foodfightr Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 SNOW LEOPARD 10.6.1 is running like a dream. Internet, Power Management, USB, Sound, QE/CI, Dual Monitors, etc. Then I try upgrading to 10.6.2. BIG MISTAKE! It boots to my desktop. If I don't do anything it'll idle there. As soon as I try to do anything... CRASH! I noticed that if I remove my graphics string from com.apple.Boot.plist it will boot with stability again. Only problem with that workaround is that I go from dual 1680x1050 to one 1024x768 screen without 3d acceleration. Help please! Mobo: ASUS P5K Premium Graphics: Geforce 7950 GT 256 mb Install Method: Retail Disc with Chameleon RC 4, DSDT sound tweak and kexts: AD1988bFix, fakesmc, IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector, OpenHaltRestart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushishi Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 You could give some hardware info and you can also try to boot in 32bit insted of 64bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willem12 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 new install.....is the best....keep it by 10,6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushishi Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Willem12 i dont even know what to say to that other then it is what there is expected from a distro user... Why reinstall something that might just be a quick fix... new install.....is the best....keep it by 10,6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodfightr Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 Ok so I tried booting with -x32 and it didn't help matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieBuche Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 why dont u use graphicsenabler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodfightr Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 why dont u use graphicsenabler? Would you please provide more information or a link to a guide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namakemono Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I had the same problem in 64bit mode...Nvidia driver I dont know what kind of a bootloader you are using but for PC_efi etc you boot 32 bit by adding : arch=i386 and not -x32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodfightr Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 I had the same problem in 64bit mode...Nvidia driver I dont know what kind of a bootloader you are using but for PC_efi etc you boot 32 bit by adding : arch=i386 and not -x32 THANK YOU SO MUCH! I booted with arch=i386 and everything works perfect again. Added it to the boot.plist too so that I don't have to type it every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushishi Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Good thing you did't do a reinstall then... Well it is a known fact older nvidia gfx's can give kernel panic in 64 bit with 10.6.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krishna21 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Re-install and keep it at 10.6.1.. Then edit SystemVersion.plist from Core Services and change it to 10.6.2 =D SNOW LEOPARD 10.6.1 is running like a dream. Internet, Power Management, USB, Sound, QE/CI, Dual Monitors, etc. Then I try upgrading to 10.6.2. BIG MISTAKE! It boots to my desktop. If I don't do anything it'll idle there. As soon as I try to do anything... CRASH! I noticed that if I remove my graphics string from com.apple.Boot.plist it will boot with stability again. Only problem with that workaround is that I go from dual 1680x1050 to one 1024x768 screen without 3d acceleration. Help please! Mobo: ASUS P5K Premium Graphics: Geforce 7950 GT 256 mb Install Method: Retail Disc with Chameleon RC 4, DSDT sound tweak and kexts: AD1988bFix, fakesmc, IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector, OpenHaltRestart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namakemono Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 THANK YOU SO MUCH! I booted with arch=i386 and everything works perfect again. Added it to the boot.plist too so that I don't have to type it every time. Happy to be of assistance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djXtreme Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Aha! Another user with a similar issue. Nvidia 9800GT (OC) 512mb - adding EFI string in 10.6.0 works a treat, however when I upgraded to 10.6.2 it KP's whenever I do anything (similar to above). However, when I performed a re-isntall I got the KP's back too - the 10.6.2 update doesn't apply any firmware does it lol? Going to do a fresh (blank harddisk etc) install to see if I can get it back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushishi Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 djExtreme no apple dont touch the bios on the cards... but look in the kp then you can see what kexts that {censored}s up... if you look in the topic starters pic you can see it is Geforce ad other gfx related kexts... it is easy to read what happens in a kp as it will write what kexts that is the problem... it just dont write .kext after the name tho.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djXtreme Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 ooo never looked at that. Will have to make it KP tonight to see what it is KP'ing at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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