Automatic Boot Tags

[bryandugan]

Hello,

 

Recently I upgraded iDeneb 10.5.6 (v1.4) to 10.5.7 using the Combo Update Package.

I had heard that people were having some problems with it, so I backed up to a .sparseimage.

To boot with the new 10.5.7 version, you have to specify your kernel as a boot tag in the Darwin bootloader (kind of a hassle sometimes ). For instance, I'm using Voodoo so if I wanted to boot verbose I would have to boot with

voodoo -v

. If you do not specify the kernel, your computer will just crash and reboot after that "Loading HFS File" sequence. At first I couldn't boot with just

voodoo

, so I tried booting to

voodoo -v

to see what was going on.

Everything was fine (?). Then I booted into

voodoo -v -f

No Dice.

Finally

voodoo -v -f -x

WOW it worked! I logged in and shut down. Got the "Updating boot caches" which was good news. booted

voodoo -v

and it worked!

Anyway this problem happened a few times after and I'd have to boot into safe mode and then into normal voodoo. For some reason it stopped but now it is tiring to deal with typing "voodoo" at EVERY boot.

 

I know that there was a patch on iDeneb v1.4 for an automatic cpus=1 fix. Is there any way I can make the computer boot to

voodoo

Automatically?

 

My Specs Are:

3GHz Intel Pentium 4

Nvidia 8600GT 512MB DDR3

running the NVInject 512MB Driver

PS/2 Keyboard, Wireless USB Mouse

2GB DDR2 Memory

Running off a 1TB MyBook USB HD

Intel DQ965GF MB

 

Thanks in advance,

Bryan

[Pericles Silva]

Hello. My brother, take a look in the OSX86Tools, and click in the field ADD a EFI String/Boot Flag. I think there is a place you can put the "Boot Flags".

Hope can help!

[Poco]

You can also add the flags in: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist under the key Kernel FLags.

 

iPoco