WanKuver Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 hello, i've got snow leopard by hazard dvd and my configuration is this: - ASUS-EAH4670 512 MB Powered by Ati Radeon 4670 GFX card - AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core 5200+ 2,7 GhZ processor - 2GB ram - Network adapter VIA Rhine II Compatible Fast Ethernet Adapter (192.168.1.2) - Asus M2V-MX SE motherboard today i've got brand new Western Digital 320 GB hard disk, just for my - to be osx86! now someone recommended me to get Snow Leopard by Hazard according to my above posted configuration. However, when i boot dvd, and installation starts, very quick my screen goes black and message appears on monitor sayin "NO SIGNAL" and it's black until i restart it... this never happened to me before, never... only when i got new hdd, but i assume it's not his fault as he seems to work good. can anyone PLEASE try to help, advise me... BIG THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicolepro Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Hey, I have this DVD too ! Before booting on the DVD, press F8 (when you see the time bar) and type cpus=1 and after press ENTER. If it doesn't work, type busratio=20 Sorry for my English, I'm French Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 19, 2010 Author Share Posted June 19, 2010 Hey, I have this DVD too ! Before booting on the DVD, press F8 (when you see the time bar) and type cpus=1 and after press ENTER. If it doesn't work, type busratio=20 Sorry for my English, I'm French so do you have this black screen "NO SIGNAL" too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 19, 2010 Author Share Posted June 19, 2010 ok guys, ran into another problem... after trying to fix issue with cpus=1 and busratio=20 nothing helped. as soon as i startedsetup my screen again went BLACK with message on it NO SIGNAL. However installation was still runing and i left it that way, eventually it finished and my pc got restarted. once it restarted i got message on black screen saying SYSTEM CONFIG FILE '/com.apple.boot.plist not found' so i restarted pc once more and ran into chemeleon screen where i had options to boot my osx and it had apple logo to choose. so i clicked enter and then got this KERNEL PANIC: after few restart i got even white apple screen with apple logo, but i couldn't pass that. also, after frew more restarts i got kernel panic with message to restart pc... guys please help, come one thanks in advnc. ps maybe someone can recommend me better distro ACCORDING to my configuration posted above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 remove de sleepenabler.kext boot from dvd install delete kext cd /Volumes/YOUR-VOLUME-NAME/System/Library/Extensions rm -rf sleepenabler.kext or move kext mv /Volumes/PARTITION NAME/System/Library/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext.kext /Volumes/extra or pmVersion=0 (Disable SleepEnabler) pmVersion=17 (10.6.0/1) pmVersion=18 (10.6.2) pmVersion=19 (10.6.3) pmVersion=20 (10.6.4) Bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 19, 2010 Author Share Posted June 19, 2010 remove de sleepenabler.kextboot from dvd install delete kext cd /Volumes/YOUR-VOLUME-NAME/System/Library/Extensions rm -rf sleepenabler.kext or move kext mv /Volumes/PARTITION NAME/System/Library/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext.kext /Volumes/extra or pmVersion=0 (Disable SleepEnabler) pmVersion=17 (10.6.0/1) pmVersion=18 (10.6.2) pmVersion=19 (10.6.3) pmVersion=20 (10.6.4) Bye thanks, i will try this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 remove de sleepenabler.kextboot from dvd install delete kext cd /Volumes/YOUR-VOLUME-NAME/System/Library/Extensions rm -rf sleepenabler.kext or move kext mv /Volumes/PARTITION NAME/System/Library/Extensions/sleepenabler.kext.kext /Volumes/extra or pmVersion=0 (Disable SleepEnabler) pmVersion=17 (10.6.0/1) pmVersion=18 (10.6.2) pmVersion=19 (10.6.3) pmVersion=20 (10.6.4) Bye Mald0n, my frustration with osx86 will hardly come to an end... after i deleted .kext file you told me to delete, i restarted pc and it al went smooth, os was starting but this happened: above apple logo, few seconds after white showed with original apple logo, this thin appeared ... and the spinning wheel "wheeled" for 10 minutes, and nothing changed. i sestarted pc and this thing went away, so i was able to see original apple logo and spinning wheel wheeling, but then again, it didnt want to skip into OS.. now i really don't know what to do, can anyone recommend me any other distro, according to my configuration posted above, PLEASE? Thanks for help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 you ahci enabled in bios? if that does not resolve try enhanced/compatible do the boot with -v and see the error should be the driver for your sata/pata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 you ahci enabled in bios? if that does not resolve try enhanced/compatible do the boot with -v and see the error should be the driver for your sata/pata what's ahci and how to enable it? i was not able to find ahci in my bios, since my bios was last time updated in 2008 or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 sata mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 sata mode i only found something similar in my bios. and that is SATA CONTROLLER: IDE (i can choose RADI too)... help, should i upgrade bios or ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 Can anyone help please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 i cant find what you said to find about SATA in bios.... however when trying with -v this is all i get "STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE" keeps comming up every 10 seconds... and it wont stop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 20, 2010 Author Share Posted June 20, 2010 come one guys, i need to fix this asap :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 come one guys, i need to fix this asap :/ Your MOBO has AFAIK the following chipsets: Northbridge: VIA K8M890 Southbridge: VIA VT8237A so make sure that you select the correct chipset driver in the Customise menu........and initially do not choose a video driver option (i.e. just run in basic VESA mode) until you have OS X installed and running 100%..........then you can sort out your video driver......... Boot the install DVD with -v -x arch=i386 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 Your MOBO has AFAIK the following chipsets: Northbridge: VIA K8M890 Southbridge: VIA VT8237A so make sure that you select the correct chipset driver in the Customise menu........and initially do not choose a video driver option (i.e. just run in basic VESA mode) until you have OS X installed and running 100%..........then you can sort out your video driver......... Boot the install DVD with -v -x arch=i386 yeah i'm trying.. right now on my pc it installs fresh copy...can i ask you WHAT to choose on Customize menu, according to my specs? thanks so mach for spending time on my issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 Your MOBO has AFAIK the following chipsets: Northbridge: VIA K8M890 Southbridge: VIA VT8237A so make sure that you select the correct chipset driver in the Customise menu........and initially do not choose a video driver option (i.e. just run in basic VESA mode) until you have OS X installed and running 100%..........then you can sort out your video driver......... Boot the install DVD with -v -x arch=i386 yeah tried all that and could not get past white screen with apple logo... i think i'm gonna give up cause i see no solution here thanks for trying tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 really no one?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 really no one?? You can try: 1. Switching your display connector to the other port on your graphics card 2. Boot with -s, and type mount -uw / rm -rf /Volumes/"Your OS X volume"/System/Library/Extensions/ATI*.kext exit If you then are able to run in VESA mode sort out your basic OS X system except for video.........then focus on video as ATI graphics cards and OS X are often problematic.........otherwise, use a nVidia graphics card.... BTW Try iATKOS S3 v2 distro........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 You can try: 1. Switching your display connector to the other port on your graphics card 2. Boot with -s, and type mount -uw / rm -rf /Volumes/"Your OS X volume"/System/Library/Extensions/ATI*.kext exit If you then are able to run in VESA mode sort out your basic OS X system except for video.........then focus on video as ATI graphics cards and OS X are often problematic.........otherwise, use a nVidia graphics card.... BTW Try iATKOS S3 v2 distro........ nothing works... ps i've been told iATKOS wont work for me. Can anyone recommend me DISTRO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 nothing works... ps i've been told iATKOS wont work for me. Can anyone recommend me DISTRO? It is not claimed to be designed for AMD CPU installation but you can try it because the Install DVD includes the following kernels: 5 kernels to boot the S3 DVD. qoopz 10.3.0, qoopz 10.2.0, pcj 0.9 10.2.0, atom 10.3.0 and the modbin 10.0.0 kernel.the default is qoopz 10.3.0. "mach_qoopz" for qoopz 10.2.0 "mach_pcj" for pcj v0.9 10.2.0 "mach_atom" for atom 10.3.0 "mach_modbin" for modbin 10.0.0 so you need to research to see which of these kernels is best suited to AMD CPUs.......... then you can try booting with -v -x mach_modbin cpus=1 maxmem=2048 for example. It has installer packages for: atom_kernel pcj_kernel qoopz 10.2.0 kernel qoopz 10.3.0 kernel so you need to research to see which of these kernels is best suited to AMD CPUs.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WanKuver Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 will try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry McMac Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 nothing works... ps i've been told iATKOS wont work for me. Can anyone recommend me DISTRO? Try SnowOSX. Its available on TPB. I guess it works for AMD too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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