ltpitt Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Hi all!My Hackintosh (GA-P55-UD5 - Non UEFI) has been working as a dream for many months.TToday electricity was disconnected for a short time from my house and computer was not properly shut down.After this I tried to boot normally but Chameleon is not even starting, all I get is the beginning of ascii animation with loading (the rotating | ) then it gets stuck and I cannot do anything.I have a sata - USB adapter and I would like to ask a friend to bring his Mac over and try a scandisk with Disk Utility on my not booting HDD.Am I doing the right thing?I have many Video in iMovie that I care about and that is why I wanted to double check with experts before doing anything silly.Thanks for your time and patience, your help is much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 hello are u using a usb to try to boot .. or a installer then select the hd .. and see the msg in verbose boot good hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltpitt Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 Hi!How can I build a boot usb to reinstall chimera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltpitt Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 I am currently struggling...Is it mandatory to have a Mac OS X retail image to build a bootable usb?I cannot download anymore Mavericks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltpitt Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 I have finally installed Mac Os X into VmWare and reinstalled Chimera for Mavericks.I had a full backup of my Extras folder so I thought this was an easy fix.I rebooted and now I always get a "Error: cannot find SMBios" error.After 5 minutes the computer boots successfully but it seems like it is not reading my Extras folder: what is wrong?I already tried repairing permissions from Disk Utility with no success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0000-1248 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Try making a new SMBIOS that is closer to your computer specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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