amru's Ultimate Dualboot; OS X install Thread

[wiraone]

Andy, have you tried the MSIWindOSX instead of the ideneb? Amru guide is based on MSIWindOSX and my experience is based on MSWindOSX too. After updating the right extensions, mine goes to sleep if I disable the bluetooth first.. couldn't really help much .. sorry.. may be someone could shed some light.. there is another thread on the sleep problem, you might want to continue the discussion there ..

[yyc2003]

Andy, have you tried the MSIWindOSX instead of the ideneb? Amru guide is based on MSIWindOSX and my experience is based on MSWindOSX too. After updating the right extensions, mine goes to sleep if I disable the bluetooth first.. couldn't really help much .. sorry.. may be someone could shed some light.. there is another thread on the sleep problem, you might want to continue the discussion there ..

Thanks a lot . Now i am downloading the MSIWindOSX.iso . I will try .

[bengrendon]

hey guys just done a vanilla install using amrus guide and cant get sleep to fuction. I am using msiwind.osx. need some pointers as i do really need sleep fuction.
Hope someone can help me

[Orubasarot]

I'm using your method and everything is fine, except boot loader reads XP as NO NAME. I changed the name inside of XP, OSX can see the new partition name, disk utility can too, as well as G Parted. But the Darwin Bootloader doesn't care about the updated name.

Anything I can do besides starting from scratch? It's not technically an issue, it's just not named right, but it's totally obnoxious to me. I don't know if it's something that is stored in the MBR or if there is a way to reinstall the bootloader and reset its settings.

Edit: Just reinstalled everything, recreated partitions and MBR, Darwin still thinks XP is "NO NAME".

Edit #2: Now using the chain0 method, but if I'm to choose OSX then I end up looking at that "NO NAME" thing again, and I really, really seriously hate it. I've spent more time trying to get rid of "NO NAME" than doing any of these installations.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0

Edit # a million: I don't know how I did it but it works now. Can't really give any useful advice for anyone in the future besides wasting 6 hours of their time by reinstalling over and over again for merely 6 letters.

[Zaied]

Hello amru!

Thank you for the guide! I managed to get everything you listed working but did you plan on addressing temperature control or sleep?

[donaldb]

this is a great guide. I am almost at the end of it and it has been going along just like it says,
I got to the part where you do the kext

ACPIPS2Nub.kext
AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext
AppleACPIPlatform.kext
ApplePS2Controller.kext
EHCISleepEnabler.kext

now I am in trouble. when I did the reboot I have lost the keyboard and mouse. I can not do anything except hold the power button down and shut it off.......dang it..... I was so close to the end, the only thing after this was sound

is there a way to save it from here and fix what ever I did wrong? or do I have to start from scratch?
thanks

[osx10]

What caused you to lose the keyboard and trackpad was AppleACPIPlatform.kext

If you backed it up before installing the new kext its an easy fix. just plug in a USB mouse and drag the backed up file and replace it. You'll get keyboard and trackpad functions back and then If you want to get fans on you need to open your original AppleACPIPlatform.kext and throw in the Thermal.kext in the plugins folder? something like that.

I ran into the same problem as you my first time through and had to reinstall.
Maybe somebody here that has a backed up copy can upload it. It may help this guy and others... (or it may not work )

[donaldb]

well I did not back up anything and am not sure I even know how to.
I will start searching for an original AppleACPIPlatform.kext
I sure hate to start from scratch now that I am this far, but thanks much for the reply and glimmer of hope


anyone know where I can get the file I need?

thanks

[osx10]

I thought I found the file I needed appleacpiplatform.kext and copied it over the top of the one that is in system/library/extensions
well to make a long story short I got it where it would not even boot.
so I am following amru's how to again and starting from scratch.

can you tell me where I went wrong when I did the kext's that he says to use
ACPIPS2Nub.kext
AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext
AppleACPIPlatform.kext
ApplePS2Controller.kext
EHCISleepEnabler.kext


from what you wrote I got messed up when I did the AppleACPIPlatform.kext

what in the world do I need to do when I get everything loaded again to not mess it up again? the list he shows does not have AppleACPIPlatform.kext
so I am not sure how I messed it up and sure do not want to start over again from scratch.

I unfortunately did exactly the same thing as you the first time I ran into this problem. I think you misunderstood me and removed AppleACPIPlatform.kext completely from the folder. Thats not what I meant by backing it up

When I did this the first time I did it because somebody somewhere wrote that if you remove certain kexts osx will rebuild them on the next boot... as we both found AppleACPIPlatform.kext is kind of essential for the entire boot process.

So this next time when you install.. go to the folder make a duplicate of AppleACPIPlatform.kext and store it somewhere like on your desktop or in the trash just in case... and then with your the one still in the extensions folder right click on it and show package contents open the contents drill down to plugins...

Now you have the correct folder open. You'll be copying 1 file into this folder

Open the downloaded AppleACPIPlatform.kext and do the same thing. drill down to the plugins folder.

There you'll find a Thermal.kext or something with the word thermal in it.. (I'm writing this form my legitimate macbook so I don't have that same file.. i'll update with the name later... but you'll be able to figure it out... there is one extra file in the downloaded AppleACPIPlatform.kext.. take that file and copy it into the folder you opened of your original AppleACPIPlatform.kext.

put the downloaded AppleACPIPlatform.kext
and reboot!

done.

I know this little guide is a bit of a mess... I'll try to edit and clean it up later, but it should get you where you want to be.

Edit: I installed using MsiWindOsx68 so I didn't use most of these:
ACPIPS2Nub.kext ------------------->Not Used
AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext--->Not Used
AppleACPIPlatform.kext----------->Used just the thermal
ApplePS2Controller.kext----------->Not Used
EHCISleepEnabler.kext------------->Used this and clamshell kext by superhai

[joeblough]

When I did this the first time I did it because somebody somewhere wrote that if you remove certain kexts osx will rebuild them on the next boot... as we both found AppleACPIPlatform.kext is kind of essential for the entire boot process.

i dont think this is true. what OSX will do is rebuild its extentions caches if you remove the caches. the purpose of the cache is to speed up boot times. when you install a new kext you need to make sure the system rebuilds the caches. the surefire way to do this is to delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and /System/Library/Caches. i think you can also just touch /System/Library/Extensions as well. (literally, "touch /System/Library/Extensions" from the terminal)

There you'll find a Thermal.kext or something with the word thermal in it.. (I'm writing this form my legitimate macbook so I don't have that same file.. i'll update with the name later... but you'll be able to figure it out... there is one extra file in the downloaded AppleACPIPlatform.kext.. take that file and copy it into the folder you opened of your original AppleACPIPlatform.kext.

its called AppleACPIThermal.kext