getting off the iboot

[halflifedigital]

Hi,

I have a Dell Precision 490. It is a dual, dual core 3.2 Ghz Xeon procs (quad total.)

So I have gotten vanilla SL installed using legacy iboot combined with a DSDT which tells it how to recognize the SATA drives. I found the DSDT on insanelymac from someone else who has the same machine.

My Nvidia gt250 is working like a charm thanks to a kext I found as is my rosewill ethernet. I can use -force64 and maxmem=8192 to get full Ram recognition and run 64 bit, but I can't seem to get multibeast to do an install that works for me.

I have followed the blogpost that tells you how to get to what iboot does, but it doesn't seem to work. I just get infinite boot loop (apple screen for a split second then restart.)

I feel like I'm pretty much there with this machine, I just need to get the -force 64 and maxmem codified into a plist and get chameleon working.

Am I right? any thoughts on what I should do next?

Thanks much.

p.s. I should also note that I have successfully performed a combo update to 10.6.4.

 

[ikingblack]

1. Go Here: http://tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=642
2. Note down your busratio. eg. mine is 22.
3. Now boot using iBoot, and add your busratio to com.apple.Boot.plist, like "busratio=22" for me. Or use Lizard from here: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.p ... 842.0.html

In Lizard, under kernel flags add "busratio=xx" For me it is 22 again.

Then save > reboot.

P.S. You can add other flags like maxmem and -force64 in kernel flags too.

 

[halflifedigital]

Thank you so much for your quick reply.

I'm fairly certain my busratio is 12, but when I type it in using the multibeast install as a boot flag I still get the same result.

Could this have anything to do with the fact that I'm using the "legacy" iboot?