pauldgroot Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 ok, i finally managed to install leopard kalyway 10.5.1 on my hackintosh only one simple problem ( i think at least ) i have an PS2 keyboard so it doesn't work, and i can't get past the mac registration form at first boot. so, does anybody know how i can copy the apple ps2 keyboard kext on my hackintosh. i was thinking of somthing like a dos interface? I'm pretty much a hackintosh noob and realy want to get started with leopard, since tiger was great fun for me ^^ oh yeah, i dont have a USB keyboard here, so thats my problem.thx in adv btw, if there is no solution to this problem, please report that also because that would mean i need a usb keyboard =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00ter Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Hey there! You need to boot into single user mode. Do this by: At boot - use boot option: "-s" and that will bring you to a dos prompt of sort, but for Mac. Type "sudo -s" and enter your password, then hit enter. After that, make sure you have the kext on a USB disk or other partition. "cd" to that partition / drive in the folder the kext is located and type: "cp extensionname.kext /System/Library/Extensions" and reboot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/#findComment-636845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldgroot Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 Hey there! You need to boot into single user mode. Do this by: At boot - use boot option: "-s" and that will bring you to a dos prompt of sort, but for Mac. Type "sudo -s" and enter your password, then hit enter. After that, make sure you have the kext on a USB disk or other partition. "cd" to that partition / drive in the folder the kext is located and type: "cp extensionname.kext /System/Library/Extensions" and reboot. Great thanks! ill try it next thing in the morning, im in bed now with ppc ^^ I will let you know if it worked for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/#findComment-636854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inedible Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Hey there! You need to boot into single user mode. Do this by: At boot - use boot option: "-s" and that will bring you to a dos prompt of sort, but for Mac. Type "sudo -s" and enter your password, then hit enter. After that, make sure you have the kext on a USB disk or other partition. "cd" to that partition / drive in the folder the kext is located and type: "cp extensionname.kext /System/Library/Extensions" and reboot. You don't need to sudo or su, single user mode logs you in as root by default. What you *do* need to do though is remount your harddrive as writable: fdisk -fy mount -uw / Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/#findComment-636936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldgroot Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 so after i boot with -s i have to mount the disk and then copy? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/#findComment-637356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaktor Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 what kext's are needed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/#findComment-637456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
red! Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 what kext's are needed? well maybe this will help... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35972 they have some PS2 drivers maybe one of them will work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89285-dorky-question-about-ps2-keyboard/#findComment-637534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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