johnny1234boy Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Sorry, newbie question. I was trying to update the DSDT file to get the dual video cards working. I screwed up and it won't boot. What is the best way to get the backed up DSDT.aml file restored to the EXTRA folder? I ended up re-installing off the DVD, but it took 45 minutes to do so. I need to do a bit faster since it will take ma a couple more tries to get it right. I have Gigabyte EP45T-USB3P boards and I used Kakewalk to do the original install. I was on 10.6.4 when I made the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny1234boy Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 BTW, when I modified the DSDT file and reboot, it gets stuck at "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Initialization Complete" with the "Still waiting for root device". Any idea what is wrong here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottapotamas Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 get a flash drive or two, make one stable bootloader, and one for testing. They don't need to be big, usually all they need is under 100mb.. The other option is force the bootloader to use a different dsdt. Usually knowing more than the mobo helps... Chameleon 2, pcefi, BootThink??? What you do is have the normal one, DSDT.aml and another in say the root, TESTDSDT.aml simple searching should tell you how to force the different dsdt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny1234boy Posted June 25, 2010 Author Share Posted June 25, 2010 get a flash drive or two, make one stable bootloader, and one for testing. They don't need to be big, usually all they need is under 100mb.. The other option is force the bootloader to use a different dsdt. Usually knowing more than the mobo helps... Chameleon 2, pcefi, BootThink??? What you do is have the normal one, DSDT.aml and another in say the root, TESTDSDT.aml simple searching should tell you how to force the different dsdt Thanks. I believe Kakewalk I used to install comes with the Chameleon 2.0 RC4. What boot options do I use to specify a new DSDT file? I've searched for 30 minutes but no concrete info. It looks like there was an older patch for Chameleon RC0 that allowed DSDT=[file name] option? Is that still valid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 It looks like there was an older patch for Chameleon RC0 that allowed DSDT=[file name] option? Is that still valid? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1495542 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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