c.craigen Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I have an issue after a bootloader update. I'm running (or was, anyways) mostly vanilla Leopard with the Voodoo2 kernel on a P5GD1-VM mobo with an SSE3 Pentium 4 on it. I was running Chameleon 2 RC2 alright but just bought an ATI HD4890 and needed the injector capabilities of PCEFI 10.5 to use the card. I swapped out the boot file on the EFI partition and on next boot I got a kernel panic in the very early stages of bootup complaining about NVRAM and EFI (I'll crash it again and grab the exact kext identifiers when I get back). With boot flag experimentation and kernel swapping I managed to get it to boot once using safe boot on Qoopz 9.8v2, but it took forever and AppleDecrypt kept complaining. I tried removing EFIRuntime and that caused kextd to crash over and over again. Anything except a Qoopz safe boot will crash. So since I wanted to upgrade to Snow Leopard at some point anyways, I loaded up a flash drive with it and the Qoopz/Nawcom 10.0 and 10.2 kernels. Flash drive crashed on boot, complaining about IOATAFamily (I have the ata, ahci, and blockstorage injectors from chameleon installed to /Extra on the flash drive). Tried the DSDT fix, nothing. Tried Netkas-patched IOATAFamily, nothing. Tried a few other patched IOATAFamily kexts, nothing. Finally tried one of the above (can't remember specifically which kext patch) without using the -f tag on boot and it booted fine, but doesn't show my hard drives. Left it installed and trashed the kext cache manually, it crashes again. If I put Chameleon 2 RC2 back on my hard drive, everything works peachy except the HD4890. I ordered the 4890 for an i7 build I'm in the middle of but had to postpone the build due to Christmas presents sucking up my funds for the processor itself. It's not the end of the world if I have to put the GeForce 8800GS back, I just really appreciate the extra gaming horsepower. Any ideas as to how I can fix the myriad of problems that doesn't involve removing the shiny new graphics card or going without acceleration? A fix for the Snow Leopard issue takes precedence, I still want that upgrade. This is driving me nuts, I've built 3 hackintoshes and I've never had this much trouble with one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202330-bootloader-swap-caused-all-hell-to-break-loose/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_christer Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 sorry mate i won't be much help for you since i never used pc efi nor SL. I would just recommend asking your question in the netkas forums. since this post installation discussion is pretty deserted and there are not many people who seem to give support in this section. http://forum.netkas.org/ good luck with that! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202330-bootloader-swap-caused-all-hell-to-break-loose/#findComment-1359375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.craigen Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Netkas forums haven't been posted on since September Well, this is both a blessing and a curse, I suppose. Haiku (the machine giving me trouble) was my gaming rig (mediocre, but faster than my first-gen Macbook Pro) and this is exam time. The problem is that XP and Vista still work on it, so it doesn't actually prevent me from playing I've been gnawing on this problem all week. I tried the swap once before about a month ago with PCEFI 10.4 and had the same problem... didn't have the graphics card back then, so it wasn't a big deal to simply swap back to RC2. I figured the latest and greatest PCEFI might fix the problem. It just strikes me as an odd problem to happen with a bootloader switch when they are based on the same code. The Snow Leopard USB stick I'm using worked flawlessly on Ambrosia (my GF's freakin' sweet gaming rig)... It appears that the IOATAFamily problems are different from the one most people have. Mine never gets as far as the PIIXATA plugin. When I can find a few minutes I'll swap the Leopard driver in and see if that does anything. The P5GD1-VM can't go into AHCI mode, but that didn't cause problems before. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202330-bootloader-swap-caused-all-hell-to-break-loose/#findComment-1359681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scwhar Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Try chameleon RC4, has ATi injection now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202330-bootloader-swap-caused-all-hell-to-break-loose/#findComment-1359873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_christer Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 does anyone know if the ati injection could also work for my x1950xt? then i could finally update to 10.5.8... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202330-bootloader-swap-caused-all-hell-to-break-loose/#findComment-1359984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.craigen Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 ... the hell??? Leopard started working again randomly. I didn't do anything! I thought only windows did stuff like that.... Snow Leopard flash drive now has a different crash. Significantly less information provided this time around. Working on it. EDIT: @$@#$%%# Works with the Leopard kext. Why doesn't it work with a patched Snow Leopard version if it works with an older copy?!? Oh well. I hate this machine I need to finish Blackhat so I can stuff this thing behind the TV and forget about updates completely. EDIT 2 Ok, but it doesn't work after install with the Leopard kext. *throws machine out window* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202330-bootloader-swap-caused-all-hell-to-break-loose/#findComment-1367571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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