subbz2k Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Hey Folks, i hope you can help me this time: I finally managed to get the iDeneb 1.5.1 installed. I can boot it with the original DVD in place, hitting F8 and adding "busratio=8 rd=disk0s2" to the boot-prompt. My System is as follows: Core2Quad Q9550 @ 3,2 GHz Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 8 GB Corsair XMS 2 XFX 8800 GTX Vista Ultimate x64 VMware Workstation 6.5.3 My problem is now: Regardless to what i do, the OSX seems to ignore everything that i install or change. For example: I used EFIStudio to install my graphics card. Its written perfectly into the boot.plist but it is ignored when i boot. The strings are in there but nothing happens. The next thing: I installed the "insanelymac" nvidia installer v3.0 thing with everything in it - IGNORED! I found nothing on the harddrive and of course i still dont see the graphic card. Then i change the resolution inside the boot.plist (adding the following string: <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024x32</string> ) it also get's ignored after reboot ^^ What the hell ?? If i add it at the boot prompt in the form: "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32" its been recognized correctly and i have that resolution then. But ONLY if i do this on the prompt :-( And this continues. I can install what i want - no Kext is loaded nothing nada null !!! What the hell is wrong here? Is this a problem with VMware again, or what do i do wrong? Please help me this time! Many thanks in advance subb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subbz2k Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 here's a screenshot attached from the system profiler so you can see what i see. absolutely nothing as you can see :-( is this really vmware that causes that stupid problems? i dunno what to do. please help me with this. and please: tell me the standard procedure for installing drivers inside that osx. is there a dedicated 10.5.7 driver for my 8800 gtx? do i need special software? i am not that good in all those things. i need quartz extreme for the program i want to test (it isnt possible to install/start it without that thing) and i read that one has QE enabled if the graphic card is installed correctly. so please: help me. and dont be shy to tell me, if its not possible to get all those things to work inside vmware. if that would be the case i need to buy myself another harddisk and install it natively. but i want to be sure. the worst thing would be, that i install it natively and run into all the same problems again. so i want to be absolutely sure before installing something that changes my running system. thanks in advance! subb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subbz2k Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 ok, since again nobody seems to be able to help me i guess that i have no choice?! will buy a harddisk tommorrow. hopefully this isnt useless, but if no one tells me i need to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantRamsay Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 ok, since again nobody seems to be able to help me i guess that i have no choice?!will buy a harddisk tommorrow. hopefully this isnt useless, but if no one tells me i need to try. Hi, I don't understand what your trying to do? Why don't u just burn iDeneb to a DVD and then install it...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subbz2k Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 this is exactly what i described above: i want to run it inside a VM since i dont want to install anything "in real" on my computer. but i run into all that problems then having osx - doesnt matter which distro - installed inside a VM. and no one seems to be familiar with those problems - as if everybody installs osx natively - always. and thats a little bit strange in my eyes but if no one can help me i need to do the same. i already bought that hdd now. will install it today and hopefully i dont have all that problems again after finishing the local install. in the meantime: can you give me a hint for all those driver installations? whats the procedure here? do i have to search for specific kext-files and need to install those with kexthelper, osx86tools and so on? or do i have some prerequisites to take care of before installing anything? as said before: inside the vm i could install as much drivers as i wanted - the osx just simply ignored everything as if nothing was installed in the end - although it was. that was so absolutely strange and leads me to the guess that it has to do with the vm-environment beeing too abstract from the real machine for osx. but im not sure, thats why i asked you all that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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