Re: Core99/Powermac3,1 support missing in xnu since Jan 2001?
Re: Core99/Powermac3,1 support missing in xnu since Jan 2001?
- Subject: Re: Core99/Powermac3,1 support missing in xnu since Jan 2001?
- From: Chris Bednar <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:36:54 -0600 (CST)
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Ah. An mkext is a multi-kext. You can actually build one using the
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mkextcache tool. It contains all the kexts you need to boot stuffed into
Well, yes, you can build one, and as you hint, /etc/rc
does so at each bootup, which I learned to my chagrin a little
before I got your note. It doesn't appear that mkextcache can
produce a working Extensions.mkext for my system. It boots fine
if I delete that file before I start up, so the extensions
present are apparently OK (well, the ones I need, anyway).
I do get one ``Error: Can't get bundle identifier.''
message when I run it; maybe that means something...
It does report
Compressing /System/Library/Extensions/AppleCore99PE.kext/Contents/Info.plist 2220 => 811
Compressing /System/Library/Extensions/AppleCore99PE.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleCore99PE 89968 => 30842
which looks promising, but doesn't seem to work.
I did move all extensions which appeared not to have been
installed with 10.1, but that still didn't help.
For me, the workaround is just to delete Extensions.mkext,
and to comment out the bit in /etc/rc that generates it. The
difference in boot time is fairly miniscule, and I don't reboot
stable operating systems terribly often ;)
Again, I think a lot of people are having this problem
(check the message boards), so it might be a good idea to
get something about this into the troubleshooting section
online. If I find out which extension is causing trouble,
I'll let everybody know...
Thanks
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Chris J. Bednar <
http://optics.tamu.edu/~bednar/>
Director, Distributed Computing Product Group
http://AdvancedDataSolutions.com/