CamDAX Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Hi Long ago my machine worked without having to change "On-Chip SATA Mode" to "Combined". I used to have it set to "Enhanced" and it worked but now it hangs before tonymacx86 chameleon derivative pops up, unless I set it to "Combined". Because of this I can only access my WD with windows on it and since its a different format I can only read it. Now I used to only have 1 IDE drive and 2 SATA drives, maxtor(200GB) and WD (2TB). I had it working with that. I just had to make sure they were the right format. Now I have 3 SATA drives the maxtor and two WD. I can't remember exactly but I don't think it changed when I switched. Any ideas? Here is my system GA-G41M-ES2L Intel® G41 Chipset System Configuration: *CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale @2.93 GHz *GPU: internal + Asus EAH5770 *RAM: 5GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM '''Component Status:''' *Graphics: Asus EAH5770 DVI VGA Dual Monitors{{Y}} *Ethernet: RTL8111C/D {{Y}} *Audio: Realtek ALC888B {{Y}} * Sleep, Wakeup, Poweroff {{Y}} BIOS changes: *Optimized defaults *CPU Overclocked *On-Chip SATA Mode Combined Hard Drive configuration *WD 2TB SATA (not accecable) *WD 2TB SATA windows NTFS (readable) *200GB Maxtor SATA Mac OSx 10.9.3 Installation Method: *tonymacx86 updated from snow leopard (USB method) *easy DSDT *GraphicsEnabler "No" Oh damit I think it's the drive itself. I switched the SATA cables just now and this caused it to do it in combined mode as well. I think I am going to have to pull everything off it onto the windows drive. Format it and then put everything back. God damit! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302414-boot-hang-before-chameleon-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDAX Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 I don't get why it does because the drive is formated FAT32 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302414-boot-hang-before-chameleon-screen/#findComment-2082479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDAX Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 I fixed it.I think the problem was the drive had a partition flag "bootable" when there is no OS installed in that drive. So I think it thought there's supposed to be a OS there and just hanged because it can't find one.Ubuntu showed me that there was that flag but it couldn't remove it. So I had to repartition the drive exFAT in Mavericks and now I can access the drive from both Windows and OSx. I didn't test Ubuntu if it could read/write. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302414-boot-hang-before-chameleon-screen/#findComment-2082524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDAX Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Ok I was wrong. The drive got corrupted somehow so I had to reformat. I tried FAT which is what it is right now. OS x booted fine before I copied all my files back and now that I did its hanging again at the spinning line thing before chameleon. Is there any way to get it to display a console or something so I can see where it hangs with chameleon? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302414-boot-hang-before-chameleon-screen/#findComment-2083958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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