Tahosa Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 So I have an interesting problem I can't seem to find out about anywhere. I was able to successfully install retail SL (10.6, no updates) on my setup (see sig) but when I start up for the first time and it tries to load the intro movie, I get the "This computer must restart" message which looks like a kernel panic to my newbie eyes, and I suspect it has to to with the graphics kexts I am using. I am not exactly sure which, so any pointers would be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tahosa Posted June 1, 2010 Author Share Posted June 1, 2010 Any ideas? I am still new at this so I am stumped. As far as I can tell the kernel loads just fine, no errors when I specify -v, but if I do, it hangs on a black screen. If I don't specify -v, I get the "This computer must restart" error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tahosa Posted June 2, 2010 Author Share Posted June 2, 2010 Turns out it was a kext problem. As I did some more research I found a couple threads describing a similar problem, but only with a hang rather than a panic. I removed all of kexts from /S/L/E which started with NV* (rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/NV*) and it started right up. Now I need to find a way to get graphics acceleration back without breaking things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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