zeamp Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I just did a fresh install of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 (Kalyway SSE2/SSE3) on my Hackintosh on a brand new 120GB Hard Drive and the installation went smooth. I got caught with the reboot loop (bug?) and had to do 'tohkernel' to get it to boot correctly. For some reason under ToH my PS2 keyboard doesn't work at all. I plugged in an older G4 Graphite Keyboard and kept hearing the key press sound and other wild things like there was a stuck key, but I used the keyboard in OS X 10.4.11 (XxX) and Windows XP without an issue. I can adjust the key repeat stuff in System Prefs to quiet it done some but you still hear it ringing off the hook and it messes with your menus because there's a key being pressed somewhere but it only happens on Leopard. So I started to search and saw that the 'vanilla' kernel would fix the reboot bug and my PS2 woes. The only problem is it doesn't want to load. I'm using a fresh full disk, newly-burned DVD on the same hardware my 10.4.11 runs on. After throwing some boot commands like -legacy, -f, -v, -c, -x, cpus=1... I think I tried 'em all, I noticed it would load a bit and then reboot really fast. So fast I had to video tape my screen so I could pause the LCD a split second before reboot. This is what I found on the final fading lines a split second before my system decided it's time to reboot and start all over with the loading process. Unable to find ACPI table. Starting Darwin/x86 [REBOOT!] I've enabled ACPI, disabled it, played with a ton of BIOS options including enabling and disabling USB, S.M.A.R.T, you name it and I can't seem to get past this rebooting. ToH Kernel works great, and ToH is what I had on my 10.4.11 which works flawlessly, Toast, iTunes, Adobe Creative Suite, etc. etc... I selected Natit (for QE/CI, works), EFI MBR (formatted whole disk for Leopard, set active), Vanilla and Vanilla ACPI (I was told to pick both during installation). mach_kernel and vanilla are both a no go. Any ideas on the USB keyboard keypress mystery or the vanilla ACPI reboot? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triple675 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I just did a fresh install of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 (Kalyway SSE2/SSE3) on my Hackintosh on a brand new 120GB Hard Drive and the installation went smooth. I got caught with the reboot loop (bug?) and had to do 'tohkernel' to get it to boot correctly. For some reason under ToH my PS2 keyboard doesn't work at all. I plugged in an older G4 Graphite Keyboard and kept hearing the key press sound and other wild things like there was a stuck key, but I used the keyboard in OS X 10.4.11 (XxX) and Windows XP without an issue. I can adjust the key repeat stuff in System Prefs to quiet it done some but you still hear it ringing off the hook and it messes with your menus because there's a key being pressed somewhere but it only happens on Leopard. So I started to search and saw that the 'vanilla' kernel would fix the reboot bug and my PS2 woes. The only problem is it doesn't want to load. I'm using a fresh full disk, newly-burned DVD on the same hardware my 10.4.11 runs on. After throwing some boot commands like -legacy, -f, -v, -c, -x, cpus=1... I think I tried 'em all, I noticed it would load a bit and then reboot really fast. So fast I had to video tape my screen so I could pause the LCD a split second before reboot. This is what I found on the final fading lines a split second before my system decided it's time to reboot and start all over with the loading process. Unable to find ACPI table. Starting Darwin/x86 [REBOOT!] I've enabled ACPI, disabled it, played with a ton of BIOS options including enabling and disabling USB, S.M.A.R.T, you name it and I can't seem to get past this rebooting. ToH Kernel works great, and ToH is what I had on my 10.4.11 which works flawlessly, Toast, iTunes, Adobe Creative Suite, etc. etc... I selected Natit (for QE/CI, works), EFI MBR (formatted whole disk for Leopard, set active), Vanilla and Vanilla ACPI (I was told to pick both during installation). mach_kernel and vanilla are both a no go. Any ideas on the USB keyboard keypress mystery or the vanilla ACPI reboot? Thanks! Try this: Start pressing F8 just before "Starting Darwin/x86" At the prompt type: mach_kernel rd=disk0s3 - replace 0 with your hard drive (starts at 0) and 3 with the os x partition (starts at 1). For example: First hard drive and second partition would be disk0s2. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 I just tried it and it took me further but it still reboots. Again, I used ...'s for the cutoff since this is my smartphone doing the video capture so I can read the messages just before reboot. EFI enhanced bootloader build... Using SMBIOS table found at (0x..?)... Using ACPI RSDF revision 0 fou... (found at...?) Starting Darwin/x86 [REBOOT!] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 ... Is there a way to get PS2 support on tohkernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 SOLVED! For those of us stuck with tohkernel because of the reboot/ACPI/whatever error, I've found the solution to getting PS2 working. If you boot with 'tohkernel -f -v' and have a PS2 keyboard *AND* mouse plugged in, it will function 100%. I don't know if USB is functioning still at the moment but my previous error (See OP) was that I had a USB mouse and PS2 keyboard. While this worked fine during installation, with a USB KB or MS present it seems to favor USB and somewhat disable PS2 when you boot into an installed copy of Leopard (Kalyway 10.5.1). So, if you want PS2 and can't run vanilla, get out a working PS2 keyboard & mouse and you should be good to go. I don't know if not having any other USB devices helped, but I removed all USB devices (USB is still enabled in BIOS...) before I booted with my PS2 devices. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird_n1 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Well I got the same problem but no solve. U mean it's just the ps 2 or usb ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 Well I got the same problem but no solve. U mean it's just the ps 2 or usb ? The way I got PS2 to work was to use a PS2 mouse and keyboard combination. Trying to use a USB mouse and PS2 keyboard or vice versa didn't work for me on the hacked tohkernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fontace Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hello methamp, I have exactly the same problem of reboot with the vanilla kernel. Did you find a solution to work with it or you're stuck with the default patched kernel as I am? My keyboard and mouse are both USB, I did not try with PS2 but I don't think that it is related with the reboot problem... Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMax08 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I found, for me at least, that tohkernel and cpus=1 get me to the apple logo screen with the spinning "loading" sign. but thats as far as i get....any ideas? (kalyway 10.5.1, msi p35 neo-f motherboard, intel pentium d 925, 2gb ram, sata hdd and cd/dvd) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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