iPC X-DL 10.5.6 Release

[ronoverdrive]

Hey guys today I downloaded iPC X-DL 10.5.6 and burned it to a DL DVD+R. When I tried booting it all went well till i got to the part where you enter bootlive;exit. After pressing enter when it asked me for the RAMdisk size it errors out on line 85 of /etc/rc.liveboot saying there's an unbound variable and that it can't find the disk. Here's what it looks like (sorry its too big to post).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...0624175825.jpg

Anyone have any clues what's going wrong here?

[scowl]

Which driver do I select if I'm using a Gigabyte X800XL (Radeon)

[mckaka]

Originally Posted by bogbag Thank you

Thank you very much

[peet]

Hi, I also faced “unbound variable” problem and here is Galileo’s solution in more detail:

Steps needed:
1) create ramdisk
2) copy rc.liveboot to ramdisk
3) edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk
4) run rc.liveboot from ramdisk
5) exit

More details:

1) to create ramdisk, use lines from rc.liveboot. You view this file using command cat, i.e. writing “cat /etc/rc.liveboot | more”. Using down arrow key scroll nearly to the end of the file where you will see “RAMDisk()”. Now press “q”. The text will remain on the screen but you will be able to write commands. Here are commands you have to execute (one by one). Please note I changed:

- system-image=no in “hdik” line
- ram://51200 in “hdik” line
- $mntpt to /Volumes in “mount” line

Commands to execute:

dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=no -drivekey eject-upon-logout=no -nomount ram://51200`
newfs $dev #hack to init partition table automatically
newfs_hfs $dev
mount -t hfs -o nosuid,nodev $dev /Volumes

2) If previous step finished without errors you have working ramdisk in /Volumes. Now copy rc.liveboot to it:
cp /etc/rc.liveboot /Volumes

3) To edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk type:
emacs /Volumes/rc.liveboot
Now scroll the file till line 85 and comment this lines (put # before them):
set ${volinfo}
devname=$1
fstype=$2
To save yor changes pres Ctrl+X and then Ctrl+C. Editor will ask you of saving changes, press “y”.

4) To run rc.liveboot from ramdisk:
sh /Volumes/rc.liveboot init 2000000
If everything works fine you should see two lines of text, first saying something like “messed with swap”

5) enter command “exit” and watch as your live Leopard is starting

Hope this helped.

Thank to creators of this great live distro!

[dewitts]

Ok i'm not even getting as far as most of you guys and would appreciate some help. I'm following the instructions:
To boot the LiveDVD, boot from the iPC Disc, except this time press F8 while booting the disc to get to the Boot Menu.
Type in:

config=live.plist

And press Enter to start the LiveDVD Boot. Eventually you will get to the root prompt like this:

:/ root#:

I DON'T GET THAT FAR.... after I type config=live.plist it starts to run some commands and then freezes... the last few lines are:
MAC framework successfully initialized
using 15728 buffer headers and 4096 clusters IO buffer headers
[TSC] delta:20, skipping synchronization. (CPU1)
IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23
ACPI: System state [S8 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Class "appleACPIPS2Nub" is duplicate
Duplicate class

Any idea what's going wrong and has anyone else had this problem?
I don't know if this makes a difference but i have used a dual layer dvd+r RW

[naksindia]

Originally Posted by peet Hi, I also faced “unbound variable” problem and here is Galileo’s solution in more detail: Steps needed: 1) create ramdisk 2) copy rc.liveboot to ramdisk 3) edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk 4) run rc.liveboot from ramdisk 5) exit More details: 1) to create ramdisk, use lines from rc.liveboot. You view this file using command cat, i.e. writing “cat /etc/rc.liveboot | more”. Using down arrow key scroll nearly to the end of the file where you will see “RAMDisk()”. Now press “q”. The text will remain on the screen but you will be able to write commands. Here are commands you have to execute (one by one). Please note I changed: - system-image=no in “hdik” line - ram://51200 in “hdik” line - $mntpt to /Volumes in “mount” line Commands to execute: dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=no -drivekey eject-upon-logout=no -nomount ram://51200` newfs $dev #hack to init partition table automatically newfs_hfs $dev mount -t hfs -o nosuid,nodev $dev /Volumes 2) If previous step finished without errors you have working ramdisk in /Volumes. Now copy rc.liveboot to it: cp /etc/rc.liveboot /Volumes 3) To edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk type: emacs /Volumes/rc.liveboot Now scroll the file till line 85 and comment this lines (put # before them): set ${volinfo} devname=$1 fstype=$2 To save yor changes pres Ctrl+X and then Ctrl+C. Editor will ask you of saving changes, press “y”. 4) To run rc.liveboot from ramdisk: sh /Volumes/rc.liveboot init 2000000 If everything works fine you should see two lines of text, first saying something like “messed with swap” 5) enter command “exit” and watch as your live Leopard is starting Hope this helped. Thank to creators of this great live distro!

I booted the live DVD. Then typed config=live.plist. At root#:, typed cat /etc/rc.liveboot | more.

Then after pressing q, typed the following as said by you:
dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=no -drivekey eject-upon-logout=no -nomount ram://51200`
newfs $dev #hack to init partition table automatically
newfs_hfs $dev
mount -t hfs -o nosuid,nodev $dev /Volumes

And then typed cp /etc/rc.liveboot /Volumes
It displayed cp: Volumes/rv.liveboot ; read only

Then I typed emacs /Volumes/rc.liveboot
A console opened. NO lines was present in it.
At the bottom, it displayed no such directory. Write Protected.(I don't exactly remember what it said)

What can I do to correct this prblm

Gokul

[naksindia]

The exact error shown in the console is "File not found and directory write-protected"

[rayzinnz]

Originally Posted by peet Hi, I also faced “unbound variable” problem and here is Galileo’s solution in more detail: Steps needed: 1) create ramdisk 2) copy rc.liveboot to ramdisk 3) edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk 4) run rc.liveboot from ramdisk 5) exit More details: 1) to create ramdisk, use lines from rc.liveboot. You view this file using command cat, i.e. writing “cat /etc/rc.liveboot | more”. Using down arrow key scroll nearly to the end of the file where you will see “RAMDisk()”. Now press “q”. The text will remain on the screen but you will be able to write commands. Here are commands you have to execute (one by one). Please note I changed: - system-image=no in “hdik” line - ram://51200 in “hdik” line - $mntpt to /Volumes in “mount” line Commands to execute: dev=`hdik -drivekey system-image=no -drivekey eject-upon-logout=no -nomount ram://51200` newfs $dev #hack to init partition table automatically newfs_hfs $dev mount -t hfs -o nosuid,nodev $dev /Volumes 2) If previous step finished without errors you have working ramdisk in /Volumes. Now copy rc.liveboot to it: cp /etc/rc.liveboot /Volumes 3) To edit rc.liveboot on ramdisk type: emacs /Volumes/rc.liveboot Now scroll the file till line 85 and comment this lines (put # before them): set ${volinfo} devname=$1 fstype=$2 To save yor changes pres Ctrl+X and then Ctrl+C. Editor will ask you of saving changes, press “y”. 4) To run rc.liveboot from ramdisk: sh /Volumes/rc.liveboot init 2000000 If everything works fine you should see two lines of text, first saying something like “messed with swap” 5) enter command “exit” and watch as your live Leopard is starting Hope this helped. Thank to creators of this great live distro!

Hi this works great thanks for posting! Is this caused because I dont have a HFS partition?
Anyway just a couple of notes that may help others:
emacs crashed on my machine so I used nano succesfully.
I only have 2GB of RAM, need 1.1GB to run so that only leaves 0.9GB for RAM drive space.
'rc.liveboot init 2000000' caused a kernel panic so I tried 'rc.liveboot init 512000' and it worked fine.

And also a question: I have copied the modified rc.liveboot to a USB stick, and I want to know if I can mount the USB stick to save making a RAM drive everytime I want to run it?

Update: Yes I made an HFS partition and this line 85 error disappears. Simple.
Another thing I noticed is the DVD would not boot with my USB printer plugged in (took me ages to figure that out) so if you have problems unplug unsued USB peripherals.

[Whyvern]

Sorry but i cant find where to download it, im quite new in the forum thanks

[Imkantus]

Originally Posted by Whyvern Sorry but i cant find where to download it, im quite new in the forum thanks

Then welcome to the InfiniteMac Community.

One recommanded thing to do when beeing new, is reading the Rules.

This site does not deal with warez - use Google if you are looking for DL.

This forum is just the place if you are looking for further support for the OSx86 installation & adjustment - although it is not always that easy to get adequate support for releases like this, if the one who pieced it together doesn't do himself...