Grey screen after installing snow leopard with myhack

JPCanaverde · August 26, 2010

Hi. Some time ago I installed Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard) with iDeneb 1.6 to my external infernal hardware drive connected to my laptop with a USB adaptor. But sometimes it hangs up, maybe because the disk becomes too much hot and it stops. So I decided to install Snow Leopard retail on my internal hard drive. I created a HFS+ partition and in disk utility formatted it to Mac OS Extended Jornaled.

Then, I grabbed my 8GB pendrive, and restored the Snow Leopard .dmg retail disk to it. Then I installed myHack to it, and rebooted. When I gotnto the installer I found out I could not install it on non-GUID partition schemes, but I didn't want to format my hard drive. So, I booted to Leopard again to find more information.

After some googling, I found some guises that teached to install Snow Leopard to MBR partition schemes. So I downloaded the modfied OSInstall.mpkg and replaced the original in the USB drive by the modified. Ran it, selected to install on the partition I created, and waited. Almost on the end it sair Install failed.

So I formated it again and looked at the guide again. It said that if it says Install Failed to customize the installation and disable printers and not needed languages. I did and got a install finished succeful at the end. So I booted Chameleon and booted off the partition I installed SL too. Seemed normal. Grey screen with Apple logo and a wheel... But then it becomes only a grey screen and hangs up at there.

Tried booting into safe mode but it continues the same. In verbose mode I don't SEEM to find any errors but they may be there and I don't see them. I don't know what more to try...

Can you help me?

Thanks,

JPCanaverde

J.B · August 26, 2010

even though the installer said failed on the first time, i usually still works, try to the same thing you did last time to get the failed message, then reboot and use the pen drive to get to SL and see if it works

JPCanaverde · August 26, 2010

When I got the install failed, I remembered what you said to ignore it. So I booted into it. Same grey screen. I thought that was because "the install failed". So I tried to get the "Install succeful", but same grey screen.

J.B · August 26, 2010

what errors are you getting in verbose boot?

JPCanaverde · August 26, 2010

As I said, I don't seem to find any errors... When I get home I'll boot into verbose again and see if I can find some...

But I remembered it said something like:

"The volume is journaled, can't check. Please use the-f option to force checking.".

I did it, but it said the same. Not shore if it is an error, thought.

J.B · August 26, 2010

hmm...well, keep in mind that an alternate method for installing to MBR is to install the another GUID disk, then copy the whole thing over to the MBR disk

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

Ok, the problem was that I didn't have any disk available to format, so I couldn't format it to GUID and copy the partition... I had bunches of GB of important data that I had no-place to backup, even if temporarily.

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But I can boot. I just waited 10-15 minutes (why does it take so long to boot? On Leopard it takes way more less time to boot) and it booted. And I can only boot with the MyHack Installer bootloader, so I installed it to my pendrive, but without the DVD Image.

First, I didn't have Ethernet, Wireless, Audio, laptop keyboard, touchpad, webcam,and audio and mic jacks.

I fixed the Ethernet with Intel82566MM.kext (not shore if it is my card, thought). I mean, it isn't totally fixed, because I have 20Mb of download speed and on speedtest.net it accuses 0.50Mb of download speed. It is very slow loading pages too.

P.S. Audio was working on Leopard, when I installed:

Apple HDA ALC 272.pkg

AzaliaAudio.pkg

...and the Ethernet was working fine. The other problems I had in Leopard too.

I tried a bunch of other cards to fix the other stuff, but nothing worked. Finally, my specs seen by System Profiler:

Hardware Overview:

 Model Name:	MacBook
 Model Identifier:	MacBook4,1
 Processor Speed:	2,13 GHz
 Number Of Processors:	1
 Total Number Of Cores:	1
 L2 Cache:	1 MB
 Memory:	2 GB
 Bus Speed:	533 MHz
 Boot ROM Version:	MB41.0073.B00
 SMC Version (system):	1.30f3
 Serial Number (system):	SOMESRLNMBR
 Hardware UUID:	BF9BD1D5-CB53-520D-8A13-D97E6E93719A

Intel High Definition Audio:

 Device ID:	0x14F15051
 Audio ID:	12
 Available Devices:
 Headphone:
 Connection:	1/8-Inch Jack
 External Microphone:
 Connection:	1/8-Inch Jack
 Speaker:
 Connection:	Internal
 Internal Microphone:
 Connection:	Internal

ethernet:

 Type:	Ethernet Controller
 Bus:	PCI
 Vendor ID:	0x10ec
 Device ID:	0x8139
 Subsystem Vendor ID:	0x103c
 Subsystem ID:	0x30d9
 Revision ID:	0x0010

Webcam-101:

 Product ID:	0xc108
 Vendor ID:	0x064e  (Suyin Corporation)
 Version:	 0.0a
 Serial Number:	CN0316-MM00-OV01-VH-R32.01.01
 Speed:	Up to 480 Mb/sec
 Manufacturer:	Suyin Optronics
 Location ID:	0xfd600000
 Current Available (mA):	500
 Current Required (mA):	500

 Software Versions:
 Menu Extra:	6.0 (600.22)
 configd plug-in:	6.0 (600.27)
 System Profiler:	6.0 (600.9)
 Network Preference:	6.0 (600.22)
 AirPort Utility:	5.4.2 (542.23)
 IO80211 Family:	1.1 (110.19)

(I followed some tutorial that mentioned IO80211Family.kext from 10.4.5 update and said that had Ethernet fully-working, but I couldn't do the last step, the kextload AirPort-something.kext)

And didn't put the ALL system profiler in here, just the general and what't not working.

Can you help me please? Also, can I solve the booting problem? I restarted a lot of times, so, it can't be the first-boot time...

Thanks,

JPCanaverde

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

I added an entry for Mac in Grub2 using this guide:

http://maketecheasier.com/create-a-mac-ent...rub2/2010/02/12

Now it boots way more faster. Really fast.

The next step is to make Grub look as pretty as Chameleon using this guide:

http://ubuntuguide.net/add-os-logos-into-g...menu-using-burg

I'll do it when I have some patience.

But the other problems still exist... Can you help me, please?

J.B · August 28, 2010

what are your specs? (put them in your signature or something) check specifically what ethernet you have built in them look for kexts for that specifically

will also need your full specs to help with the other problems

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

I have specs on the Compaq website, but they don't specify the components, and I don't know where to find that information. Anyways, link for the specs:

http://tinyurl.com/2utfgag

I pasted the tinyurl because the original link was too long...

But they aren't detailed specs... They don't say exactly what hardware I have. It only says the basic...

And how do I look for the Ethernet I have built in? And according to System Profiler, the Ethernet is connected by PCI.

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

Ok, installed hardinfo on Ubuntu and got my detailed system specs (the important things):

-Processor-
Name		: Intel® Celeron® CPU		  560  @ 2.13GHz
Family, model, stepping		: 6, 22, 1 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor		: Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size		: 1024kb
Frequency		: 2127,00MHz
BogoMIPS		: 4255,00
Byte Order		: Little Endian
-Features-
FDIV Bug		: no
HLT Bug		: no
F00F Bug		: no
Coma Bug		: no
Has FPU		: yes
-Cache-
Level 1 (Data)		: 8-way set-associative, 64 sets, 32KB size
Level 1 (Instruction)		: 8-way set-associative, 64 sets, 32KB size
Level 2 (Unified)		: 4-way set-associative, 4096 sets, 1024KB size
-Capabilities-
fpu		: Floating Point Unit
vme		: Virtual 86 Mode Extension
de		: Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
pse		: Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
tsc		: Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
msr		: Model Specific Registers
pae		: Physical Address Extensions
mce		: Machine Check Architeture
cx8		: CMPXCHG8 instruction
apic		: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
mtrr		: Memory Type Range Registers
pge		: Page Global Enable
mca		: Machine Check Architecture
cmov		: Conditional Move instruction
pat		: Page Attribute Table
pse36		: 36bit Page Size Extensions
clflush		: Cache Line Flush instruction
dts		: Debug Store
acpi		: Thermal Monitor and Software Controlled Clock
mmx		: MMX technology
fxsr		: FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions
sse		: SSE instructions
sse2		: SSE2 (WNI) instructions
ss		: Self Snoop
tm		: Thermal Monitor
pbe		: Pending Break Enable
nx		: No-execute Page Protection
lm		: LAHF/SAHF in long mode
constant_tsc		: TSC ticks at a constant rate
up		: smp kernel running on up
arch_perfmon		: Intel Architectural PerfMon
pebs		: Precise-Event Based Sampling
bts		: Branch Trace Store
aperfmperf
pni		: Streaming SIMD Extension 3 (Prescott New Instruction)
dtes64
monitor
ds_cpl		: CPL Qualified Debug Store
tm2		: Thermal Monitor 2
ssse3		: Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3
cx16		: CMPXCHG16B instruction
xtpr		: Send Task Priority Messages
pdcm
lahf_lm		: LAHF/SAHF in long mode






-PCI Devices-
Host bridge		: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
VGA compatible controller		: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Display controller		: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Audio device		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
PCI bridge		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
USB Controller		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
USB Controller		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
USB Controller		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
USB Controller		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
PCI bridge		: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01)
ISA bridge		: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
IDE interface		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
SATA controller		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
SMBus		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Ethernet controller		: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Ethernet controller		: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)






-Input Devices-
Power Button
Lid Switch
Sleep Button
Power Button
Macintosh mouse button emulation
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Video Bus
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600
Webcam-101
HDA Intel Mic
HDA Intel Mic
HDA Intel Headphone
PS/2 Mouse
AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint





-I/O Ports-
<tt>0000-001f </tt>		: dma1
<tt>0020-0021 </tt>		: pic1
<tt>0040-0043 </tt>		: timer0
<tt>0050-0053 </tt>		: timer1
<tt>0060-0060 </tt>		: keyboard
<tt>0064-0064 </tt>		: keyboard
<tt>0070-0077 </tt>		: rtc0
<tt>0080-008f </tt>		: dma page reg
<tt>00a0-00a1 </tt>		: pic2
<tt>00c0-00df </tt>		: dma2
<tt>00f0-00ff </tt>		: fpu
<tt>0170-0177 </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
<tt>  0170-0177 </tt>		: ata_piix
<tt>01f0-01f7 </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
<tt>  01f0-01f7 </tt>		: ata_piix
<tt>0376-0376 </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
<tt>  0376-0376 </tt>		: ata_piix
<tt>03c0-03df </tt>		: vga+
<tt>03f6-03f6 </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
<tt>  03f6-03f6 </tt>		: ata_piix
<tt>0400-047f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
<tt>  0400-047f </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>	0400-0403 </tt>		: ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
<tt>	0404-0405 </tt>		: ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
<tt>	0408-040b </tt>		: ACPI PM_TMR
<tt>	0410-0415 </tt>		: ACPI CPU throttle
<tt>	0420-0420 </tt>		: ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
<tt>	0428-042f </tt>		: ACPI GPE0_BLK
<tt>0500-053f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
<tt>  0500-053f </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>0600-060f </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>0610-0610 </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>0800-080f </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>0810-0817 </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>0cf8-0cff </tt>		: PCI conf1
<tt>1000-1fff </tt>		: PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt>  1000-10ff </tt>		: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
<tt>	1000-10ff </tt>		: RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet driver
<tt>2000-2fff </tt>		: PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt>3000-301f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
<tt>3020-303f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
<tt>  3020-303f </tt>		: AHCI SATA low-level driver
<tt>3040-305f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
<tt>  3040-305f </tt>		: uhci_hcd
<tt>3060-307f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
<tt>  3060-307f </tt>		: uhci_hcd
<tt>3080-309f </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
<tt>  3080-309f </tt>		: uhci_hcd
<tt>30a0-30af </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
<tt>  30a0-30af </tt>		: ata_piix
<tt>30b0-30b7 </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
<tt>  30b0-30b7 </tt>		: AHCI SATA low-level driver
<tt>30b8-30bf </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
<tt>  30b8-30bf </tt>		: AHCI SATA low-level driver
<tt>30d0-30d7 </tt>		: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
<tt>30d8-30db </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
<tt>  30d8-30db </tt>		: AHCI SATA low-level driver
<tt>30dc-30df </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
<tt>  30dc-30df </tt>		: AHCI SATA low-level driver
<tt>ff2c-ff2f </tt>		: pnp 00:01
-Memory-
<tt>00000000-00001fff </tt>		: System RAM
<tt>00002000-00005fff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>00006000-0009fbff </tt>		: System RAM
<tt>0009fc00-0009ffff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>000a0000-000bffff </tt>		: Video RAM area
<tt>000c0000-000c7fff </tt>		: Video ROM
<tt>000e0000-000fffff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>  000f0000-000fffff </tt>		: System ROM
<tt>00100000-7f4d1fff </tt>		: System RAM
<tt>  00100000-00591e32 </tt>		: Kernel code
<tt>  00591e33-007a4e87 </tt>		: Kernel data
<tt>  0084f000-008ddeb7 </tt>		: Kernel bss
<tt>7f4d2000-7f4dcfff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>7f4dd000-7f533fff </tt>		: System RAM
<tt>7f534000-7f536fff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>7f537000-7f5bafff </tt>		: System RAM
<tt>7f5bb000-7f5befff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>7f5bf000-7f679fff </tt>		: System RAM
<tt>7f67a000-7f6befff </tt>		: ACPI Non-volatile Storage
<tt>7f6bf000-7f6fffff </tt>		: ACPI Tables
<tt>7f700000-7fffffff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>80000000-8fffffff </tt>		: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
<tt>90000000-90ffffff </tt>		: PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt>91000000-910fffff </tt>		: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
<tt>91100000-911fffff </tt>		: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
<tt>91200000-912fffff </tt>		: PCI Bus 0000:02
<tt>  91200000-912000ff </tt>		: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
<tt>	91200000-912000ff </tt>		: RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet driver
<tt>91300000-923fffff </tt>		: PCI Bus 0000:01
<tt>  91300000-9130ffff </tt>		: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
<tt>	91300000-9130ffff </tt>		: Support for 5xxx series of Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
<tt>92400000-92403fff </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
<tt>  92400000-92403fff </tt>		: ICH HD audio
<tt>92404000-924047ff </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01)
<tt>  92404000-924047ff </tt>		: AHCI SATA low-level driver
<tt>92404800-92404bff </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
<tt>  92404800-92404bff </tt>		: ehci_hcd
<tt>92404c00-92404cff </tt>		: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
<tt>92405000-92405fff </tt>		: Intel Flush Page
<tt>e0000000-efffffff </tt>		: PCI MMCONFIG 0 [00-ff]
<tt>  e0000000-efffffff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>	e0000000-efffffff </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>fec00000-fec00fff </tt>		: IOAPIC 0
<tt>  fec00000-fec00fff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>fed00000-fed003ff </tt>		: HPET 0
<tt>fed14000-fed19fff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>  fed14000-fed17fff </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>  fed18000-fed18fff </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>  fed19000-fed19fff </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>fed1c000-fed1ffff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>  fed1c000-fed1ffff </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>fee00000-fee00fff </tt>		: Local APIC
<tt>  fee00000-fee00fff </tt>		: reserved
<tt>	fee00000-fee00fff </tt>		: pnp 00:01
<tt>fff00000-ffffffff </tt>		: reserved
-DMA-
<tt> 4</tt>		: cascade




-Network Interfaces-
lo	0,00MiB	0,00MiB	127.0.0.1	
eth0	0,46MiB	0,22MiB	192.168.0.10	
wlan0	0,00MiB	0,00MiB		
vmnet1	0,00MiB	0,00MiB	192.168.213.1	
vmnet8	0,00MiB	0,00MiB	192.168.28.1	
vboxnet0	0,00MiB	0,00MiB

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Just pasted the things that don't work and the processor. If you need the full specs, I generated a report (HTML file, open with your browser):

http://www.mediafire.com/?q5vjebfrl95ubw6

Thank you,

JPCanaverde

J.B · August 28, 2010

not sure if will work but there is a rough guide for the wireless for 10.5 here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=117890

also found this for your wired:

http://osx86.net/f57/rtl8139-works-in-64bit-t3917/

your could try voodohda for your audio (i think you have to remove applehda first a hdahelper if you have it:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161638

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

Followed all the tutorials you gave me, but nothing worked. I removed AppleHDA and HDAEnabler, as you said.

Really weird... On Leopard, I was with fast Ethernet without any additional kexts, and I got sound working with:

Apple HDA ALC 272.pkg

AzaliaAudio.pkg

Isn't there a way to import those kexts from Leopard to Snow Leopard? AzaliaAudio causes kernel panic on Sl... I'll research about Apple HDA ALC 272.

But is there a way to find out what was the kext that allowed fast ethernet on Leopard, and then copy it to SL? I still have Leopard installed, if needed.

J.B · August 28, 2010

do you have HDA for azalia enabled in your bios?

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

What? How can I do that? My Bios doesn't have any settings for OS X...

JPCanaverde · August 28, 2010

Btw, Grub2 doesn't load up OS X anymore (just worked on the first boot...), it says:

Can't find module.

But now the MyHack Installer bootloader boots fast too... So I'm thinking of installing grub2 to Ubuntu root partition (but I don't know how am I going to convert it to a Primary partition without loosing data...) and MyHack bootloader to the MBR.

Then, the MyHack boots Grub2, that boots Ubuntu (all this without notice, because I'll make Grub2 to start automatically Ubuntu).

But first, I had to make shore the Windows partition was booting fine, before I tried to add anything else.

I booted Windows 7, but it said the mach_kernel is missing. Probably it recognizes the Windows partion as a OS X partition, but I don't know why, because it shows the Windows logo on the partition...

Can you help me booting Windows with MyHack? After I can do that, I'll try to boot Ubuntu with it too.

I only don't use Chameleon because when I boot Snow Leopard, it gives me kernel panic.

J.B · August 29, 2010

i think the easiest way to fix windows (though break others) it to boot into the windows install disc and repair the bootloader

i think it would also work if you set the windows drive as an active partition and then add an entry to grub/myhack to boot fro system reserved (to partition you made active)

JPCanaverde · August 29, 2010

Windows boots just fine with grub, but doesn't with MyHack (but it boots with Chameleon). I'll try to boot OS X with Chameleon in verbose mode and try to see why it gives me kernel panic. Then I'll try to fix it... When I can boot Ubuntu, OS X and Windows with Chameleon, I'll install Chameleon to the MBR.

How do I make Windows partition active? And if I repair the Windows bootloader, it will replace Grub, and I don't want to.

J.B · August 29, 2010

sorry, im starting to get kinda confused here with 3 different bootloaders being talked about, if you can try get it down to one

JPCanaverde · August 29, 2010

OSx86 is really weird, and unexpected. First, it booted slowly. Then, Grub did something and it now boots fast.

I couldn't boot it with Chameleon. Now I can. And, I have fast internet! But, now my graphics don't work very well, LOL.

System Profiler only recognizes 64Mb of graphics memory, the screen is a little weird (it fits perfectly my screen, but it looks like it is too zoomed), and the graphics-powered animations are a bit slow.

Booting with Chameleon fixed the Internet speed problem somehow, but now I have the graphics problem... --'

My graphics card:

Video Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

Video Memory: Up to 358 MB

How it shows in the System Profiler:

Display:

 Type:	GPU
 Bus:	Built-In
 VRAM (Total):	64 MB of Shared System Memory
 Vendor:	Intel (0x8086)
 Device ID:	0x2a02
 Revision ID:	0x0003
 Kernel Extension Info:	No Kext Loaded
 Displays:
Display:
 Resolution:	1024 x 768
 Pixel Depth:	32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
 Main Display:	Yes
 Mirror:	Off
 Online:	Yes

One problem fixed, another shows up... Why does Apple not allow to install OS X on PCs? It's promoting them! And we can install Windows on a Mac, why not install Mac on a PC?

Can you help me, please?

Thanks.

J.B · August 29, 2010

check here and see if there is anything: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=80839

JPCanaverde · August 29, 2010

LOL. I need to choose between fast Internet or fast Graphics and right screen resolution.

I fixed the screen resolution and the graphics issue by changing the resolution in com.apple.boot.plist. But now the Internet is slow again. --'

And I can't install Chameleon to the MBR... Grub no longer shows up, now only the Windows bootloader shows. I don't know how can I install Chameleon to the MBR... I did it like the guide sayed... Well, I'll fire up EasyBDC in Windows and see if I can do something.

JPCanaverde · August 31, 2010

Got ethernet working adding the EthernetBuiltIn key in apple.com.Boot.plist. But now, I wanted to install XCode... But it required 10.6.4, and I was at 10.6. Updated. After update, I see a black screen for a moment, and then it restarts...

I booted in verbose mode and it said that VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) didn't have the drivers, or something. I had to use the Pause key to read it, because verbose was really fast.

Can you help me with this, please?

J.B · September 1, 2010

try adding a GraphicsFix or GraphicsEnabler entry to the plist, i can't remember the actual entry so check it in the chameleon help files

JPCanaverde · September 2, 2010

Already had Graphicsenabler on com.apple.Boot.plist, but I googled Graphicsfix and found nothing.

Btw, created a seperate topic to this:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1541765

Thanks.

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