OS X 86 10.5.4 on Intel machine - will not boot from HD?

[Wolfbeast]

Hey folks,

 

I'm new to OsX86 so maybe I'm doing something obvious wrong, but I could use some help.

 

I've been succesful in installing JaS OS X 10.5.4 on the following machine:

Motherboard ASRock P4165G

Processor Intel P4 2.8 GHz

1 GB RAM

Dedicated 40 GB HD, single partition (created by installer) disk0s1

Using On-board video and sound, so I don't expect anything smooth or accelerated ;-) (Intel extreme graphics 2, probably not supported beyond VESA)

 

While installing I made sure to select the SSE2/SSE3 kernel.

 

Upon restart to finish the installation, booting from HD presents me with a loading screen that eventually gives me an eternal wait (and a "NO" sign over the apple). Booting from the DVD using the bootloader and specifying the root as rd=disk0s1 gives me a successful boot into OSX (I'm posting this from safari in that very OS). So... I must be doing something wrong.

 

Is there a way to have me be able to boot from HD without needing the DVD? It obviously runs on my machine, but not with the configuration as it is installed on HD... My first idea would be to recreate the setup as it's done on the DVD, but how would I go about that? It must be something fairly simple, I think, as with rd= specified, just about everything would be loaded from harddisk, am I right?

 

Any help appreciated.

[sama7896]

Hey folks,

 

I'm new to OsX86 so maybe I'm doing something obvious wrong, but I could use some help.

 

I've been succesful in installing JaS OS X 10.5.4 on the following machine:

Motherboard ASRock P4165G

Processor Intel P4 2.8 GHz

1 GB RAM

Dedicated 40 GB HD, single partition (created by installer) disk0s1

Using On-board video and sound, so I don't expect anything smooth or accelerated ;-) (Intel extreme graphics 2, probably not supported beyond VESA)

 

While installing I made sure to select the SSE2/SSE3 kernel.

 

Upon restart to finish the installation, booting from HD presents me with a loading screen that eventually gives me an eternal wait (and a "NO" sign over the apple). Booting from the DVD using the bootloader and specifying the root as rd=disk0s1 gives me a successful boot into OSX (I'm posting this from safari in that very OS). So... I must be doing something wrong.

 

Is there a way to have me be able to boot from HD without needing the DVD? It obviously runs on my machine, but not with the configuration as it is installed on HD... My first idea would be to recreate the setup as it's done on the DVD, but how would I go about that? It must be something fairly simple, I think, as with rd= specified, just about everything would be loaded from harddisk, am I right?

 

Any help appreciated.

You did not install the hard disk controller driver ... maybe ICHx in your case? you did not mention

booting dvd works because you use the dvd's driver cache (Extensions.mkext), bypassing the kext you (miss)installed

Good luck, welcome to OS X

[Wolfbeast]

You did not install the hard disk controller driver ... maybe ICHx in your case? you did not mention

booting dvd works because you use the dvd's driver cache (Extensions.mkext), bypassing the kext you (miss)installed

Good luck, welcome to OS X

 

I installed apple's PIIX/ICHx driver (AppleIntelPIIXATA) - as I saw that one mentioned in the boot messages when booting from DVD to install it. If that is incorrect, then I don't know which of the other 5 or 6 ICH driver packages I should select?

The northbridge is an Intel 865G

The southbridge is an Intel ICH5

 

Is there a way to install these drivers without having to reinstall OSX again?

 

Edit: OK so I figured out that I could just install the *.pkg files from the DVD - installed IntelICHandPIIXController.pkg from the "Patches" folder and rebooted with -f : partial success! It now loads the system and gives me my OSX desktop, but promptly freezes (hard) - no response to mouse or keyboard (numlock switch doesn't work either, good indication the whole IO locked up) -- So.. what would cause that? Did I choose the wrong package and how would I rectify it?

[sama7896]

I installed apple's PIIX/ICHx driver (AppleIntelPIIXATA) - as I saw that one mentioned in the boot messages when booting from DVD to install it. If that is incorrect, then I don't know which of the other 5 or 6 ICH driver packages I should select?

The northbridge is an Intel 865G

The southbridge is an Intel ICH5

 

Is there a way to install these drivers without having to reinstall OSX again?

 

Edit: OK so I figured out that I could just install the *.pkg files from the DVD - installed IntelICHandPIIXController.pkg from the "Patches" folder and rebooted with -f : partial success! It now loads the system and gives me my OSX desktop, but promptly freezes (hard) - no response to mouse or keyboard (numlock switch doesn't work either, good indication the whole IO locked up) -- So.. what would cause that? Did I choose the wrong package and how would I rectify it?

that's a indeterminate driver freezing your system... (might be video, or something else like wrong video+ keyboard+mouse drivers). Might wanna try booting verbose with -v to see where it hangs.

If you can successfully boot with dvd, unpack extensions.mkext from dvd, figure out what kexts you could need from there... Try first the AppleACPI*.kext (plus inside plugins) from dvd.

 

P.S/ next time try installing iDeneb 1.3 or one of the newer XxX or iPc distros (Jas distro is somewhat buggy to begin with...)

[Wolfbeast]

that's a indeterminate driver freezing your system... (might be video, or something else like wrong video+ keyboard+mouse drivers). Might wanna try booting verbose with -v to see where it hangs.

 

Well, that's the problem, -v doesn't give me any information as it actually loads the desktop and everything, just freezes at that point in time But...

 

If you can successfully boot with dvd, unpack extensions.mkext from dvd, figure out what kexts you could need from there... Try first the AppleACPI*.kext (plus inside plugins) from dvd.

... this is what I wanted to do since I know it is a working setup using the kexts from the DVD as it is set up. Question is: how do I unpack extensions.mkext (or at the very least get information on which kexts/combination thereof is used on the DVD)?

 

I might look into getting a different distro but so far haven't had much luck finding anything more recent (lots of 10.5.1 an 10.5.2 out there, I noticed) - besides, the JaS one does seem to run fine on this hardware, at least from DVD, and doesn't cause any of the common issues I've seen people complain about. almost an "out of the box" run, as long as I can figure out the proper extensions I (apparently) need.

[Wolfbeast]

Okay, skip my question how to unpack, I managed

 

After pulling a few kexts out (the AppleACPI* ones as suggested made a big difference, thanks!) on a new install (Had to drop in the RTL8139 as well, strange that it didn't get installed by default?) and plugging in a spare ATI Radeon 9800 I still had, Adding AGP GART as well, I get this far:

 

Disk: loads

Net: loads (without the RTL driver it hung on mDNSresolver/updating platform UUID)

AGP GART: looks fine, recognises AGP3.0 etc

 

And.. I get two error messages about a sandbox compiler, and some long wait with some more harddisk rattling, the technicolor spinning "wait" cursor popping up over the text on the -v messages screen top-left, and it hangs like that. I think I'm close to a running system, but missing one or 2 more steps.

 

Included screenshot of where it hangs... Any ideas?

[sama7896]

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