apoutwest Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 So I'm working my way through setting up my first Hackintosh and things have been going pretty well. Here is a brief summary of the process I have been through. (I have been using Kalyway 10.5.2) Install 1: Failure wouldn't boot I did a little research and found that some people had issues with the vanilla kernel. Install 2: I left out all of the kernels and just did a very basic install. This booted up fine but lacked basic amenities like video drivers. Install 3: This one started to feel like a real life mac, video drivers working etc. But when installing and updating programs this install would often freeze/crash and I would have to restart. I decided the issue was the ran problem Kalyway apparently has (that it tends to crash if 4+ gigs of ram are installed). So I tried to install the kext found here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88335 I botched the install (in part because my install of Kalyway lacked Kexthelper because I had not known to install it). So now OS X wont boot and I decide to try a 4th install. Install 4: The first thing I did was to download the kext which supposedly fixes the ram issue. I then used Kexthelper to install the kext I downloaded from the above thread. Then I went to the extensions folder and deleted AppleViaATA. I then located and deleted Extensions.mkext and deleted this as well. I restarted and did a repair disk permission in Disk Utility. After this I preceded to install all of my programs without a hitch (no crashing, no freezing). Everything seemed perfect until I tried to load some video files into iMovie and then crash: I restarted and OSX wouldn't boot this image came up: I restarted and booted up in safe mode which worked. Restarted again and everything seemed fine (though oddly the desktop background had changed). Tried to load the videos into iMovie again and this time it froze/crashed: So this is where I am now if I try to load things into iMovie the system crashes. The first restart will not boot, though the second one loads fine. What's causing this crashing? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginelife Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Just dont use iMovie. I dont think (hahaha) that it is essential to run it in order to use Kalyway But anyway I dont have an answer, although maybe this advice will help. Im trying to run my first hackintosh too, but it wont even pass that apple loading screen. >< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apoutwest Posted July 19, 2010 Author Share Posted July 19, 2010 Just dont use iMovie. I dont think (hahaha) that it is essential to run it in order to use Kalyway But anyway I dont have an answer, although maybe this advice will help. Im trying to run my first hackintosh too, but it wont even pass that apple loading screen. ><Not to be rude by why even bother posting a reply like this. I mean you don't need to run OS X on any computer. Windows is perfectly fine for almost everything that most people do. The main thing that I use Macs for is iLife and Final Cut Express if these don't work on the machine then I don't have much reason to run OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apoutwest Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 Anyone have any clues about what is causing this crashing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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