or SCSI. What I did sometimes is create a new Image (a very little one), then I attach the add a Physical disk, exit VMware, and manualy edit the VMX file of the Virtual machine changing the setting of the IDE image with the SCSI, then also in the VMK of the Physical disk I edit the file and change the ddb.adapterType value to "ide" instead of "lsilogic". Here is a part of my VMX file with the Physical Disk as SCSI: ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "PhysicalDrive2.vmdk" ide0:0.mode = "independent-persistent" ide0:1.present = "TRUE" ide0:1.fileName = "D:" ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE" scsi0:1.present = "TRUE" scsi0:1.fileName = "usb-disk.vmdk" Here is as IDE: ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "PhysicalDrive2.vmdk" ide0:0.mode = "independent-persistent" ide0:1.present = "TRUE" ide0:1.fileName = "D:" ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" ide0:1.autodetect = "TRUE" ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.fileName = "usb-disk.vmdk" ide1:0.mode = "independent-persistent" And here is an example of my USB disk VMK file (of my iPod nano): # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=b1d8943c parentCID=ffffffff createType="fullDevice" # Extent description RW 3984120 FLAT "\\.\usb-disk" 0 # The Disk Data Base #DDB ddb.toolsVersion = "6404" ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63" ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255" ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "248" ddb.geometry.sectors = "63" ddb.geometry.heads = "255" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "248" ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4" ddb.adapterType = "ide" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 13, 2006 Author Share Posted March 13, 2006 Thanks for the advice...I've made it to the screen where I can start configuring my mac....but......now my mice aren't working....but on a good note the keyboard is! Any ideas? screenshot: http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/298/welcome6fr.jpg edit-I reformated and I'm reinstalling in vmware right now...I'll post in a bit to tell the result Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 Alright, I installed and configured it in vmware. It seemed to work ok in vmware but; with native, it's not working with the ps2 keyboard or mouse. All 3 devices, the usb and the 2 ps2, are plugged in. What should I try now? btw I believe I posted in the wrong forum section lol...but at least others can learn from this....Once this is resolved, I'll be sure to try and put all this info in plain text. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-74988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Try disabling USB KB and Mouse support in BIOS. I move this thread, though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-75447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 well...in my bios I only have the ability to enable or disable ALL usb devices...so...I can't boot if I disable it is there any bootloader that can detect usb drives when the bios don't? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-75554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Here is a thread of a hacked ps2 kext, see if it helps: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1573 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-75643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 I tried it and it didn't work however... I used "sudo -s" instead of "su" because I didn't know what to do about the pass for su...is that a problem? I was able to get root with sudo -s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-76254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Is not a problem, the pasword is your own password. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-76271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTAKiNG Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 well I tried it with su but it didn't work so that's why I tried sudo -s well anyway...as I said that's not working ugh now what can I try? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-76277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Aonther way is to connect your KB with a USB adapter and use only USB devices. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-76293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
estebanrao Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 macgirl is the solution of using the adapter the same as using usb keybord?? because i don't want to buy one...(keyboard) tks veo que sos de mejico asi que te la pongo en español y se me hace más fácil jajaja es lo mismo usar un adaptador que un teclado usb?? osea si a un ps2 le pongo el adaptador lo toma de la misma manera que si fuera un teclado usb cierto?? saludosss Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-217181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloy Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Hi macgirl, I had similiar problem like OTAKiNG. Only that I'm not installing on a USB drive but a SATA drive on my Dell Inspiron 531s with nForce 600 series chipset. I had to use VMWARE installation because Disk Utility will not format my FAT32 partition when I boot it up using DVD. I tried two different DVDs and both did not work for me. So VMWARE was my only hope. I tried to manually edit the setting but it complains: Device ide0:0 is configured as the virtual disk file "C:\Users\Su\Documents\Virtual Machines\MAC OSX\Other.vmdk". This virtual disk was created as a SCSI disk with SCSI geometries. It cannot be used as an IDE disk. UPDATE: I modified the image and got VMWARE to recognize my SATA drive (Finally!) and Disk Utility found it too. The problem is when I tried to erase it to HFS+, it says access is denied from VMWARE. Accroding to the guide, the installation was done on a single HDD (like mine) but with Windows XP installed instead of Vista. I don't know if Vista is the problem not allowing VMWARE to erase the partition, at this point I have no way to test it --- I just deleted my Win XP and Ubuntu on the same system... If anyone has a success with VMWARE under Vista and installing your MAC OSX on a partition of the same drive as you installed vista, please let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-429660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloy Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Continuing my effort on the issue... After digging more into VMWARE stuff, I found that many have this problem with VMWARE 6 on Vista with control over RAW IDE access. It is not supposed to succeed....oddly enough though, I did succeed ONCE on the same configuration and install Mac 10.4.9 to native drive but with no luck booting it... now i'm trying to get it to run on XP, see if VMWARE will complain this time, but first i'll have to install XP... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11742-installing-10445-on-usb-hdd-and-with-ps2-and-usb-key-and-mouse-combo/#findComment-430680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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