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willbaker602
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So I'm very new to the entire OSx86 scene but I know a decent amount about computers in general - how they work, what a bootloader is, etc.

 

My hardware:

- Intel QX6700 Processor (Core 2 Quad)

- Intel D975XBX2 (Bad Axe 2)

- GeForce 8800GTS 640MB

- 74GB Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM

- 500GB Seagate Barracuda

- 500GB Western Digital Caviar

- 1000GB Seagate Barracuda

- 2 x CD/DVD Drives SATA (separate SATA controller from the hard drives - Marvell vs Intel)

- 1 x CD/DVD Drive IDE

- Floopy drive

 

 

Ok so I want OS X for Logic Studio 9, which I purchased today along with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

 

By reading all types of guides and doing research for around 4 hours, I gathered that by using Boot-132 I could boot the OS X retail disc and off I go: WRONG. What happens is my computer boots the Boot-132 CD and when it gets to the screen where it says "boot:" and allows you to enter text, I can press enter and it will ask what drive I want via hex. 90 is my IDE CD drive which I booted the Boot-132 CD from; I enter 90 and BOOM! It magically displays "Mac OS X Snow Leopard". Perfect. Once I select it with the -v function, it displays "loading Darwin/86 Kernel" then "loading HFS+ system" I believe. When I installed iPC's OS X 10.5.6 version, it loaded a mess of lines and eventually booted into the installer. (iPC OS X 10.5.6 also installed and worked flawlessly except for not having audio but that was my fault for selecting the wrong kext.) With the retail disc, it only displays those two lines of text then goes black and I have to force the computer off and do a hard restart for it to even enter the BIOS again. I also have to hold the power switch for about 5 secs so I know something's running - the BIOS has been taken over so to speak.

 

I've left the computer running for an hour after displaying those two lines of text - no dice.

 

I have also tried (through iPC) to make a bootable USB drive from the DVD and it was successful. I then patched the drive with Universal OSx86 and it refused to boot - same problem as the retail DVD. I tried reformatting the drive, "restoring" it from the DVD and patching with MagicLeopard or some program like that - same problem as the retail DVD. I also tried both GUID and MBR formats.

 

I am unsure as to what I should do to fix this problem as I've searched high and low and nothing works. I am positive I am running the most recent Boot-132 version (ISO is 10.2MB in size). I have also tried, on a whim, unplugging one of my monitors to see if that somehow made the video drivers screw up - still no sign of installation.

 

I apologize for the essay I wrote but I wanted to give as much detail as possible.

 

I am fairly sure once I can get the damn installer working, it will install flawlessly and I can install the correct kexts (though if someone could give me the links to the ones from iPC that'd be terrific) and off I go. Through all of this, the iPC DVD boots up just fine.

 

Thanks for any help and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

-Will

pdave54
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Sorry to rain on your parade 4 hours of reading wont cut iI suggest you read this

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=198992

Ok you say 'Ok so I want OS X for Logic Studio 9, which I purchased today along with Mac OS X Snow Leopard."

I am not trying to put you down just trying to point out the reality. You may be lucky and get a install straight off, but video may not work properly etc

 

You want snow, IPC boots & you got it installed correct?

myhack installer

willbaker602
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Yeah I installed iPC 10.5.6 without much trouble. Everything worked correctly except audio - the video was perfectly fine and it ran at my monitor's native resolution (1680x1050).

 

I never expected to be able to cleanly install OS X in a day or two days; my expectations were it'd take about a week of trial and error and various things before it finally worked.

 

The one thing though is if I can't even get the install disc to boot, it's just that much harder. That's all I need help with so if anyone has any ideas, that'd be great.

 

Thanks.

-Will

willbaker602
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That post was very helpful in that I was able to get it to install and be recognized by the bootloader but still no dice for actually booting the disk.

 

I've tried many configurations and nothing has worked - I've tried it with and without the chocolate kernel, with and without sleep fix and all other combinations; nothing totally works.

 

I always am able to get to the bootloader then I can select the disk I want to run (Mac OS X 10.6 is what I named the disk I installed Snow Leopard to) and it will boot to the "taking the iSuck out of iHack" screen then there's a kernel panic. It never mentions vanilla or chocolate, it always states the "darwin kernel" paniced at the end of the readout but at the top it states "Please contact the Voodoo Kernel dev-team with a photo of this information" when I never installed the Voodoo kernel anywhere on the disk to my knowledge. I'm not sure what to do. I've also tried the latest Charmeleon bootloader (v2.0 RC3) and it encounters the same problem as the myHack bootloader.

 

 

For anyone who might know, it states:

 

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x004358F3): "unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@/VoodooKernel/xnu=1228.7.58/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1311

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

 

 

Just as another note, when I boot to my iDeneb version of OSX (I installed it on another disk vs Mac OS X 10.6), the display when booting looks to be at 1024x768 then when it actually opens, is at native 1680x1050 but when I try to boot Snow Leopard, it looks to boot at 1680x1050 which might have something to do with the kernel panic? I'm not sure.

 

Thanks for responding though! If I can somehow get it to boot now, I should be good. I'm sure I can google around and find fixes for audio and such.

 

-Will

 

EDIT: I tried adding the ACPI fix and now it reads the same expect that 'SleepCombatability' is disabled. When I install the Sleep fix via myHack installer, it goes back to the ACPI error. If I install both, it only says there's a kernel panic and never mentions the Voodoo kernel, only the Darwin kernel at the end of the readout.

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i have a core duo intel chip on my laptop and i have installed the retail dvd using boot132 cd. a fresh/clean install without any previous version involved. the most important step in my installation step was to disable the Dual Core support in BIOS.

 

Steps i followed:

 

1. Boot with boot132 cd in drive

2. wait till it stops spinning.. then remove boot132 cd and insert snow dvd

3. hit F5 twice.. then snow dvd will snow up on the screen

4. simply click on that and continue the usual OS X installation steps

willbaker602
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Ok after looking and following this thread (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183751), I still have gotten no where.

 

I've made 3 partitions on a 500GB internal hard drive I have (one empty but formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled & named 'OS X Snow Leopard', one named 'Snow Leopard Installer' with the install files and all the changes listed in the above thread and one partition of empty space).

 

When I try to boot into the installer through Boot-132, it lists "Loading Darwinx86 Kernel..." then "Loading HFS+ file system..." then the screen goes black and nothing happens.

 

I don't think I have the correct EFI string set for video but I don't know how to go about that. I don't see how to change the install path for EFIStudio and when I copied the correct .plist file from EFIStudio to \Volumes\Snow Leopard Installer\Extra and then just for a try, tried it in \Volumes\Snow Leopard Installer\Extra\Extensions just to give it a shot and nothing worked - still it boots to simply a black screen.

 

How can I use EFIStudio to alter the EFI string to enable video? Or do I need to do something else to get the disk to boot the installer?

 

Any info would be much appreciated!

Thx

-Will

 

EDIT: When I tried booting from the bootloader on the install disk as was prescribed in the thread listed above, I get "Please restart your computer" whenever the apple icon pops up on a gray background. It does this every time I boot - any suggestions?

 

 

EDIT 2: When I boot via bootloader and -v, I get a kernel panic:

 

Mac Framework successfully initialized

using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff80002cbf74): Kernel trap a 0xffffff80002c1693, type 13=general protection

 

then later

 

Error code: 0x0000000000000000

pdave54
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Calm down people will help you, when & if they have time.

first what is your internal drive sata or ide?

How is it set in bios, is there options how to set it

. I don't know anything about the second method you tried, i assume you erased the drive between the two methods.

is the target drive partition GUID

what options did you pick in the myhack installer (like this kext --Adds a device name to AHCI controllers that aren’t included in the stock KEXT (ICH9 and earlier ICH chipsets).

willbaker602
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Calm down people will help you, when & if they have time.

first what is your internal drive sata or ide?

How is it set in bios, is there options how to set it

. I don't know anything about the second method you tried, i assume you erased the drive between the two methods.

is the target drive partition GUID

what options did you pick in the myhack installer (like this kext --Adds a device name to AHCI controllers that aren’t included in the stock KEXT (ICH9 and earlier ICH chipsets).

 

Ok I apologize - it's just frustrating since there are so many guides and none completely solve the problem.

 

My motherboard has one IDE slot, 4 SATA slots on the Intel chip and 4 SATA slots on a separate Marvell chip. Windows needs a special driver to locate and use my two DVD drives on the Marvell chip. On the 4 SATA slots on the Intel chip, I have 4 hard disks. The one containing Windows 7 I have unplugged so as to keep it from becoming damaged/corrupted. On the same Intel chip, I have the internal hard disk I'm attempting to install Snow Leopard on.

 

The internal drive I am trying to install on is SATA and set to be configured as IDE in the BIOS.

 

Every time I try a new method, I freshly install Snow Leopard straight from the DVD to the hard disk via OSInstall.mpkg.

 

Using the myHack installer, I've tried with and without the following: Chocolate kernel, GraphicsEnabler, com.apple.Boot.plist, AHCIPortInjector, FramebufferDisabler, JMicronATA, NullCPUPowerManagement, OpenHaltRestart, PlatformUUID, Sleepenabler.

 

I have not tried AppleIntelIIXATA but I will try that now.

 

Thanks for responding!

-Will

pdave54
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Yep try the AppleIntelIIXATA

I think it is drive controller problem. I remember reading some thing about having the drive on the first slot, can't remember where now. Try unplugging the other two Hd as well. Even having the drive not set as ide, worth a try

Hey keep at it, you will get there

rajas
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Badaxe2 	
975X 	
Restart not yet working (openhalt doesn't help).
Sound not working (taruga 1.16 confirmed broken). 
IDE not working in 64-bit, 32-bit untested but rumored to work with netkas appleintelpiixata. 
Onboard lan not tested.
Boots in 32 and 64-bit vanilla. 
Need to remove appleintelpiixata or it will KernelPanic.

 

says it works the Vanilla Kernel.. with some known issues..

 

i got the above info from http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.6.0#Intel

 

great site, check it out.

willbaker602
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I don't think it's a driver problem, though I'm not sure; at least, not a driver error with regards to booting the disk.

 

I repositioned it as SATA0 on the Intel chip.

 

Installing AppleIntelIIXATA did not solve the problem. With or without the chocolate kernel and/or Charmeleon and/or GraphicsEnabled - doesn't matter. (This was while it was set as SATA0.)

 

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By replacing the mach_kernel installed by Snow Leopard with the one installed on my external hard drive (iDeneb OS X 10.5.7) along with copying the "pfix" file from the external hard drive and the "970", "anv" and "mach_toh" files from the iDeneb install DVD, it will load past the first screen, using -v, and begin actually booting.

 

It hangs/kernel panics, however, when trying to load com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform and com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart.

 

I know when booting the iDeneb install, it shows the same errors (also colored yellow) but does not stop. It hangs for about 3 seconds then continues loading.

 

I'm not sure if there are other files I should copy to see if it can boot?

 

Thx

-Will

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