Tonedeaf Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi all. I have a Dell Dimension 4600 P4 2.8ghz PC with ATi Radeon 7500 video card and 2gb ram. All else is basic stock hardware direct from Dell. Install Kalyway 10.5.2 is just fine without selecting any custom options from the Custom install screens during setup. I also can update using Kalyway 10.5.3 just fine without selecting the kernel options. My problem began when I read that you could update from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4 using the Apple direct update download. When I installed this, I get into an endless reboot loop. I can get into "safe mode" using the -x option, but from there I am lost as to what i need to look at to fix this. When I start Darwin it does not give me enought ime to see what it is doing to cause the reboot. It is within about 5 seconds that it restarts. Any ideas of what to look for? Your help is appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonedeaf Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 Still having my reboot loop problem. I am able to get a full boot by pressing enter during Darwin startup and then typing in update. Any ideas??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1126501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonedeaf Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 Since I am not getting any help from the "experts" I am still trying to get this working the way I want it. I read some more and ended up installing the Voodoo kernel from here: Voodoo Kernel Install went fine and was able to boot up with no issues afterwards. Through reading the documentation, I went ahead and upgraded directly from Apple to 10.5.6. I am now back to an issue that was a bit worse than before. I get hung up at the Apple screen now. Wondering if I should just start from scratch again????? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1127412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleteme111 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I had the same problem after 10.5.4. What I did was I reinstalled my kernel and everything was back to normal. You updated to 10.5.6, did you get out of the safe boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1129645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonedeaf Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 I had the same problem after 10.5.4. What I did was I reinstalled my kernel and everything was back to normal.You updated to 10.5.6, did you get out of the safe boot? I restarted everything from scratch. Loaded the Kalyway 10.5.2, updated Kalyway 10.5.3, updated to 10.5.4. Still had to key in "update" at Darwin for it to boot. Updated to 10.5.5 using the "Sleep 1...." method and was fine. Updated to 10.5.6 using the "Sleep 1..." and disabler.kext and another kext I forget the name of and all was fine. Got several kernel panics, PS2 keyboard and mouse no longer worked, ethernet was not consistant... Fixed many of the issues searching here and updating kext files with osx86 tools and a usb mouse that I attached. Installed Voodoo kernel. I can now boot up my Mac/PC just fine and only the occasional drop of the ethernet or a kernel panic, some of them related to mounting a dmg which I searched and installed an updated seatbelt.kext. Video and sleep settings is my next things to tackle. Sleep does not work, video will only display 1024x768. Lastly, "About this Mac" does not show up, only a blue screen followed by my desktop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1132834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleteme111 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 You can edit About this Mac by going to System\Library\CoreServices\loginwindow.app\Contents\Resources\English.lproj and editing the aboutthismac strings. You can also fix your video problem by going to Library\Preferences\SystemConfiguration and editing com.apple.Boot.plist and adding your resolution there. Replace the 1280x1024 with your own resolution. <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024x32</string> As with the kernel problems, I just typed sleepkernel at boot, and reinstalled mine with the all kernels package. Everything runs fine on my 10.5.4. I haven't bothered updating yet. Good luck. =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1133032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonedeaf Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 You can edit About this Mac by going to System\Library\CoreServices\loginwindow.app\Contents\Resources\English.lproj and editing the aboutthismac strings. You can also fix your video problem by going to Library\Preferences\SystemConfiguration and editing com.apple.Boot.plist and adding your resolution there. Replace the 1280x1024 with your own resolution. <key>Boot Graphics</key> <string>Yes</string> <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024x32</string> As with the kernel problems, I just typed sleepkernel at boot, and reinstalled mine with the all kernels package. Everything runs fine on my 10.5.4. I haven't bothered updating yet. Good luck. =) Tried doing what you mentioned with no luck on any of it. Maybe I am too much of a noob still. Will try again once I tinker around a bit more. Thanks for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160805-reboot-loop-after-update-to-1054-from-kalyway-1053/#findComment-1133670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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