Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
Here's the rundown: Installed iAtkos v5i successfully on a big partition on my hard drive. made windows partition active. booted into vista and added mac osx using to the bootloader using easyBCD. restarted, selected mac osx and it just…
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Here's the rundown:
Installed iAtkos v5i successfully on a big partition on my hard drive. made windows partition active. booted into vista and added mac osx using to the bootloader using easyBCD. restarted, selected mac osx and it just restarts, won't boot into mac OS. even if i press F8 and enter cpus=1 -v -x nothing, it still won't boot. it just runs some code for a brief second, then flashes white and I can see the mac logo in the center for a half a second, then restarts. tried iAtkos v7, couldn't get it to install. My hardware is listed below:
HP Pavillion Elite e9150t
mobo=pagatron truckee 1.04
processor=intel core i7 920
video card=nvidia GeForce GTS 250
Intel 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Adapter
I can provide more info if necessary and am open to other options if you think this one is a dead end (iDeneb, etc). Thanks!
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@ImkantusDid you gave the Voodoo Kernel a try, yet?
Can you please elaborate a little on what exactly that is and how to go about using it? Thanks.
@ImkantusWell go to Customaziation on iAtkos 5i Setup and browse for "9.5.0 Kernel voodoo" select it & install with it. You might not gonna need a patched Kernel any longer once you updated to a higher version or after creating patched DSDT - but I hope it will help you getting it running for the first time...
Oh, ok. I didn't realize it was an option in the iAtkos setup. I'll definitely give that a try and get back to you. Thanks for the advice!
Well, gave it a try with the voodoo kernel option checked in iAtkos 5i (there were several, I just chose the one that looked like the most general option), and it now gets a little farther in the boot process. I have to enter in verbose mode and safe mode (-v -x) and i also enter cpus=1 (unclear if this has any effect at this point) or i get a message saying to restart the computer. When i enter cpus=1 -v -x, after code scrolls for a minute, i get a message saying that the real-time clock is not properly initialized and i also see a kernel panic in the code:
(panic(CPU 0 caller 0x001ABA6F): "rtclock granularity error"@/Kernel/xnu-1228.7.58/omfmk/i386/commpage/commpage.c:424
Debugger called: <panic>
Any ideas of where I should go from here? should i try it again with one of the other voodoo options checked in iatkos or would the kernel error still be the same? Thanks for the help!
Yeah...CPU isn't overclocked so i dunno. The clock options arent even available in my bios settings. I might give ideneb a try i guess unless anyone has any other ideas? Thanks again
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@bzotterCan you please elaborate a little on what exactly that is and how to go about using it? Thanks.
Well go to Customaziation on iAtkos 5i Setup and browse for "9.5.0 Kernel voodoo" select it & install with it.
You might not gonna need a patched Kernel any longer once you updated to a higher version or after creating patched DSDT - but I hope it will help you getting it running for the first time...
No I don't think that a different kernel will fix this.
Well I used to google for "rtclock granularity error" and found this on uphuck forums:
uphuck.gg rn.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3817
the solution was to set back the CPU to it's stock clock... Hope that helps.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @bzotter | Primary Author | 6 | 2009-10-16 → 2009-10-22 |
| @Imkantus | Core Contributor | 3 | 2009-10-18 → 2009-10-21 |
| @DemoNMorph | Contributor | 1 | 2009-10-19 |