Rumfy Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Can some one tell me why it is possible for me to boot my Snow Leopard installation with the EmpireEFI bootCD, but unable to boot my Snow Leopard installation with my Chameleon bootloader? If the kexts and boot files differ from each other, isn't it possible to install the chameleon bootloader from the empireEFI cd with their kexts? Now I have to boot with the EmpireEFI CD every time. It seems like my Chameleon bootloader fails on the NVenabler.kext that I installed for my 9800GTX+ videocard. Please help me complete my installation on my Asus P5KPL-VM motherboard, this is the very last step that I need to achieve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Can some one tell me why it is possible for me to boot my Snow Leopard installation with the EmpireEFI bootCD, but unable to boot my Snow Leopard installation with my Chameleon bootloader? If the kexts and boot files differ from each other, isn't it possible to install the chameleon bootloader from the empireEFI cd with their kexts? Now I have to boot with the EmpireEFI CD every time. It seems like my Chameleon bootloader fails on the NVenabler.kext that I installed for my 9800GTX+ videocard. Please help me complete my installation on my Asus P5KPL-VM motherboard, this is the very last step that I need to achieve. With 9800GTX+ you don't need NVenabler.kext. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 With 9800GTX+ you don't need NVenabler.kext. Hi Giorgio after deleting the NVenabler.kext I get the following error. It still doesn't boot my Snow Leopard installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 boot with -s flag and at the prompt type: mount -uw / <return> cd /System/Library/Extensions <return> rm -rf NVDAresman.kext <return> rm -rf NVDANV50Hal.kext <return> reboot <return> If you can enter in the System, youcan add these 2 lines to com.apple.Boot.plist: <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> and without reboot install Chameleon 2,0 RC5 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&id=78437 and reinstal NVDAResman.kext and NVDANV50Hal.kext with kexthelper. With P5KPL-VM the best way is install a Retail Snow Leopard, all works, Sleep, audio, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobblyrainking Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 "It seems like my Chameleon bootloader fails on the NVenabler.kext that I installed for my 9800GTX+ videocard. Please help me complete my installation on my Asus P5KPL-VM motherboard, this is the very last step that I need to achieve." This is a red herring. The kext is not needed but there is no harm i nhaving it. The problem is the bootloader that was installed is not compatible with your system. Otherwise you wouldn't have needed Empire EFI to boot the distro. Boot into OSX with Empire EFI and install [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. If you can boot with Empire EFI you can boot from the HD with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 11, 2010 Author Share Posted October 11, 2010 boot with -s flag and at the prompt type: mount -uw / <return> cd /System/Library/Extensions <return> rm -rf NVDAresman.kext <return> rm -rf NVDANV50Hal.kext <return> reboot <return> If you can enter in the System, youcan add these 2 lines to com.apple.Boot.plist: <key>GraphicsEnabler</key> <string>Yes</string> and without reboot install Chameleon 2,0 RC5 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&id=78437 and reinstal NVDAResman.kext and NVDANV50Hal.kext with kexthelper. With P5KPL-VM the best way is install a Retail Snow Leopard, all works, Sleep, audio, etc. Giorgio thanks for your fast reply, I will try these options tomorrow. Many thanks in advanced for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 I still have problems booting up my snow leopard installation. I reinstalled Snow Leopard because I couldn't get the old chameleon bootloader away. But after the reinstall the old bootloaders still boots... I am now trying to delete every partition that I don't use, because I think the bootloader is installed on a very small partition. Strange .... This post will be updated soon. "It seems like my Chameleon bootloader fails on the NVenabler.kext that I installed for my 9800GTX+ videocard. Please help me complete my installation on my Asus P5KPL-VM motherboard, this is the very last step that I need to achieve." This is a red herring. The kext is not needed but there is no harm i nhaving it. The problem is the bootloader that was installed is not compatible with your system. Otherwise you wouldn't have needed Empire EFI to boot the distro. Boot into OSX with Empire EFI and install [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. If you can boot with Empire EFI you can boot from the HD with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Good luck! Wobblyrainking thanks for your reply! I will try this today or tomorrow, I will report back as soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 Giorgio, I did now completely wipe my pc and installed Snow Leopard from scratch again. After that I installed the Chameleon bootloader you advised me to download. Now I get another strange error, I only installed snow leopard and then from snow leopard the chameleon bootloader. Now when I boot with the chameleon bootloader -v bootflag, I get this error: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 I allready fixed this last error with the DSDT Patcher GUI, but after creating my own dsdt.aml with this patcher I got another new error... This last bit of installing is getting on my nerves.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 16, 2010 Author Share Posted October 16, 2010 Gentlemen, I resolved the last issue myself but when finally resolved I got a new problem . I installed some Kexts in my Extra/Extensions folder and I am now able to boot with my own Chameleon bootloader 2.0-RC5-r568. But when I boot with this Chameleon bootloader my ethernet card isn't working anymore. It says "Not Connected" as if the cable is unplugged. When I look into "About This Mac" Ethernet Card: It says there are no ethernet cards installed. When I boot with my EmpireEFI bootcd my ethernet card works, and when I look at "About This Mac" Ethernet Card it says: ethernet: Type: Ethernet Controller Bus: PCI Vendor ID: 0x1969 Device ID: 0x1048 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1043 Subsystem ID: 0x8226 Revision ID: 0x00b0 Link Width: x1 BSD name: en0 Kext name: AttansicL1Ethernet.kext Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AttansicL1Ethernet.kext Version: 1.0.0 I tried to reinstall the kext in System/Library/Extensions and in Extra/Extensions, both without succes. Can some1 help me please? When booting with my Chameleon bootloader the error is: couldn't alloc class AttansicAtherosL1........... etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 Do I need to edit the plist off this Atheros kext in the Extra/Extensions folder? I don't get why my ethernet card works while booting with EmpireEFI and why it malfunctions when I boot with my own Chameleon loader... Please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumfy Posted October 19, 2010 Author Share Posted October 19, 2010 Gentlemen, I copied the kexts from my EmpireEFI bootcd to my Extra/Extensions folder and I rebuild the mkext file. But still without succes. I do now get the following error and I don't know what to do anymore: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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