poldipeer Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Hi all! First of all I wanna thank you a ton for all the work and help coming from this terrific forum! I recently bought this awesome board called EX-58 UD5 with i7 920. Indeed it worked all of the box with iatkos v7. But still I had much trouble, because after editing boot.plist I lost CI/QE for some reason. I moved boot.plist to desktop, edited and moved back to Systemconfiguration folder and then just repaired permissions via disk util, because I have read quite often that repairing permissions via disk util would be enough. But its apparently not, am I right? The lost of CI/QE came very inconsitently, sometimes first after 4th reboot after editing, sometimes directly after reboot. The result of not executing chown -R root:wheel com.apple.boot.plist and chmod -R 644 com.apple.boot.plist was mouse cursor with black screen. When moving the mouse and hovering over dock then screen updated bit by bit, hdd icons were visible, but were framed with black margins. I really did not expect this, since I did not touch the kexts in Extensions folder. Just edited boot.plist. In first place I suspected some of tghe updates, then vanilla kernel, but it did not get any better with voodoo kernel. This platine rocks in detail, nicely overclocked, it got all installed with iatkos v7, running with both kernels, tutorial of badaxe2 was used, THANKS a LOT!! Fully recommended!! Something new has been learned :-) Thanks everybody!! You rock! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/183520-ex-58ud5ciqe-lost-after-edit-comapplebootplist/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_christer Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 you actually don't have to repair permissions on a plist! this is mostlt used to repair permissions of a kext. if you drag the boot plist file to the desktop, edit it, move it back and authenticate the replacing then it should work fine after the restart. I got two questions for you: What kind of graphics card are you using and do you use chameleon rc2? if you use chameleon it could be that the system uses the boot plist file in the /Extra folder... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/183520-ex-58ud5ciqe-lost-after-edit-comapplebootplist/#findComment-1247628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
poldipeer Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 you actually don't have to repair permissions on a plist!this is mostlt used to repair permissions of a kext. if you drag the boot plist file to the desktop, edit it, move it back and authenticate the replacing then it should work fine after the restart. I got two questions for you: What kind of graphics card are you using and do you use chameleon rc2? if you use chameleon it could be that the system uses the boot plist file in the /Extra folder... Hey chris thanks for the reply! 1) i am using asus 8600 gt 512mb 2) yes i use the chameleon v2 from iatkos 10.5.7 The strange thing is, after the ci/qe was lost it first came back when setting chown and chmod command. Exactly right after execution and reboot! And i started thinking about permission issue because it was the only one thing i did change in the system! Normally ci/qe woulndt get lost if you just reboot. And 2nd thing is that started me wondering was when it came to piont to save the edited boot.plist on desktop: it was denied due to not having enough priviledges. And really it was the only thing to edit plist before i got the black framed hdd symbols and jerky moving windows. I will try to reproduce this issue and set different user and rights and report back cheers p Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/183520-ex-58ud5ciqe-lost-after-edit-comapplebootplist/#findComment-1247728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_christer Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 i found this on the osx86 wiki for the Nvidia GeForce 8600M GS 512MB . maybe this can be of help: Display requires driver installation and modification of info.plist to work at full resolution and with VGA-out. Mirror function still doesn't work properly, but forces main display to VGA-out. * Install Universal NVidia Driver (http://zack.phatoproductions.com/downloads/mac/NVidia-Universal-Installer.mpkg.rar) * Right Click /System/Library/Extensions/NVInject.kext choose "Show Package Contents" * Copy Info.plist to ~/Desktop * Open Info.plist copy with Plist Editor * Replace NVCAP string with 04000000 00000100 02000000 00000007 00000000 * Save copy of info.plist and copy back to NVInject.kext contents * Change permissions of NVInject: "sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/NVinject.kext" "sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/NVinject.kext" * Run Disk Utility and repair permissions on disk. * Delete Extension Caches and Kernel Caches before rebooting "sudo rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions/Caches/" * Reboot with -f just in case. from http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.4 I wouldn't mess with the info.plist at first but you could try the mentioned drivers, a lot of users have success with nvinject (in your case the 512 version) + the mentioned drivers... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/183520-ex-58ud5ciqe-lost-after-edit-comapplebootplist/#findComment-1249159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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