[thejames]

First time Hackintosher tonight... All went beautifully. Was just getting to the point where SL was fully updated I had all my programs installed, then I realised I'd lost sound. Quick search on this forum and seems the fix was to run NBI. I did so (no improvement at this point) so tried rebooting following the completed NBI procedure.

Now it won't go past the grey apple/spinning wheel screen. And it shows a no-entry/prohibited sign over the apple too. I'm guessing the NBI logo is trying to display without success, though could be wrong.

Anyone any thoughts?

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Surprisingly... and worryingly... I've just tried booting from my 0.8.4pre prepared USB drive. Figuring I might be able to re-run NBI through it, or maybe even start again. No such luck: it's giving me exactly the same start up screen

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OK, ignore that second post... as part of my frantic attempts to fix it I'd disabled USB legacy, so it wasn't booting from the USB drive at all.

Attempting to re-run NBI through the USB drive now.

Fingers crossed.

I'd unchecked "Toggle Remote CD (Disabled)" before... I wondering if that's the issue?? WTH is it?

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Nope. Having run NBI (checking Toggle Remote CD this time) on the internal disk from the USB drive, it's made sod all difference.

Anyone any thoughts as to what's happened?

Unless there's anything enlightening, I shall try again tomorrow using the tried and tested 0.8.3.

Thanks for listening.

[thejames]

Update.

I've re-installed the OS using 0.8.3. All updated, and running beautifully.

No idea what the problem was... but I'll be holding off updating the NBI for a wee while.

Currently cloning my HDD - just in case, like

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This is really annoying me now.

Re-installed everything using 0.8.3 and all was sweet apart from a "hibernation too old" message on boot. After some reading, I tried running NBI to fix it. It completed and I rebooted. No hibernation error, but now it's resorted back to the grey apple/spinning wheel screen with the prohibited symbol across it.



What's going on?!

I'll try reinstalling one more time, but if it fails again I may as well switch to Linux.

Anyone have a clue? Thanks.

Oh, and as for my cloned drive... booting from that gives me EXACTLY the same issue.

[w7ox]

Not that I'm likely to be able to help you but have you posted above a link to the process/guide you are using? Without knowing in detail the path you are on, likely no help will come.

BTW -- my install is from Dec 09 with NBI 0.8.3RC4 or RC5. I have installed NBI 0.8.4pre (run it and rebooted) and all seems fine. So your problem is not likely there.

Usually such issues, when they happen to me, relate to one little step I'm not doing correctly.

Phil

[minimalpc]

Explanation and possible fixes:
Apple2PC (Hackintosh)

[thejames]

miminalpc: Thanks for that link. It's good to know that what I'm experiencing is a recognised issue!



Seems it's likely that it's a "still waiting for root device" problem. I.e. the OS is set to boot from a drive/partition that doesn't exist. I've had this problem twice now: Both times were after running NBI. The first time was 0.8.4pre (to correct no sound after SU) and the second time was 0.8.3 (to correct hibernation message on boot).

So, why/how is NBI changing where the OS is looking for the install?

How can I rectify this?

When I run NBI, I leave the default options checked...

Install Chameleon 2 NBI
Install Dell Mini Extensions
Regenerate a system specific DSDT.ami file
Enable Remote CD

Are these the correct options?


I have a Dell Mini 10V, 1gb RAM, 160gb HDD. I'm using a Retail CD version of Snow Leopard. I've used both NBM/NBI 0.8.4pre and 0.8.3. I used the mac to USB install process from Mechdrew's site, and all three times the install has gone smoothly. I've been installing programs fine and it's been running sweetly. It's just when I have to do an impromptu run of NBI to correct something, it hangs on reboot.

So what's happening? And what can I do about it?

Anyone know what's going on? I love my macbook nano now, but I'm worried about having to run NBI again in case it breaks it!

Thanks, James.

[minimalpc]

I have run NBI many times and never had that problem. The options you mention are fine. I'm not sure why you are having this issue. If it happens again, try one of the fixes on the page I linked.

[thejames]

Thanks. How does Darwin compare with Chameleon?

Can I F8 on boot like the guy says? Tried it before and it didn't do anything. Perhaps I should take quickboot off?

Also, how do I find the numbers for my hd and partition?

Thanks again.

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I've just had a look at my boot.plist and the <string></string> bit is empty.

If I changed it to <string>rd=disk0s1</string> might it know where to look in future??

Spot the man who doesn't have a clue what he's doing....

[minimalpc]

My understanding is that Chameleon is basically just a GUI that runs on top of the Darwin bootloader. You can still use the various commands at the "boot:" prompt (including rd), as described here. I would disable quiet boot myself (though I think you can still get to the prompt by holding shift or space). You do not need to run NBI again to do so. You can change the option in the com.apple.Boot.plist file, which BTW is at /Extra when you are using Chameleon (not under /System/Library etc.).

Unless you are running OS X off an external drive, it is going to be at disk0. If you look in System Profiler under Hardware | Serial-ATA, you can see which partition your Mac (HFS) volume is--you're looking for its BSD Name i.e. disk0s2.

Finally, the "Kernel Flags" string entry in my plist file is empty too, so that is normal. It will try to use the drive/partition it loads from as the root device. It makes me wonder whether you might have a stray second leftover (i.e. partial/failed) installation of OS X on your HDD that is sometimes getting booted. What is the output when you run "diskutil list" from Terminal? (You can also use that command to identify the disk and partition of your Mac (HFS) partition...)

[thejames]

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS OSX 159.7 GB disk0s2

This is what Terminal spits out when I enter diskutil list. Is that normal?

Looks like mine would be rd=disk0s2

[minimalpc]

Yes, that is normal.