10.4.8 installation problem

[tilopa]

I am running 10.4.6 flawlessly on a MSI board with intel 915 chipset and MSI 1600x PCIe card. I can install the intel SSE3 only DVD 10.4.8 just fine, meaning it goes through the whole installation successfully but when I reboot it goes to the black loading Darwin screen and then reboots.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[Silthrim]

thats almost what mine does except mine does that WITH 10.4.6

 

i think it might be my motherboard.. its a new EVGA nforce 680i SLI so maybe its not compatible

[rmriggin]

I am running 10.4.6 flawlessly on a MSI board with intel 915 chipset and MSI 1600x PCIe card. I can install the intel SSE3 only DVD 10.4.8 just fine, meaning it goes through the whole installation successfully but when I reboot it goes to the black loading Darwin screen and then reboots.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

I also get that problem. Find youself a copy of Hiren's Boot CD (easy google search). Burn the image and boot it. Go to MBR tools, select BootMagic, when prompted select the drive that you installed OSX on (the one you want to boot) and then it will reboot. This has fixed that problem for me every time. Hope it works for you.

[tilopa]

I also get that problem. Find youself a copy of Hiren's Boot CD (easy google search). Burn the image and boot it. Go to MBR tools, select BootMagic, when prompted select the drive that you installed OSX on (the one you want to boot) and then it will reboot. This has fixed that problem for me every time. Hope it works for you.

 

 

Thanks for that info, I tried what you suggested with Hiren's and it had no effect on my problem. I wouldn't think the MBR would be at issue because the Darwin boot loader starts so the MBR must be correct.

Any other ideas.

[Rammjet]

Try installing 10.4.8 with the minimal options in Customize: Combo update, Intel SSE3/Semthex, 10.4.4 Login Window and 10.4.8 ATI Radeon x1x00 PCIe support. If you are positive you need one of the others, then install it too. Otherwise, catch it when you have successfully booted your installation.

[anawrot]

Please keep me posted on the progress with your 680i.

 

I have an evga 680i and I couldn't get my SATA or IDE hard drives to detect. Which are you installing to? Under System Info, no ATA controller was detected.

 

I ended up having to install to an external USB 2.0 hard drive, which actually installed to fine, but hangs infinitely during the grey apple boot screen.

 

Thanks!

[tilopa]

Try installing 10.4.8 with the minimal options in Customize: Combo update, Intel SSE3/Semthex, 10.4.4 Login Window and 10.4.8 ATI Radeon x1x00 PCIe support. If you are positive you need one of the others, then install it too. Otherwise, catch it when you have successfully booted your installation.

 

 

Thanks so much for your help. That worked (conditionally), I guess my problem was I did not no whether to select the Semthex of the other so I selected both assuming the OS would figure it out, poor assumption I realize.

One troubleing thing though, my internal ethernet is not detected. I have the MSI 915P Combo-F board with the onboard Marvell 8053 PCI Express Gigabit Lan Controller, this worked perfectly with 10.4.6. Any ideas how to get this supported? Was there a patch from the Customize install I should have chosen.

BTW the options I chose were:

Combo Update

Intel SSE3/Semthx

10.4.4 Login

ATI Radeon x1x00 PCIe

some USB patch

and ATI ATA support

 

Did I miss something, nothing really referenced LAN patch.

 

Thanks.

[Rammjet]

Install the old kext.

 

Download Pacifist from Charlessoft.

 

Insert your install DVD and let it mount on the Desktop. Open Pacifist and use it to open the following file: DVD -> /System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg

 

In Pacifist, click the following arrows: System -> Library -> Extensions.

 

Find IONetworkingFamily.kext and click on it. Click on Install in the Pacifist toolbar.

 

Repair permissions on your OSX partition and then delete these two files: /System/Library/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

 

Then reboot.

[tilopa]

Install the old kext.

 

Download Pacifist from Charlessoft.

 

Insert your install DVD and let it mount on the Desktop. Open Pacifist and use it to open the following file: DVD -> /System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg

 

In Pacifist, click the following arrows: System -> Library -> Extensions.

 

Find IONetworkingFamily.kext and click on it. Click on Install in the Pacifist toolbar.

 

Repair permissions on your OSX partition and then delete these two files: /System/Library/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

 

Then reboot.

 

 

Thanks Rammjet,

 

I tried both the 10.4.6 and 10.4.7 install DVD's and neither of the new IONetworkingfamily.kext work, I still show no ethernet card. It is odd that the 10.4.6 file did not work when the install of 10.4.6 had my ethernet working, and I changed nothing in the hardware. Is it possible there is a different file I need to load from the Install DVD?

[Rammjet]

The Essentials.pkg is from 10.4.4. and is the same on all of the install DVD's.

 

The new files are in the Combo update. But I don't think IONetworkingFamily.kext has changed any until maybe 10.4.8. You can look im each of the Combo update .pkg files, but I think you'll find the version numbers to be the same.

 

If you boot with -v, do you see any errors? Maybe you need to perform a "chown -R root:wheel" command on the IONetworkingFamily.kext

[tilopa]

The Essentials.pkg is from 10.4.4. and is the same on all of the install DVD's.

 

The new files are in the Combo update. But I don't think IONetworkingFamily.kext has changed any until maybe 10.4.8. You can look im each of the Combo update .pkg files, but I think you'll find the version numbers to be the same.

 

If you boot with -v, do you see any errors? Maybe you need to perform a "chown -R root:wheel" command on the IONetworkingFamily.kext

 

 

I booted with -v and found no errors and chowned per your original instructions. Thanks for all your help, I think im going to try installing an old 3com PCI card to see if I have better luck.

 

It just does not make sense to me though that 10.4.6 worked and this does not.

 

Thanks again. If there is anything else I can try with the 10.4.6 install DVD that you can think of please let me know.

[Rammjet]

Not to disappoint, but I have 2 onboard 8053 ethernet ports and both work fine under a 10.4.8 Combo update install with old kernel (and old kexts) and with a fresh install of 10.4.8 with new kernel (and new kexts). Might have had to do the chown on it, but that is all.

[tilopa]

Not to disappoint, but I have 2 onboard 8053 ethernet ports and both work fine under a 10.4.8 Combo update install with old kernel (and old kexts) and with a fresh install of 10.4.8 with new kernel (and new kexts). Might have had to do the chown on it, but that is all.

 

So are you saying yours worked with a new install of 10.4.8 without having to install the IONetworkingfamily.kext from a previous install disk? Or did you have to replace that kext with older version? I installed that kext from 10.4.6 install disk using pacifist just as you instructed, then exited pacifist and cd to System/Library/Extensions and chown -R root:wheel IONetworkingfamily.kext and then rm the .kcache and the other (forget name now). Did I do something wrong?

What else could it be?

thanks.

no problem to reinstall everything and try again.

[Rammjet]

The first time, I added the old kext to get it working. But then I realized I missed something and on a subsequent install, kept the new kext. Both worked, but I believe (can't remember) that I had to chown them.

 

Your process sounds good, but I can't answer why it did not work.

[J B]

thats almost what mine does except mine does that WITH 10.4.6

 

i think it might be my motherboard.. its a new EVGA nforce 680i SLI so maybe its not compatible

 

Try this :

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry286701