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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192901-ideneb-151-osx-1057-everything-is-been-ignored/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192901-ideneb-151-osx-1057-everything-is-been-ignored/#findComment-1303473 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192901-ideneb-151-osx-1057-everything-is-been-ignored/#findComment-1303752 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192901-ideneb-151-osx-1057-everything-is-been-ignored/#findComment-1303847 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192901-ideneb-151-osx-1057-everything-is-been-ignored/#findComment-1304628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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