Drakknar Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 Hi all, I have been silently watching over OSX86 progress and now I finally decided to install X on my spare 160GB PATA disk. I formatted my drive and copied my custom deadmoo image (which works ok under VMWare, and is already patched with Maxxuss 0.5c) using Disk Utility, everything was ok. I was also able to boot into OSX and work in finder using platform=x86pc or the ACPI one, however I experience random kernel panics. As I am quite a noob in OSX (or unix environment in general), where can I check for the cause i.e. some log files (and, of course, a possible solution ) of this problem? Also OSX keep complaining that a USB device is consuming too much power (I never saw nothing similar in XP). Any hint for this problem, too? My specs: ABIT AV8 Athlon64 3500+ (939, Newcastle core, SSE 2) 2GB RAM (4x512 MB RAM) NVidia GeForce 6800 128MB 1x 80GB PATA HD (Primary Master, backup drive) 1x 160GB PATA HD (Primary Slave, HFS+) 1x 80GB SATA HD (NTFS, Windows XP#1) 1x 120 GB SATA HD(NTFS, Windows XP#2) Bluetooth Dongle Sound Blaster Audigy 2 SkyStar 2 PCI Satellite card Thanks for your attention Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3178-random-kernel-panics/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Wow, you have a lot of expensive hardware there... Unfortunately most of it is not going to be recognised by OSx86... For no good reason other than they often cause trouble, I'd pull the SkyStar card and see if the problem goes away. I'd whip out that Bluetooth dongle too. USB devices consuming too much power - that's usually when you've managed to get a USB plug in upside down - ok, joking, I'm sure you haven't done that. But here's the golden rule with OSx86 - if it's not recognised by the OS and you don't need it, take it out. All those devices are going to cause trouble sooner or later. Put them back one at a time when you think you can make them work. The underlying problem is that some of them will be misidentified and the wrong drivers will probably load. When the system polls them, it will crash. Welcome to the world of Unix! For the logs, open your Applications - Utilities folder and start "Console.app" (or just Console if you don't have extensions visible). There you can select the logs icon and look at them to your heart's content. Good luck... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3178-random-kernel-panics/#findComment-21096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakknar Posted October 10, 2005 Author Share Posted October 10, 2005 Metrogirl thanks a lot for your feedback Is it possible to deactivate every single hardware component like as Windows Device Manager does? I ask this because I always use my SkyStar 2 while I am working under Windows, and it's very uncomfortable pulling and inserting the PCI card every time I reboot Concerning my USB devices, I am quite sure that I plugged them correctly but I'll check this out lol Thanks a lot for suggesting the Console.app; I'll check the logs so that I'll try to see what's going wrong with OSX (at least I hope so) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3178-random-kernel-panics/#findComment-21445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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