kamykazee Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 UPDATED: Im on an ASUS K50I Laptop, Intel Pentium T4500 CPU and Nvidia Geforce GT 320M video, nvidia nforce 730i southbridge. Currently Trying to install ideneb v1.3. Which Kernel should i choose? UPDATE: I managed to install Iatkos s3 v2 (so Snow leopard). I shall move my questions onto the SL forum now. Thanks to everyone for their help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 For one, Mac OS X can not be installed to a Fat32 partition. Second, "New Image" does not format a HDD, it creates a Disk Image from a HDD or it creates a blank image (.dmg image) What motherboard are you using? (Model number would be a great piece of information). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 I've managed to install it on my ASUS laptop, i got the' installation successful' message, i restarted, took out the dvd, and now it gives me 'boot0: done, bootmgr is missing, press ctrl+al+del to restart'. How could solve this an get mac os x to boot up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Your partition isn't set to active. Search the forums for that (there are ENDLESS posts about this.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 I did follow one guide and used the terminal to set it to active, that's what actually caused the boot0 error to go away, but then the bootmgr error appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Are you sure your booting your Mac HDD? Because Windows HDD usually give that error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 Well i used gpartcdlive and set the partition on which i had installed mac to be the 'booted' partition (by ticking the option). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Boot into the OS X install DVD and run terminal from the "Utilities" menu option. From there read the forums on how to use fdisk to set it to active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 I just told you two posts ago that i already did that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 My bad. Well, I don't know what to tell you. That usually works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 29, 2011 Author Share Posted May 29, 2011 I tried installing again, and this time after the successful install, i took out the leopard dvd, restarted and then i got the 'you must restart your pc...' message (in 3 different languages). What could this be? How can i fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 That's a kernel panic. Boot with -v to see what is actually happening. google/forum search "how to read a kernel panic" to learn more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 29, 2011 Author Share Posted May 29, 2011 I insert the dvd and then do -v? Won't that just take me back to the installation? I'm sorry, i'm a newbie in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 No, boot your Hard Drive (the one where OS X is installed), type -v at the boot prompt, and take a picture of the resulting Kernel Panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 30, 2011 Author Share Posted May 30, 2011 I am currently trying the ideneb v1.3 distro. It installs but enters a bootloop when i try to boot the installed OS X. I've tried using busratio=mybusratio but to no avail. I've tried using safe mode, single user mode, didnt work. I'd like to ask, how do you install kexts? I googled it and i got 'go to system/...' folders, but where are those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 Kernel Extensions are in /System/Library/Extensions. Some modifications can be made to work from /Extra/Extensions. This is advantageous because you won't lose them when you update OS X - usually patched kernel extensions in /System/Library/Extensions will be replaced with original ones when updating. Google/Forum search "Legacy Kext" or "Injector Kext" to learn more. You "install" kernel extensions by copying them to /S*/L*/E*... ...and typing this at the command prompt (run Terminal.app): sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/.kext sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/.kext When using /E*/E* you don't have to set permissions and ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 30, 2011 Author Share Posted May 30, 2011 Here's the screen i get upon attempting to boot the successfully installed ideneb v1.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 That's not a kernel panic. It's hanging right before it should display "mbinit: done". I have been able to "fix" this in the past by doing a CMOS reset (on two different ASUS boards). Make sure to enter your BIOS and set it back the way it was after doing this and before booting again. Don't ask me how to do a CMOS reset on a laptop though. In the BIOS, make sure ACPI 2.0 and ACPI APIC are enabled if you have such settings. Enable all "advanced CPU features" except CPUID Limit. From a quick google, iDeneb 1.3 was a 10.5.5 distro - why are you using the 9.2.0 kernel? You can use the vanilla kernel - that would be 9.5.0 for 10.5.5. Use google/forum search to find what other ASUS K50I owners have done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 So, does this mean i'm very close to getting it to boot properly? lol I think the 9.5 kernel is the default one (without picking any options). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamykazee Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 I managed to install iatkos s3 v2 and boot into mac os x. I'll move my questions to SL forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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