greeze Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I've discovered that if I remove the files: /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache /System/Library/Extensions.mkext Tiger will load certain kexts at boot just fine (as well as recreate those two files). Unfortunately, when I reboot a second time, the kexts that loaded just fine before will no longer load. (Specifically, I'm having troubles getting AppleIntelPIIXATA to load at boot. No prob if the kextcache and mkext files are NOT there, but it won't load if they are. ) How can I force a certain kext to load at every startup? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetta VR6 6Spd Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I've discovered that if I remove the files:/System/Library/Extensions.kextcache /System/Library/Extensions.mkext Tiger will load certain kexts at boot just fine (as well as recreate those two files). Unfortunately, when I reboot a second time, the kexts that loaded just fine before will no longer load. (Specifically, I'm having troubles getting AppleIntelPIIXATA to load at boot. No prob if the kextcache and mkext files are NOT there, but it won't load if they are. ) How can I force a certain kext to load at every startup? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can edit the /etc/rc file to load a kext on boot. If you open it in a text editor (eg. nano) scroll down until you find the kextload that loads the AppleTPM. It is a good ways down the file. You can disable loading the TPM while you're in there by simply commenting that line out with a "#". Then you can follow the format from that command as an example to load your own kext's. Is this clear? If not I can post more. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/#findComment-3932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeze Posted August 20, 2005 Author Share Posted August 20, 2005 You can edit the /etc/rc file to load a kext on boot. If you open it in a text editor (eg. nano) scroll down until you find the kextload that loads the AppleTPM. It is a good ways down the file. You can disable loading the TPM while you're in there by simply commenting that line out with a "#". Then you can follow the format from that command as an example to load your own kext's. Is this clear? If not I can post more. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you, that was very clear. Unfortunately, the text "kextload" doesn't appear anywhere in my /etc/rc file. Could you give me an example of its usage, and where I should put it? Thanks very much. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/#findComment-3951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetta VR6 6Spd Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Let me pull mine up and I'll try to get a line Number for you. NOTE: Managed to Crash my Install while I wrote that suggestion. Give me and hour or so to get it back up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/#findComment-3954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
perfect0 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 where would one locate the /etc/rc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/#findComment-217936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 /etc is a directory on your OSX partition rc is a file in that directory responsible for initiating processes during boot. In Finder -> G0 menu -> Go to Folder... -> type: /etc then look for rc To edit the file directly, go to Terminal and type: sudo nano /etc/rc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/#findComment-217939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rraallvv Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 does it work in snow leopard? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/662-force-a-kext-to-load-at-startup/#findComment-1834482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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