Bikerbuz Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 At the first boot after installation of 10.4.6 on my laptop, choosing the ati patch, everything works fine. It boots quickly and it recognizes the cd/dvd drive, but as soon as I restart, it loads the generic pcata and booting takes forever. When the startup is complete, there is no cd/dvd drive. If I delete the extensions.kextcache and reboot, it works again! But only an that first boot. As soon as the computer starts up using the extensions.kextcache, the cd/dvd is gone. I´ve tried Scousi's, JaS' and Zappadoc's ati solutions, with the same results. I don´t know what to do next!?! My specs are, Hp Pavillion zv6273, amd 3500+, ati rs480 chipset, ati x200 graphics card, 1.5GB memory. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16518-no-cddvd-after-first-boot-in-1046-on-ati-chipset/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuadESL63 Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 choosing the ati patch, everything works fine. It boots quickly and it recognizes the cd/dvd drive, but as soon as I restart, it loads the generic pcata and booting takes forever. At least you can make it works for the first boot. I can never get OSX to see my optical drives on the 2nd IDE channel after the installation. I have the same chip set on a desktop and MacOSX choose the Generic one everytime for some reason even if I deleted the cache file. However, if I looked at the boot up sequence with the "-v" option I can see that the OnBoard ATA driver was processed but the Generic one is the one that get used... if I deleted/renamed the Generic driver as well I got the dreaded "root device not ready" error at boot up. May I ask which installation ISO do you have? I got the Jas 10.4.6 (patched from 10.4.4) with a PPF patch mentioned in this thread that supposed to have the fix. I tried the kext driver mentioned in this thread but it didn't work for me. The DVD installation disc did boot up fine on the 2nd IDE channel, bit as long as it is installed nothing on the 2nd channel works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16518-no-cddvd-after-first-boot-in-1046-on-ati-chipset/#findComment-107603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerbuz Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 It´s the same installation disc that I used. I have reinstalled a couple of times since my original post, but the only difference is that now it doesn´t help to delete the cachefile anymore. I have to reinstall the ati patch before shutdown to have access to the second ide channel after reboot. So now I´m really clueless!?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16518-no-cddvd-after-first-boot-in-1046-on-ati-chipset/#findComment-107948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Massman Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 i had the exact same problem too. when you boots up for the 1st time, log in as the root user, then delete the genericata and onboardata kexts from IOATAFamily.kext, then delete the kext cache files and repair the disc permissions with the disk utility tool. after that i had no problems, boots fine every time. hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16518-no-cddvd-after-first-boot-in-1046-on-ati-chipset/#findComment-108046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuadESL63 Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 i had the exact same problem too. when you boots up for the 1st time, log in as the root user, then delete the genericata and onboardata kexts from IOATAFamily.kext, then delete the kext cache files and repair the disc permissions with the disk utility tool. after that i had no problems, boots fine every time. hope this helps. Just to clarify: I believe you copy the ATI X200 patch under IOATAFamily.kext after you have remove the old ones (Generic and old OnBoardATA) and the cache files before you repair the permissions with the disk utility tool in the GUI, correct? So the work flow is: (1) Install JAS 10.4.6 with ATI patch (2) After the installation, boot up with "-s" and log in as the root user (3) Delete the GenericATA and OnBoardATA kexts under IOFamily.kext (4) Copy the new OnBoardATA with the ATI fix under IOFamily.kext (5) Log out and let OSX boot up to the GUI (6) Repair the permission of the whole disk with OSX (7) Reboot I have actually tried booting up to the with "-s" the first time after the installation, logged in as the root user, and delete the necessary kexts and cache files. I copied over the new OnBoardATA w/ ATI fix from the other thread before hand and I repaired the permission and ownership in UNIX command prompt (not with the disk utility). I logged out and OSX continues with the boot up to GUI. I reboot the PC and I got the dreaded "root device not ready" error. Am I missing something? Yes, I have confirmed that I have this particular ATI chip set. I'm totally lost... Thanks for the help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16518-no-cddvd-after-first-boot-in-1046-on-ati-chipset/#findComment-108146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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