hars Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Ok so I managed to finally install SL retail on my PC which is as follows: Asus p5k deluxe Nvidia 8800 ultra 4gb RAM 2 x 10k Raptors (configured software raid when I installed) 500gb Seagate drive Installing various kexts and everything to get the hardware working and up to scratch. I download (karma or what) a beta version of Fusion 3 because I could not get parallels to work on it at all (there's a few windows programs that i need for work). The install went absolutely fine with VMware, rebooted and I get this: ebios read error: device timeout block 0x87f948 Sectors 0 THis repeats about 5-6 times and then I get "error parsing plist file" and goes back another 4-5times. After that I get the chameleon loader. Then I get the exact same behaviour as above with the ebios {censored}e. After that it looks like it's about to boot up like normal but stops eventually and gives me that "Waiting for root device" error. Any ideas? I really really really don't want to start from scratch again.... Adv(thanks)ance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hars Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 bump! pretty preeeeze? Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hars Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 can anyone point me in the right direction at least? Something? Man I really don't want to reinstall from scratch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linhldz Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Did you try the most generic method? 1 - Take your hard disk (the one which OSX have been installed to) and connect it to another Mac-like (hackintosh or real Mac...) and re-install the bootloader (Chameleon in your case), PC_EFI, DSDT.aml and some of the most basic kexts (NullCPU, OHR, Disabler...) 2 - Take it back to your system and hit the power button. If you don't have access to another Mac-like, you can always boot up with a distro ( recommend iATKOS v7) and install it (temporary) to another disk. Boot from that and re-install just like mentioned above. As far as i know emulators like vmware and parallels tends to install some kexts, which sometimes can really screw up a hackintosh. My rig (G31M-ES2L/E5300/4GB/8400GS) ran fine with vanilla SL and various programs but begin to show kernel panics after I installed Parallels 4 and VMWare Fusion 2 (not beta, mind you). Sometime it can get to Windows screen, in others it's just KP just when I power on the VM. My solution? Remove them and install windows to another disk, why bother with emulators when you are *supposed* to run windows/linux on your box. CrossOver can always run some small apps I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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