The "Unofficial" Empire EFI Support Thread

[skew]

noob here I used the legacy cd and retail sl disk install worked great. The only issue is my usb ports will only work if I boot with the legacy disk then select my osx drive in the boot loader. If I just boot from the HDD with the my hack bootloader my usb ports do not work. Is there something I can check to see if I need to install or flag to fix this?

[prasys]

Yes

@skew , type USBFix=y in Chameleon boot or add that to your USBplist. If you are not sure how to do this there is a how to somewhere in this forum

@MNG , great

@aatkco , umm i'll look into it , install without additional fonts , etc

[pipko]

What I can do?
empireefiv_108_amd2
Installer_Log_6-Dec-2009.txt
Installer Log:
http://pastebin.ca/1705273
amd athlon 64 x2 mobility
ati sb700

[aatkco]

Originally Posted by prasys Yes @skew , type USBFix=y in Chameleon boot or add that to your USBplist. If you are not sure how to do this there is a how to somewhere in this forum @MNG , great @aatkco , umm i'll look into it , install without additional fonts , etc

I did , unfortunatley install failed @ 10 Minutes Remaining - i thought it will complete .
What i have to do ?
There is another thing , when i put empire efi cd and boot from it i didn't see the usb drive's partition which i am trying to install snow leopard to , i am wondering if it remains disappeared after installing successfully ( oneday maybe it will ) how can i boot snow leopard then ?

Sorry to hear that My work is being ripped and its being put on torrent sites without the read me. Making it hard Here are the tips 1. Its installed , OSX can't bless the drive. Its normal , its not a real mac 2. If empire EFI does not see the partition. It means your BIOS refuses to pass over the USB controller or some sort. Try to connect it to your motherboard. Make it internal , not USB , or any sort. Thats all !

1. it's installed ! when i try again and open disk utility i see that the used space is only 5 GB , not all files were copied .

2. ok , i tried but it seems like my mobo doesn't have ide connecters for the hard disk ( they are all sata ) , i'll ask you a question : if i bought internal sata hard disk and connected it as slave ( my current hard disk is master ) will empire efi read it and install will succees ? please answer me ASAP /

[aatkco]

Help me ppl

[DiRTDOG]

Hi prasys, thanks for your great EmpireEFI. I was able to successfully install the x58 version and it works about 95% which I am happy with. I was wondering if you could help me figure out why after I install the myhack package everything goes bad, the only thing that works good after the myhack is I am able to access my ntfs drives, with the plain x58 install I cant access my drives. If I dont install the myhack, OSX wont boot automatically and I have to run the EmpireEFI cd everytime to boot into OSX.

thanks for any info

[tomdekuijper]

All

Is there anyone who can help me???? Since Friday I own a HP DV8-1080, fast machine however very very though to get SL installed.

Tried everything but unfort. without success. Finally I came across Empire EFI which helped me install SL however I cannot but into SL (System installed from retail DVD with any errors)

On booting I do get a kernel panic (boot options: cpus=1 busratio=20), with the following extensions in the backtrace:

- AppleAPIC
- PS2Controller
- AppleACPIPlatform
dependency IOACPIFamily enIOPCIFamily

Anyone who can help?????

Thx

Tom

Thx

[Elvirana]

Well, i tried with the legacy issue.
My chipset is an Intel G33, as far as i know its supported, but there are no advanced options about drives in my bios(blame Dell...).

I'm sorta out of luck, or is there a way to get passed the error?

Swapped my harddrive from SATA port 0 to 1, but that didn't help.

[RegulaOblique]

Originally Posted by aatkco i burned empire efi and snow leopard retail dvd and started installing but i got install failed , i tried again and i got the same message : I am installing into a usb hdd ( it's an internal hdd and connected with ide to usb connecter ) , active , primart and formatted to one guid partition . I don't know what is the proplem , so i took a screenshot from the installer log which describe the error it may help : Thanks

Hey I also Ran into this same error last night Im using the latest Empire EFI 1.08 on a Asus P5W DH Deluxe. It let me format my drives but got to about 30% before it failed. Hey Prasys on your blog you say to try a different verison of the EFI if one doesn't work, I want to try the 1.01 version because thats the version that someone used in a guide that Im using and it worked for them. But on your site the link to rapidshare is down is there some way I can get the 1.01 from you or is there another place I can download it to see if it works?

Thanks

[bhokuto]

thank you,

I just finally installed, iPC 10.5.6. Final w/PPF patch v1.1. Success. I updated the bootloader to the Chameleon 2 RC4 build 648 last nite, and then ran across a thread from Shadow, referencing EmpireEFI, plus someone that works for the 'other' OS vendor had mentioned using EFI to install S.L. 10.6. I thought, wow, that's beyond me because I have a nForce430 MCP61 chipset and AMD Phenom X3 8400. This was the prevailing thought, when I first attempted installing iDeneb 10.5.x and iATKOS v7, which I could not get to work on my system. Then after reading a few days of other information and re-reading HCL for each updated version of Leo, I thought, I have to try another version, iPC worked for me, but had to try many patches before getting to actually run right. Not to confuse the real issue, for posting.

The problem I run into is updating to 10.5.8 combo Mac update. I've read over Netkas's guides. I would assume to use both 10.5.7 and 10.5.8 because I'm attempting 10.5.6 to 10.5.8 without 10.5.7. So skipping one because 10.5.8 is out and would be preferred by me.

After reading your blogsite briefly scanning the important parts, especially for me because I'm interested in updating without having to patch this and that, backup these /System/Library/Extension and then copy them back overwriting something I could use, plus the voodoo1 kernel 9.5. I wanted a simple solution.

According to your work, (this based it seems on Sno Leo) your application would take care of all the passing data to Apple without all these headaches and stuff.

Would your application work in my case to update iPC 10.5.6 to Mac Combo Udate 10.5.8?

Thanks
Best wishes
Stu