Paul M Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Lastest update, installed Acronis OS selector and it sorted out all my problems, so i now have dual boot on my Inspiron 9300 laptop. Just changing the boot.ini does not always work if you have partitions you cannot just add one line, you also need to change a few lines above, i found this out the hard way. leaving the boot.ini file intact and just using Acronis OS selector does the stuff behind the scenes, it slows boot up time down to about 15 seconds but who cares, you still get dual boot. However i am now stuck with one setting for resolution. I have an ATI X300. I got hold of Callisto and read through the instructions. However i get stuck at the bit about root:wheel since i am a mostly a PC users, i only used my G4 for audio work so never rummaged about in the stuff behind the scenes, so i tried using the work through in terminal, however a few script entries in it says the folder Callisto folder is not present or something, this maybe due to me entering the wrong password, i just enter the one i registered with after installing OSX86. I need help with either the root:wheel bit and how to change or the terminal bit. Sorry for being a pc nerd, but my experience with OSX on goes as far as using the apps and not changing script etc. Also just modifying a line in the plist entry to a different resolution does not work, and i have tried a few of them. In the mean time i am gonna have a go with Macvidia. Any help is welcome i am so near to perfect OSX except for resolution.....HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 You must follow very carefully the instructions from Installation (from omni's site). The fact that it says that Callisto folder is not present has nothing to do with the password input. My guess is that you made an error when typed the instructions. The best way is to copy/paste the lines directly from web page into terminal. You can skip the "root:wheel" step (that is steps 11 and 12) but you have to repair the permissions using Disk Utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-119480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul M Posted May 26, 2006 Author Share Posted May 26, 2006 Argggggghhh!!! OK so i unzipped the files went into CallistoHAL.kext and opened ino.plist in texdt editor, found the line i need to change. Went into about "about this Mac, then more info and found the device id for my graphics card (ATI X300 Mobility). Then found the line i needed to change and replace the four digits with my own id number which is 5460). saved it and closed text editor. Then right clicked each kext file , went to get info , then at the bottom i set all the options to read and write (is that right or not). Then moved both Kext files to the extensions file and restarted my laptop. All booted up then i got a message saying they were not installed properly. If i try to do it in terminal i get about 3 commands in then blue sqwiggles appear down the left side of the terminal window and there is no more tetx for me to edit, if there was do i need to type in the whole set of about 128 values cause it says if using mobility then you should not. It appears that i am truely inapt or missing one hell of an error. If anyone has got a laptop working using OSX86 and an ATI X300 Mobility then maybe you could email me youmodified kext files or someone please just chuck me a bloody big lifeline or whats going on. info@paulmidcalf.com Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-119976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Argggggghhh!!! OK so i unzipped the files went into CallistoHAL.kext and opened ino.plist in texdt editor, found the line i need to change. Went into about "about this Mac, then more info and found the device id for my graphics card (ATI X300 Mobility). Then found the line i needed to change and replace the four digits with my own id number which is 5460). saved it and closed text editor.... So far it's ok. Then open /System/Library/Extensions folder. Drag-n-drop the two kexts to that folder. A pop-up window will appear asking to authenticate yourself. Do so (by entering your password). Now start Disk Utility (that is in /Application/Utilities), select your OS X partition and click on "Repair Disk Permisions". Go back to /System/Library and delete "Extensions.mkext" and "Extensions.kextcache".(authenticate) Then go to /Library/Preferences/ and delete the file "com.apple.windowserver.plist". From the folder /Users/YOUR_USER_NAME/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ delete the files "com.apple.preference.displays.************.plist" and "com.apple.windowserver.************.plist" (Note that **************** are actually numbers). Then you can reboot. Let's hope that you will be fine after that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-120084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul M Posted May 27, 2006 Author Share Posted May 27, 2006 Thanks for your help so far. I deleted the mkext and kextcache files, however i cannot delete the windowserver.plist or any of the com.apple.preference.displays or the other windowserver.plist cause they are not there to delete, which is either goo cause it saves me from having to delete them or bad cause they need to be there b4 deletion. SO anyway i reboot after that and get the message saying thatthe 2 kext files were not installed properlly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-120425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 ...however i cannot delete the windowserver.plist or any of the com.apple.preference.displays or the other windowserver.plist cause they are not there to delete, which is either goo cause it saves me from having to delete them or bad cause they need to be there b4 deletion. I have no idea. I saw them in my computer, but I don't know if they were there before installing Callisto. I suppose they were though... SO anyway i reboot after that and get the message saying thatthe 2 kext files were not installed properlly. Try repairing permissions again with Disk Utility and reboot again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-120430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
opticledilusi0n Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 i get same error with the kexts not installed correctly. I had old b005 installed previously which worked fine. noticed that with new archive zips there is no callistofb dunno if that has anything to do with it i may reinstall my osx86 again, and try again :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-132608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
opticledilusi0n Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 fixed problem... deleted all callisto, redownloaded.. everything ok with b003 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18304-callistoand-problems-with-plist/#findComment-134035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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