scotishhaggis Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 Hey guys i am new here so still learning. i have a mac mini that i bought about 4 months back and love it . just lacks the power i need. i have a desktop pc which is amd 3700 64 2 gig ddr 400 7900 gt 300 gig hd i ahve the JaS 10.8 install amd one it boots ok but took over 2 hrs to come up with the blue screen then the rambow of death lol just span for about an hour then i gave up . is it alwasy that bad to install. all my hardwear is comptable from the HD list any ideas ??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54252-amd-64-3700-slow-install-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian DSM Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 On my X2 4200+ I had the same issues, and used the boot flag: idlehalt=0 That sped things up dramatically. Add that boot flag to your com.apple.Boot.plist and see if it make a difference, either that or try starting up with the boot flag -v to see if it's hanging anywhere. Sometimes if it can't probe a USB device properly, it will hang as it tries to get a response back before dying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54252-amd-64-3700-slow-install-issues/#findComment-387796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotishhaggis Posted June 17, 2007 Author Share Posted June 17, 2007 am guessin that i do that at boot options Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54252-amd-64-3700-slow-install-issues/#findComment-387820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguino_loco Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 yes, idlehalt=0 fixes a problem OS X has with using multiple cores... i'll upload a boot.plist file for you in a moment... before you get the grey screen or when it prompts you for boot options, enter this: platform=X86PC idlehalt=0 -v this should enable verbose boot so that you can see what it is doing... NOTE: JaS is going to install slowly, uphuck is much faster @ install... but JaS will work fine... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54252-amd-64-3700-slow-install-issues/#findComment-387925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotishhaggis Posted June 18, 2007 Author Share Posted June 18, 2007 were is the p list and how do i use it or exucte it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/54252-amd-64-3700-slow-install-issues/#findComment-388577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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