MacBookPro 9,2 Firmware and Booting

Hello:
I have got a refurbished MBP9,2 some weeks ago. I would like to know if the firmware is made for efi booting or bios booting.
Thank you.

That's a question about booting Linux on Macs, a subject about which I know only this: "reFit" is a dead project and has been reported to be incompatible with recent versions of OS X. I think I read somewhere that there was a successor to it, but I don't know what it's called.
If you install Linux directly on the hardware, you're on your own. Don't expect to find help here. I've seen several reports of boot failures and other fiascos. The only safe way to run third-party operating systems other than Windows 7 is virtualization.

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IMac G3 won't boot after updating the firmware and upgrading the OS!

Hi! Everyone,
I have an iMac G3 333MHz (five flavors) which comes with 192MB of RAM and 6GB of hard drive. Originally, it was OS 8.5.1 installed, later upgraded to OS 9.2.2. Of course, the firmware has been updated by the appropriate method provided by the on-screen instructions before the installation of 9.2.2. After successfully updating the firmware and installing Mac OS 9.2.2, the system booted up and worked fine. However, after shutting it down and powering it up a few days later, I have encountered a critical problem:
1. At first, the iMac would chime and displayed a smiley-mac finder face.
2. No question mark appeared and the system halted because it stayed at the same screen for about 5 minutes! Also, the keyboard wouldn't respond. For instance, the LED signal light wouldn't light on when Caps Lock was pressed.
3. I assumed that this is just a typical crash and rebooted the machine via the "reset" button on the right side of the machine.
4. After restarting, well, no luck, the same condition. Therefore, I rebooted it again by using the method mentioned above.
5. The condition of sticking at the smiley-mac finder face occurred again! However, this time the iMac wouldn't chime and just displayed the mac face.
6. Another restart, well, it was getting worse... no chime and no smiley-mac finder face but a white screen.
7. I was frustrated then and shut the machine down forcefully by rebooting it again and pressing on the power bottom quickly before the screen appears. Also, I unplugged the power cord.
---------- After a few hours later ----------
8. Okay, I then plugged the power cord in and booted it up again, this time, it would chime but stuck at the white screen. => No smiley-mac finder face appeared!
9. Rebooted it again, the result was as same as step 8.
10. Another restart, the smiley-mac face finally appeared but still... stuck here and this time, no chime.
11. I then shut the machine forcefully by using the method mentioned above and let the machine rest for about a day with the power cord unplugged.
---------- After resting for a day ----------
12. I booted it up and it would chime, but no screen (the power button was orange, not green). I then forcefully shut down the machine.
13. Waited for about a minute and powered it up. This time, I tried to clear the PRAM, but no chime and gave me a white screen. => No luck! As mentioned, the keyboard's LED signal light wouldn't light on even though the Caps Lock key has been pressed.
*Note: The keyboard has been tested on the other computers and it worked. Also, I tried different USB ports to plug the keyboard in. => The USB ports were all in working condition， as I can know from the last successful start up.
14. Forcefully shut the machine down and tried to enter the Open firmware, no luck. It didn't enter and gave my a white screen.
15. Conclusion:
1) After resting for a while, the iMac would chime.
2) Rebooting too much times would cause the machine not to chime and leaded the screen to become white instead of the smiley-mac finder face.
3) However, rebooted the machine when the screen became white, the smiley-mac finder face would appear again without chime.
By the way, I could hear the hard disk spinning up so that means the hard disk is working.
Can anyone help me solve this problem? Is it related to the firmware update? Any suggestions will be appreciated! Thanks!
Andy

OK, I will try replacing the PRAM battery. Also, the PowerMac G3 and the other iMac 233MHz had the dead batteries. They are still working though... Should I replace them along with the iMac 333MHz? In case of not replacing, will they malfunction in future times? There are some symptoms on this two machines: 1. iMac 233MHz - No chime and no sound when adjusting system volume (the bi sound is not available), but iTunes and other applications can still use the audio device and output the sound via internal speakers; 2. PowerMac G3 450MHz - Will chime but sometimes hard to boot: 1) Chime but no screen; 2) No respond after pressing the power button => the power signal light won't light on. Every time I experienced this, I would open its case, pressing a small button (not quite understand what it does... anyway, just works if system halted.) near the PRAM battery and wait for about a minute, then close the case, and it boots. However, I have to reset "Date & Time"...

New MBP and Boot Camp

I just got my 15" MBP and am trying to install Boot Camp on it. I updated the firmware from the website with the most recent update and OS X from software update, but the Boot Camp Assistant still says that I need the firmware update to install. If I try to run the most recent firmware update again it says that I'm up to date. So, any pinters on what to do next?

If the issue is with the firmware update not taking then the procedure at the bottom of this page may help.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303364
Also make sure you are downloading the 1.0.1 firmware and not just the SMC update.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbookproearly2006firmwareupdate101.html
As someone pointed out in another thread the SMC firmware update does not supercede this, they run hand in hand and the 1.0.1 is still needed for bootcamp to install on the 15"

Windows 7 64 and Boot Camp

I installed 64-bits Windows 7 on my iMac 24 (end 2007) and it works perfectly. The only problem is the the Boot Camp drivers cannot be installed. (Snow Leopard disk).
Somewhere I have read that the Boot Camp drivers are not compatible with the 64-bit version on this iMac.
What shall I do now?
I also have a 32-bit version.

I don't see any help in those links.
What works for most, other than some of the issues with quality of Apple's drivers and graphic driver issue... the whole idea that somehow a Mac from 2007 isn't officially endorsed as supported, and Boot Camp 3.0 drivers are over a year old; came out before Windows 7 was out (but end of public RC phase).
which hinges on the Mac's firmware being EFI32 instead of UEFI 2.x (EFI64).
Copy the whole contents to a folder on your Windows volume.
Navigate to Apple\Drivers\Bootcamp64
control + click on that file and choose "Troubleshoot Compatibility Mode"
(or you can change Properties)
And you will then be able to overcome the "incompatible" error message and have them install
I have a 2006 Mac Pro also on the "endangered species list" as well.
Windows 64-bit versions from SP1 or later officially support UEFI, but that has not meant PCs couldn't install and use Windows 64-bit either.

[SOLVED] Wiki page for GPT disks and booting arch using UEFI

Hi guys, I am new to archlinux. I installed archlinux x86_64 just yesterday and I like its customisability. I also like arch wiki. Nowhere else have I seen such extensive documentation, especially about things like HAL, UDEV etc. with proper instructions. Thanks to all archers.
I have installed Archlinux x86_64 in my Dell India Studio 1537 laptop along with Windows 7 Professional x64. Both the OSes boot in UEFI-GPT setup (my UEFI is tianocore.sourceforge.net EDK DUET UEFI64 firmware booting from USB). I boot Archlinux using my own compiled grub2-bzr compiled for both BIOS and UEFI-x64. I have a 1 MB BIOS Boot Partition as required by grub2 for BIOS-GPT booting. My Archlinux system can boot both from bios and from uefi, while Windows can boot only using UEFI.
The official Archlinux installation guide talks about only MBR (or msdos disklabel) partitions and booting from BIOS based systems. With 2TB drives becoming common place and UEFI being implemented (search for Phoenix SecureCore Tiano's 1 second POST operation), I think a proper wiki page describing differences between MBR and GPT, why GPT is better, how to setup arch to boot from GPT. Another page describing steps to setup arch to boot from UEFI (either as a separate page or as an extension of GRUB2 wiki page) is also needed.
Some details regarding Pure GPT (not a Hybrid GPT/MBR setup) and/or UEFI setups :-
Partitioning tools -
GNU Parted for filesystem related tasks
GPT fdisk tool - http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ , http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ , pacman -S gdisk (in extra repo) - for non-filesystem related tasks
util-linux-ng fdisk does not support GPT disks
Bootloader - GRUB2 - vanilla grub-legacy does not support GPT and does not support UEFI (Fedora's patched grub-legacy does support both GPT and UEFI) and syslinux does not support GPT (I may be wrong here - seems a gptmbr of syslinux does help in booting from gpt but not sure).
For GRUB2 - Need BIOS Boot Partition to embed GRUB2's core.img in GPT disks - size about 1 MB max - no filesystem
In GPT fdisk partition type code - EF02
In GNU Parted or GParted - bios_grub flag on
For UEFI-GPT booting this special partition is not needed as no embedding takes place. This is needed only in case of BIOS-GPT booting.
Incase of custom kernel configuration - enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION for GPT support
CONFIG_EFI for UEFI support (for UEFI even above option required)
CONFIG_EFI_VARS for UEFI Runtime Variables support (optional)
Note: Although GPT is part of UEFI specification, a UEFI system is not needed to boot from/use GPT. BIOS based GPT booting is possible with GRUB2 or Fedora's patched grub-legacy (but not vanilla grub-legacy provided by archlinux). It is also possible to boot Linux in UEFI-MBR setup (again using grub2) but I have not tried it.
Even without UEFI and less than 2TB harddrives, GPT based partitioning has many advantages - secondary GPT header and Partition table, CRC32 checksums. Unique Disk GUID and Filesystem-independent Unique Partition GUIDs, multiple primary partitions (default is 128 partitions, but it can be changed). The only problamatic OS is Windows which does not allow GPT booing unless one has UEFI based system. It allows only UEFI-GPT or BIOS-MBR setups. In linux it just depends on how the bootloader is configured - not a problem with grub2.
I also propose that incase of Auto-prepare Hard Drive, the installer default to GPT for "archlinux only" installs ( ie no dual-boot or triple-boot etc.).
I did not use the official archlinux iso but used archboot 2010.04 R3 as it gave an option of installing to GPT and also provided GRUB2 during bootloader install. I have never edited any wiki page before, thats why I request some one else to start a wiki page with the information given above.
I don't know whether this is the right place, but any Windows (Vista or 7 x64 versions) and Linux dual-boot user who has UEFI-based system with GPT partitioning and wants to get rid of Hybrid MBR setup (to boot Windows) can follow this post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofive … hp/t186440 (outside this forum) - this link describes the way to make Windows boot natively in UEFI-GPT setup. After doing this one can install arch using GRUB2 compiled for UEFI x86_64, and Windows will also see
Last edited by skodabenz (2011-01-30 19:32:48)

Welcome to arch, skodabenz! Offering documentation on third post - all thumbs up
You could start the wiki page in your user-space with what you have, and then invite others to join working on it. Just register a wiki account, navigate to the page you want to start, for example:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:skodabenz/GPT
and click on "edit this page".
As noted in the other thread, arch's legacy grub is patched for gpt support. I don't know about UEFI, but you can always open a bug report asking for the patches from fedora to be included.
edit: the page from Rod Smith is a great resource. I was absolutely terrified at first by all this screwed up GPT/MBR stuff when I tried triple-booting Arch, Win and OS x, but he really does a great job explaining what it is all about.
Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-21 15:44:08)

ATI X1900XT and Boot Camp 1.3

I've just upgraded to an ATI X1900 XT connected to two Dell 24" LCDs. When booting into Windows XP using Boot Camp Beta 1.3 the screens flicker badly and the second screen shows only about ont third the width until the Windows 'Welcome' page appears, after the drivers are loaded.
When I had the nVidia 7300GT in both screens mirroed normal quality (stretched 640x480 8bit) video during boot until the drivers loaded.
Is this normal with the ATI? It doesn't look right but works OK once Windows has booted and runs both monitors at 1920x1200 32bit colour.
When booting into Mac OSX the card works normally.
Has anyone experienced this 'fault'.
I've installed a clean version of Boot Camp and Windows but nothing has changed the fault.

It's certainly the case that the drivers haven't loaded, I uderstand that. What I don't understand is why the nVidia card could operate both monitors during the intial load, prior to the Windows drivers loading, and display correctly on both monitors but the ATI isn't doing this.
As I said I suspect the card isn't locing into an accepted resfresh rate for the monitors until the drivers are loaded.
I'm not inclined to change the Windows drivers to Catalyst as the cards use EFI firmware and I'm not sure about the compatibility with Boot Camp. Regardless, once loaded the drivers work. It's during boot up, only into Windows XP, the card is acting weirdly.
The other weird anomally is that it requires the monitors to be connected in reverse order for Windows. The main monitor is connected to the 2nd DVI port and the secondary monitor to the 1st DVI port. If not when Windows finishes booting it indicates my right hand monitor is monitor 1 (with the Windows menus/start etc) and the left is monitor 2.
When booted into OSX the monitors are detected correctly.
By changing them and then rearranging the monitor order in OSX I can work around this but it is seriusly weird.

Classic folder not found BUT it os9 appears in startup disk list and boots!

I installed my friends system from scratch it is an old imac G3 with latest firmware updates..
In the end the only way to get it installed the way they wanted was to install tiger and drag the system folder over from the old install
Now what happens when booted to OSX 10.4 "Classic" in the system preferences looks for a classic folder but cant find one.... yet if I go toe system preferences startup There are both the OS X starup and OS 9 Startup disk listed there and if selected OS 9.22 boots and runs fine.
It is listed under startup as Mac OS Z1 - 9.22 Machintosh HD
I have not run software update on Tiger yet so it is probably 10.4.3 or 4 maybe this would help ?
Any ideas why it wont see this as haveing Classic on the system ? It seems strange that Apple wont allow you to point to the correct folder when it exists and boots from it fine.
Interesting enough when I plugged in my external firewire drive (which is where i copied the OS 9.22 system folder across from) and run the system preferences and classic setup it looks and sees the external drive folder as ok to run for classic !
Naturally I have unmounted this as it is my drive and not my friends
thanks for your help

when I open
Classic Preferences, the system looks for eligible
System Folders and lists the ones it has found. On my
Tibook, there is normally only one, and that one is
selected by default. In order to deselect it, I would
have to connect my external drive, which contains (on
separate partitions) three other System Folders
suitable for use as Classic. I would then expect to
be able to choose manually from among the four
eligible candidates, even if one of them were
initially selected by default.
Are you saying that the Classic pane of Sys Prefs on
your computer fails to list any System Folder at all,
even though the one that boots your computer into OS
9.2.2 is present and ready for duty? If so, that is
strange indeed.
mine works exactly the same as your then.
and yes you are also right that it fails to list any system folder as all

Getting Around Firmware and Root PWs

I am running Solaris 9 on a machine I acquired from a different dept and no one there knows what either the firmware or the root passwd is (which is probably why they gave me the machine),I originally thought i could simply reload the O/S but this computer has data that is needed, how do i get around the firmware and the root passwd???

One way might be to install a good OS on a similar machine, and then move that disk over to this one.
Once you boot it up with that new disk and are root, then you can remove the password with 'eeprom' commands.
Presumably you can't do a cdrom boot directly due to the password.
Also, what kind of machine? I've done some nasty tricks that have worked in the past....
Pull nvram, power machine up (no password, so goes to OK prompt), insert nvram with machine running, issue command to remove password... machine fine.
I obviously wouldn't do that on a machine that you couldn't afford to destroy, because I don't know what will happen. I last tried it on a SS10.
Darren

Frequent and chronic Slowness on Late 2009 21.5" iMac, Issues with Display, Fan, and Booting

Hello,
Sorry for the repost, but I realized after the edit period had passed that I left out a lot of information from my original post, and that I misrepresented my problem in the question heading. Because of this, I am posting again with the updated information.
I am using a 21.5" iMac from Late 2009 with OSX Mavericks 10.9.2. Recently, I have been experiencing several signs of failure/aging during use:
Frequent:
Mail.app slow opening, closing; messages opened in large batches do not get marked as read
Terminal.app experiences noticeable lag when opening (it sometimes takes between 5 and 20 seconds between launching the application and getting an active prompt)
Processes lag or become unresponsive, even when not many applications are running
Browswers frequently become unresponsive, pinwheel, or lag considerably, frequently requiring a force-quit.
Mouse Pinwheels Frequently
Intermittent
Computer generates loudly audible fan noises, persists even when computer is briefly powered off during a reboot; does not always stop after rebooting
Finder often becomes unresponsive
Rare (one time only)
Machine powered on in "Safe Boot" mode for no apparant reason; red text reading "Safe Boot" in menu bar of login screen; background picture slideshow mode became very glitchy, phased and flashed in horizontal grey bars before loading next background image
Chronic (Consistently Happens)
Machine will not boot if plugged into normal powerpoint after being unplugged from that power-point; cable must be plugged into a different A/C power outlet for machine to boot, at which point it can be switched off again, moved back to the original dedicated outlet, and booted again. This has never failed to happen, and is mind-boggling.
I followed some instructions from a similar thread, but I felt that my experiences were sufficiently different that I couldn't troubleshoot from someone else's solution. I would greatly appreciate any technical advice and help that the community can offer.
Specs (Obtained Using EtreCheck) :
Hardware Information:
    iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)
    iMac - model: iMac10,1
    1 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
    4 GB RAM
Video Information:
    ATI Radeon HD 4670 - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software:
    OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) - Uptime: 0 days 1:3:20
Disk Information:
    Hitachi HDE721010SLA330 disk0 : (1 TB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (114.68 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
    PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS09
USB Information:
    Western Digital My Book 1130 2 TB
        VM (disk2s1) /Volumes/VM: 2 TB (757.31 GB free)
    Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
    Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
    Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
    WD My Book 111D 800mbit - 800mbit max
        disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 32 KB
        BigD (disk1s3) /Volumes/BigD: 2 TB (134.4 GB free)
Thunderbolt Information:
Configuration files:
    /etc/hosts - Count: 3
Kernel Extensions:
    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv    (4.2.14)
    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB    (4.2.14)
Startup Items:
    HP Trap Monitor: Path: /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor
    rEFItBlesser: Path: /Library/StartupItems/rEFItBlesser
    VirtualBox: Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox
Launch Daemons:
    [System]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.google.keystone.daemon.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.ubuntu.one.fsevents.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    org.macports.rsyncd.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
    [System]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    com.wacom.pentablet.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [System]    org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
    [not loaded]    com.google.Chrome.framework.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [not loaded]    com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist 3rd-Party support link
    [not loaded]    org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
    Flux
    Quicksilver
    iTunesHelper
    Air Mouse Server
    Launch_IKCP
    usb16
    Music Manager
    SpeechSynthesisServer
    VMware Fusion Start Menu
    Android File Transfer Agent
Internet Plug-ins:
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
    Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.70 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
    o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.1.5.17733 3rd-Party support link
    WacomNetscape: Version: 2.1.0-1 - SDK 10.8 3rd-Party support link
    npgtpo3dautoplugin: Version: 0.1.44.29 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
    googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.1.5.17733 3rd-Party support link
    WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.2 3rd-Party support link
    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
Audio Plug-ins:
    BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
    AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
    AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
    iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
    Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
    RealPlayer Plugin: Version: Unknown
    Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 3rd-Party support link
3rd Party Preference Panes:
    Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
    Java 3rd-Party support link
    MusicManager 3rd-Party support link
    TeXDistPrefPane 3rd-Party support link
    PenTablet 3rd-Party support link
    DWXBoxHIDPrefsPane 3rd-Party support link
Old Applications:
    None
Time Machine:
    Skip System Files: NO
    Auto backup: YES
    Volumes being backed up:
        Macintosh HD: Disk size: 930.71 GB Disk used: 823.91 GB
    Destinations:
        BigD [Local] (Last used)
        Total size: 2
        Total number of backups: 89
        Oldest backup: 2013-02-19 05:21:21 +0000
        Last backup: 2014-02-27 02:52:20 +0000
        Size of backup disk: Too small
            Backup size 2 < (Disk used 823.91 GB X 3)
    Time Machine details may not be accurate.
    All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
        47%    firefox
         3%    WindowServer
         1%    EtreCheck
         0%    com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
         0%    mds
Top Processes by Memory:
    489 MB    firefox
    147 MB    com.apple.IconServicesAgent
    66 MB    Dock
    53 MB    WindowServer
    41 MB    Finder
Virtual Memory Information:
    1.72 GB    Free RAM
    1.42 GB    Active RAM
    335 MB    Inactive RAM
    535 MB    Wired RAM
    683 MB    Page-ins
    564 KB    Page-outs
Results of Linc Davis's diagnostic test from the similar thread:
Boot Mode: Normal
System diagnostics:
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210509 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210520 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210531 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210541 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210553 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210603 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210618 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210640-1 crash
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents 2014-02-25-210640 crash
   diskarbitrationd,HPIO Trap Monitor,mds 2014-02-07-223647 shutdownStall
Kernel messages:
   Feb 23 20:52:38   Previous Shutdown Cause: -128
   Feb 23 21:06:01   PM notification timeout (pid 364, MusicManagerHelp)
   Feb 23 21:44:13   Sound assertion - 1002:aa30 FIFO error (Stream 0)
   Feb 23 21:57:33   PM notification timeout (pid 364, MusicManagerHelp)
   Feb 26 20:29:58   Previous Shutdown Cause: -128
   Feb 26 20:44:56   PM notification timeout (pid 436, MusicManagerHelp)
Loaded extrinsic kernel extensions:
   org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.2.14)
   org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.2.14)
Extrinsic system jobs:
   org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx
   com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
   com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool
   com.google.keystone.daemon
   com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI
   com.adobe.fpsaud
Extrinsic agents:
   org.macosforge.xquartz.startx
   com.wacom.pentablet
   com.oracle.java.Java-Updater
   com.hp.help.tocgenerator
   com.google.keystone.system.agent
   com.valvesoftware.steamclean
   com.google.Chrome.framework.service_process/Users/XXXXX/Library/Application_Sup port/Google/Chrome
/Library/LaunchAgents:
   /Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
   /Library/LaunchAgents/com.hp.help.tocgenerator.plist
   /Library/LaunchAgents/com.wacom.pentablet.plist
   /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons:
   /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
   /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI.plist
   /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
   /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.ubuntu.one.fsevents.plist
   /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
   /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI
   /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.ubuntu.one.fsevents
/Library/StartupItems:
   /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor/HP Trap Monitor
   /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings
   /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor/StartupParameters.plist
   /Library/StartupItems/rEFItBlesser/rEFItBlesser
   /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings
   /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox
Library/LaunchAgents:
   Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
   Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist
   Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.Chrome.framework.plist
   Library/LaunchAgents/com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
   Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist
Extrinsic loadable bundles:
   /System/Library/Extensions/DWXboxHIDDriver.kext
       (org.walisser.driver.DWXBoxHIDDriver)
   /System/Library/Extensions/Pen Tablet.kext
       (com.wacom.kext.pentablet)
   /System/Library/Extensions/TabletDriverCFPlugin.bundle
       (No bundle ID)
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6Kam. wrote:
1: If I hold down option key with my USB plugged in to see my hard drives so I can boot into Windows, boot camp is not there. It does not show up on my Start Up Disk in my Mac, either. Though, I do see it in Finder with nothing in it (I can put stuff into it).
This indicates that your Bootcamp partition is still FAT, which also indicates that the Windows Installer has not been used to reformat it to NTFS yet, as required by Windows Installer. No Windows installation exists yet.
2: If I don't hold down option key with my USB plugged in, it gives me a black screen saying "Non-system disk, press any key to reboot". My keyboard is unresponsive. I have to hard shut down my computer.
The NVRAM in the Mac (as set by Bootcamp Assistant) is telling it to boot from the built-in Optical drive. Is it fully functional and has Windows Installer media in it or broken? Since no drivers have been loaded, the Keyboard/Mouse which are BT/USB, will not function.
From iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) - Technical Specifications, it has a built-in Optical drive...
Optical drive
Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL discs at up to 4x speed
Writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed
Writes DVD-RW discs at up to 6x speed and DVD+RW discs at up to 8x speed
Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed
Writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed
Reads CDs at up to 24x speed
3: If I don't hold down option key and it is without my USB plugged in, it gives me a black screen saying "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". My keyboard is, again, unresponsive. I have to hard shut down my computer.
No bootable media in Optical drive, hence this error.

Under Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and Boot Camp, my 27 inch Apple LED Cinema Display checks out as a Generic PnP Monitor and is shown as NOT HDCP compliant. I haven't been able to find any kind of an .inf file to use. Does anyone have a solution?

Under Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and Boot Camp, my 27 inch Apple LED Cinema Display checks out as a Generic PnP Monitor and is shown as NOT HDCP compliant. I haven't been able to find any kind of an .inf file to use. Does anyone have a solution? Or is Apple's implementation of HDCP (if it's there) incomplete?

I am having this same issue. Im not sure if this is the cause but I think this is keeping PowerDVD Ultra 11 from playing back Bluray under Windows 7 / Bootcamp

Enabling 'File Sharing' on my Mac allows my Macintosh HD and Boot Camp to be visible and writeable on my home network. How can I turn this off, so that only folders/files I share are visible?

So I've been trying recently to get my MacBook Pro connected to my home network. There are two other desktop computers in the household, and I'd like to be able to connect to their shared folders, as well as allow them to access shared items on my MacBook Pro. I think I've read all the documentation regarding this issue on the Apple Support site. I do have administrator privileges on my Windows 7 computer.
Issues connecting from PC to Mac
A couple of days ago, I enabled SMB File Sharing on my MacBook Pro, and in addition to the already shared Public folder, I added another that resides within Movies. Then I went to my Windows 7 PC, and under Network, my MacBook Pro appeared. I double-clicked on it (I cannot remember if I was asked to enter my Mac user credentials; I think I was), and I saw the two shared folders: Public, and the Movies folder.
However, today I went back to my Windows 7 PC, accessed my MacBook Pro, entered username and password, and in addition to the two shared folders, both my Macintosh HD and Boot Camp HD appeared as shared folders, both fully writable. However, under File Sharing on my MacBook Pro, only the two shared folders (Public and Movies) appear in the Shared Folders list.
How can I prevent my Mac from sharing my entire partitions? How can I configure it so thatonly the folders I select to share are actually broadcasted across my home network? Also, it would be ideal if I can access these shared folders from my Windows 7 PC without having to enter my Mac user credentials.
Issues connecting from Mac to PC
I have a user account on my Windows 7 PC with the same name as my Mac, but with no password. When I try to connect to my PC from my Mac, the enter credentials dialogue pops up and asks me to either log-in as a Guest, or enter my User credentials.
The Guest account is disabled on Windows 7, and I assume that's I'm not able to log in as Guest (if it is possible to connect as a Guest without having to enable the Guest account on Windows 7, please let me know). Leaving the password field blank on the enter credentials dialogue tells me that it's incorrect (even though I don't have a password on my Windows 7 account).
Is it possible to access shared files and folders on my Windows 7 PC from my Mac without having to create a password protected account? If not, is it possible to create a password for the sake of accessing shared files, while not requiring it to log in to the account? I'm sorry, I know this last bit more falls under the category of Windows Help.

Sharing files from a Mac to a PC is a different animal. I've never done it myself so you may want to repost a separate question on this topic.
From what I understand, in order to access files from a Mac on a PC, you must log in using your Mac username and password (no anonymous file sharing). Since this is not very desirable from a security standpoint, Apple recommends creating a separate user account on the Mac that is dedicated to file sharing. Give that account access only to the files/folders you want to share. You can then give that user account name and password to your Windows users.

How can i install snow leopard on my mac G5 using a command line and booting from an external usb rom, since my disk i have is not a bootable media

How can i install snow leopard on my mac G5 using a command line and booting from an external usb rom, since my disk i have is not a bootable media

Hi.
You simply can't. Snow Leopard is compiled in Intel binary only.
Good Luck.

Possible to Install Leopard on External HD and Boot on Another Mac?

Is it possible to install the Leopard upgrade DVD onto an External HD, AND THEN use the external HD to boot Leopard onto another Mac? Also, since the upgrade disc is an "upgrade," would I have to first install Tiger onto the External HD?
If possible...
Am I able to create an External Boot Drive that can boot both onto a PPC Mac and also onto an Intel Mac? Or will I have to create separate partitions?
Lastly, can Intel Macs boot from an External USB Drive? Or are FireWire Drives required? Thanks!

Yes, you can install on an external drive and boot the Mac. I do it all the time.
I'm not 100% sure whether the same drive can boot PPC and Intel Macs -- I don't think so because PPC macs require Mac formatting and Intel Macs require GPT formatting to boot.
Intel Macs can boot off both USB and Firewire external drives. PPC Macs can only boot off Firewire external drives. In any case, Firewire is better as it's quite a bit faster.

How to get system and boot on one volume - currently on 2 volumes

I have ended up with 2 hard drives one of which has Windows 7 on one partition and the other one has 2 volumes each with Windows 8.1 installed. This 8.1 drive has one volume (D) marked as Active, Boot and the other volume (C) marked as System.
I want to make the C volume Active System and Boot and have the D volume for storage only. I need to make this change without losing data on either volume. Can this be done, if so which of the many partition operations is the appropriate
one. Would a free download such as EasUS be able to do it?

I have ended up with 2 hard drives one of which has Windows 7 on one partition and the other one has 2 volumes each with Windows 8.1 installed. This 8.1 drive has one volume (D) marked as Active, Boot and the other volume (C) marked as System.
I want to make the C volume Active System and Boot and have the D volume for storage only. I need to make this change without losing data on either volume. Can this be done, if so which of the many partition operations is the appropriate
one. Would a free download such as EasUS be able to do it?
Sorry error in original description - Volume C is Boot and volume D is Active System.

How do I install and BOOT Windows 7 on External Hard Drive?

Please please please help! I've been browsing the net for 2 days straight and can't find a decent answer.
I've partitioned my external hard drive (Western Digital Passport) using Disk Utility.
I have 4 paritions in total; 2 intended for Mac and 2 intended for Windows.
I used a GUID partition table for all 4 as displayed on the below picture.
Although I should note that when my external hard disk is booted in Windows it says that it uses Master Boot Record, please see picture 2 below.
I formatted the Mac Partitions to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and the Windows Partitions to ExFat.
The Macs work beautifully; having successfully installed and booted Snow Leopard on them, and then backed up my 2 internal Mac Drives to them.
However, the Windows ones are a complete nightmare and I have no idea how to installl Windows 7 and then use them from there.
Can anyone offer a solution? I've heard so many conflicting ideas about this that it's made me dizzy just reading it all.
Thanks!

Yeah, I use Windows on bootcamp for both my Imac and my Macbook Pro.
In fact, seeing as my Mac partition on my external hard drive was successful i.e. I installed and can boot from them any time I like, couldn't I just use the external hard drive's partitions' bootcamp assistant and install/boot windows on there?

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