Kalyway installs on T41 2373-7FU, but will not boot.

[Derrich]

Hello,

 

I'm new to the Mac OS in general, but I'm very comfortable with BSD / Linux systems, so I shouldn't require too much hand holding. I bought an old IBM Thinkpad T41 on the cheap, and I thought I'd try throwing on OS X, but am running into some problems.

 

I initially got a copy of the uphuck 1.3 release (as described in this thread). I followed those instructions to the letter, but the system wouldn't properly boot after the install was completed. While doing some hunting around, I got the impression that installing 10.4.x wasn't really the way to go, so I then got a copy of the Kalyway release.

 

I installed Kalyway (it gave almost no options during the installation, unlike the uphuck release), and the installation itself went without issue. When I boot the system, I see the following prompt after the BIOS POST:

 

Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132

1023MB memory

VESA v2.0 31MB (ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500)

 

Press any key to enter startup options (#)

 

So, I hit ENTER (because I have no idea what kind of options to throw at the bootloader). I see the white background with the gray Apple logo, and the progress wheel-sorta-thing animation underneath it. The wheel animation keeps going and going, so it doesn't look like the OS is hard locked or anything.

 

I see on the OSx86 Wiki that a handful of T41 models are 'known good' ( HCL ), and there are two things that I see:

 

1) A few of the T41 entries in the HCL state that there's a known CardBus issue that causes the boot to hang for about 5 minutes, which can be fixed by applying a patch.

2) My specific T41 model, T41 2373-7FU, is not listed on the HCL.

 

As for #1, I've let it sit at this boot screen for literally hours. I would hope it'd be enough.

 

As for #2, since my specific model isn't listed - does this mean I'm out of luck?

 

I'd really like to get OSx86 running on this, so any input would be appreciated.

 

Edit:

 

Ok, so after poking around for a bit, I found that I can verbose boot instead of the apple logo.

 

Last few lines of output before it just hangs:

 

Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

MAC Framework successfully initialized
using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

 

And it hangs at the next line, which is just the white cursor block.