blacknight Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 # v1.4i Main System # logonwindow 10.4.4 # Remove CPUPowerManagement kext after the installation reboot and then create an iso image of the files i gave you and then mount using daemon tools so you can access them inside your virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 Got it. I'll do it in about 20-30 min and I'll post back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Got it. I'll do it in about 20-30 min and I'll post back.GoodLuck For every one:you can always use ubuntu to maintain your osx system all you have to do is disabling journaling for your osx partition so that you can read and write inside ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 OK, historic moment I've installed Uphuck on the HD and I've mounted the ISO with the files in it and I'm about to start the virtual machine using the USB HD. Hope this works. VMware is notorious for problems with Uphuck images. Here goes... It seems like the virtual machine is booting without errors You see, a key thing in VMware and native comparisons is that if an installation os OSx86 works in VMware but the same installation does not work native, then this almost always points to a motherboard issue. Yes, not a CPU issue, not a video card issue, but a motherboard issue. Wow, Uphuck is so much faster in VMware than JaS. Urghhh... I have to go through this dumb registration process..... *OK, I've gone through the registration and it is complete* *I am in the Mac OS X Desktop* *Mac OS X USB HD has appeared on the desktop* *Unzipping the archive with the replacement files* Oh..that reminds me: What version of OS X are the replacement files from? *Copying the replacement files to the /System/Library/Extensions folder* *Replacement complete!* I am gonna reboot my computer now and hope for the best... Get back to you if it works, hopefully in Mac OS X ---->FAILURE once again. This time I got the same error as in Configuration #2 (a bunch of posts back). Atleast I can access the installation from within VMware...Anyone have any more ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 listen you have to play with your Bios a little bit i think it is a BIOS configuration thing so try and don't gave up GOOD LUCK :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 OK I'll play with it a bit but can you tell me maybe what options I should be looking at. USB? Hard Drives? What?I checked my MoBo booklet and there are a few USB options. I'll check that out. I can't however see anything else that may be related to my issue. I know this problem must be hard for you and everyone else to solve, so I'm gonna try out suggestions and stuff until Saturday and then I'll return the USB External Drive to the store because installing Mac OS X is the sole purpose I bought it for.Oh and I'll also post another thread to see if people can decode my error screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Look for AHCI and by the way have you removed all geforce kext's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 No I haven't removed the GeForce kexts. I'll go into VMware and remove the GeForce kexts I find. I also had another idea: If it is a BIOS configuration error, then since the virtual machine's BIOS works and my computers doesn't, I'll compare the settings and see what I find. I will look for AHCI and tell you what options there are. Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalmia Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 @Napalmia you can do that but you have to change the boot sequence in the bios to:- 1-Usb harddive 2-Internal HardDrive. and that is all you need. Excellent, thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 Blacknight, I don't have any AHCI options in my BIOS because my MoBo doesn't support it. See the full specs for my motherboard here:http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/asusp5nd2sli/ I am gonna try removing the GeForce kexts in a sec. I'll get back to you on the results of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 OK, I need help. What files do I delete? There are a few mentioned in the error message: com.apple.GeForce com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFaily com.apple.iokit.IONDRSupport com.apple.NVDAResman I don't know which ones I should delete. I know that I can delete these: com.apple.NVDAResman (GeForce related. See here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35422) com.apple.GeForce (GeForce related. See topic link above) I also deleted the following GeForce crud from the Extensions folder: GeForce.kext GeForceFXGLDriver.bundle GeForce2MXGLDriver.bundle GeForceGA.plugin GeForceVADriver.bundle GeForce3GLDriver.bundle Also wondering, should I just go ahead and delete all the kexts in my Extensions folder for uneccessary hardware that I don't have? EDIT: Weird problem. I cannot find any of these files: com.apple.GeForce com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily com.apple.iokit.IONDRSupport com.apple.NVDAResman I searched using Spotlight and I searched manually but I couldn't find them but heres the catch: All these files do exist as kexts in the Extensions folder without the com.apple part. I deleted GeForce and NVDAResman but I'm not so sure about deleting the IO kexts. Any advice on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 You would not believe this. Mac OS X actually natively booted! But there are still problems. Heres the story. So I deleted the GeForce kexts and then went ahead and deleted the IO kexts too after booting the drive in VMware. After deleting the IO kexts the VM wouldn't boot so I had to reinstall. I reinstalled Uphuck with the Base System, Remove Power Management, and loginwindow only. Just for the fun of it, I booted OS X from the external drive natively using the -x -v switches (Safe Mode with Verbose). To my amazement, OS X successfully booted into the blue screen but heres when things went wrong. A dialog box came up saying: Before we Begin... It said something about being unable to identify the keyboard. Then it asked me to press the key to the right of the left Shift key. In my keyboard, this is the Z key. So I pressed it and a little spinny thing came up (like on the white apple logo screen) and then it froze. So whenever I pressed the key on my keyboard, it froze. My keyboard is a ViewSonic USB keyboard so I thought it had something to do with a USB driver. I then installed the USB driver and booted into safe mode but this time it wouldn't boot. I got a USB error and it didn't boot. So the USB driver screws things up Next, I tried booting without Safe Mode but then I got that error screen in Configuration #1. So heres the plan: I install Uphuck with just the base system, remove power management, and loginwindow. Then I boot from VMware and delete the GeForce kexts and not the IO kexts. Will get back with the results OK, I've reinstalled Uphuck with the base system and remove power management and loginwindow. I'm deleting the GeForce kexts now. OK, I deleted the GeForce kexts and the GeForce errors are gone but I am getting a new error. OS X freezes with these two lines: Apple16X50AACP11: Identified Serial Port on ACPI Device=UAR1 Apple16X50UARTSync1: Detected 16550AF /C/CF FIFO=16 MaxBaud=115200 There is an Apple16X50 kext file in the Extensions folder...maybe I should delete that. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 (edited) do not remove any thing related to IO as it is essential to your system only geforce and disable any serial or parallel ports you have . Some thing else are you familiar with linux ubuntu so you can actually use linux to read and write to OSX partition without the need to boot inside vmware, to do so next time you erase the partition erase it with hfs+ (no journal) and then boot inside to your linux then open the shell then sudo -s your password cd to your partition and then you can do what ever you want to do (i.e. remove files copy files rename files etc ......). P.S remove the files Apple16X50.kext after you disable the serials and parallel ports in the BIOS of the PC not the vm . GOOD LUCK Edited September 13, 2007 by blacknight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 I am not perfectly familiar with Ubuntu but I can remove files using a VM too so..Yeah I'll disable serial and parallel and give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 I haven't removed the 16X50 kexts yet but I did disable serial and parallel in my BIOS and that fixed the error, but I'll delete the 16X50 kexts anyway. Now the problem is that the system hangs with the line: No AirPort Driver FoundAny thoughts on this? There are some AirPort kexts in the Extensions folder I'm pretty sure. Should I delete them? EDIT: I just read another post and it says to wait 2-10 minutes for it to respond with the AirPort error. I'll try that before delete the 16X50 kexts EDIT: Hmm..weird. Now the AirPort thing doesn't come up anymore. This time it hangs at: Still waiting for root device Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Still waiting for root deviceAny thoughts? I never had this problem and so many people have this problem so search will be your best friend and good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 I searched and it has to do something with Mac OS X not recognizing my SATA controller. I think I will have to install nForce4 SATA. Agreed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 press F8 and type rd=disk1s1 -v so if osx is in my second partition on my first haddisk it would be rd=disk1s2 and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 I searched and it has to do something with Mac OS X not recognizing my SATA controller. I think I will have to install nForce4 SATA. Agreed? Yes install SATA nForce4 controller. Chevy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Alright, Mac OS X booted. That's right but the victory didn't last. Heres the story: I installed the nForce4 driver and the Still waiting for root device error went away but I got a AppleUSBHF error or something like that so I just went ahead and installed the USB driver too. Then, when I booted after installation without verbose mode, Mac OS X successfully booted and the Finder and the Dock and everything came up. Then, a dialog box saying Before We Begin... or something came up and it said the it was unable to identify the keyboard and to click Continue to start identification. I clicked Continue and a second later the machine locked up. I rebooted again into Mac OS X and this time I did not click the Continue button and the machine did not lock up. I then opened Safari to get to InsanelyMac forums and then it said that the internet connection wasn't working and I clicked the Network Troubleshooting button. Then I got a kernel panic error. I restarted my computer. Now I got a kernel panic before I entered the desktop, at the Starting Mac OS X... screen. I restarted again and then I got a kerne; panic error at the white apple logo. This is really weird. Its just random kernel panics now. I bet if I rebooted into Mac OS X now, it would boot. What is happening? Could it have something to do with the CPU overheating because I know that my CPU does get quite hot (60-70 degrees C) when running Mac OS X? But that doesn't explain the kernel panics does it? Anyway..something is unstable and I need help. And that keyboard issue is still there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 What are the kernel panics saying? The keyboard thing is sorta normal. It did that for me when I installed as well. I have a Microsoft USB keyboard and mouse. Once you install the driver, if there is one for OS X, then it goes away. chevy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 They say: You need to restart your computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 have you remove appleintelcpupower you know ?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 14, 2007 Author Share Posted September 14, 2007 Yeah I removed AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 well try another kernel and don't install all over again just the kernel so do this sudo -s pass then 1- copy your old kernel like this cp /mach_kernel /old 2- copy the new kernel to the root like this cp /location_to_your_new_kernel / Another thing never boot without -v it is helpfull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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