PeterVanAkelyen

Disabled Dynamic Acceleration. It seems to hang pretty random.

Currently it hangs with this screen:

Initializing the journal (joffset 0xe8e000 sz 0x2800000)

But sometimes it hangs earlier (screenshot) with this error:

ApplePS2Controller: Timed out on mouse input stream at readDataPort

Or with:

*** Verbose boot, will log to /dev/console. ***

Everytime it's something different.

From the video, it appeared you used the erase tab instead of the partition tab, my mistake. Have you tried using the installer in a different USB port, it may make a difference. One other quick question: if you replaced the IO80211Family.kext on the bootstick, did you run a My Fix (full) on it before using the installer?

I haven't modified anything this time. Disabling WiFi in BIOS is easier than replacing kexts, the Intel 4965AGN isn't supported in OSX anyway

It's hard to tell from that video, but it is not unusual for the partitioning to take 4 - 5 minutes. If that was at normal speed, you need to wait. Sometimes the blue progress bar will appear to stall, but it is actually working. Try again, allowing a while longer for partitioning.

It actually hangs when trying to partition the disk. There is no disk activity, the mouse pointer doesn't move anymore and leaving it there for half an hour doesn't make any difference. After a few reboots partitioning sometimes works, but then it hangs when the installer tries to mount the drive.

The video quality is indeed terrible, but I only had my phone by hand and I thought it would be better than nothing.

By the way, that image was searching for Bluetooth devices. I thought you had disabled bluetooth.

With the first attempt I had disabled all devices that weren't essential, but OS X didn't seem to like that so for the second attempt I only disabled WiFi which at least allows me to get into the above screen. Disabling WiFi and BT but nothing else seems to give the best results so far.

I decided to take a fresh start and created the installer with MyHack on a new USB drive. This is what I disabled in BIOS:

• Internal NIC (Broadcom Ethernet)
  
• Internal Modem (Conexant)
  
• Parallel Port + Serial Port
  
• PC Card and 1394
  
• Module Bay Device
  
• Microphone
  
• Ambient Light Sensor
  
• Dynamic Acceleration
  
• Internal Bluetooth
  
• Internal WiFi (Intel 4965AGN)
  
• Internal Cellular
  

SATA Operation Mode = AHCI.

With all this disabled, I don't even get to setup. First time I tried I got a white screen (without a mouse pointer), second time it didn't even get that far. I recorded a clip and uploaded it here.

2nd try: reset BIOS to defaults and only disable internal WiFi. This seems to get me further. I get a mouse pointer and a background, but I'm stuck at the following screen:

I don't have a clue what it means. I also recorded this one, here.

Edit: it has something to do with Bluetooth. After turning off Bluetooth, I can get to the actual setup I noticed it hangs at the exact moment it tries to mount my hard drive in Disk Utility though Recording can be found here.

Yes, but I'm sure we're talking about the same problem here. We also have very similar hardware (Intel WiFi, Intel X3100 and 1920x1200 screen). Jahudka, what BIOS version are you running? I'm on A16.

Did you go into BIOS and shut off Dynamic Acceleration, WiFi and Bluetooth and use AHCI for Hard Drive setting? After install, you can turn DA, WiFi & BT back on.

Yes, but the problem remains.

Just wiped my harddrive (I have another laptop anyway) but still the same issue. I also installed myHack to another another USB-drive, but that doesn't solve it either.

Maybe it crashes before it is able to create a log entry for it?

I have exactly the same issue with the installation on my D830.

Specs:

• Intel C2D T5450 @ 1.66GHz
  
• Intel X3100 IGP (1920x1200)
  
• Intel WiFi Link 4965AGN
  
• 2x 1GB DDR2
  

I removed IO80211Family.kext to avoid kernel panic (has something to do with not having a Broadcom WiFi card). Of course I fixed permissions afterwards. Booting up to the installer works fine. When the installer says '18 minutes left', it hangs. Even the mouse cursor doesn't move any more.