kappachampion Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Hi all, New OSXer and poster - I'm having some trouble getting the bootloader to operate properly. I can get into my installed OSX by hitting f8 immediately and selecting OSX or by using the installation disc to boot the OSX Hdd. I installed leohazards 10.6.2 on AMD (HP dv6233se) and selected the following options: legacy kernel Chameleon RC4 AMD Patch ATAPort_Injector nForceATA AppleRTC The hdd is an MBR because I plan on dual booting. If I don't use f8 or the installation media, the computer just sits there with a blank screen for about 1o minutes and then the screen changes to a random static pattern. Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
X!N Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Sounds like you may have the boot order in Bios messed up. So basically it gets to the first device to boot from, sees nothing (nothing in DVD drive either) ansd then sits there. Pressing F8 allows you to choose the boot drive but you should set that up in Bios. Hope that helps. (hit 'Del' key when you reboot to get into bios and then F10 to savethe changes and reboot again). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1692054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 HP DV6233SE is a notebook, there is only one hard drive. Pressing F8 does not bring up the BIOS boot selector, it brings up Chameleon's boot selector. I'm guessing Chameleon is trying to boot the wrong partition by default. You can set which partition to boot by default by editing /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist. Refer to the Chameleon documentation over on the VoodooProjects forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1692055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
X!N Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Okay then, sounds about right. Hey at least you can boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1692067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kappachampion Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 Thanks for the replies. I appreciate this forum as it has gotten me this far and I hope to be able to return the favor by contributing once I know more. HP DV6233SE is a notebook, there is only one hard drive. Pressing F8 does not bring up the BIOS boot selector, it brings up Chameleon's boot selector. I'm guessing Chameleon is trying to boot the wrong partition by default. You can set which partition to boot by default by editing /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist. Refer to the Chameleon documentation over on the VoodooProjects forum. Gringo- You are correct. I only have one drive and I'm able to get to the chameleon boot selection menu. OSX is installed to the first partition on the only disc attached and the info from Disc Utility states disc0s1. I tried adding the following 3 options separately and none yielded any differented results: <key>Default Partition</key> <string>hd(0,1)</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>-rd=disk0s1</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>rd=disk0s1</string> If I'm using these incorrectly or if you have any other suggestions please let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1692577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kappachampion Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 I think the issue is video related instead of boot issue. If I add a timeout for the boot prompt them I get an odd video glyph repeating across the lower 3rd of the screen that expands as if it were the timer count down progress bar. This also may relate to the fact that if I let it sit for about 10 minutes (the amount of time to boot) the screen changes to a static patern (I'm assuming that respresent the desktop loading but in a bad video format). Does anyone have any suggestions of boot.plist settings that will force video settings like vesa so I can see if my suspisions are correct? What video mode would the system boot into if I hit F8 - because that setting seems to work? Any suggestions/references for where to begin with configuring an nVidia go 6150? (i'll search for ideas, but I'd appreciate any pointers) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1692587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Any suggestions/references for where to begin with configuring an nVidia go 6150? (i'll search for ideas, but I'd appreciate any pointers) This card wont work under Snow Leopard. You need at least a GeForce 7xxx series. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1692613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kappachampion Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 This card wont work under Snow Leopard. You need at least a GeForce 7xxx series. Thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate because I'm able to get video when I boot with F8? So it seems like there is some sort of support there, but I'm just trying to figure this all out. Is there a hard requirement of a 7 series card imposed by some core component or is it just that no one has updated driver to support SL? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1693437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 The OS X nvidia drivers don't support your video card. No hardware acceleration, lots of stuff won't work. OS X will be like running Windows in safe mode, only worse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1693447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kappachampion Posted June 7, 2011 Author Share Posted June 7, 2011 I'm going to continued this discussion in the appropriate forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=258586 The OS X nvidia drivers don't support your video card. No hardware acceleration, lots of stuff won't work. OS X will be like running Windows in safe mode, only worse. Gringo - please check the new forum. I have a few other questions regarding this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258254-bootloader-wont-boot-osx-without-f8/#findComment-1693877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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