VarroaPC Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Hey Guys, first time post. I have a hackintosh that has been working fine for a few years. I recently upgraded to 10.6.7 and everything worked fine. I have noticed that my video card (9800GT) was not running at full speed so I did some more reading and I came to the conclusion that I was using the wrong kernal extension. I removed the old one (nvinject) and tried to re-activate the chameleon graphics enabler but I couldn't so I re-installed chameleon from within OSX and rebooted and now I get a black screen after the boot loader. Any ideas on what I can do to recover this? I am no expert when it comes to OSX but I am fairly good with Windows. Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarroaPC Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 I get to the point where is says loading Darwin/x86 and that is it. I have tried booting with all the commands I can think of [-v, -f, -x, -s] and nothing works. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1661266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kch0pa Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 try booting from an ubuntu livecd/usb and check if there's something wrong with the bootloader's configs Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1661302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I get to the point where is says loading Darwin/x86 and that is it. I have tried booting with all the commands I can think of [-v, -f, -x, -s] and nothing works. Any ideas? I would try reinstalling chameleon from within windows using dd for windows. The only file you cannot fix that way -- and it might be the problem -- is boot in your OS X root directory. Easiest way to fix that is to attach the disk to another working OS X computer. You might need an adapter to attach you disk drive to a usb port. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1661318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larx Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Insall new OSX to antoher disk, than you might be able to repair old one! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1661323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarroaPC Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 Thanks guys, I'll give these a try. P.S. What is DD for windows? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1661371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 What is DD for windows? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=DD+for+Windows Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1661438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarroaPC Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Ok guys, I can boot into OSX using Hackboot so now I just need to repair Chameleon. I downloaded the .tar.gz file but I have no idea how to install it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1666204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VarroaPC Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 I used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] from within OSX and managed to fix chameleon by re-installing it. It is a little slower now on bootup but it works! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253351-stupid-mistake-now-cannot-boot/#findComment-1666223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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