erbic Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Well, I installed the Myzar release of 10.4.6 onto a USB external drive. Everything seemed to go nicely, and the tri-boot I have set up seems to be working. Except... I can't make OS X boot. It runs through a whole lot of text too fast to read, then gives me this. (Sorry about the flash, but it's not obliterating anything and it's not in proper focus without the flash.) I gather it's a kernel panic, but what's causing it? Any help in getting this to work would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 ...anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Give specifics of your machine: processor, motherboard, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 Right then... My Soon-To-Be Tri-Boot Hackintosh: Dell Dimension XPS Gen4 Processor: P4 Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz; supports SSE3 Motherboard: Dell-branded motherboard with Intel i925X chipset Memory: 4 GB dual-channel DDR2 Hard Disks: OSX is currently installed on a 40GB partition of a 160GB IDE HDD in a USB enclosure XP Home and Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 are dual-booting off of two (2) 74GB Western Digital SATA HDDs in a RAID 0 array Graphics: ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum (PCI Express) Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI card To me, this seems to be a somewhat unusual kernel panic, since there's no kext referenced. But I have almost no idea how to read these errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 I believe that your processor has hyperthreading. Try turning that off in BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 And I believe you're correct. I'll try disabling HT when I get back on that computer tomorrow morning. Does OSX not like hyperthreading? I could see why that would be true, since it doesn't seem to like dual-core chips either. But that may be the completely wrong reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Does OSX not like hyperthreading? Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. ...it doesn't seem to like dual-core chips either. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I have a dual core chip that runs fine. A few other people with the same chip have had problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 No luck. With or without hyperthreading, I get an identical kernel panic on boot. Anyone have any other ideas? Might it be a good idea to torrent the JaS 10.4.7 release and install that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 No luck. With or without hyperthreading, I get an identical kernel panic on boot. Anyone have any other ideas? Might it be a good idea to torrent the JaS 10.4.7 release and install that? dont get the 10.4.7 jas get the 10.4.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 Are you saying the JaS 10.4.6 might be better than the Myzar 10.4.6? Only reason I torrented the Myzar one is because it was downloading faster than the JaS one. I'm going to try and reinstall OSX again with some different settings. If it doesn't work I'll get the JaS version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troisd Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I could be mistaken but from I read in this forum is that Myzar is great for AMD and JaS is great for Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 Well, it doesn't matter now. I reinstalled OSX Myzar and deactivated the SSE3_ONLY_KERNEL extension whatchamathing. And it booted. So now I have a working OSX86 installation. I need some help with hardware, specifically my Ethernet card, but that's going in a separate thread. Thanks to everyone who posted here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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