How an installation on separate hard drive can affect an existing installation? (on another HD)

[bouloi75]

Hi,

I was having a Leopard 10.5.5 working perfectly (but failed with update, so I kept this version). Now I tried to install Snow Leopard (myHack installer guide rev.5) on another hard drive. Snow Leopard is working but I still have issue with sound, graphic card.

 

Something which looks very strange for me, is that now, my Leopard installation (on another hard drive) is not working anymore. It loops indefinitely during boot with a message "Crash report...kextd...". When I look at the log it says:

Process:         kextd [231]
Path:            /usr/libexec/kextd
Identifier:      kextd
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [1]

Date/Time:       2010-01-10 16:18:03.362 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000000064a000
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libz.1.dylib                      0x966b8845 inflate_fast + 1156
1   libz.1.dylib                      0x966b5b61 inflate + 243
2   com.apple.framework.IOKit         0x95882d92 _KXKextManagerAddRepositoryFromCacheFile + 513
3   com.apple.framework.IOKit         0x95884f3e KXKextManagerAddRepositoryDirectory + 1225
4   kextd                             0x00003280 0x1000 + 8832
5   kextd                             0x00001b4e 0x1000 + 2894

 

I can boot my Leopard 10.5.5 either with -x or -v. I tried to repair permissions, recreate kext cache but still the same problem at boot time.

Lastly, I realized that when I boot with -f, my Leopard installation works just fine (audio, network, graphic card, multi screen).

 

So my question is. How can I boot normally (no option) and have the same result as the one when I boot with -v (in other words, how to have same "configuration" in normal mode as with the -v option)

 

I hope it is clear :-)

 

Thanks.

 

Config:

Asus P5E / E8400 / OSX 10.5.5 (9F33) / kernel 9.5.0 / ATI Radeon X1950GT (dual monitor)

[Lord_Jeremy]

Sounds like your chameleon isn't loading the /Extra kexts. -f may somehow force it to load everything properly while normal boot does not. This actually might be a bug in Chameleon. I'd try a newer version.