voteneg Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Hi Everyone, Hopefully someone here might have a few suggestions to help me boot into OSX. Hardware: Mobo: EVGA 680i SLI, BIOS revision P33. CPU: Intel C2D E600 2.4ghz. Stock for the moment. GPU: XFX 8800 GT 512mb. RAM: 5.5gb DDR2 (PC2 6400 if I recall correctly.) HDD: 1 Seagate 500gb SATA Drives: 2 IDE dvd drives. USB keyboard and mouse. Note: they only work so long as I have a ps2 keyboard plugged in. Distro: iPC 10.5.6 Installation: After trying a few other osx86 distros I was finally successful in booting into the installer with this disk. I'm using a dedicated hard drive, so the only thing on it is the osx installation. Note: The disk utility reads my drive as a whole as formatted with Fat-32, yet it sees my partition as formatted with hfs+ journaled. I installed with the base system checked, the voodoo kernel selected, as well as the nforce chipset drivers, azalia audio, and nvinject 512mb. I ran a disk check to make sure the burnt image was all right, it checked out and installation succeeded. Problem: I first booted up with the -f and -v flags. It read out a bunch of lines, went into verbose mode, ran through a bunch of lines and then it finally settles down, afterwhich it jumps to a blank screen while the machine remains on. It does not restart. See images below for what verbose mode is telling me. Hopefully someone might be able to identify the problem and make some suggestions for me. It recognizes the HDD and the correct partition I've installed to. It says something about jettisoning the kernel. Is this normal? Wide shot of where it settles on before quickly reading out a few more lines than going blank. The final few lines before the screen goes black. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
danerd100 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 All I can tell you is "Jettisoning Linker Kernel" Is normal. I had this problem before, But I Do not remember how I solved it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Your display card will have two DVI outputs. Move your monitor to the other DVI output and see if it works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voteneg Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 Your display card will have two DVI outputs. Move your monitor to the other DVI output and see if it works Worked, I'm having a few problems with weird display artifacts now. EDIT: Tried adjusting the screen resolution, screen went all blue and I have no mouse. Thanks for getting me this far though, now that i know I can actually boot up osx I'm a little happier. I think from here on out it's just a matter of getting the right kexts instlled and working. I'm gonna do a fresh install with some additional drivers and see if it works a little better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazepo Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 The installed driver for your VGA is not compatible ready. Click >here< Find your model (which is listed) and get the file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voteneg Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 Ok folks, thanks for the help so far. I'm in osx and that a big first step. This is my next problem, video drivers. It only allows me to be in 1024x768. I am also having some sort of kernel panic, here's two screenshots. These both happened when I was trying to download something from the internet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazepo Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Your VGA is not working. Open about thin MAC and click "More info" Under Hardware click on "Graphics/Displays" and post a screenshot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
voteneg Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 Display: Type: Display Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 32 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0611 Revision ID: 0x00a2 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Depth: 32-bit Color Core Image: Software Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Not Supported Also says my cpu is only 200mhz. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Your crashes are related to you downloading dmg files in Safari. As soon as the dmg file is downloaded, Safari tries to mount it and it will crash because of you using Voodoo kernel. Because voodoo kernel is version 9.5.0, you must use seatbelt.kext version 9.5.0 and system.kext version 9.5.0 This is called "seatbelt fix" in the install dvd However as your CPU is Intel Core2, it should work with Apple Kernel, and the voodoo kernel might not be required. If you stick to Apple kernel, you can use the latest patch 10.5.7 which has version 9.7.0 of kernel, seatbelt and system Also for the display to get proper resolution, get rid of NVInject, get the latest OSX86tools and select the EFI Display string for NVidia 8800GT 512 MB. My XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog 512MB works perfect with the EFI String included in OSX86Tools Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazepo Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 As I said, your VGA is not working and you have just gave the confirmation. "VRAM (Total): 32 MB" instead of your 512MB "Quartz Extreme: Not Supported" instead of supported. Have you followed the steps on how to install the drivers? Go again to the posted link(post#5) and read carefully Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/169922-successful-installation-failed-to-boot/#findComment-1173702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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