Another Piece of Help Booting into Mac OS X

[Mr.Mac Help]

Hello Readers, Its been a couple of days after I installed 10.6.6. My AMD PC can only boot it up into 32 bit. So at the chameleon boot loader I put in arch=i386. Now when I put that in the boot loader it happens like what happens if I boot it in 64 bit. It just goes to a light blue screen for hours. Please don't tell me to reinstall it because I've done that atleast 20 times. My Hackintosh is an HP a6200n with 9500GT graphics. Dual booted with windows 7 ultimate.

[Dellmantt]

I think this is what you are asking, it is not clear. It works if you put it in at the Chameleon boot promt but not if you add/edit it in "com.apple.Boot.plist"

Like this

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1024x768x32</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>y</string>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>-arch=i386</string>

<key>PciRoot</key>

<string>1</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>3</string>

</dict>

</plist>

[Mr.Mac Help]

I think this is what you are asking, it is not clear. It works if you put it in at the Chameleon boot promt but not if you add/edit it in "com.apple.Boot.plist"

Like this

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1024x768x32</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>y</string>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>-arch=i386</string>

<key>PciRoot</key>

<string>1</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>3</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

THX for the reply but what im saying is that when I put it in at the chameleon boot prompt it doesn't work. well almost all the time. At some points it will work. but in my com.apple.Boot.plist it says -forcex64-arch=i386 or something like that

[Dellmantt]

Strange that it works some of the time. Try removing the "force64" from the "com.apple.Boot.plist" just leave "arch=i386"

[Mr.Mac Help]

Strange that it works some of the time. Try removing the "force64" from the "com.apple.Boot.plist" just leave "arch=i386"

 

I did remove it. Its still the same.

[Dellmantt]

Maybe it is not a 64 bit problem.

OK then blue screen...........Graphic problem ??

 

Obviously you had 10.6.? installed and working. You installed the 10.6.6 update and you cant get into OS X now.

How did you get 9500GT graphics installed and working before the update ? Could the update have over written a patched kext?

What else- Have you updated the "Legacy Kernel"? Updated "Chameleon", "Anything else changed"?

And the thing that intrigues me is the statement "I put it in at the chameleon boot prompt it doesn't work. well almost all the time". That means you can boot some of the time, if so is there something different that you do those times?

[Mr.Mac Help]

Maybe it is not a 64 bit problem.

OK then blue screen...........Graphic problem ??

 

Obviously you had 10.6.? installed and working. You installed the 10.6.6 update and you cant get into OS X now.

How did you get 9500GT graphics installed and working before the update ? Could the update have over written a patched kext?

What else- Have you updated the "Legacy Kernel"? Updated "Chameleon", "Anything else changed"?

And the thing that intrigues me is the statement "I put it in at the chameleon boot prompt it doesn't work. well almost all the time". That means you can boot some of the time, if so is there something different that you do those times?

I didn't change anything. Did the same thing alot then it randomly works.