On 06-02-06, at 1545 , Shantonu Sen wrote:
No BootX changes should be needed to use universal kernels or kexts
What copying program did you use? root:admin is a very serious issue. All files produced by the xnu build should be owned by root:wheel, not root:admin
the files were owned by root:wheel when finished building. I used cp to copy to /, at which point I re-grouped it in wheel.
What's the output of "cd /System/Library/Extensions/System.kext && find . -ls"?
everything there is owned by root:wheel, though I didn't muck with anything is System.kext when I installed the kernel, I _only moved the mach_kernel. however mark pauley's suggestion that the kernel isn't even being seen is leading somewhere. I was using the kswap.sh script (http://opendarwin.org/~jpm/naughty/darwin/kswap.sh) to install the kernel, but apparently it generates a boot-file variable that doesn't work on this machine (g5 dual2.7). if I copy the system- installed kernel: # cp /mach_kernel /mach_kernel.orig # chgrp wheel /mach_kernel.orig # kswap.sh --test mach_kernel.orig this doesn't boot. moving my custom kernel directly to /mach_kernel _does boot. I'm currently trying to figure out what an appropriate boot-file argument is for a g5. thanks for all your help. best, r.