Kernel panics at USB or GeForce kext loads

[MI6Fred]

Hello,

 

I just installed MacOS 10.4.3 on VMWare, and then copied it via dd on my hard drive partition (which is >1024 cylinders, that's why I need to do that and boot with LBA mode). The first time I did that, with a 6Gb partition, it worked : I could only boot in safe mode (-x) but it booted. In "normal" mode, I got an error with the GeForce.kext module (link/load error).

 

Then I did a fresh install on a 14.5Gb virtual partition, then used dd to copy the partition : now I have the same GeForce.kext error, and the safe mode gives me a USB loading error !

 

Is there a way to make the GeForce.kext extension work ? If I try to remove the GeForce.kext, I get an error at boot saying no matching extension found. Maybe the device/vendor ID trick would work, but how can I get this information without booting MacOS ? How can I properly remove a kernel extension (the GeForce one) ?

Are these problems known ?

 

My configuration :

Athlon 64 3200+ (no SSE3)

GeForce 6600GT PCI Express

Asus A8N SLI Deluxe

1Gb of RAM

 

Thank you !

Fred

 

PS : I'll try to get more accurate error logs soon.

 

btw real thanks to all the people that made it possible to run OSX on x86 machine, even if everything's not perfect the result is still amazing !

[MI6Fred]

Some more information :

 

After removing GeForce.kext :

With "-x -v -F" ACPI gets enabled and the system reboots before I can read anything (CPU Halted)

With "-x -v -F platform=X86PC" I get this error : "USBF: ... unable to get filterInterruptEventSource" and kernel panic

With "-v" I get : "display: family specific matching fails"

 

After putting back GeForce.kext :

With "-x -v -F" : same as before

With "-x -v -F platform=X86PC" : same as before

With "-v" : "kld_load_from_memory() failed for module /.../NVDAResman.kext" "Can't find extension with id com.apple.GeForce"

 

Here is my lspci -v dump for the video card, maybe my id is in there and I can edit the drivers file :

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0140 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology: Unknown device 3125

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18

Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable)

Memory at cc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]

Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

Capabilities: [78] #10 [0001]

 

Got this with RivaTuner :

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------

$ffffffffff Northbridge information

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------

$0400000000 Description : NVIDIA nForce4 series

$0400000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)

$0400000002 Device ID : 005e

$0400000003 AGP bus : not supported

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------

$ffffffffff Display adapter information

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------

$0000000000 Description : NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT

$0000000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)

$0000000002 Device ID : 0140

$0000000003 Location : bus 1, device 0, function 0

$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE

$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 16x selected

$0000000009 Base address 0 : c8000000 (memory range)

$000000000a Base address 1 : c0000000 (memory range)

$000000000b Base address 2 : none

$000000000c Base address 3 : cc000000 (memory range)

$000000000d Base address 4 : none

$000000000e Base address 5 : none

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------

$ffffffffff NVIDIA specific display adapter information

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------

$0100000000 Graphics core : NV43 revision A2 (8x1,3vp)

$0100000001 Hardwired ID : 0140 (ROM strapped to 0140)

$0100000002 Memory bus : 128-bit

$0100000003 Memory type : DDR (RAM configuration 07)

$0100000004 Memory amount : 131072KB

$0100000005 Core clock : 299.250MHz

$0100000006 Memory clock : 562.500MHz (1125.000MHz effecti...

$0100000007 Reference clock : 27.000MHz

Should I really edit the drivers file ?!?

[MI6Fred]

Problem solved !

 

I juste reinstalled OSX on an 8Gb virtual disk and did a "dd", and now it works ... weird

 

Next steps : Sound and graphics acceleration (or at least 85Hz ...) !