Firepower-EX Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Why? So, I am a intermediate computer user on my first Hackintosh, and a friend of mine helped me Hackintosh (Dual-boot) on my extremely old laptop (Old Pentium M from about 5 or 6 years ago). It has only 512 MB of DDR RAM, and the distro we used was iPC 10.5.6 Everything works perfectly. For an old computer, animations and stuff work out of the box. Even the friend who helped me to install said I was lucky to be able to boot a Hac on such an old computer. Problem is, I can only boot using safe mode, and even then, it takes over 15 minutes to boot to the login screen. It hangs when I boot normally (both in verbose mode, to check for errors.) Is it an hardware problem, is my computer is too slow, or what? I installed the 9.5.0 Voodoo kernel, Chameleon bootloader and the base system, and acpi drivers. I also installed Legacy Nvidia Drivers and LegacyApple drivers for my chipset. I forgot the full name of the above 2 drivers, but I believe they are the only ones with their names in the list? My laptop's specs are as follows: Toshiba Tecra M2 1.5 Ghz Pentium M Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX Intel chipset 512 MB DDR RAM 40 GB IDE HDD Could it be a bottleneck due to old hardware? But then, I have Windows 7 Ultimate RTM running without a hitch on the same machine. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saycoo Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 i also have the same problem... and i'm also running dual boot (Windows 7 & iDeneb v1.5.7) Boot up time- Windows 7 : about 1 minute! iDeneb v1.517 : about 10~minutes and still full CPU usage is running for 15 minutes at start up! later, i found out that it's the "kernel task" is running above 90% on CPU i search all over the web, still no perfect yet!...it's kind of the kernel/CPU problem, i guess~? .......................... My SPECs CPU: P4 775 PRESCOTT 630 3GHZ HT L2-2M MB : MSI P965 NEO2 VGA: PCI-E NV 9400GT 1GHZ RAM: DDR2-800 2G + DDR2-667 1G HD : WD SATA 160G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower-EX Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 i also have the same problem...and i'm also running dual boot (Windows 7 & iDeneb v1.5.7) Boot up time- Windows 7 : about 1 minute! iDeneb v1.517 : about 10~minutes and still full CPU usage is running for 15 minutes at start up! later, i found out that it's the "kernel task" is running above 90% on CPU i search all over the web, still no perfect yet!...it's kind of the kernel/CPU problem, i guess~? .......................... My SPECs CPU: P4 775 PRESCOTT 630 3GHZ HT L2-2M MB : MSI P965 NEO2 VGA: PCI-E NV 9400GT 1GHZ RAM: DDR2-800 2G + DDR2-667 1G HD : WD SATA 160G I am guessing that too, and slow hardware. EDIT: none safe mode also boots. sorry. just needed to wait EDIT2: Also, it mainly hangs at this message : InterfaceNamer: timed out waiting for IOKit to quiesce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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