Apple logo freeze OSX 10.6.6i by Hazard

[m4dn4n0]

After some trial and error i managed to boot and install osx on my pc, but when i restart my pc, the bootloader (Chameleon 2.0 RC5) that i've chosen when i personalized the install doesn't work, so i try to boot it from the chameleon bootldr that is in the DVD, but when i try to boot OSX my pc freezes and it will stay forever on the apple logo screen, and if i try to boot in verbose mode, the only thing tha i get is a black screen...

 

Asus P8q67 -m DO

 

Intel i7 2600k

 

ATI Radeon HD 6950 2GB Sapphire

 

WD Scorpio 110gb (3 Partitions: 1)System reserved(W7) 2)Windows NTFS 3)OSx86)

 

There's attacched a list of the installed kext on my hackintosh, please help me!

Extensions.txt

[Gringo Vermelho]

RC means Release Candidate, which means the version you're using is older than the final version of Chameleon 2.0. And Chameleon 2.0 final itself is nearly 8 months old.

 

Lots of improvements have been made since then - you should use Chameleon 2.1.

 

Your video card is too new for Snow Leopard, the drivers don't support it.

Lion might support it, I don't know, I don't keep up with ATI cards and OS X.

You should probably be running the Mountain Lion developer preview. Keep up with the latest ATI video card news over at Netkas' blog.

 

/EDIT

 

Yes, I was right: http://netkas.org/?p=1049

 

/EDIT #2

 

..but not entirely...there's some info here about the 6870 on 10.7.3:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=275546

I don't know how similar a 6870 is to your 6850 - if nothing else, at least you get to learn the "lingo" and understand what's required to get an ATI card working.

[m4dn4n0]

Thx dude, btw i managed to boot with this http://www.osx86.net/view/2298-nawcom_modcd_0.3.2.html it works like magic!

 

Do you think that i should update to mountain lion ?

[Gringo Vermelho]

Not if your video card works fine on Lion.

 

Mountain Lion is in "developer preview", sort of a test phase, Apple release these to give developers a head start and make sure their apps integrate well with the new OS before it's released to the public. Unless you are a trailblazing hackintosh hobbyist, or you know that you specifically need some feature that's only available in Mountain Lion, then I recommend sticking with Lion.

[m4dn4n0]

Thanks man, also i have another question, do you know some PCI audio cards that work well with Hackintosh?

[Gringo Vermelho]

Yes and no. The problem with PCI cards is that Intel Macs don't have PCI slots, so even if you find a PCI sound card that says it's Mac compatible, that means it has drivers for PPC-based Macs, like the G4 etc. Of course these drivers will not load on a Hackintosh because they are written for PPC architecture.

 

A few third party PCI sound card drivers that were written specifically for Hackintosh use are available, For example there's a driver for the M-Audio Delta 2496 (and a handful other cards in that family) that works quite well, I was playing around with a Delta here for a short while and it worked fine in Snow Leopard with that driver. But I can no longer remember anymore if MIDI worked, also I'm not sure if all the I/Os were working. Also the OS X version of the KxProject driver for Sound Blaster cards will work with Live! and Audigy cards - but not with the PCI x-Fi cards - they use a different chip. Lastly, there's a thread here somewhere where an OS X driver for Xonar sound cards was announced - I don't know if those are PCI or PCI Express though. The driver is not done yet. Of course there may be others out there that I'm not aware of.

 

But why on earth do you want a PCI sound card...does your motherboard even have PCI slots?

 

If you're talking about PCI-E, then thanks for making me waste my time writing about PCI cards!

Any PCI-E sound card that is sold as Mac compatible should work just fine on a Hackintosh as well.

 

Is there a problem with your on-board audio? Normally VoodooHDA.kext will work for that - if you're lucky you can even use Apple's own driver, AppleHDA.kext, but you'll need to do some patching and modifying here and there, only a few PC on-board sound chips will work with an unmodified AppleHDA.kext.

Find out what the make and model is and use google or the forum search to find if there's a way to get AppleHDA to load for it.

 

/EDIT - from a quick google I see a couple of AppleHDA modified for VIA VT1708S for download. Keep in mind that AppleHDA by itself will not work, in order to 'nudge' AppleHDA into loading on a PC running OS X, you'll also need to add the generic HDEF device to your DSDT. Note that there are separate versions of that code - one for nforce and one for intel motherboards. Make sure to use the one for Intel boards. Just use the search to find it, everybody uses it, it's not hard to find. Alternatively you can use HDAEnabler.kext, which does the same thing.

 

If you go for VoodooHDA.kext (latest version at the ProjectOSX forums) make sure you don't have any HDAEnabler.kext anywhere or any HDEF device code in your DSDT. Any one of these will cause AppleHDA to load (that's their sole purpose) and deadlock with VoodooHDA as they both try to attach to your sound codec at the same time.

 

If the sound card is for home recording, you're better off get something external, USB or Firewire, that has tried and tested, modern, official drivers for OS X.

 

Another, cheaper solution, is one of those tiny USB sound thingies, some of them don't even need a driver, they just work right away when you plug them in.