mickles Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 I've already gotten osx fully working on another computer, now I am trying to get it working on a toshiba satellite a75 laptop. The laptop is sse3, 2.8ghz. It has ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP onboard shared graphics. The native resolution for this is 1280x800. I can't get it to boot, the system hangs on the apple screen. I've tried booting -x, -f, "platform=ACPI", and "platform=X86PC" with no success. It freezes on -s, and doesn't allow me to get a terminal. since I suspect its the video card, I tried fooling with the appleintel kexts. Since I can't get into osx, and don't have an external monitor, I mounted the drive as a physical drive in vmware, and booted off the deadmoo image. I tried using just the 830 set first, when that didnt work, I tried using just the 915 set. I found my video card's device id(5835) from sisoftware sandra 2005. I the default devid in the 830 set with mine, and that didnt work. Tried using fixed 830, fixed 915, and both. None of those things work. Booting in verbose mode (-v) hangs too, here's the last lines starting where it seemed there were problems (removed timestamps): Configuring kernel extensions Jettisoning kernel linker kextd[27]: registering service "com.apple.KernelExtensionServer" Resetting IOCatalogue. VGA: family specific matching fails Matching service count = 0 Matching service count = 2 Matching service count = 2 Matching service count = 2 Matching service count = 2 VGA: family specific matching fails kextd[27]: 345 cached, 0 uncached personalities to calalog VGA: family specific matching fails kextd[37]: kld_load-from_memory() failed for module /System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleACPIDisplay.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleACPIDisplay kextd[37]: a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleACPIDisplay.kext VGA: family specific matching fails kextd-parent[26]: IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTPMACPI.kext: no such bundle file exists can't add kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTPMACPI.kext/ (file access/permissions) (run kextload on this kext with -t for diagnostic output) IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled register_mach_bootstrap_servers: bootstrap_register(): 1101 localhost mDNSResponder-107 (May 14 2005 20: 18:39([54] starting localhost DirectoryService[51] Launced version 2.0 (v349) localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local com_apple_driver_RTL8139: Ethernet address 00:02:4f:dc:5b:8a localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow: Login Nindow Application Started localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost lookupd[52] NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local localhost memberd[47] dsFindDirNodes returned -1400, count = -1073742264 localhost memberd[47] Couldn't find root user. Sleeping and trying again. It goes very slowly once it hits the localhost lookupd[52] part which it repeats 10 times. I should mention that I don't have ethernet plugged in at the moment, though this doesn't seem to help. It completely hangs when it can't find the root user at the bottom, and will continue to repeat the last 2 lines every so often, going to "sleep" in between. Does anyone have any idea what I should try next, or what is wrong? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1995-problems-with-toshiba-satellite-a75/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickles Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 I should also mention, that I used installation on a partition simple and accurate as a guide, and I did the same thing for both computers (the one I'm on now worked fine). I also tried installing darwin in vmware to the physical disk, and using the restore function booting from the image in vmware, to copy the rest of the files over. I've also done this on my other computer with complete success. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1995-problems-with-toshiba-satellite-a75/#findComment-12963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickles Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 also since my laptop is sse3, I tried both the deadmoo coregraphics file, and the original one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1995-problems-with-toshiba-satellite-a75/#findComment-12966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcovth Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 I assume we have similar problems ... See this - Marco. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1995-problems-with-toshiba-satellite-a75/#findComment-13606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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