[SOLVED] Updating iAtkos S3 kills my SL install

[Arterio]

I have installed iAtkos S3 sucessfully on my hackintosh which consists of this hardware.

 

Intel E8300 Quad-Core 2.26Ghz

8GB DDR2 1066

Asus P5K-E P35

nVidia GeForce 8800GTX

Marvell 8056 Gigabit ethernet

 

After installing the 10.6.3 base, I update it to 10.6.4, this works flawlessly. The problem happens during one of the updates after the 10.6.4 update. Please take a look at the list of updates below and help me find which one is causing the problem.

 

- Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2

- Snow Leopard Graphics Update

- AirPort Base Station Update 2010-001

- iPhone SDK Compatibility Update

- Safari 5.0.2

- Security Update 2010-005

 

One of these updates is killing my install giving me a panic on boot.

 

When I installed S3 the custom options I chose were the eth driver, and jmicron sata/ide driver for my DVD drive which is running on IDE. I'm also using Chameleon v2 R4 as the boot loader.

[Arterio]

Does anyone have any idea which of these updates is causing the system break on boot up?

 

I could narrow it down one by one, but the problem is when it happens I have to re-install OS X and that takes quite a bit of time. Approximately one hour each time.

[3ofakind]

You do know about -v for verbose mode so you can see when it hangs? Take your time to try to understand the info in verbose mode, lots of useful stuff if you look carefully - it tells you exactly what the problem is usually. Most likely it's hardware related (as it relates to boot), so my money is on the Graphics or Airport.

 

If you use any of the Chameleon derivatives hit any key and and just type -v, there is no prompt, just type. Also hit up or down arrow to get a list of options, including Help.

[Arterio]

I did a boot with "-v -x -f cpus=1" the last time I did all the updates. There was no error message present, and where it hangs is very uninformative. I believe the last thing it mentioned was something about waiting for the DSMOS. But again, nothing saying error or panic or fault, or anything of that nature.

 

If I don't boot with -v it just gives me a message on my screen saying I need to reboot my system and has a power symbol behind the message. If I reboot the system it just hangs with no power symbol or message.

[3ofakind]

DSMOS is to do with Display I believe. Have you tried the -pci1 switch? Other than that, I don't know.

[Arterio]

Problem solved.

 

Not quite sure why, but installing the updates one at a time then rebooting then installing the next update worked.

 

I'm running 10.6.4 with all updates applied. My setup is pretty much perfect, only draw back is that all my internal AHCI drives appear as external disks with orange icons.

 

Thanks for the help everyone.