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January 20, 2009 at 10:58 pm #375184chilcoteParticipant
So I build a 10.5.6 InstaDMG image on a Late-08 MacBook Pro 15″. (The only package update is the 10.5.6 combo update, and it’s built off of a 10.5.4 Retail DVD dmg). I then apply the resulting image to the same machine. I reboot that machine into single user mode, and it freezes at the “Loading System\Library\Extensions.mkext…” part.
Anyone know what’s going on here? Perhaps, is it anything to do with the “Updating Boot Caches” message that sometimes pops up after installing system updates?
I can get the same behavior with my entire package, including all the Apple and custom PKGs. Which is what prompted me to try with a basic 10.5.6 image. Very odd.
Thanks,
–joe
January 22, 2009 at 5:59 am #375197Patrick FergusParticipantYour build equipment and InstaDMG setup are otherwise unchanged except for the replacement of your post-DVD packages with the 10.5.6 Combo updater?
You downloaded the 668MB combo update from Apple (didn’t grab a different machine or architecture-specific version)?
What OS build did the MacBook Pro ship with? Possibly there was a silent hardware revision that requires a later version of 10.5.6?
– Patrick
January 22, 2009 at 6:19 pm #375200chilcoteParticipant[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Patrick+Fergus[/u][p]Your build equipment and InstaDMG setup are otherwise unchanged except for the replacement of your post-DVD packages with the 10.5.6 Combo updater?
You downloaded the 668MB combo update from Apple (didn’t grab a different machine or architecture-specific version)?
What OS build did the MacBook Pro ship with? Possibly there was a silent hardware revision that requires a later version of 10.5.6?
– Patrick[/p][/QUOTE]
Hi Patrick, thanks for the response. The answers to your questions in order are Yes, Absolutely, and 10.5.5 build 9F2088. I’m not aware of any hardware that ships with a special build of 10.5.6 and there is no mention of that on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159
I went ahead and built a simple 10.5.6 image using the 9F2088 build installer and 10.5.6 combo update. I’m not seeing the single-user mode issue nor any of the other issues that I encountered (including MacBook Airs booting into verbose mode after the second restart). I then built my entire image including custom packages with the 9F2088 disc and have not had any issues so far.
I think maybe the stock advise to always use A) retail installers and B ) the latest possible hardware, falls apart in this scenario.
I’d be curious to know if anyone else has experienced this issue, or even if you have time and access to a late-08 MacBook Pro, try out the retail 10.5.4 installer in an InstaDMG build and provide feedback.
–joe
January 23, 2009 at 9:01 pm #375215Patrick FergusParticipantWe have one Late ’08 MBP here that accepts a 10.5.6 build that was created from the following:
– Mac Pro (Aug 2006)
– 10.5.0 DVD (we don’t have a 10.5.4 disc that I know of)
– 10.5.6 Combo Update, Airport Utility 5.3.2, iTunes 8.0.2, QT 7.5.5, Java for Mac OS X Update 2 1.0, Safari 3.2.1, Front Row 2.1.6, QT H.264 Compatibility Update
– CustomPKGsIt seems to be ok. I don’t [i]think[/i] you have to use the latest hardware (that was a requirement for the more monolithic, “one perfect machine” old way of building images), although there have been a few exceptions with regards to the multitouch trackpad movies and the CCFL bulb icon in the Energy Saver Preference Pane (the former needs to be extracted off of a multitouch machine and the latter I haven’t encountered yet).
Is there anything missing from /System/Library/Extensions in the retail-originated build that exists in /S/L/E in the 9F2088-originated build?
Maybe you updated something beyond my list of Apple Updates and it borks 10.5.6/InstaDMG?
– Patrick
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