Snow Leopard woes with i7, 4850, and x58. Very early KP

[mattlowe01]

I'm having one hell of a time trying to install any form of snow leopard on my system.

 

I have a gateway fx6800, which im seriously considering returning and building my own system (I only bought it cause I got an incredible deal on it), with a Core i7 920, a Radeon HD 4850, and an x58 chipset motherboard, along with 3gigs of ram.

 

I am trying to do a vanilla install of Snow Leopard by restoring the snow leopard image to a GUID usb key, loosely following this guide

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...181903&st=0

And using the included Extra folder in that download

 

Once the image is restored, I have done all of the following, with all of the same results.

 

Install PC EFI 10.1 package to drive, install 10.3 ontop of it

Install Chameleon rc3 to drive, and install PC EFI 10.3 ontop of it

Install PC EFI 10.3 to drive and install chameleon ontop of it

 

boot with combinations of cpus=1, busratio=20, x32, x64, arch=i386, v, x, f

 

Edited the ATI4800Controller.kext and put gaphics injector in boot.plist, ran Kext Utility

 

Used GUI Patcher to patch my own DSDT

 

put my UUID in the right spots

 

 

Im getting a Kernel Panic very very early into bootup. This is the panic while booting with cpus=1 busrtatio=20 -v

 

npvhash=4095

Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0 Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_X86_64

vm_page_bootstrap: 758490 free pages and 27942 wired pages

kext submap [0xffffff7f80600000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000600000]

standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us

mig_table_max_display = 73

[sleepEnabler] Registering PowerManagement dispatch table...

[sleepEnabler] Calling pmInitComplete()...

NullCPUPowerManagement::init: properties=0xffffff80086dfec0

NullCPUPowerManagementLLstart

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=2 LocalApicId=1 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=3 LocalApicId=2 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=4 LocalApicId=3 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=5 LocalApicId=4 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=6 LocalApicId=5 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=7 LocalApicId=6 Enabled

AppleACPICPU: ProcessorID=8 LocalApicId=7 Enabled

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002cbf74): Kernel tap at 0xffffff7f80623fc6 type=page fault, registers:

CRO: 0X000000008001003b, CR2 0x0000000000000000, RC3: 0x0000000000100000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660

RAX: 0x0000000000000001, RBX 0x0000000000000005, RCX: 0xffffff800875a300, RDX: 0xffffff8008bb2fc8

RSP: 0xffffff8045083d30, RBP: 0xffffff8045083dc0, RSI: 0x00000000000010001, RDI: 0x0000000000000000

R8: 0x0000000000000010, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0xffffff80004ead74

R12: 0x00000000000010246, R13: 0xffffff800875a300, R14: 0x0000000000000001, R15: 0x0000000000000000

RFL: 0x00000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f80623fc6; CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000080

Error Code: 0x0000000000000000

 

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff80450839d0 : 0xffffff8000204ae6

0xffffff8045083ad0 : 0xffffff80002cbf74

0xffffff8045083c20 : 0xffffff80002ddd4a

0xffffff8045083c30 : 0xffffff7f806723fc6

0xffffff8045083dc0 : 0xffffff7f8062411a

0xffffff8045083df0 : 0xffffff8000522e60

0xffffff8045083e40 : 0xffffff800052356b

0xffffff8045083ee0 : 0xffffff80005238d9

0xffffff8045083f40 : 0xffffff8000523ac4

0xffffff8045083fa0 : 0xffffff80002c3eb7

 

Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependincies):

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.3)@0xffffff7f80616000->0xffffff7f80659fff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.3.0)@0xffffff7f806000000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0xffffff7f80604000

 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

Mac OS Version:

Not Set Yet

 

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0 Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_x86_64

System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F4208DC8)

 

System uptime in nanoseconds: 675901728

 

 

 

 

Can someone please point me in the right direction or give me some insight? Thanks in advanced. you guys are great.

 

-Matt

[willks]

Would you believe I have the EXACT same issue. Even the CPU stack trace is the same! I did get past this, and I recall I did it with a new PC EFI "boot" file and Chameleon 2.0 RC1. The post that I downloaded the file from explicitly stated that it was uploaded (for snow leopard) issues relating to ACPI hardware. I'm still looking for this file, so if I find it I will post. The reason I am going through this pain agains is that I decided to upgrade my hard disk. Simply copying the old 'boot' file did not work!

 

I have a P5KC Crossflashed to P5KR to avoid AHCI issues