chicken_tenders Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 To start off I have been reading about the OSx86 project and have done extensive research before I attempted to install. So im not some uneducated newbie who is here for cheap lazy help Lets start this adventure let me list my hardware: EVGA NVIDIA 680i - motherboard EVGA NVIDIA 8800GTS - video card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 - sound card CORSAIR XMS2 (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 - RAM Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe 2.13GHz Dual-Core - processor USB keyboard and mouse So to begin, I have two hard drives, both of them Western Digital, one has a 1TB capacity and the other has 640GB. The 640GB drive houses my main operating system Windows XP Pro and the 1TB drive is mostly for my storage needs and recently I have installed Windows 7 on it. The first thing I did was check to make sure my processor was SSE2 or better and it is reported at being SSE3. I went through the process of shrinking my partition and creating an unformatted partition ready for mac formatting. All of this was done on my 640GB hard drive that shares an XP install. I kept the 1TB drive with windows 7 to help fix partition errors and have a safe booting OS in case of total meltdown. I have tried to install several different versions of OS X including: -Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.0 by cclloyd -Snow_Leopard_10.6.1 by Hazard -SnowOSX_Universal_10.6 GM_v3.5 all of these versions either damaged my partition table or would not install (perhaps because they are all snow leopard? heh) iATKOS_v7 gave me the light at the end of the tunnel because it was completely compatible with dual booting XP via Chameleon v2. It installed cleanly without any errors. Upon booting I select that I want to load Leopard and one of two things will happen at this point: 1. I recieve what I have researched to be a Kernel Panic that states I need to restart my computer. 2. The Apple logo sits there with a loading icon below it, after some time an image similar to this will appear From what Ive been able to research I am having driver errors that are causing this problem, I have tried many many different re-installs with specific drivers selected to install and or all the drivers selected to install along with default settings. Perhaps I should install OS X on my drive with Windows 7? Could my sound card be causing driver errors? Maybe it does not support all of the drivers for my motherboard? After three days of messing with this I am ready for some outside help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207637-iatkos-v7-post-install-troubleshooting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicken_tenders Posted January 18, 2010 Author Share Posted January 18, 2010 It has been a day or so... Any thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207637-iatkos-v7-post-install-troubleshooting/#findComment-1388280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormWarner Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Would be helpful to know the following : Which kexts are you loading ? Which Kernel did you choose at install ? Vanilla? Voodoo? Which RC of Chameleon 2 are you using as a bootloader ? Have you attempted to boot into safe mode ? (i.e. use -s at the Chameleon boot prompt) Would be most helpful if you could boot in verbose mode to know what type of KP you are receiving (i.e. use -v at the Chameleon boot prompt) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207637-iatkos-v7-post-install-troubleshooting/#findComment-1388316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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