USB Hard drive = Kernel Panic

[TheQuestor]

I'm pretty new to all this but I have a really good Hackintosh running. I build it to compile XBMC which it does awesomely. My problem is when I plug in my USB Hard drive it imediatly crashes with the You have to hold down the button screen and I have to reboot it.

 

Hardware is as follows

 

GA-G31M-ES2L Motherboard

Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU

4 Gigs DDR2 800 Memory

80 Gig SATA HD

HD 3870 Video Card

 

Pretty standard stuff really. And like I said it runs GREAT until I plug in the drive.

 

The drive works perfectly with all of my other PC's but to make sure it wasn't a file system issue I nuked the volume, so it is blank.

 

Do I need to inject some kind of driver? and if so, how do I go about doing this?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

 

 

[eerieee]

i have just the same problem!

 

Anybody?! Help please!

[mitch_de]

Try to boot with kernel flag (if you have >= 3 GB RAM)

maxmem=2048

This sets your RAM virtually to an max of 2 GB - OS X will (for this boot) not use more.

 

(Must type F8 early in the boot process of Chameleon)

If now the usb plug dindt give KP means: Problem with the IDE Driver (USB is handled as IDE!!, even if you have no other IDE drive in the PC)

 

So you have to find an working (fixed) driver for your IDE Chip (mostly JMIRCRON, some have Marvall)

 

Look here

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127611

 

DL that kext for your chip,

remove orig. (JM or AppleVIAATA)

install the new one with right ok (chown ...)

remove .mkext

i would first reboot with flag -f to be sure that the new is used.