Tearing my hair out with an install
 

Hi folks, been browsing here for a while but only just registered as I am having a whole bunch of trouble installing SL on my machine, by rights though it should not be failing so I do not know which kext I am missing that might make it work.

My specs:

AMD 9850 Black Edition Phenom x4
Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 (SB600 Chipset)
Nvidia 9800GTX GPU
8GB 800Mhz Corsair RAM
SATA DVD RW

No raid, normally use Native IDE but after reading OSX requires it I enabled AHCI, other than that the system is pretty bog standard so I have been trying the following on my Hazard SL Install:

ANV 10.2.0 Kernel (No system Kext) - or - Modbin Kernel 10.0
AMD Patch
NVEnabler
ALC888
ATIATA
RealTek R1000
ElliotForceLegacyRTC
OpenHaltRestart
UUID

I have also tried with and without :

IOATA Family Sata Fix
Legacy AHCI Sata Fix.
EvOreBoot

This latest attempt wont even stay on screen long enough for me to read the verbose log, it simply shuts down the PC (normally I get a KP)

I have read a few of you using the same Motherboard as me that have had success, any chance of a few pointers on what kexts you installed and perhaps where I am going wrong?

cheers

leigh :)

Have you tried booting with safe mode -x? What distribution are you using, iDeneb, Hazard, iAtkos?

I'm having issues as well on my quad core AMD, I have got it to the point where there is a grey screen with black mouse pointer but thats it. Someone told me to check out this page to make sure my video card was on the list of cards that will work.

Once I figured out my card was not supported (one of the reasons my computer kept rebooting) I went out and got my GeForce 9400GT, and it has gotten me to this point, so its another kext or lack there of thats causing the issue.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/in...0.6.2#NVIDIA_2

I have not tried safe mode yet but will give that a go. Distro as mentioned above is the Hazard Snow Leopard. I think I have installed this thing about 15 times now - erase and install of course - and I think I must have tried every logical AMD combination.

I did have a read beforehand and sa all my hardware is supported so I know its not that.

:)

Definitely try safemode, and look at the page I gave you with the video cards that are supported. Safemode should at least get you fully into Hazard so you can add and remove the right kexts... I still have yet to be able to get into a distro fully as well.

Good Luck! If you figure it out let me know, maybe we can help eachother. :)

Safemode does not help to be honest. I keep getting a KP this time though it looks narrowed down to SleepEnabler. Back in Ubuntu now and I am going to see if I can sort the kext from here.

The video card is not the issue, it is fully supported.

Trying another clean install as I can mount hfs+ in ubuntu but apparently have no write access to copy over the kexts. At least the last attempt managed to show me a reason for a KP rather than a sraight system shutdown - I must be getting somewhere

Hmm, same deal again. SleepEnabler KP. Anyone able to shed some light on kexts I should or should not be including to get this sucker to boot? It wont even boot into safe mode and its getting VERY old now... In fact I am starting I am starting to lose patience.

ANV Kernel again and this time it shus down the pc on boot.

You will need to reinstall Chameleon2 BEFORE doing anything below. Latest version in dpkg form.

EDIT: Phenom users need to use kernel switches at startup to fix serious issues. Google should help you here too. There are two must-have flags to get your Phenom working correctly (cannot remember them sorry - I have an Athlon64X2)

I would use iPortableSnow 10.6.2, which has a full OSX system (minus some languages, printer drivers etc), then use some online instructions and files to replace Kernel (modbin Test 7), boot file, patch binaries somehow (Marvins AMD Utility crashes on launch on my AMD system) :-(

Edit smbios.plist in /Extra and platformUUID.kext in /Extra/Extensions (replace your boot partition UUID (found in Disk Utility/Info) in both files.

There are other better guides on the net, search for "Snow Leopard" "AMD" "Kernel" and you should find the same as me.

PS. I have my Intel E7200 box running sweetly, without having to do any of the above - working sweetly first boot off USB stick. I replaced EFI string for GL/QE/CI, and replaced graphics kexts/voodooHDA.

Unfortunately, without realtime patching of binaries, AMD users are in a world of hurt at the moment. I suffer the identical issues you do, but have not tried iPortableSnow on this system yet (maybe later today!)

Tried Blacknights 10.2.0 kernel with a stripped out lists of kexts, basically just the kernel, amd patch and chipset. Initial boot shutdown but I have tried -force64 -f -v and it has not got to what appears to be a preboot screen for OS X - ie a grey scrreen with cursor is here but it keeps flickering to a black screen.

I am now going to try the same install with the other kexts I normally use. Unless anyone else has a further input into getting this existing install booted?