so far no dice with iboot/multibeast (sort of solved)

[icekatze]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

Reinstalled and was able to boot into safe mode with 10.6.5 and Vervet. I've never gotten that far before so I will take this as a good sign.

 

[icekatze]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

Some strange anomalies to report.

Although I had previously thought that I had installed the com.apple.Boot.plist with 32 bit GraphicsEnabler=No, when I went into the file to check it manually it said it was running with GraphicsEnabler=Yes. Very strange indeed, I think perhaps some operation in MultiBeast might have been changing it back to Yes, but I don't know what.

Second when I checked my system profile for the PCI slot, it said I was running Uakari even when I had installed Vervet. I am not sure if this is a superficial difference or if MultiBeast isn't installing Vervet at all.

At least I can boot into safe mode now. I suppose I'll have to search and find a stand alone version of Vervet and see if that works.

 

[Going Bald]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

Some strange anomalies to report.

Although I had previously thought that I had installed the com.apple.Boot.plist with 32 bit GraphicsEnabler=No, when I went into the file to check it manually it said it was running with GraphicsEnabler=Yes. Very strange indeed, I think perhaps some operation in MultiBeast might have been changing it back to Yes, but I don't know what.

Second when I checked my system profile for the PCI slot, it said I was running Uakari even when I had installed Vervet. I am not sure if this is a superficial difference or if MultiBeast isn't installing Vervet at all.

At least I can boot into safe mode now. I suppose I'll have to search and find a stand alone version of Vervet and see if that works.

Are you still booting with iBoot or from your HD?

 

[icekatze]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

I am booting from my hard drive. I just recently reformatted and installed fresh with the same results. My working hypothesis is that it is either a superficial labeling mismatch, or that MultiBeast 2.5.1 is installing the wrong ATY_init.

I am going to see if MultiBeast 2.4 will do anything differently. (If I can find a place that is still hosting it)

 

[icekatze]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

I re-installed ATY_init using Vervet from MultiBeast 2.4, however the result is the same. My system profiler still says it is running Uakari. This leads me to believe that it is a superficial indicator and I did actually install Vervet. If that is the case, then neither of them seem to work.

I seem to be exhausting all of my software options and it may be that there is something about my particular brand of graphics card that is causing a hardware conflict. It works fine on my Windows 7 drive, but so far all I can get out of OS 10.6.5 (outside of safe mode) is either a grey screen or a jumbled screen after the grey apple boot screen. (and yes, I did set GraphicsEnabler=No)

So I suppose until I can figure out what (if anything) I did wrong, I'd suggest other people stay away from this graphics card for their build, regardless of any good bargains they may or may not find.

 

[icekatze]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

I got my machine to boot up in 10.6.5, using Chameleon 2.0 RC5 - ATI Experimental by Kabyl. I checked to make sure my device id was in the 5000 and 3000 kext, and it was.

However in order to make it happen, I had to remove the 3000 kext, so I don't know if it is going to be working at full capacity yet.

 

[kushninja]

Re: so far no dice with iboot/multibeast

hi hi

I got my machine to boot up in 10.6.5, using Chameleon 2.0 RC5 - ATI Experimental by Kabyl. I checked to make sure my device id was in the 5000 and 3000 kext, and it was.

However in order to make it happen, I had to remove the 3000 kext, so I don't know if it is going to be working at full capacity yet.

Thats good to hear, keep us updated.

 

[immapc]

Remember to click on the root check box for System Utils so both items are checked in Multibeast...