The "update" flag?

[charleylabri]

So, I installed kalyway and updated through the combo updater to 10.5.3.. lotsa reboots, everything works fine.

I installed the standalone 10.5.4 installer and I cannot get the machine to boot without putting the "update" parameter as a boot option at the darwin loader.

 

if I dont flag "update" it just reboots.. if i flag "update" everything works fine.

 

any ideas whats going on? also, what does the "update" flag do? also.. can i simply add the update flag to the darwin bootloader so it just uses that flag by default?

 

BTW, i used the vanilla kernel on the 10.5.3 combo updater and i have a sse2 pentium D.

[gizmoarena]

My suggestion is, boot with the update flag, install the modbin 9.4.0 kernel or any other previous kernel which works.

You can use OSX86Tools for kernel installation.

 

I knew that Pentium D cannot handle vanilla kernel. Keep searching for more info.

 

Pentium D is SSE3 by the way.

[charleylabri]

wonderful.. works great.

 

how come i didnt know about osx86tools before.. what a slick app.

 

it told me i was running ToH 9.2- just an interesting side note.

 

anyway.. modbins 9.4 and runs like a champ.

THanks Gizm0

[gizmoarena]

No problem

Btw, osx86Tools is a creation of ~pcwiz, thank him

[forwhat]

Thanks for the info as well gizmo. I'm facing similar problems but it hasn't resolved anything for me, unfortunately.

 

Briefly:

- installed Kalyway 10.5.2 (booted fine)

- used the Kalyway Combo update to 10.5.3, only boots with the "update" flag entered manually each time. without the flag the system restarts within seconds before the apple logo is even shown

- used system update to update to 10.5.4. exact same behaviour as 10.5.3

- used the OSX86Tools to swap to the Modbin 9.4 kernel. still can't boot without update flag. rather than rebooting, however, the system gets to the apple logo with the spinning indicator and simply sits there forever. using verbose output I'm not seeing anything that catches my attention (the line it's halting on is "BSD root: disk0s5, major 14, minor 2")

 

Any thoughts? Can anyone describe exactly what the update flag does?

 

Thanks