Fix crashes, install natiT and speed up boot

[Kallis]

Hello. My OSX86 is running mostly great and yesterday I got my Icemat Siberia USB soundcard, so now I finally have sound. The audio was the thing that made OS X my main OS(and default in Acronis).

 

Unfortunately I do have some problems:

 

1. Random crashes: This is the biggest problem. The system hangs randomly and nothing else that a restart works. Sometimes the pointer hangs, sometimes it don't. Does anyone know what it may be and what I can do about it?

 

2. Slow boot: OS X use quite a long time to boot up. The things that take the longest time, is the darwin bootmenu(unneccesary for me) and diskarb-errors. I also have lots of "XXXX Family specific matching fails error. How can I disable the darwin bootmenu(or set the timer to 0 sec)? Is there a way to fix the diskarb and family matching errors?

 

3. Old titan: I only use an old version of Titan from 4. November and I have heard that natiT is better. Why? Is it more stable. How do I remove Titan and install natiT? Is it worth it?

 

System:

AMD 64 3500+ "Venice SSE3

2048MB RAM

250GB Satadisc(not used in OS X)

120GB IDEDick (OS X)

Nvidia 6600GT

Shuttle SN25P (Nforce 4)

 

Tubgirl 10.4.8 SSE3 Final with updated kernel(beta 8 or beta9)

Edited February 22, 2007 by Kallis

[mspr]

Unfortunately I do have some problems:

 

1. Random crashes: This is the biggest problem. The system hangs randomly and nothing else that a restart works. Sometimes the pointer hangs, sometimes it don't. Does anyone know what it may be and what I can do about it?

 

2. Slow boot: OS X use quite a long time to boot up. The things that take the longest time, is the darwin bootmenu(unneccesary for me) and diskarb-errors. I also have lots of "XXXX Family specific matching fails error. How can I disable the darwin bootmenu(or set the timer to 0 sec)? Is there a way to fix the diskarb and family matching errors?

 

Hi, I have the same problems...

Sometimes OSX hangs on boot (I cannot see the login window). I reboot one or two times and the system starts and works fine...

As you (when I boot with -v option) I have also a lot of Family specific matching errors. All is working fine but I would like to bypass this long list.

 

To set the bootmenu timer to 0 sec you have to edit the file com.Apple.boot.plist in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration

 

...

<key>Boot Graphics</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>10</string>

 

I changed the timeout from 10 to 3

I suggest you to keep the bootmenu for at least 1 sec

[Kallis]

Thanks, but how do you save it? It's just can't be saved.

[Kallis]

Does anyone know how I can save it?

[Spart]

My personal preference is to boot into single-user mode.

 

At the very prompt you're looking to get rid of when booting, type:

 

-v -s

 

Then hit enter. You will be presented with a Darwin command line and root access.

 

Then type

 

/sbin/fsck -y

/sbin/mount -uw /

 

Now you're ready to edit the file system!

 

Type

 

nano Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

After you have the file open in nano, use the arrow keys to move about the text and find the Timeout entry above. Change to 0 or 1, whatever your preference.

 

Press ctrl+o, then press enter. Then press ctrl+x to exit.

 

Now type

 

reboot

 

...and presto! No more Darwin bootloader.

 

I would leave it at a minimum of 1, so that you still have easy access to booting in safe mode, single user mode, verbose mode, etc.

[U.C.]

1) Select the plist you wanna save

2) Drag file to desktop

3) Open with TextEdit and save

4) Drag back to folder where it originally was

5) Authenticate