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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11973-first-install-of-os-x-x86-and-need-some-help/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11973-first-install-of-os-x-x86-and-need-some-help/#findComment-75405 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11973-first-install-of-os-x-x86-and-need-some-help/#findComment-75412 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11973-first-install-of-os-x-x86-and-need-some-help/#findComment-75486 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11973-first-install-of-os-x-x86-and-need-some-help/#findComment-75745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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