Dragoneye_XP Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 How can I get 10.6 to work without ACPI? Is there a driver needed or something because 10.1 worked perfectly. But 10.3 and newer give me the "Unable to find a driver for this platform: ACPI" panic. In VMware, they will all work, install, and boot, but I noticed that if you turn off VMware's ACPI support (by adding acpi.present="FALSE"), you will also get the panic. How it to work on my PC? Basic Comp. Info: Model: Compaq Presario S6104NX BIOS: Pheonix AWARD BIOS v3.26 Processor: Intel Pentium 4@2.8GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMama Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Hello, I have the same problem. I try to disable tha ACPI in the bios but it still does't work. Did you find a solution ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 whoa you have 10.6, give me give me give me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 whoa you have 10.6, give me give me give me lol... he's back from the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Isn't the deal that the ACPI driver really isn't on the install DVD? I looked and the install DVD doesn't even have an extensions folder, just extensions.mkext. I suppose what one could do is shadow mount the dmg/iso and copy it on there along with any other useful extensions. I know how to do shadow mounts, but I think something might need to be done to the extensions.mkext on there in order for the system to actually load the ACPI driver. I don't feel like risking a bunch of blank DVDs testing this theory until I've seen if someone replies who might actually know how to set it all up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Okay well I put shadowed the extensions folder with an ACPI driver on there, and burned it, and it didn't work. It just took longer to panic when it could find the driver. I don't get why no one has an answer for how to fix this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Have you tried disabling it in your BIOS? (hopefully you can access that feature.) Other than that, right now I am out of ideas. Best of luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Yeah I can't find it in my bios. I wonder if maybe there is a jumper on the motherboard for it. That would be oldschool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Try booting with platform=X86PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I did. Other people have tried that too and it didn't work for them either. I think it really just needs the driver, and I think that the way OS X works, something needs to be done to Extensions.mkext to make it load, but I don't remember what that would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Well nm that. I realized you can boot without the kext cache files, so I burned one without them that had AppleACPIPlatform.kext, and it still wouldn't boot. I believe I've tried both versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.3 of the ACPI driver with no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 My dreams of running Mac OS X on my PC are being crushed due to this ACPI thing. I was running 10.4.3 on it fine for a while, but I messed it up somehow and I wanted to upgrade to 10.4.6. I guess this is the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swag01 Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 I got things to boot with my system by turning ACPI on in my system. You might try to turn it on. I'm still having problems with reboot. Even with the reboot switch, but I can login to the machine without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Well I have no way to turn it on or off, it's just always on. I have a Soyo Dragon Lite P4X400 motherboard in case anyone can tell me anything about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 I'm bumping this to find out if anyone has any new ideas about why the kernel panics right away on the 10.4.6 DVD. I think it's JaS or whatever. It says it can't find a driver for ACPI, and panics. I can't turn ACPI on or off on my system. What should I do? I used to be able to run 10.4.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanpakboy Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 I had that problem, and a beta bios upgrade is what helped me. you should check out softpedia or somehting and see if your board has a bios update, even a beta one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Nope. I updated my bios with the latest beta version, which wasn't very stable. I had to reset the bios with the jumper every time I reset otherwise I wouldn't get video. So then I went back one to the latest non beta version, and I still get the same ACPI kernel panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Try setting ACPI to S3 in your bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Nope! Can I use other bios updates from other brand's boards as long as they use the via p4x400 chipset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Still no fix? Alright, well I guess I'll just pack this thing up in the closet again then rather than having it take up space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 I'm curious. What exactly is the problem? What error message do you get, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 It says this: panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00399CA3): Unable to find driver for this platform: "ACPI". And then I don't know if the debugger called panic stuff after that is really important, and it would be a pain to type out, so I'll just give you this unless you absolutely need that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritter Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Here is the rest of that message (I am getting it too, and I am using the 10.4.6 JaS)... Link to image Don't complain about image quality, its just there so you can read the error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Yeah thats exactly what I get Ritter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niknar1900 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I have an Asus A8N-VM CSM, and every time i tried to install with the DVD i would get that error no matter what options i tried to enable or disable. UNTIL, i checked the ACPI for my motherboard, and i found alot of people on Linux were having problems with it due to the fact ACPI was not correctly implemented. I updated to the newest BIOS, and the error went away (Asus fixed it). So i suggest you find the latest BIOS update, and if it still doesn't work email the manufacturer until they do something, which is what a few did for my mobo. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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