e lo Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I had a working install of JaS's version of 10.4.7. I initially installed it with the SSE2 patch, because the installer reported that it saw SSE and SSE2, but not SSE3. This confused me, 'cause I've got a P4 Prescott, and CPU-Z detects the SSE3 instruction set. Some helpful person in my other thread told me that the install runs on a SSE2 kernel, and so is ill-equipped to detect SSE3. Accordingly, after fooling around with other stuff for a while tonight, I decided to try to re-install 10.4.7, this time with the SSE3 patch. No joy. I now get a kernel panic upon starting up, and it looks to be the same thing that I got when I installed a probable bad burn of 10.4.6. With that burn, I'd get EBIOS errors occasionally, but I was finally able to install, only to get a kernel panic later. When I run in verbose mode, I see it load a whole boatload of HFS+ files, etc, and the the screen goes blank momentarily, and comes back with the message: "panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0019C352): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 0=divide error), registers:" and the the following registers, each with what looks like a memory address pointer, in the format XxXXXXXXXX, where it appears "X" is any hex character. The registers listed are CR0, CD2, CD3, CD4, EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESP, EBP, ESI, EDI, EFL, EIP, CS, and DS. Then below this, I get: "Debugger called: <panic> Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)" memory pointer: memory pointer (more of the same) 10 lines of this, then: "Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.1: Tue Jan 3 18:23:53 PCT 2006; root:xnu-792.7.90.obj~1/RELEASE_I386" Whew! that was a long error. Sorry if it's TMI -- I'm a brand newb to OSX, and I don't know what's important and what isn't. The last time I used a mac, it was a Mac II, the year was 1989 or so, and Al Gore hadn't taken the initiative and invented the Internets yet. Anyway, does anybody have any idea what gives? Why would I be getting a kernel panic with the SSE3 patch installed that I didn't get with the SSE2 patch installed? Machine is a Dell Dimension 8400 Pentium 4 Prescott, 3 GHz 1.4 GB Corsair RAM NVidia 6600 GT Onboard NIC disabled SMB 10/100 ethernet adaptor (working prior to re-install) Intel 925 Express MoBo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustForKix Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I get the same error with an install of 10.4.8 with the 8.8.1 kernel. I had a perfectly working install of 10.4.5 and i upgraded to 10.4.8 with an older kernel. But for some reason 8.8.1 gives me the exact same error as yours does. Edit: My machine is the same Dimension 8400 with prescott 3.2 ghz and 1 gb ram and an nvidia 6800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e lo Posted November 24, 2006 Author Share Posted November 24, 2006 Interesting. I found one other user who posted about their Dimension 8400 running with the SSE2 patch installed, but not the SSE3 patch. Was your 10.4.5 install with the SSE2 or SSE3 patch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustForKix Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 i tried it with the sse3 patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e lo Posted November 27, 2006 Author Share Posted November 27, 2006 Well, I now have a happily working install of 10.4.8 with the 8.8.1 kernel courtesy of the JaS Intel SSE3 reseed; it works a treat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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