USBF: Unable to take control from BIOS...

[oldtopman]

I have a Compaq Presario (HCL here, iDeneb 1.4).

Every time I startup osx86 (through GRUB2) I get four errors:

 USBF: ECHI controller unable to take control from BIOS
The three other lines will only come if you want them

My computer has two usb ports (on the outside?) and when i type in lsusb in ubuntu (with nothing plugged in)

 oldtopman@Presley:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
oldtopman@Presley:~$

I hope I posted this clearly, I think I may have forgotten where I was going with this.

[Beerkex'd]

Install the Chameleon 2.0 bootloader and add USBBusFix=y to /extra/com.apple.Boot.plist.

[oldtopman]

Can you tell me a good chameleon guide that tells me how to install it with GRUB2

(I was quite enjoying my grub2 autodetection of osx86 but hey...)

[muchlife]

here is someone with similar issue, wanting to use grub to jump to chameleon, then right into osx without any input, with a possible solution

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...rt=#entry898339

[oldtopman]

Thanks for the advice.

[oldtopman]

I installed chameleon manually, just finished and rebooted and the only things in the folder I had to make is smbios.plist and the themes folder.

[Beerkex'd]

Did you add USBBusFix=y to /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist?

 

And more importantly did it fix your USB issue?

[oldtopman]

Did you add USBBusFix=y to /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist?

 

And more importantly did it fix your USB issue?

 

I don't have com.apple.Boot.plist in my extra folder! How do I edit something I don't have. So where do I get it?

 

I had to make Extra myself and copied the themes and smbios.plist myself into the folder. There is nothing else there.

[Beerkex'd]

In the Finder menu bar, click "Go", "Go to folder" and paste this:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

 

Then copy the com.apple.Boot.plist there to /Extra.

 

Then extract and copy this squeaky clean unmodified vanilla flavor com.apple.Boot.plist to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ overwriting the one that was there.

com.apple.Boot.plist.zip

Congratulations, your Leopard installation is now ~8% more vanilla!

 

Now you can add Chameleon boot flags and other stuff to the boot.plist in /Extra.

Refer to the Chameleon documentation for a list of boot flags (pick the post that contains the docs for the version you have installed):

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,351.0.html

[oldtopman]

So my system isn't vanilla. That will help a lot down the road.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>cpus=1 -f</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string></string>
</dict>
</plist>

This is my com.apple.boot.plist I tried adding USBBusFix=y everywhere and it didn't work (If you type USBBusFix=y at bootup it works). Thanks in advance. I also restored the plist to its original state after every (failed) attempt. This is what it looked like when I copied it from the system

[Beerkex'd]

I have a Compaq Presario (HCL here, iDeneb 1.4).

So my system isn't vanilla.

iDeneb <> vanilla.

 

The syntax is like this:

<key>USBBusFix</key>

<string>yes</string>

[oldtopman]

Thanks. It works really well now.