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Old 11-09-2009, 02:58 AM
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cirlce with line error

If anyone can please help me with this i am at a total block here.. Here's my problem...

Ok, first i followed step by step tut on "Install Snow Leopard 10.6 on AMD PC Hackintosh"

Then the chameleon rc3 bootloader loads up and i hit enter on the "Snow" icon. After that it loads to the apple screen and the spinning circle is loading. about 50 sec. later a circle with a slash appears right above the apple logo. I am lost. I have no idea what i need to do in order to fix this so i can run snow leopard!!! I set my bios up correct from what i read. Right now i have leopard and xp on sata hdd and ide hdd trying to run snow leopard with sata dvd drive. Heres my specs:

mobo: m2n-sli deluxe

chip: athlon 64 x2 4800+

vcard: xfx 8800gt 512mb

mem: 2gigs corsair xms2

sound: ADI AD1988B

lan: Marvell 88E1116

let me know if i need to give out more info.. thanks!!

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Old 11-09-2009, 03:49 AM
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when cham rc3 loads, hit enter immediately to stop countdown, and type
-v
and then hit enter again to load snow. tell us what the error is, cause right now it's pretty vague
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Old 11-09-2009, 04:03 AM
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There is nothing on the screen thats point out whats wrong with it. It just has this pic--------->

this is a sample off google pics not on my pc..

Unless if i wait for a while and something might show up because the circle thing still spins...
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Old 11-09-2009, 04:06 AM
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one more thing. In order for me to reboot and get back to xp, 10.5.6 leopard, etc.. I have to reset my board by taking out the battery.. lol I'm not sure whats going on.. This is only when i reboot after i get that error from the pic i last posted.
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Old 11-09-2009, 04:38 AM
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Ok I have pics of the error when i go to -v mode. first 2 pics are the top half and bottom half of my errors and the 3rd pic is when i have to clear the cmos.


top: http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6883/img0556s.jpg

bottom: http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1906/img0555fo.jpg

after clearing cmos: http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1742/img0557x.jpg (im not sure if this will help with anything..)

so i guess its a "still waiting for root device error"
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Old 11-09-2009, 06:42 AM
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"Still waiting for root device" is your problem.

Osx isn't able to see any hard drive, which is why it's not booting, why it is showing the circle with a line through it.

first guess is you don't have a applenforceata.kext installed (since you have an nforce motherboard). put it in /System/Extensions/Library
right?
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Old 11-09-2009, 03:30 PM
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I think that might be the prob. i'll take a look when i get home but im sure i dont have that in there. i thought you add all the kext in extra/extensions?
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Old 11-09-2009, 11:29 PM
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ok i put the AppleNForceATA.kext in the /System/Extensions folder and when i reboot and load up snow this is what i get:

(-v mode)
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/338/img0559gr.jpg

(i just pressed enter)
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8249/img0560j.jpg

So it's some sort of panic....
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Old 11-10-2009, 01:40 AM
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are you using the vanilla kernel?

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=179562
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Old 11-10-2009, 02:03 AM
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no i am using the mach_kernel.test7 do i need to use that kernel in the link. if so is there any special install instructions like changing the name or the apple.boot.plist file?



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