melkor_41 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I am unable to get osx86 to boot up. After fighting the flashing _ problem (set it to MBR instead of GUID, and no im not multibooting) I was able to get the system to start to boot, kernal panic, yay, reinstall chos the correct stuff, still kernal panic on the power managment. Reinstalled and chose remove power managment, same thing. Format hard drive then reinstalled without power managment. I saw the white apple logo and i was about to dance happy but it was sitting there turning that grey gear. Hmm ok. I will give it some time, first bootups on windows are slow, so why not mac... hmm 45 minutes later I gave up. Reboot -v and it froze at PASSED! ... maximum protection of commpage set ALL Copyright © 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California, All rights reserved Using <i forgot the number> buffer headers and <I forgot the number> cluster <another number> buffer headers. Nothing after that. Same thing happens with -s and -x I dont have the laptop with me today at work but if those buffer numbers are important I can get them. System is a dell 1100 inspiron with the p4m 2.0 ghz (1.2 true clock speed) sse2 cpu. I can an intel cpu tool and verified that it was sse2. I can get the exact details for the chip if need be. Its a stock dell 1100. 20 gig hdd with 128 and 256 mb ram sticks. The system is listed in the HCLs for osx86 as only having slight problems with the NIC so Im not sure what the issue is. I am using uphuck 10.4.9 version 1.2 (1.3 isnt on the usenet yet and torrents are painfully slow) Oh great gurus of mac help this windows jedi complete his fall to the dark side. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56263-frozen-at-grey-apple-logo-with-spinning-gear/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkor_41 Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 fixed the issue, changed to jas 10.4.8 and it boots fine. Now i need to get my bcm440x working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56263-frozen-at-grey-apple-logo-with-spinning-gear/#findComment-402707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxen Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext and some others (3Com, Dec21...) from 10.4.8 are PPC not Intel Get IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.7 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry378337 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56263-frozen-at-grey-apple-logo-with-spinning-gear/#findComment-402711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkor_41 Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 thanks. I tried some instructions i found on here earlier with another version of the kext. I honestly dont remember right now which version for the kext I downloaded. I tried the simple drop and drag and it asked me for my password and i entered it and it told me that I didnt have permissions. I changed the file from read only to read-write and tried again, no luck. So i decided to get rough with it. I went into terminal and went into the kext i downloaded and copied the files 1 by 1 over into the old kext (just the 4 files for the bcm440x) and rebuilt the directory structure. I ran the chmod,chown,repair permissions as per the other instructions i have found and i got no errors, but still no network. I will try again with this kext tonnight. If there an easier way to load kext files? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56263-frozen-at-grey-apple-logo-with-spinning-gear/#findComment-402957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
melkor_41 Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 the kext you linked worked like a charm, no errors about permissions or anything, reboot and bingo network. now to work on my wireless card.... that will be harder. I will do some research on it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56263-frozen-at-grey-apple-logo-with-spinning-gear/#findComment-403021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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