CanadianSushi Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Hi everyone, I successfull set up my first Hackintosh last year using TOH x86 9A581 RC2... But since then, many other wonderful install DVDs have cropped up. I'm trying to set up a brand new system. Specs: MB: AsRock 2Core 1333DVI-2.66G P1.10 (BIOS v. 02.58) Proc: Intel 2.4 Ghz 64Bit 2Core HD: OEM SATA 250Ghz SATA Opt: LG Super Multi DVD-R SATA RAM: 1Ghz DDRII533 Using: m-board's on-board LAN, audio, video. Ok. Here's what's happening: Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD: F8 selecting advanced boot options. Have tried -v -x -s but all eventually get to THIS point: ...a lot of kext loading... ...a whole screen full of stuff... BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel=task Mac OS version: 9C2015 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 SCT 2008; made by ToH:xnu-1228/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 _ And that's IT! Frozen. I've also tried this using a different burn of the same ISO... No go. So, I decided to try my old 10.5.0 that I successfully installed on my other PC -- and it freezes too. Here's what I get: Using ToH x86 9A581 RC2: F8 selecting advanced boot options. Have tried -v -x -s but all eventually get to THIS point: ...a lot of kext loading... ...a whole screen full of stuff... MAC Framework successfully initialized using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers And that's IT. Frozen. So that's two very different install DVDs resulting in the same thing. Any suggestions? on-board something causing it? maybe on-baord video? on-board LAN? on-board audio? I tried disabling on-board LAN just in case it was the same problem as another user on here was having with Kalyway... But that wasn't it. Any ideas what to try next? Thanks kindly everyone... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSushi Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 bump. Anyone? Anyone at all? I know that a lot of ppl have had this or very similar problems. Has no one been able to get beyond this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/#findComment-730862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukimo Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Did you try other version such as iAkatos? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/#findComment-730878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSushi Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 I'm going to have a copy of Leo4All by the end of today so I'll give that a try. Aside from that, I wasn't able to procure iAKTOS from anywhere... I'd also be willing to try the BrazilMac method -- but it seems a little more involved and complicated than some of the others. I just find it weird that two very different releases both result in a system freeze before the MacOS Install GUI starts up (leading me to believe that it's an on-board video problem) but yet, it seems that most of the ASRock mboards on the 10.5.x HCL are capable of installing Leopard OOB. As a side note, since it's a virgin system I figured I'd try to load 8.04 Ubuntu on it -- and as soon as I did I got a kernel panic -- leading me to think there may be a HW problem... But I did a complete memcheck and scanned some Ubuntu forums and found someone with the identical problem to mine: seems that newer mboards are all rigged for 64bit operations and trying to load 32bit Ubuntu borked it. As soon as I created a 64-bit Ubuntu LiveCD, everything worked 100%. I wonder if some of my MacOS install woes could be related to the fact that a) the mboard manucaturer overclocks the board by default, and b ) it's running 64-bit... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/#findComment-731091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSushi Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Leo4All: caught in a reboot cycle. Tried some options and eventually got the same kernel screnn -- frozen like the other 2 distros I tried. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/#findComment-731193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cottonswab Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Try turning off onboard Lan and audio and see if you get further than before Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/#findComment-731198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSushi Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Ok. I tried disabling both onboard audio and LAN. Still no love. Also tried Kaly 10.5.1 with no success. Also tried putting in my NVidia GeForce video card from my existing, working Hackintosh.... No change. I'm now officially running out of options. LoL. ------------------ **UPDATE** Disabling all on-board audio & ethernet + Leo4All -- I got a lot further but still locked up. Disabled audio/ethernet + Kalyway 10.5.2 + -v -x options = SUCESS!!!!! I don't know how well this will work in the end, but OS X installer IS running now... I was able to partition the HD and the system is installing as we speak. It just passed its integrity check. Therefore, I consider this issue resolved (at least as far as the install DVD freezing up goes). Thanks, cotton! Kudos. P.S. Anyone know if it'll be safe to re-enable on-board audio/ethernet once OS X is installed? ----------------------- **UPDATE 2** Welllllll.. It looks as though I may have to throw in the towel on this one and just run Ubuntu or something. I got to the point of having finished installing OS X, but each time I reboot I get the Grey Apple logo screen and that's where it stops... Nothing I can do to unfreeze it from there. At this point I'm going to see about adding to the HCL the fact that AsRock 2Core 1333DVI-2.66G is a no-go for anyone wanting to install OSX86. ----------------------- **UPDATE 3 - Final update ** Got it! What a bear!!! This install was nothing like my first Hackintosh -- that one I didn't even need to do a -v... This one needed a -v -x cpus=1 Final verdict: AsRock 2Core 1333DVI-2.66G -- installed with Kalyway DVD 10.5.2 On-board audio and ethernet had to be turned off for install but ethernet working OOB on reboot and re-activation in BIOS KEY: Customize the install and make sure that the cpus=1 flag is activated and then it doesn't hang on the grey apple logo screen. Tested: ethernet, video, USB front/back... All works except on-board audio. Not gonna mess with it -- gonna do the same thing I did with my original Hack -- buy an el cheapo USB sound card. Problem solved. Whew! What a long 48 hours this has been. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102435-install-dvds-freezing-up/#findComment-731221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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