loading kexts before boot

[kitkat12012]

is there a way to load a kext before boot?

 

i have kalaway 10.5.2 installed correctly but i cant use it. looks like my keyboard is incompatible and i dont have any spare keyboards

 

when i boot leopard, it gives me a message something like "before you begin, please install a keyboard"

 

last time my keyboard worked was when i typed in the darwin boot options

 

so i was wondering, at that time, would it be possible to load kexts to fix my keyboard?

 

 

thanks

[Poco]

Kexts are loaded by the operating system. So no. Try another keyboard. Or if you are dual booting place the kexts that you need using Mac Drive.

iPoco

[kitkat12012]

Kexts are loaded by the operating system. So no. Try another keyboard. Or if you are dual booting place the kexts that you need using Mac Drive.

iPoco

 

 

i've haven't read about using mac drive, will do some more research and i'll try using it, thanks

[kitkat12012]

i have the kext to fix my keyboard added, and it is now recognizing my keyboard (only when there is no Extensions.mkext, if it is present at boot, keyboard doesnt work because kext is not installed correctly)

 

but i dont have a mouse yet

 

and it's giving me a "failed to install kext" which i'm guessing is because i didnt change the permissions and the owner of the newly installed kext (chmod and chown)

 

 

so i have three things that i could think of to fix this, but i dont know how to do them.

 

first one, can i use macdrive to change the permission of those folders?

 

or another option would be, is there a way to open up the terminal using only the keyboard? (side question, what's the root password for kalyway 10.5.2?)

 

third one is, is there a way to boot mac in a terminal instead of going into the gui desktop?

 

thanks

[MacUser2525]

first one, can i use macdrive to change the permission of those folders?

 

Haven't a clue never used it before.

or another option would be, is there a way to open up the terminal using only the keyboard? (side question, what's the root password for kalyway 10.5.2?)

 

None until you set it creating the user after install even then it is not a root user password you are setting it is a normal user that has administrative privileges that is setup.

third one is, is there a way to boot mac in a terminal instead of going into the gui desktop?

 

thanks

 

Hit the F8 key when it starts to boot to get the boot menu then use the hit any key option type in -s then hit the enter key to boot into single user mode follow the instructions for the fsck and mounting / in read/write mode then do your diskutil repairPermissions / and shutdown -r now to reboot.

[kitkat12012]

i placed the kexts in the extensions folder using mac drive, then used single user mode to chmod and chown

 

but i'm still getting that "kext is not installed correctly" error

 

any other suggestions i could try?

 

my next idea i'm gonna try is placing the kexts on a usb drive, then using single user mode to cp them to the right folders and chmod and chown them

 

but this wont work if my usb doesnt work

[MacUser2525]

i placed the kexts in the extensions folder using mac drive, then used single user mode to chmod and chown

 

but i'm still getting that "kext is not installed correctly" error

 

any other suggestions i could try?

 

my next idea i'm gonna try is placing the kexts on a usb drive, then using single user mode to cp them to the right folders and chmod and chown them

 

but this wont work if my usb doesnt work

 

Try when booted to single user mode.

 

 rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/Caches
rm -r /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
rm -r /System/Library/Caches

 

Now when you reboot hit the F8 key to bring up the boot loader use the hit any key option and type in -f and hit the enter key to have all .kext reloaded and cached again.