[bmaltais]

Originally Posted by meklort

We could probably use a ramdisk too. For now I'll jut have it copying them in(since I just finished), but I'll change that soon.

Hopefully I will be able to test this new build tonight ;-)

[meklort]

Well, I think I have it working now. It's essentially the same way as before (adding everything to /Extra/, except that now it actually adds them correctly.

I also change the cli app so that it could be run before the 5 minute time limit is up (I have it setting an env variable that disables the lock check).

I'll make it use a ram disk instead of copying everything to /Extra since it uses about 220 mb of the hdd.

[bmaltais]

Great... so are you throwing everything and the kitchen sink in the kext or just the ones that I had originally included in the old mkext?

[meklort]

I was throwing everything in, just in case if this is going to be used on anything other than the mini 9.

I was able to get everything working *if* I copied all of the kexts to /Extra, however when I generate the mkext w/ all of the kext in a ramdisk, I get the same mkext file (I believe), but the boot loader refuses to load it.

[bmaltais]

Originally Posted by meklort

I was throwing everything in, just in case if this is going to be used on anything other than the mini 9.

I was able to get everything working *if* I copied all of the kexts to /Extra, however when I generate the mkext w/ all of the kext in a ramdisk, I get the same mkext file (I believe), but the boot loader refuses to load it.

OK... maybe there is a location issue with where the actual mkext is generated on... So if you copy everything on the USB key /Extra/Extensions and then generate the mkext all is fine... but doing the same thing on the ramdisk result in failure to boot properly?

Then let just do it all from the USB or SSD then. You can always delete the content of extensions after creating the mkext.

[meklort]

I tried generating the files in /Extra/Extensions and boting up, which worked fine.
I then deleted all of the extensions in /Extra/Extensions/ and the bootloader no longer loaded anything from the mkext.

I also tried deleting all of the files except the custom kexts, which resulted in the same thing happening. It looks like the bootloader verifies that the kexts in the kext cache actually exists.

It may be possible to disable that check (if I can find it), otherwise we'll have to go back to the previous method (or have 250mb of duplicated files).

[bmaltais]

Originally Posted by meklort

I tried generating the files in /Extra/Extensions and boting up, which worked fine.
I then deleted all of the extensions in /Extra/Extensions/ and the bootloader no longer loaded anything from the mkext.

I also tried deleting all of the files except the custom kexts, which resulted in the same thing happening. It looks like the bootloader verifies that the kexts in the kext cache actually exists.

It may be possible to disable that check (if I can find it), otherwise we'll have to go back to the previous method (or have 250mb of duplicated files).

Try naming /Extra/Extensions to /Extra/Custom and use this folder to generate the mkext. Remember that chameleon will use either the /Extra/Extensions folder or a mkext to load extensions. It could be that having both confuse the heck out of it.

[meklort]

Looks like that was the problem.
I'll make some changes and upload a new version soon

EDIT: here's the update (testing it out now): http://files.getdropbox.com/u/863180...tMaker.app.zip

[meklort]

The only thing I've notice that isn't working now is ClamshellDisplay doesn't seam to be loading.
Everything else seems to be working fine.

EDIT:
I'm testing out how well it survives an updated to 10.5.7, I'll post again once it's downloaded.

[bmaltais]

Originally Posted by meklort

The only thing I've notice that isn't working now is ClamshellDisplay doesn't seam to be loading.
Everything else seems to be working fine.

EDIT:
I'm testing out how well it survives an updated to 10.5.7, I'll post again once it's downloaded.

Yeah, I could not get clamshell to load either via mkext... there is something strange with this kext... I really wish we could do away with it... or write a better one. There is also the dsdt.aml fix that I had found.

Maybe 10.5.7 and the sleep hack will work fine now.