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Hey guys

 

So I'm running an AMD laptop and booting Kalyway off a USB pendrive

 

if I just press enter at boot not a great deal happens but if I F8 and use these cmds this happens

 

So I use

 

-x -s -v -f cpus=1

 

i then end up with this

 

 

 

root device is mounted read-only

 

if you want to make modifactions to files:

 

/sbin/fsck -fy

 

/sbin/mount -uw /

 

if you wish to boot the system:

 

exit

 

:/root#

 

 

 

so what do I do here ????

Hey guys

 

So I'm running an AMD laptop and booting Kalyway off a USB pendrive

 

if I just press enter at boot not a great deal happens but if I F8 and use these cmds this happens

 

So I use

 

-x -s -v -f cpus=1

 

i then end up with this

 

 

 

root device is mounted read-only

 

if you want to make modifactions to files:

 

/sbin/fsck -fy

 

/sbin/mount -uw /

 

if you wish to boot the system:

 

exit

 

:/root#

 

 

 

so what do I do here ????

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-x -s -v -f cpus=1
You should know what and why you are typing.

 

-x = Safe mode. Basically boots your system with the bare minimum kexts. Do you need it?

-s = Single user mode. Command line only mode. Allows you to run commands as root to fix system.Again, do you need it?

-v = verbose mode. Basically tells you wants happening during boot up

-f = Tells the machine to reload all kext and dump the boot configuration cache, (kext cache found in: /System/Library/Extensions.mkext, you can delete it manually and the system will recreate it).

cpus=1 = Tells the kernel how many cores to use.

 

So get yourself familiar with flags, then use the one you need (if any). For more info http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=99891

 

I'd suggest use these:

busratio=20 cpus=1(if you have non-single-core CPU) maxmem=2048(if you have more then 2Gb RAM installed and there is boot crash on memory mapping)

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