Can't boot MacOSX_10.4.8 DVD AMD SSE3 TEST1

[Kallis]

Hi, I downloaded MacOSX_10.4.8DVD AMD SSE3 TEST 1 and burned it to a dvd. Both the torrent and the cd was checked and was 100%. I installed Acronis Disc Director and rebooted. The installer wouldn't start, because of a SAM-multimedia error. I am completely sure this has something to do with my system, not with a corrupted burn. The reason for this is that I had the same problem with 10.4.6 which I got working with some work, but can't remember how. I think I used VmWare. So this problem can probably be ignored.

 

Therefore I restarted and tried VmWare. I set it up properly and installed OS X without errors. I selected Norwegian, no printer drivers and NV40-fix(titan?). I then quit VmWare and rebooted. I selected "Unknown OS" in Acronis OS Selector and the Darwin text appeared. It then loaded a lot of kext, and switched "textmode" to the mode where the text is smaller and smoother.

 

Then I got a kernel panic. It launched crashreporter and the last line that appeared before the pc hang completly, was the line with the version of the kernel(it had sempthex in it).

 

I then tried to boot in VmWare. There I only get "Still Waiting For Root Device".

 

What can I do?

[gotoh]

did you try booting with -s flag ?

What's your hardware ?

[Kallis]

Shall try that now.

 

My hardware is a Shuttle SN25P(nforce 4), AMD Athlon 3500+ Venice SSE3, Hitatchi 250GB sata disk, Maxtor 110GB(which I installed it on) and a Nvidia 6600GT.

[Kallis]

Damn. It didn't work. I took a picture of the panic. Note that this is the only I see in that "textmode". Nothing is before it(or atleast nothing I can see).

 

[anjr00]

Damn. It didn't work. I took a picture of the panic. Note that this is the only I see in that "textmode". Nothing is before it(or atleast nothing I can see).

 

 

Boot off your DVD again, then go into the terminal, and remove the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from your kext folder, then reboot.

[Rammjet]

Boot off your DVD again, then go into the terminal, and remove the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from your kext folder, then reboot.

cd "/Volumes/(name-of-your-OSX-partition)/System/Library/Extensions"
rm -rf AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
cd "/Volumes/(name-of-your-OSX-partition)/System/Library"	<--- fixed
rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

 

Reboot

[Kallis]

Thanks! Unfortunately, I can't remove Extensions.mkext because of "Read-only file system". Strangely, it worked with removing the other things. I have to go to bed now, and will try again tomorrow.

[Guest bikedude880]

Try booting with -v -s and run the command at the prompt mount -uw /

 

This should give you read write access (f you were able to get to the prompt in the first place)

 

After the drive is mounted, follow Rammjets guide.

[Kallis]

I got an error when trying that bikedude880 because "the device is write locked". Eighter it is trying to write to my sata-disk(should be impossible since I only selected my IDE-disk in VmWare) or to the install dvd, which of course is read-only.

 

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3738/fileka2.jpg

 

My OS X partition is called "OS X" with a space in it. Could that be a problem?

[Kallis]

ARG!

 

I simply cannot delete it. Am I doing something wrong? To make it easier to help, here are screenshots from each step I take:

 

1.

 

2.

 

3.

 

3,5.

 

4.

 

Does point 3,5 indicate that it is trying to read from the wrong hd? Or what is wrong? I still get the same error after a reboot to native.

[Rammjet]

cd "/Volumes/(name-of-your-OSX-partition)/System/Library/Extensions"
rm -rf AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
cd "/Volumes/(name-of-your-OSX-partition)/System/Library"   <-- fixed
rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

Reboot

 

 

Thanks! Unfortunately, I can't remove Extensions.mkext because of "Read-only file system". Strangely, it worked with removing the other things

Sorry, my error, I fixed the above. If you successfully performed the first 2 steps before, start on step 3.

[Kallis]

Thanks, but it does not appear to be working. I still get a panic with the same kext(that I should have deleted).

 

Are you sure that nothing is wrong at step 3,5? For me, it looks like it is booting disk1s3 while it my OS X partition is disk0s2.

[Rammjet]

First time I had you remove files at /Systems/Library. This path ends up on your DVD which is read only

 

I changed it to "/Volumes/(your-OSX-partition)/System/Library" which is on your OSX partition. You must use the quotes if your partition name has a space in it.

 

Are you sure that nothing is wrong at step 3,5?

There are only 4 lines of commands:

Line 1 moves you to Extensions folder

Line 2 deletes Powermanagement kext

Line 3 moves to Library folder

Line 4 deletes 2 cache files

and then you reboot.

 

Note: these commands work from Terminal when booted from install DVD.

[myzar]

Reinstall it from scratch and don't deselect the whole osx86 package while you check the nv40 one. To make it short the osx86 hack group should report a size of atleast 224mb

[Kallis]

Wohoo! Thanks! It worked on first try after install! And it is blazingly fast too! Now I only got to install drivers for network and sound!