Upgrading Advent 4211 / Wind from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 |
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 Sep 18 2008, 10:38
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 The Main Man  Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,962 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage  |
NOTE: I have assumed that you have installed via my guide, any other setups will probably work but are untested
 Pre-requisities: Working system on 10.5.4! 1. Download 10.5.5 from here 2. Mount DMG 3. Run Terminal 4. Type 'sudo passwd' and enter your password 5. Set your root password (and confirm) 6. Type 'su root' and enter your password 7. Type 'while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done' (the terminal window should just 'freeze' (it's processing a loop)) 8. Run the updater (MacOSXUpd10.5.5.pkg) from the volume you mounted earlier. When it completes do NOT restart 9. Switch back to the Terminal window 10. Press Ctrl-C 11. Type 'exit' (and then again) to close terminal window 12. Switch back to updater and press restart 13. Party on down! NOTE: When the system boots, you'll need to reinstall the video drivers, just drop the kexts back onto the kext helper and reboot when prompted. P PS Kudos to netkas for the handy command line! -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 18 2008, 11:41
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TOMnia ! Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,034 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia |
Ok ... three quick questions oh Mac Daddeh ...
1) Should we backup first ... daft question I know, but I don't have a working "time machine" device at present. 2) My bios is still original 1.05 ... should I update it before doing anything else? (If so ... can it be done under osx?) 3) Are there any real benefits from upgrading? -------------------- --
My Toys: Omnia: Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia - 8GB SD HC O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Sep 18 2008, 13:34
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Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 19th August 2008 Member No.: 418,124 Device(s): MacPro, MSI Wind |
Which kexts need to be re-installed? All or just the GMA950?
I loaded the GMA950 and rebooted. The system hangs during boot. I can boot into safe mode, so I repaired permissions to see if that would help clear the hang. No good. System still hangs. Any ideas ? Thanks This post has been edited by dan-k: Sep 18 2008, 14:26 |
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Sep 18 2008, 14:40
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 19th August 2008 Member No.: 418,124 Device(s): MacPro, MSI Wind |
OK, 10.5.5 is now up -- I rebooted again in safe mode, reinstalled ALL the kexts, rebooted and all is well.
QUOTE(dan-k @ Sep 18 2008, 09:34)  Which kexts need to be re-installed? All or just the GMA950?
I loaded the GMA950 and rebooted. The system hangs during boot. I can boot into safe mode, so I repaired permissions to see if that would help clear the hang. No good. System still hangs. Any ideas ? Thanks |
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Sep 18 2008, 15:14
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,962 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
QUOTE(WearTheFoxHat @ Sep 18 2008, 12:41) Ok ... three quick questions oh Mac Daddeh ... 1) Should we backup first ... daft question I know, but I don't have a working "time machine" device at present. 2) My bios is still original 1.05 ... should I update it before doing anything else? (If so ... can it be done under osx?) 3) Are there any real benefits from upgrading? 1. Why of course! :-) 2. Doesn't matter, you should probably upgrade to the latest tho! I do it with a bootable USB stick with really base command line install on. 3. Changelog is here... doesn't list the warm fuzzy feeling you get inside tho  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 18 2008, 15:14
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,962 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
QUOTE(dan-k @ Sep 18 2008, 14:34) Which kexts need to be re-installed? All or just the GMA950? I loaded the GMA950 and rebooted. The system hangs during boot. I can boot into safe mode, so I repaired permissions to see if that would help clear the hang. No good. System still hangs. Any ideas ? Thanks I only had to reinstall GMA950... P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 18 2008, 15:15
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,962 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
QUOTE(dan-k @ Sep 18 2008, 15:40) OK, 10.5.5 is now up -- I rebooted again in safe mode, reinstalled ALL the kexts, rebooted and all is well. Yay  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 18 2008, 15:21
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TOMnia ! Group: Moderator Team Posts: 1,034 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 18 2008, 16:14) 1. Why of course! :-) 2. Doesn't matter, you should probably upgrade to the latest tho! I do it with a bootable USB stick with really base command line install on. 3. Changelog is here... doesn't list the warm fuzzy feeling you get inside tho P 1. Ok need to find my usb portable disk to back the system up then. 2. ah best sort that out then. -------------------- --
My Toys: Omnia: Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia - 8GB SD HC O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Sep 19 2008, 17:34
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 14 Joined: 25th August 2008 Member No.: 419,839 |
Followed the above - system won't boot. Tried re-installing kexts in safe mode, still isses. Seems to boot, but just to a blue screen (even in safe mode), so display kext issues maybe. I'll look into it more and post back..
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Sep 20 2008, 05:03
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 14 Joined: 13th March 2008 Member No.: 366,911 |
Thanks Paul, this is working perfectly!
I just need to reinstall these kexts: - gma950 - appleintelframebuffer - clamshelldisplay all from your original zipped driver. Wow booting is fast in 10.5.5 One thing is: seems that the battery/acpi somehow is broken because of this update. My battery keep being crossed (No batteries avaiable) although i tried to reinstall the acpibattery kext) Again thank you Paul! |
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Sep 21 2008, 10:26
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 14 Joined: 25th August 2008 Member No.: 419,839 |
Restored a backup, and got mine to .5. Was an odd process though.
Installed update, reboot to install disk, remove offending power kext, reboot - 800x600 only. Installed GMA kext, reboot - screen stays grey don't get login window but i can shutdown with power then enter use install disk to restore the GMA kext (by copying the old one back from /backup extensions) reboot, 800x600 again as expected, install GMA adn frame buffer reboot - black screen and a cursor only. Shutdown as before, and restore kexts reboot, working now, but no battery and sound reboot again working fine. Bizzare. I think it must need 2 reboots to properly sort out changes in kexts, so worth rebooting an extra time after the .5 update to be sure. This post has been edited by the_accidental: Sep 21 2008, 10:27 |
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Sep 21 2008, 11:26
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 14 Joined: 25th August 2008 Member No.: 419,839 |
Just noticed, quartz extreme/hardware core image support is gone.
Could others check too in system profiler? |
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Sep 21 2008, 15:06
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 13 Joined: 16th July 2008 Member No.: 407,918 |
paul thanks for the know how... another question: how do you create a bootable usb drive in leopard. i know for windows you gotta use the hp disk utility, but i would guess its easier in os x? just want to know because i hear good (and bad) things about bios update 1.08 that apparently includes the speed boost to 2ghz.
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Sep 22 2008, 08:33
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 15 Joined: 28th July 2008 Member No.: 411,603 |
QUOTE(the_accidental @ Sep 21 2008, 12:26) Just noticed, quartz extreme/hardware core image support is gone. Could others check too in system profiler? Hi - I had the same problem. I first installed the 10.5.5 update before I read about the CPU kext issue, the install threw up lots of KPs and when I eventually got the machine back to being bootable I also noticed the core image was now software driven and quartz extreme was no longer supported. I never found a solution, so reinstalled from a blank canvas and was more careful doing the update and all is well... Even reinstalling the gfx kexts after the failed update had no effect, I think when the update failed to complete, it hosed it beyond my feeble attempts to hack it back to health... So after the full re-install I have 10.5.5 with accelerated gfx back. It does work, but not sure if it was worth the effort 
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