I had a boot error when I tried to upgrade from 10.5.6 to 10.5.8 on my Dell XPS M140. Here’s how I fixed it. Update to 10.5.8 is not for the faint of heart but if you follow these steps correctly, you will get through it.

1. Download the combo update 10.5.8 from Apple Support
2. Backup to time machine, backup extensions on the primary hard drive as well
3. Backup mach_kernel, Library/Preferences on the same local hard drive. You will need to restore the old kernel if you are using a custom version.
4. Read instructions here and install the two kexts http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/update-hackintosh-osx86-1058/
5. Before installing open up a terminal window, a finder window and OSXTools. You will not get a chance to do this later. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
6. Go ahead and install but do not reboot. When it says 2 minutes left or towards the end, it will take a very long time maybe hours. Have faith, let the installer finish. Do not do anything on the machine during this time.
7. When the install is complete, backup the new S/L/E to Extensions_osx1058 and also /L/P folders. You may need these later.
8. Restore your backed up custom kernel and extensions if you have
9. Reboot with -f -v option. It will fail the first time. Go ahead and try again. If it moves forward, great otherwise read on.
10. If you get boot loader problem like boot0:error, re-install chameleon from the 10.5.6 boot cd using customize button. Remember to uncheck the osx install. Do not worry about installer error. Go back to step 9 until you are able to boot.
11. You may have to reinstall IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext from Extensions_osx1058 to get the USB storage devices to show up.
12. Tested the following things and they were working fine, so I took another time machine backup
Ethernet
Wireless, I use an Airlink wireless USB adapter.
USB Storage
Display resolution and graphics using youtube video, preferably the same Gangnam song. Anything over 240p becomes choppy for me.
Sound
Keyboard and Mouse
Disk drives
Eject

Thanks to everyone on this forum and others for freely sharing their knowledge and from whom I have learnt so much.

On a side note:
Download and install HP printer drivers from here. There will work on Leopard
http://support.apple.com/downloads/HP_Printer_Driver_1_1_1
Run OSXTools after installing HP Drivers

MSI Wind U100 with MSIwindOSx86.iso 10.5.4 … freshly installed …

install disabler and dsmos was no problem, restarting neither, and installing Update to 10.5.8 so far OK – but what do to as soon as Updater has finished and is waiting to for restart?

Yes, you wrote: “start OSx86-Tools” … but nothing happened, no application was possible to start, even not text-viewer/editor. emergency-solution was to “shoot down” (cmd-alt-esc) the installer – did not help … then it might have been a fault to also shoot down the finder; afterwards it was trying to restart every second (pulsating was visible). A first reboot with -x -v was halting at a certain moment and autorebooting, a second reboot again with -x -v was starting up – in 800×600 … Now OSx86-Tools are running – but as screen is only 600 pixels high, the lowermost buttons are unaccessible … And I don’t now if the restart, even with -x – was a big mistake or not. Built-in keyboard/mousepat now not working; 800×600

Even before OSx86-Tools finished, System reports lots of updates (for 10.5.8). How about them? What will be the problem when installing them? Or just run through?

OK, OSx86-Tools now finished, asked twice for password – and told something about boot configuration that it does itself … again reboot -v, but not -x, some yellow errors … but bootup so far OK – again 800×600 and no built-in keyboard/trackpad … installed key-extension and graphics … and only shows weird pattern, but cursor is there … rebooting -x -v works …

no, that’s not the solution so far …

I just Updated from kalyway 10.5.1 to 10.5.8!

I interwoven the to tutorials:
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/update-hackintosh-osx86-1058/
and this:
http://cocoatree.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/how-to-update-kalyway-1051-to-1054/

Now I am working on updating mt Kexts…can anyone help? I have a ASUS P5W DH home, q6600, 4gb OCZ, Geforce 8800 GTS….any info would be helpful.

Hi everyone!

I know it’s been a while since the last usefull response. But i’m lost! I’ve read this while page, and i found many usefull tips, but none has been accurate for me (it just almost worked!). Back in 14th august, Matthew replied to a reader with this response:

If you are only using the kexts that came with your install cd you don’t need to reinstall that system on another disk to get the kexts, just put the install cd in your computer, then launch the install and when it’s possible just lanch a terminal, then copy all the kexts from your cd on the local disk and that should do it.

The question is: what command line should i use to recover kext files from the instalation cd? As unfortunately i have not done my backup, as suggested, I should copy the files from the cd into the HD. But how am i supposed to do that?

I’m desperate here… I had the 10.5.7 working pretty well, but as the iTunes required the newest version of Safari, and this one the 10.5.8+ version of the system, i had to change. But i did it all wrong!

The issue is that my system, as obvious, do not load. It freezes at the Apple logo screen, but differently than many erros messages people are getting here, my system DO NOT shows me the message: “still waiting for the root device”. Actually, it runs smoothly through the -v methode of reading message erros. It goes straight, after the analyzes to the system’s booting, and locks itself at the Apple’s logo screen.

Please, Mathieu, or Flávio (who seems to be brazilian too), or anyone with confidence on this subject, give me some support! I need to fix that.

If that should help, you guys could leave me a message through my mail: thyago8@hotmail.com

thanks for any help!!!

I love you Mathieu. You saved my Hackintosh !

btw “cp Extensions.backup Extensions” is ment to be cp -r, which worked for me.

Thank you

Followed this and the above from busywalt.

Updated my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3S
Not sure what the two kexts in the original post did but I installed them.

Had to restore APPLEHDA.kext and I got sound back. Everything else seems good.

Now at 10.5.8

Hi after i type in:
cd /Volumes/”Mac OSX”/System/Library/
it goes back to
-bash-3.2#
and then when i try to type:
cp -r Extensions Extensions.backup2
it says:
Can’t add repository (not a directory)

Please Help!

I just went through the 10.5.6 > 10.5.7 post and reported my findings there. I immediately went through the 10.5.7 > 10.5.8 post to keep things rolling.. here are my findings:

Dell XPS 410
Chameleon 2.0 RC4
User experience: n00b+

- Install those 2 kexts listed above
- Backed up Extensions via OSx86 Tools
- Back up your kernel (mach_kernel) just in case
- Don’t close OSx86 Tools; you won’t be able to open it after the update is done, so open it before you start the update
- Run the update as posted above and run the repairs listed above

Here’s where it got tricky for me…

My system wouldn’t boot. I got the waiting for root device error, so at that point I tried a bunch of different things to try and fix it. The final fix (I think) was to restore my Extensions folder from a previous backup and restore the kernel. I also did a mix of other things (such as removed *IntelCPUPower*.kext, removed Dont Steal OS X.kext and some other things), but my notes were a little messy and I don’t think those things helped *too* much?

In any case, restoring the old Extensions folder backup got things working again. I think my sound was broken during the 10.5.6 > 10.5.7 update, but I was able to fix that by restoring an older (10.5.6) version of AppleHDA.kext using OSx86 Tools.

I also want to mention that when I did all that other stuff (removing files, moving them around, etc.), I did so by booting to my iPC 10.5.6 install disk and using Terminal from the Utilities menu. There are little things like that which aren’t mentioned anywhere and it would be nice to have GOOD info like this to help us n00bs out without having to dig through thousands of forum posts to find a half-ass solution.

I’d like to say thanks to Vinay for this blog. It’s helped me a lot through these upgrades. Straight and to the point. Even if it’s not 100% correct, it’s damn close. Thanks dude.

Okay, so I updated following this guide and now I have the oh-so infamous infinite reboot loop… Any suggestions?

- Thanks

Now start the update and wait for Update was successful need to reboot screen !

now that final part i don’t get….how do i reboot screen??

after the update i can’t open osx86 tools…..terminal won’t start also….

what do i do?

After the update , the system refused to boot with (famous) error :
“Still waiting for root device”

Someone above wrote this. Let me tell you about my experience with this error. Because my HT was done on a logical drive, and when I installed linux I could not boot using grub into that logical drive. So I made a COPY of the partition, using GPARTED livecd, and that worked fine (the copy that is). I was then able, after editing grub, to boot into Darwin. But thats as far as I got. All I ever got, booting in safe mode, was the error above. I tore out my hair investigating it, but nothing worked. Then in desparation, after many wasted hours, I decided to delete the logical partition (what did I have to lose). Lo and behold, having only one HFS+ partition fixed the problem.

What does this have to do with the update. Well, the instructions say to make a backup, so if you clone the partition onto another partition and then try booting, you may get the “famous” error message.

Just my two euros worth. Good luck everyone!

Will this work on MSI Wind U100 with MSIWindosx86.iso distro?

Thx so0o much

Hey!

I followed your guide step by step and the install finnished successfully. However when I came to the phase where I should have repaired permissions etc i got a nasty bluescreen and was stuck.

I rebooted and offcourse it didn’t boot, just kept rebooting in darwin. I recovered my extensions folder successfully with another guide and managed to come as far as the apple logo.

My install before was with the Kalyway 10.5.2 for Intel & AMD.
I have a AMD Athlon x64 3800+ 2.0 Ghz and the Kalyway install worked and still works perfect on my machine.

However everytime I try to update something goes wrong.

1st time I did it with some version I don’t remember, but all faild.
2nd time I tried with the iDeneb combo update kit 10.5.8 and actully got it working, sort of atleast.
Had some terrible graphics lags and did not run smooth at all. Tried to fix it but got kernel panic so I prob did it wrong.

3rd Time I tried this method. Install worked great and finnished successfully but got BSOD and never managed to boot up again.

I have given up but if there is a kind soul out there that knows what I could be doing wrong or knows any other way that works for updating a AMD based PC please let me know.

I’m kurrently running Kalyway 10.5.2 with sleepkernel flawlessly on my AMD cpu.

Hello,

I am stuck at the –

Install dsmos.kext

the system will not allow me to change this?

I did the above and the hbackintosh won’t stop restarting? Does anyone have any solutions?

I followed the upgrade instructions closely! Now I get constant reboots right after I see the Apple logo. The only way to remedy this is to run the voodoo kernel, any suggestions?

Hi from Brazil!

Mathieu, thank you so much!

Your method saved my computer.

Can I safely install all the other updates (Safari, Java, Remote Desktop Client and Security Update)?

Matt:

Try enclosing your volume name in quotation marks. ie- “Mac OS X”

Save yourself some headaches by renaming your drive to something without spaces.

None of this works for me.
Like a lot of other people I just get disabled touchpad, keyboard and sound on my laptop. I’ve given up on that after 3 or 4 attempts. 10.5.7 it is!
My desktop just updated directly from Software Update with none of the above steps necessary.

I had to use the instructions Mathieu provided, as my machine stuck at the “Still waiting for root device” message . Thank You Mathieu!

In this never ending quest, i decided to download and install 10.5.8, but the macupdate installer refuse to install and give me an error about

You cannot install Mac OS X Server Update on this volume. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.

My installation was ideneb 10.5.7 can some shed some light pleasee

^_^

thanks

hi mathieu can you email me the dsmos.kext because the link is broken and i need it for the update process this is my email reinhardt16@gmail.com thanks.

Install this dsmos.kext Download Here ( a bit updated to be present in mkext)

…. the link is broken if you can fix it youre welcome thanks in advance.