Comments on: pfix v2.7 Released

By: Conti

Conti — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:28:29 +0000

Mike Deml: Boot with -v at the chameleon prompt and try to take a picture of the output wherever it hangs. My guess is that it’s “still waiting for root device”. If so, correct by ensuring your SATA hard drive is on one of the first two SATA ports on your motherboard and your SATA controller is set to AHCI mode in the bios.

By: Mike Deml

Mike Deml — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:02:34 +0000

Conti, thank you for your reply to my question a few weeks back. To refresh, I was able to use your MyHack 1.0 RC5 to get the OSX 10.6 installed on my hard drive. When rebooting through the usb, and then sellecting the newly installed partition with SL on it, my system hung on the rotating gear. I checked to make sure the target drive was in the first SATA possition which it was. I tried your next two installers RC5.1 and RC5.2 revisions and they both failed to boot up at all from usb. I went back to RC5 and am again stuck as described above. Please advise me how I would and should proceed to narrow down my possible sticking points. Thanks

Mike D

By: Conti

Conti — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:47:53 +0000

Steve: Yes, unless you are playing with kexts and just want to do a quick build – that is why it’s optional, if you are rebooting and running pfix 10 times in a row to test different kexts there is no point in spending the time repairing all permissions on the entire hard drive each time – just do it the last time.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:32:28 +0000

Hey Conti :

When Pfix asks if I want diskutil to run repairPermissions should I say yes or no ?

Thanks !

By: user

user — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:41:59 +0000

thanx man,

this script is really handy :)

greetz

By: delphinus87

delphinus87 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:47:16 +0000

wow, you sure are cranking out these pfix builds. Great to know you’re still on top of things Conti, thanks ^_^