TC1100 & Stopped at MAC Framework buffer ..

[CuriousMac]

Okay, sorry if someone thinks I should have searched before I posted, I did. All I really see is a bunch of answers that say "search before you post" and no real clues-

 

With iAtkos 7i, which is the only install DVD that will actually boot on this thing, and go all the way through the installer without a hitch, and reboot, to where on the verbose boot stops at:

 

MAC framework buffer successfully initialized ... using some amount of clusters and buffers.

 

This is a TC1100, SSE2, 1GHz Pentium M. I've seen a couple youtube videos of it actually working, one person replied back saying it was iAtkos 5i and other than yanking the video drivers they didn't do much else. 5i does not even boot for me. They have a different startup sequence too, the HP logo goes past like the old TransWarp IIgs startup.

 

My question is this, is there some type of log or logging enabler that will track the boot sequence?

 

I also tried taking the kernel from the DVD and moving that over, and I get the same thing. My logic was that the DVD boots, launches, etc.

 

Another thing I figured on was the set of extensions from the DVD as a start, but .. alas I don't see an extensions folder. The DVD must be doing something differently.

 

I've tried -x, -f, -s .. CPUS=1, or CPU=1 .. it's a single CPU, single core deal anyway. Platform=X86PC, or APCI ..

 

It's the 9.5.0 Voodoo kernel at the moment. This is a first for me, as if I have gotten the DVD to boot I've never had it get stuck at a place other than a kext that needed to be yanked or edited, perhaps this is the same, only I can't tell because it appears to load them all and proceed past that point.

 

There are a bunch of messages about duplicate kexts and them being skipped, maybe thats the root of it. Since I can't even get into single user mode though, it means I have to move the hard drive when I want to edit, or go use the DVD.

[CuriousMac]

..and FWIW, as I mentioned that the Installer DVD works, why should not the installed system-

 

It seems one of the symptoms of this is the video driver and several folks solutions were to yank every video driver (NVDA, ATI. GeForce, IntelGMA, etc)

 

I resorted to extracting the kexts from installer disc Extensions.mkext file and replacing the whole directory contents with them - as moving video drivers end mass or others out one at a time didn't do any good.

 

It boots, after getting rid of 9.7.0 kernel

[osx86fan1]

Hi, i got the same error message with Dell Studio 15 and OSX86 iDeneb!

How did you solve it? By just choosing another kernel?

Plz help

[CuriousMac]

As I said, in the quest to find the kext that it hated .. after going through ATA issues, unable to mount root volume, and this where it just sits ..

 

Using the terminal from boot DVD or moving the drive to another working system- (I used both ways over all)

 

I removed the entire set of kexts and put in them the ones from the DVD.

 

But you won't find kexts on the DVD, you'll find just an 'mkext file, which is the cache only. You've got unpack the mkext file, using the mkextunpack command.

 

You'll get a directory full of kexts, since that DVD boots, we can presume that the entire set in theory works. So just put that whole set into /System/Library/Extensions and boot with a -v -f so you can see it.

 

This is a 2004 vintage system with a Pentium M, the precursor to the Atom but in many ways pretty much the same thing. ICH4, AC97 audio..

 

Putting the iDeneb Combo 10.5.8 onto it seems to have caused some issues so I'll probably end up going backwards.

 

But I know it's a kext issue, and I did yank all the video drivers first as this thing has a GeForce Go 420 which Apple used once, in a PPC system - it has suck written all over it. I just want a browser/utility machine - so I don't care about QE/etc. As long as the screen isn't a mess of artifacts I'm good.