Hi, recently i tried to install iatkos s3 v2 for several times and finally i was able to make a clean install until i made and update to 10.6.4. Now the issue is when i am booting to macosx it shows a green screen with power icon and asking me to hold the power button to restart.I tried using the command cpus=1 but it does not continue the boot. I had chose very basic drivers during the installation and i didn't installed sleepenabler or any additional modified kernels.I used to have panic errors that's why i made a clean install. But didn't know that i have to suffer again please help i am tired of making format and reinstalling the mac all the time. Please this forum is the most active on internet.Hope to have a reply soon. Please

Originally Posted by ibrahim52

Hi, recently i tried to install iatkos s3 v2 for several times and finally i was able to make a clean install until i made and update to 10.6.4. Now the issue is when i am booting to macosx it shows a green screen with power icon and asking me to hold the power button to restart.I tried using the command cpus=1 but it does not continue the boot. I had chose very basic drivers during the installation and i didn't installed sleepenabler or any additional modified kernels.I used to have panic errors that's why i made a clean install. But didn't know that i have to suffer again please help i am tired of making format and reinstalling the mac all the time. Please this forum is the most active on internet.Hope to have a reply soon. Please

I don't quite understand your question.

1. You were able to install v2 and SL was running OK?

2. You then update it to 10.6.4 using apple updater.

3. Now, it won't boot?

exactly and now i am having an error to press hold the power button to restart

Originally Posted by ibrahim52

exactly and now i am having an error to press hold the power button to restart

I would go back to step 1 again, 10.6.3 is good.

For updating, it depends on your hardware system, installed patches/fixes etc.
So direct update sometimes will render it non bootable and you need to follow certain steps to make it a working system.

I totally agree with you.But please believe me i don't have patience to reinstall this OS for one more time.Instead i have used -v command and i think some .kext are creating problem booting.Can you please sort out for me,which .kext or what i can do to resolve this errors.I am posting some screenshots down,please take a look once.

Please don't think that i am pushing everything to you but its quite confusing for me to resolve which .kext has problem booting. :wink: So posting three snapshots of my boot results,please let me know .Thanks for the support.

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What is your system specs and the kernel that you installed for 10.6.3, 10.6.4? Any additional entry in your com.apple.Boot.plist?
Your system patches/fixes stay in /E/E? Do you use DSDT?

My Hardware Configuration :
Lenovo g550 model
Dual Core pentium processor, T4400 2.20Ghz
3GB RAM
Graphics intel 4 series express chipset family
Chipset Intel GL40
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T

i think the kernel version is mentioned in the last screen shot.While installing i kept everything default except wireless,wired,graphics and mouse drivers.I have not installed any modified kernels.I guess the kernel is 10.4.0. I have the backup of extension folder from last installation. If you can help me replacing the necessary .kext or whatever you say. Thank you

There seems several kexts and dependencies that have problem.

If you want to delete them then try the appleHDA first, and you could move it to a different folder just in case you need it back.

can you please help me with commands so i can start trying and post the results here

Alright the problem is solved .Guess what i did, i simply used the rm command and removed the VoodooHDA.kext from single user boot command and i don't know it started working.Posting my screenshot of fully working 10.6.4 OS. Thanks a load , just need a small help from you because i dont want to create another thread for that.Currently i am not having any sound and another thing is when i reply and press enter in YAHOO MESSENGER chat box ,it hangs for second and deliver the message.It happened in last reinstalls too and i tried removing and reinstalling it again.Is there any way to fix it.