RDTG Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Well, I finally successfully installed 10.5 then updated to 10.5.1, but when I boot it up, I have to hit F8 and type "mach_kernel rd=disk0s2 -v" or it will say "com.Apple.boot.plist Missing". Any suggestions? Also, another note, I have a bluetooth module, and it works, but, when I try to pair my Apple wireless keyboard and mouse, it connects then says it cannot be paired. Any help there? Specs: Leopard 10.5.1 efi 3.24 Ghz Pentium D 2 GB Ram 200 GB WD ATA Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTOC TDK USB Bluetooth module Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiJKa Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Did you fix your file permissions after updating? Are you even ABLE to boot into single user mode, without that problem cropping up? No idea on the bluetooth module. Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDTG Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 I can boot up into OSX just fine, I just have to boot up by typing that stuff after hitting f8 I want it just to boot itself automatically, I just wish I could pair my keyboard and mouse with my hackintosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justvisiting Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 sounds like your boot partition hasn't been set as active. from memory, boot your DVD and press F8 and give it the -s flag to go into single user mode once you get to the command prompt, you'll use fdisk to make your boot drive active: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 write exit and reboot. I think. as this is from memory, do some searching on fdisk and 'active partition' or boot flag before accidently ruining your install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 sounds like your boot partition hasn't been set as active. from memory, boot your DVD and press F8 and give it the -s flag to go into single user mode once you get to the command prompt, you'll use fdisk to make your boot drive active: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 write exit and reboot. I think. as this is from memory, do some searching on fdisk and 'active partition' or boot flag before accidently ruining your install. DONT DO THIS IF YOU HAVE A GUID FORMATTED DRIVE! if you have an MBR drive, then it should not kill stuff. Based on the fact that your bootable partition is disk0s2, i think you have guid. so don't do that fdisk stuff. I screwed mine up doing that. did you install efi the correct way? Did every file copy correctly? If you install efi, you should not have to do that. Are you sure you copied the efi files to the right drive (boot0 to disk0, others to disk0s2, not s3 or s1?) I would reinstall efi. carefully check for error messages (especially "resource busy"). I used GUID formatting, so I'm not quite sure about mbr.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDTG Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 Alright, reinstalled, efi correctly, all patches etc..still same problem. Bluetooth too ;_; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDTG Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 bump...? seriously, anyone? I've tried reinstalling twice.. It still wont work. The same old com.apple.boot.plist.. I used GUID too. On a second note, I still can't get the bluetooth to pair up with my apple wireless mouse and keyboard. I have a TDK Usb bluetooth adapter :\ it works, and the system sees the device. I remember in tiger I had it all paired up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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