Hm, typically when I can't even get to the verbose logging I find that the issue is that the booter can't even find either the kernel or the kextcache. There shouldn't be any permissions issues at that stage, but generally booter + kernel + gets you to verbose output and then kext_cache is just about the first thing loaded once the kernel takes over. Perhaps the issue is that the kernel failed to load? Has anyone else had problems getting a home-rolled kernel to load like this? _Mark On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:53 AM, ritchie wrote:
On 06-02-06, at 1419 , Mark Pauley wrote:
What happens when you boot in verbose mode (hold down apple-v)? Perhaps you need to touch your /System/Library/Extensions directory, so you don't try to use the old kernel kext-cache with your new kernel?
I set it to boot in verbose mode in open firmware, but it doesn't even get that far. I may have to see if I can turn kernel logging or something on, to figure out exactly how far it's going. I'll try touching the /System/Library/Extensions, though I assumed that's what kextcache -c -K /newkernel did explicitly. thanks for the suggestions. have you booted to 8.4.1? I may try an install of 10.4.3 on an external disk and build the previous version to see if that works.
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