gawdemmet Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I need some guidance. I've read enough posts, but there's so much conflicting info, that at this point I'd only welcome feedback from those owning a badaxe2. Ok, So I first tried the ToH rc2 dvd, no dice. The install would freeze at any random point. at the beginning, or with a minute to finish, etc. I tried the same release from different sources. Burned 3 copies at low speeds. Even after trying just about every flag I could throw at the loader, cpus=1, -legacy, etc, etc, ad nauseam, still wouldn't work. I tried bios settings, default, hpet disabled or enabled. nada. zip I then moved on to the brazilmac patch. Patched an original DVD img perfectly. Burned and installed without any problems. Though not without any problems as it wouldn't boot after the install. It would just reboot without any verbose information (just a black screen). holding f8 repeatedly after bios post didn't do anything either. It just wouldn't boot into my newly fresh install of leo. Since I have another mac drive installed w/10.4, I changed the boot order in my bios to the other mac drive (with 10.4.11 XxX) and booted off the 10.4 drive. I then proceeded to do the efi patch, I ran a patch installer called EFI_Kernel_v51 that installed a new kernel and possibly patched the efi. I changed the boot order back to the leopard drive as the primary boot disk, and it booted off leopard without 'any' problems. I also modified the boot plist so the loader could give me a timeout before it booted the OS. That way I could boot into the other drive. Back in Leopard I would only last about 5 minutes until it would crash. It also would complain about a few extensions, mainly dmos.kext and applehda.kext. I applied the taruga 1.16 patch to applehda.kext so at the next boot it didn't nag me about that one. I had sound afterwards. I erased the dmos.kext. I then opted to patch the efi again, but this time off the dvd install. I booted into the installer, and launched the terminal. I went into the folder in my drive with 10.4 which has the pci_v5 folder containing all the required files. and I proceeded to patch the leopard drive (after getting its dev ID with diskutil list) It patched it without any problems. I used both diskXsY and rdiskXsY IDs to stay on the safe side. That did nothing at all. I still have the same problems. The only difference now is that the apple profiler would identify the mac as Mac, whereas before it identified it as Mac Pro. That drove me into another time wasting cycle of trying out various extensions from older releases. specifically JaS 10.4.8/9, and 10.4.10 XxX. I replaced AppleSMBIOS.kext, IONetworkingFamily.kext, IOATAFamily.kext, and a few others I can't exactly recall right now as I did this yesterday. That did nothing of course, neither did permanently erasing AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext. Not all was lost however, it seems the efi patch worked just fine with the 10.4.11 install I have on the other drive. Except the efi emu disables my nvidia card (7600gt) and network card. No crashes however. Please reply if you have any tried and true method on your badaxe2 or if you have a clue as to what it is that I'm doing wrong. I'm under the strong suspicion that my particular setup isn't working due to the fact that I'm using a Pentium D processor and not a CD or C2D. At least I know leo's vanilla kernel doesn't like Pentium D, but it doesn't seem to be taking the patched kernels all that well either. This is my setup BadAxe2 Bios bx9752oj.86a.2802.2007.1024.1947 Pentium D 820 (x2 2.8ghz) 2 X 1GB Kingston kvr800d2n5/1g RAM 1 Internal SATA Drive 300gb (with XP on the first part, and leopard as a sec partition) 1 Internal SATA Drive 300gb (10.4.10 XxX upgraded to 10.4.11) 2 X external firewire fantom 1TB drives Pyro 64 dv PCI firewire card Intel 1000MT gigabit ethernet card Nvida 7600GT graphics card (EVGA) pioneer 109 DVD Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
themerk Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 Very interested to hear any replies to this. I'm getting my BadAxe2 and Core2Duo tomorrow. BadAxe2 has been so highly praised that I've got to think you've done something wrong... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/#findComment-520733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 I've not run anything but core 2 duo and core 2 quad chips in my 3 BA2 systems, but your processor should work. If you've made your Brazilmac DVD, copied your efi files to a usb thumbnail drive (or have them available on a HFS+ partition that is accessible from the DVD installer>disk utility, and if you follow OneTrack's simplified terminal post installation instructions, your system should work. Where are you having difficulty following the instructions? Perhaps we can help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/#findComment-520755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gawdemmet Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 themerk, it's good enough that I replaced both my G5 and Dell with a setup based on the board. (I got the CPU off a dell xps 400) I ran extensive benchmarks against my dual G5 and it blew it out of the water. it also outperformed the dell, though that isn't surprising. All I need now is either a c2d or quad core. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/#findComment-520773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gawdemmet Posted November 27, 2007 Author Share Posted November 27, 2007 I've not run anything but core 2 duo and core 2 quad chips in my 3 BA2 systems, but your processor should work. If you've made your Brazilmac DVD, copied your efi files to a usb thumbnail drive (or have them available on a HFS+ partition that is accessible from the DVD installer>disk utility, and if you follow OneTrack's simplified terminal post installation instructions, your system should work. Where are you having difficulty following the instructions? Perhaps we can help. Yes.. I've followed his instructions. I've used a secondary bootable hfs+ drive and not a thumb drive though. If you're referring to the instructions here they seem to be for vanilla kernel on a C2D. Thanks for skimming over my post! I need help running leopard on a patched kernel. Again I've forgotten about running vanilla kernel on a pentium D. Won't work. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/#findComment-520833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 After the initial installation of the patched Brazilmac disk, did you re-boot and do the post patching from Brazilmac? I believe that adds back in the dsmos.kext. I did it that way with no problems and I did it OneTrack's way with no problems. OneTrack's method doesn't require the vanilla kext. It's quite comfortable with the patched kernel that BM installs. I did manually add in the vanilla kext on my own and that worked for me too. I don't have the time right now, but I'll try to put together a step by step for the Bad Axe 2 when I get a chance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/#findComment-520873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cohen The Barbarian Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 You can't use the Vanilla kernel with your CPU...it only supports Core-based CPUs. If you are using a Pentium D 820 then you will have to run a patched kernel. I installed EFI successfully on my main rig (see sig.), but couldn't get it to work on this system: ASRock ConroeXFire eSATA II w/ E4500 C2D Still got some experimenting to do on that one to figure out what is going wrong. I get the endless cycle of reboots with some combination of kexts, and others get kernel panics. Does your install hang with the blinking cursor when you select the Leo install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/73695-badaxe2-pentium-d-toh-or-brazilmac-no-dice/#findComment-521006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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