Hi, >From the look of it, though, my Macbook can't even though it is 64-bit capable >hardware. I'm guessing the ability to run the 64-bit kernel has to be enabled.
Looks like Terminal work. I'll have a look. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote: > Hi, > > What Mac do you have? Certain Macs won't do it. > > Thanks, > Blake > > From: chojiro1...@gmail.com > Subject: 64-bit kernel > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:28:43 +0100 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > Hi guys, > > So I figured there had to be a way to boot into the 64-bit kernel, as System > information only shows Mac OS X running 32-bit kernel and extensions. > > So I go looking, and find a hint that you can either do this by forcing PRAM > to boot the machine into 64-bit kernels, editing a configuration or simply > holding down the 6 and 4 keys during boot. > > but I didn't want to take the PRAM approach. I just don't like messing with > nonvolatile stuff in the machine itself. If I was to edit the configuration > of the boot.plist to make it always boot into the 64-bit kernel, it'd > continuously do it until I changed it again. Of course, the downside to doing > that would perhaps be driver compatibility, as not all drivers have been made > 64-bit capable yet. > > So I wanted to try the temporary method of holding down the 6 and 4 keys > together making the Mac boot into the 64-bit kernel. Just once, to see if I'd > encounter problems, and if I didn't have any issues I would change the boot > plist. However, the method doesn't seem to do anything. Of course, I checked > in the terminal if my firmware is 64-bit compatible, and it is. > > I held down 6 and 4 while it was booting up. I tried two different methods. I > tried holding it down as soon as I heard the Mac power on. That is, even > before the startup sound. I was assuming you'd have to do that, since the > boot loader has to contact the kernel after BootX has been handed control by > Open Firmware. Of course, the boot loader has to know which kernel to boot. > I am assuming that you have to hold the two aforementioned keys down before > the startup sound, as it has pretty much already loaded the kernel by that > point, I believe. > > So does anyone know why it isn't working? Well, it seemingly doesn't do > anything. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
