phobox Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Hi all I spent all of monday trying to install pc efi and update my Leo to 10.5.1, I have finally managed to do it but during the process I think some things went wrong.. allow me to explain. Basically I have Tiger installed on partition 1 and I installed Leo ToH RC2 to partition 2 and applied the necessary patches to it for my hardware etc... everything was working perfectly. I then installed pc efi 5.2 on the Leo partition and I also replaced AppleSMBIOS with the updated one that Netkas provides. Restarted and Leo wouldnt boot, it would get stuck on a blue screen and wouldnt proceed any further. I then installed AppleACPIPlatform vanilla and the kernel would then get stuck before it even got to the blue screen. So I replaced both AppleSMBIOS and AppleACPIPlatform with the originals that came on the ToH install disk... system booted up fine. I updated manually to 10.5.1 using Pacifist and downloaded the ToH 9.1.0 kernel... system boots fine and works perfectly. BUT my question is, did the efi install work at all? I cant tell, especially seeing as the AppleSMBIOS (netkas) and AppleACPIPlatform (vanilla) dont seem to work at all. Also as a side effect, since installing efi I cant boot my old Tiger partition, the kernel just gets stuck (doesnt panic, just gets stuck during boot)... while thats not a huge issue, I'd be interested as to why its happened. Can anyone shed any light on why netkas's AppleSMBIOS and the vanilla AppleACPIPlatform kexts dont work on this system? My specs are in my sig btw. Thanks for all your input, Phobox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanis Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 As I know, you need a "Core Technology" processor that supports HPET to run vanilla kernels. Like Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core (not pentium d, the new ones), Celeron 420, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phobox Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 Yeah I know I cant use a vanilla kernel on my hardware.. and I never tried. Im using the ToH kernel (9.1.0) which reportedly works fine with EFI, so that isnt the issue. Its just AppleSMBIOS (netkas's version supplied with pc efi) and the vanilla AppleACPIPlatform that seem to cause me boot problems. That leads me to believe that the efi installation somehow went wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I had a similar problem with updating to 10.5.1, i thought i had EFI installed correctly so i updated restarted and no boot, then i repatched my leopard with postpatch again and i rebooted and it was fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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