kinetix63 Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Hi Guys. So last night I took the plunge and installed OS X for the first time. Hardware specs as follows: AMD Athlon64 3500+ 1GB RAM ECS KN1-SLI-Lite Motherboard 160GB S-ATA II Hard Drive 512MB ATI Radeon X1300 (PCI-E) Microsoft Wireless KB/Mouse (using the PS/2 Ports, no USB involved) So I installed via VMWare, edited the AppleVIAATA.kext Info.plist to include the hardware ID of my SATA controllers, and then booted via GRUB. So this leads to a few questions that I have: 1) The only way I can get OS X to boot is if I use the -f flag. Otherwise, it sits there and gives the infamous "Waiting for root device" message. So first off, what does that flag actually do? I'd like to find out why I need it in order to boot.... 2) Once OS X has loaded (which it does quite happily), I have no keyboard and mouse at all. I'm using MS Wireless stuff, and the wireless hub is plugged in to the PS/2 keyboard and mouse sockets. But the keyboard doesn't respond once the GUI has loaded, neither does the mouse... Any help greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetix63 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 *bump* any ideas guys and girls?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohde Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 For the love of God I can't remember what the -f is for. But at boot type ? to see all the options with accompanying descriptions then you can discover what -f does. I know -v is for diagnostic messages, -x for safemode, and -s for single user, but -f escapes me. Concerning your input device failure maybe OS X isn't too happy witht he wireless stuff, try plugging in some wired devices in PS/2 port and see if it works then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetix63 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 Thanks! Unfortunately, when I do a ? it doesn't display the list properly, so I can't actually find out what -f does! Could anybody try it on theirs and let me know what it says? I got the k/b and mouse working though! Turned off USB KB/Mouse support in the BIOS and it worked perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th_amd Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I use Logitech EX110 Wireless got the same problem. Fix by use USB rather than ps2 port. and everything work fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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