GrantRamsay Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Hi all!, thanks for taking ur time to click on this post, I have abs. no clue what I'm doing so I will appreciate ur patience... **Using iAtkos 7 ** Ok, I have tried booting with, -x, -v, -x -v, -r and it still crashes! I don't know if it's kernal panic or if it's the bootloader (I don't know what kernal panic is lol ) I get to Chameleon v2 and I select my partition (named OSX) and wait for around 4 or so seconds... I then see a new status message on the top-left, reading, "starting Darwin x86" It suddenly restarts my PC after displaying that message!! Any help is v. much appreciated, and thanks in advance ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192339-chameleon-v2-starting-darwin-x86-crash/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantRamsay Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 Hi, new problem, how great... I got it to work up to the apple boot screen and I get the spinning wheel and a square with (what looks like) a 'no-entry' sign lol... I get the following in '-v' "Still waiting for root device" and this will keep repeating ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192339-chameleon-v2-starting-darwin-x86-crash/#findComment-1299989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GL29 Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Hi, I am stuck at the following stage: "starting Darwin x86". How did you passed this ? Thanks Hi, new problem, how great... I got it to work up to the apple boot screen and I get the spinning wheel and a square with (what looks like) a 'no-entry' sign lol... I get the following in '-v' "Still waiting for root device" and this will keep repeating ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192339-chameleon-v2-starting-darwin-x86-crash/#findComment-1300989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantRamsay Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Hi,I am stuck at the following stage: "starting Darwin x86". How did you passed this ? Thanks Hi there. I have learned alot over the past 4 days thanks to nobody on these forums, my own interest and determination have led me to learn about this. I see posts on these forums left un-answered about this topic and if it is so common it should be answered! People are just too lazy... Well I found out by installing one of the ACPI drivers, IDE/SATA drivers, and voodoo kernel (older one) that I have got past the 'still waiting for root device' problem. I am at a new problem now though, a blue screen and my computer has frozen, nothing unusual in the -v mode. I believe it's a problem with my chipset? (Intel a915P) on an old Sunshine Gigabyte board. I am running with intel P4 Prescott CPU. Any help is much appreciated and I respect if u respond to this post unlike others who don't bother!! Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192339-chameleon-v2-starting-darwin-x86-crash/#findComment-1303527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantRamsay Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Hi there. I have learned alot over the past 4 days thanks to nobody on these forums, my own interest and determination have led me to learn about this. I see posts on these forums left un-answered about this topic and if it is so common it should be answered! People are just too lazy... Well I found out by installing one of the ACPI drivers, IDE/SATA drivers, and voodoo kernel (older one) that I have got past the 'still waiting for root device' problem. I am at a new problem now though, a blue screen and my computer has frozen, nothing unusual in the -v mode. I believe it's a problem with my chipset? (Intel a915P) on an old Sunshine Gigabyte board. I am running with intel P4 Prescott CPU. Any help is much appreciated and I respect if u respond to this post unlike others who don't bother!! Thank you. BUMP! Covered even more ground and now have it working, installed HD 3450 .kext etc and after restart no go... So I have a full reinstall to do tomorrow again... Yaaay... All sarcasm aside I'm pretty positive about this now... it goes to show, determination and patience is what gets this working ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192339-chameleon-v2-starting-darwin-x86-crash/#findComment-1304123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mag_Man Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 BUMP! Covered even more ground and now have it working, installed HD 3450 .kext etc and after restart no go... So I have a full reinstall to do tomorrow again... Yaaay... All sarcasm aside I'm pretty positive about this now... it goes to show, determination and patience is what gets this working ! I know the feeling im still new to all this and have posted 3 post asking for help with now ansers at all I have only got to where I am now though sheer determination. I dont understand why people in this forum wont help I am a member of a few forums and I have never known anyone not to get help when they ask on them. I guess its just this one I had issues even getting the install cd to boot, after that when I was in the install screen it wouldnt recognise the hdd I wanted to install to, and now I have it installed to a usb pen drive that boots up to chameleon 2 I pick Leopard and then it shows me the grey apple screen and just seems to hang.............. oh well Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192339-chameleon-v2-starting-darwin-x86-crash/#findComment-1304454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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