bdmakana Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hello, I've had my iPC 10.5.6 machine up and running very smoothly since January this year but today (May 17, 2010) I got a totally unexpected Kernel Panic and now my machine will not boot. I'll go from my Motherboard diagnostic screen into this: boot0: GPT boot0: HFS+ boot0: booting boot0: done boot1: startupfile_ Then that's it. I honestly haven't touched any hardware. I've never done a system update. I was in the middle of editing and POP I got this kernel panic (attached). I've been searching frantically for someone that may have had a similar problem and there are a few but there have been no solutions. People are kind of waiting in the wings. I absolutely need to be up and running tonight and the resources are extremely limited and there aren't any that I can find. Does anyone know what I can do? I have a secondary SATA drive with the majority of my content on it but there are a few things I need to salvage from my primary drive. I would be fine with reinstalling the system but I can't afford to lose that data from my primary drive. Does anyone know how I can access the data - copy it to the secondary drive then do a reboot? Best case scenario does anyone know how I can salvage this system without having to reinstall all of my software? Thank you for your help! -Makana Sylva, Los Angeles, CA Just so you're up to speed with what I've tried: I managed to get the system to boot the original iPC disc and I repaired permissions with Disc Utility and it still wouldn't boot. I've tried unplugging my secondary drive and primary drive and no boot. I've tried Zapping the PRAM but I don't even think that works with the hackintosh. I've been searching and searching to no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I managed to get the system to boot the original iPC disc and I repaired permissions with Disc Utility and it still wouldn't boot. Boot from the DVD again and try running a disk repair as well. If that doesn't help... boot0: GPTboot0: HFS+ boot0: booting boot0: done boot1: startupfile_ Those messages are from the Chameleon bootloader. Did you update the bootloader after installing iPC? If you didn't, you can use the iPC DVD to reinstall just the bootloader. Boot from the DVD, proceed as if you were installing normally and under 'customize' make sure everything is unchecked except the Chameleon bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdmakana Posted May 18, 2010 Author Share Posted May 18, 2010 Hi I tried both repairing the disk and reinstalling the Bootloader Chameleon and I get the same exact prompt. The disc takes so long to load it took me over an hour to try both methods. Is there anything else I can do? It seems that the contents of the HDD are still there (60GB) and in tact but something is not loading. Is there a way that I can uninstall then reinstall the bootloader? As another odd thing I noticed - when I installed the bootloader, the machine restarted then got another type of Kernel Panic. I remember when I first installed iPC on this machine I had to install a Kext to accommodate the restart crash. Could there be something there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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