abhi262 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 hi, i am using ToH's disk after the kalyway release refused to work. i burned the disk using ultraiso in windows and then booted up from the disk. i first used disk utility to re-partition and reformat my external usb 120gb hard drive. after formatting, i proceeded with the instalation, picking the bare minumum as well as any applicable patches. the installation took about 30-40 mins. after this i rebooted only to get a grey screen that describes a kernel panic. please find below some pictures i took of the screen (sorry for the bad image quality, they were taken with a phone.) does anyone know what i am doing wrong? the following are my system specs: Dell Dimension 9150 Intel p4 (prescott) 3.0ghz wit HT 2gb ram radeon x1950 pro with 512mb gddr3 USB hard drive i would be very grateful for help. thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chachawpi Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Hit F8 quickly during boot and boot with the -v option. This will allow you to see where the panic is occurring. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-537635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elitee Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 If you have a dual core CPU, get the speedstep kernel (9.1 I think) from IRC #leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-537996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 ok, yesterday, i did a fresh install and miraculously it worked! then, today, i thought i would boot up into my new leopard installation only to find it was no longer working. i did two clean installs onto my external hdd only to find it still wouldn't work. the worst part is the fact that i can only boot if i have the disk in and the disk does not recognise my external hdd as a place in which leopard is installed, thus meaning i can not enter verbose mode. also, continously pressing f8 stops the screen showing that says "press any key to install Mac OS X" and skips onto booting from the HDD to show me the kernel panic screen shown on the first post. any help would be really appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-538863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonick2 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 try -v -legacy worked for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-538895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 nope, that didn't work the most annoying thing is that at one point, it was actually working Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-539000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonick2 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 nope, that didn't work the most annoying thing is that at one point, it was actually working It's not the stylish thing to do but try to copy the kernel on the installation dvd to your root and see what happens. you could also try -x for safe mode Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-539005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 how would i be able to do this? the problem is that i cant acess my root because i can't boot up into os x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-539165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 how would i be able to do this? the problem is that i cant acess my root because i can't boot up into os x You can either boot to the install disk and use terminal from there or boot the install disk and hit F8 to select the DVD boot options. use the command rd=diskXsY to boot to your external hard drive using the kernel and kexts from the DVD. From the GUI or single user mode you can then make any repairs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-539179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 i have never really used terminal and can only just find my way through Windows command prompt so could anyone give me some step by step instructions please? oh also, recently i was reading some threads and someone said that installing tiger and then ToH ontop of that (ie without formatting) worked for them. i tried it with 10.4.6 but it didn't work. i have a 10.4.8 DVD lying around somewhere so i may try that. anyway, thanks for your help so far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-539392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 ok, by using the combined post patch script version 0.1, i managed to get myself alot further. i did a fresh install, and then ran the script in terminal. i said yes to all of them, save for the one that said, install ToH kernel. this means i now have the vanilla kernel. i am now able to boot up without the disk and get a message at the top that says something like x86/Darwin loading (can't remember) but after a few seconds, about three lines appear on screen and then the computer shuts down and then the process begins over and over again. i will try to video this happening so that i can pause the video and find out what it says. this is because the text flashes for a split second before the computer shuts down. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-541357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voggorb Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 ok, by using the combined post patch script version 0.1, i managed to get myself alot further. i did a fresh install, and then ran the script in terminal. i said yes to all of them, save for the one that said, install ToH kernel. this means i now have the vanilla kernel. i am now able to boot up without the disk and get a message at the top that says something like x86/Darwin loading (can't remember) but after a few seconds, about three lines appear on screen and then the computer shuts down and then the process begins over and over again. i will try to video this happening so that i can pause the video and find out what it says. this is because the text flashes for a split second before the computer shuts down. I have the exact same problem. Darwin bootloader comes up, and just a few seconds later the computer reboots and it does this over and over again. Though, I didn't install the vanilla kernel, and said no to a few other things in the script, don't remember exactly which ones. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-541366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 ok, i have done this and i found out that it says Loading Darwin/x86 - (the dash changes to slashes to make it look like it is rotating) then Loading Darwin/x86 EFI enhanced bootloader build: ToH Using SMBIOS table found at 0x000f0438 Using ACPI RSDP revision 2 found at 0x000feb00 after this, the computer reboots. can anyone help me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-541394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 18, 2007 Author Share Posted December 18, 2007 anyone?oh and i forgot to mention, i can now select different boot types - something i couldn't realy before.i will try -v, -v -legacy and -x and post my results. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-542248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! basically, all i did to get it to work was i did a fresh install, then i ran the fixboot specified by ToH which was to enter /usr/misc/script.sh VOLNAME (where VOLNAME is the name of the partition os x is installed to) then, i ran the post-patch mentioned above but i said yes to everything (unlike before), save for the high resolution bit which seems to change the resolution to a widescreen resolution. after this, it worked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76115-help-with-tohs-release/#findComment-543523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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