Lambros Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Hello, I have Kalyway 10.5.2, iAtkos 10.5.2 and iAtkos 10.5.5. I would like to not have to download another version if possible.... So, I put in the iAtkos disks, and none loaded. When I put in -v for 10.5.5, it flashed up with some text, then restarted my computer. With 10.5.2 (iAtkos) I put in -v, and had no luck. I had the same problem I had with Kalyway, which is listed below. With Kalyway 10.5.2, I put in the disk, and waited for it to load, and came to the conclusion that it was getting nowhere.... With -v, the last few lines were as follows: Mac OS Version: Not set yet 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 nothing else appeared after that. For -x, I got the following at the end: Loading HFS+ file: (for ages, then the following appeared in a smaller text) Extension "com.apple.driver.com.Apple PCIConfigurator" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components: use only one style So, I had no idea what to do. Here are my specs: System Model: MS-7528 Processor: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz Video: nVidia GeForce 9500 GT (1GB) Sound: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) What should I do? Thanks very much. PS: Im inexperienced at this so please dont use complicated terms. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lambros Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share Posted April 10, 2009 I just got iDeneb and installed it, and I got this as an error when i typed -v (as shown in the image). When I typed -x I got the error to use only one style or something like that. Can someone please help, I really need to install it. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1128850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 @ Lambros How much RAM have you got installed? Is your HDD SATA or PATA? Is your DVDRW SATA or PATA? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1129066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 @ Lambros How much RAM have you got installed? Is your HDD SATA or PATA? Is your DVDRW SATA or PATA? I have 4gb of DDR2 RAM at 800MHz My HDD is SAMSUNG HD103UJ ATA Device My DVD is HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 ATA Device I dont know whether they are SATA or PATA. I tried changing my HDD bios settings, like SMART and all that, with no luck. Sometimes the error message would change when i made the changes. It would change to that one that says "use only one style" Thanks for your reply! Lambros. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1129570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I have 4gb of DDR2 RAM at 800MHz My HDD is SAMSUNG HD103UJ ATA Device My DVD is HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 ATA Device I dont know whether they are SATA or PATA. I tried changing my HDD bios settings, like SMART and all that, with no luck. Sometimes the error message would change when i made the changes. It would change to that one that says "use only one style" Thanks for your reply! Lambros. AFIK you have: Intel G31 Chipset and Intel ICH7 Chipset ACPI 2.0 compliant Audio 7.1-channel using Realtek ALC888 Network/Ethernet using Realtek 8111C 4 x SATA connectors in ICH7 1 x ATA100 IDE connector in ICH7 Max 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 667/800 RAM No Firewire 4 x USB 2.0 ports 1 Ethernet port 1 x PCI-E x16 Graphic Card slot Your SAMSUNG HD103UJ is a SATA HDD and your HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 is x22 speed PATA DVDRW So 1. Confirm if your PATA DVDRW is connected to the end of a 80 wire IDE cable and has its jumper set to Master...... 2. Post screenshots of your current BIOS settings (menues and submenus) and the alternative settings positions..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1129875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 AFIK you have: Intel G31 Chipset and Intel ICH7 Chipset ACPI 2.0 compliant Audio 7.1-channel using Realtek ALC888 Network/Ethernet using Realtek 8111C 4 x SATA connectors in ICH7 1 x ATA100 IDE connector in ICH7 Max 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 667/800 RAM No Firewire 4 x USB 2.0 ports 1 Ethernet port 1 x PCI-E x16 Graphic Card slot Your SAMSUNG HD103UJ is a SATA HDD and your HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 is x22 speed PATA DVDRW So 1. Confirm if your PATA DVDRW is connected to the end of a 80 wire IDE cable and has its jumper set to Master...... 2. Post screenshots of your current BIOS settings (menues and submenus) and the alternative settings positions..... Thanks for the reply..... How do I check the 1st thing you asked? Do I have to open up my computer? I'd prefer not to if I can prevent it. Will get the bios settings for you asap. Lambros. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1129937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 @ Lambros If you find you cannot boot the OS X Install DVD.....your IDE connection/Jumper setting may be the cause.....see here for my write-up on IDE connections..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1129943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 @ Lambros If you find you cannot boot the OS X Install DVD.....your IDE connection/Jumper setting may be the cause.....see here for my write-up on IDE connections..... so i have to open it up? any other ideas? can i tell u my bios first, then we decide from there? Lambros. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1129993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 so i have to open it up? any other ideas? can i tell u my bios first, then we decide from there? Lambros. I am OK with that..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1130013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 Hey, I found this.... http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6 My motherboard is MS-7528 (MSI). It says something about a driver.... XxX 10.5.6 Working cpus=1 flag for installer. Voodoo 9.5 kernel 1 and Realtek ALC888 Driver here + THIS PATCHER . What do I do with that patcher? Does this fix my problem? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1132279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Hey, I found this.... http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6 My motherboard is MS-7528 (MSI). It says something about a driver.... XxX 10.5.6 Working cpus=1 flag for installer. Voodoo 9.5 kernel 1 and Realtek ALC888 Driver here + THIS PATCHER . What do I do with that patcher? Does this fix my problem? Thanks! Your Audio chipset codec is Realtek ALC888 and your Ethernet chipset codec is Realtek RTL8111C......the patcher is just an Azalia.app that patches the ALC888 driver to sort out the sound on your MOBO......it does not fix your booting problem..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1132390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Here are the screens as requested.... Thank you so much for all your help insanelymac, especially verdant, who has helped me the whole way through....(ONLY VERDANT!) haha if anyone else can help it would be much appreciated, but I am very thankful to verdant for all his help, he seems to know all there is to know about hackintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1139754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 I also just took these pictures.... With the setting in those screens, here is my error.... The camera is old, so please excuse the bad quality, it is sorta possible to make out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1139806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 And I opened up the computer, wanting to see what this new PC of mine had in it....It looked like an 80-wire cord connecting to the CD/DVD Drive and HDD Drive, although I'm not really sure what you wanted to see. Attached are 3 photos of the inside. Tell me if it helps, or if you need me to take some more pics. And I also annotated one of the pictures, although you probably know much more about it than me. Thanks! Actually, it seems that the 80-wire cord connects from the CD/DVD Drive by going under the HDD, and connecting through the blue part. To me it seemed that the cord wasn't plugged in, but I noticed that the black connector wasn't connected and it went under the HDD through to the MOBO. What does that mean? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1139902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Ok, I checked again, and the CD/DVD drive has an 80-wire cord (not confirming, but it seems 80-wired) which plugs into a blue port on the MOBO. Thanks! Although, I still think it is a problem with the bios. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1139965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 BIOS settings: Set Primary Graphics Adapter to External Enable PCI-IDE Busmaster Set RAID mode to AHCI (this may cause Windows not to boot, you may have to reinstall SATA controller drivers under Windows) Enable HPET Disable Spread Spectrum The black plug on the gray IDE-PATA cable that's not connected to anything is there so that you can connect another optical drive or hard drive as slave device on the same IDE channel. The red cable that goes to the hard drive is a SATA cable. Type CPUS=1 -v at the darwin boot prompt and see if it gets any further. Verdant, how do you tell whether his cable is 40 or 80 conductor? Is it 40 if the 'pin 1' line is red? Sounds too simple to be true I have a 80 conductor cable that has "80 conductor" written on it..another one has a blue 'pin 1' line. Other than that...how? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Enable PCI-IDE Busmaster in the BIOS. The black plug on the gray IDE-PATA cable that's not connected to anything is there so that you can connect another optical drive or hard drive as slave device on the same IDE channel. The red cable that goes to the hard drive is a SATA cable. Type CPUS=1 -v at the darwin boot prompt and see if it gets any further. Verdant, how do you tell whether his cable is 40 or 80 conductor? Is it 40 if the 'pin 1' line is red? Sounds too simple to be true I have a 80 conductor cable that has "80 conductor" written on it..another one has a blue 'pin 1' line. Other than that...how? Will try right now, yes from the pics i think one of the wires was red or something like that if thats what you are talking about. brb with the results. Thanks! Will try right now, yes from the pics i think one of the wires was red or something like that if thats what you are talking about. brb with the results. Thanks! I cant find that option anywhere in the bios....judging from the screens i posted, where is it? Thanks! Primary Graphics Adapter Set from internal to PCI-E (options were internal, PCI and PCI-E) Enabled PCI-IDE Busmaster NO CHANGE to RAID mode - only option was IDE Enabled HPET Disabled Spread Spectrum Mucked around with SMART - Enabled and Disabled but no changes occurred. Error: Waiting on <dict ID="o"><key>IOProviderClass</key>.... does that have something to do with I/O Device Setting in BIOS? Thanks! found this.... http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...php/t23323.html What is USB Legacy? Someone had the same error after installation, but he disabled USB Legacy. Does that help? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Leave SMART enabled, it's not an issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitori...ting_Technology USB Legacy support enables USB input device support before an OS is loaded (historically it's for MS-DOS). This can cause USB not to work properly in OSX on some hardware. In my BIOS this is set to 'auto' and it's not causing any trouble. If you disable it you won't be able to use your USB keyboard on the Darwin boot prompt to type CPUS=1 -v for example. You could type "what is Legacy USB" into google and find the same information. Did you try booting with CPUS=1 -v yet? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Leave SMART enabled, it's not an issue.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitori...ting_Technology USB Legacy support enables USB input device support before an OS is loaded (historically it's for MS-DOS). This can cause USB not to work properly in OSX on some hardware. In my BIOS this is set to 'auto' and it's not causing any trouble. If you disable it you won't be able to use your USB keyboard on the Darwin boot prompt to type CPUS=1 -v for example. You could type "what is Legacy USB" into google and find the same information. Did you try booting with CPUS=1 -v yet? Yes I did and I got the same error as stated before....what do you recommend??? Is it still possible? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 If your PATA cable is 40-conductor, you should try again with an 80 conductor cable. I don't know how to tell from your photos. I think Verdant might. In the meantime, open your case again and check if something is written on the cable. Look if it says 40 or 80 somewhere. Try another OSx86 DVD - for example iPC 10.5.6 final. It's possible that the DVD you're using now has no drivers on it for the PATA controller on your motherboard. I'm not saying the following is guaranteed to work, it's just something to try. Buy a/borrow someones SATA DVD drive Or buy a converter that will let you plug in your PATA DVD drive on a SATA port. Not recommending any of these in particular - this is just to get an idea what I'm talking about: If you're going to do this, look for reviews of the device first to make sure you get one that works well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Yes I did and I got the same error as stated before....what do you recommend??? Is it still possible? I tried using different versions of osx86 but none were successful. I tried using different versions of osx86 but none were successful. What if i were to boot off USB? Also, how would i boot off usb? how can you extract an image to a USB? is there a program like nero that does it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I don't understand your USB question. Your problem is that you can't boot from the DVD. Of course you could try with an external USB DVD drive. Can I ask why you keep quoting yourself all the time? --- Your IDE controller has some strange settings related to IRQ handling. Try changing those and see if it will boot. Looks like you can set to 'disabled', 'hardwired' and some other stuff. Try all the settings. It looks like 'disabled' doesn't actually disable it but just doesn't assign an IRQ to it. Try disabling on-board LAN, try disabling the parallel and serial ports. Try removing your video card and reconfigure your BIOS to use the on-board video (set shared VGA RAM to the maximum supported amount) and see if it will boot then. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambros Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 What if I were to create a USB which I could boot off to install OSX? Would that fix my problem? I mean like an OSX DVD on a USB....What do you think? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I assume you mean a USB flash drive? Try it and see. In the end I guess it depends on how compatible the USB controller on your motherboard is. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161056-cant-get-to-installation-screen/#findComment-1140231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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