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Not booting all of a sudden: not further than disk checking

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GA-Z77-DS3H: Not booting all of a sudden: not further than disk checking

Today hackintosh refused to boot.
It did yesterday. It did boot and work successfully for a long time.

I've tried '-v' and I've seen that last thing it tries is to check disk with fsck_hfs, and it completes successfully.
I've tried '-s' and I can boot to single-user mode successfully.

I've waited for half an hour - no luck.

I didn't install anything at all yesterday, that's for sure.

I've tried to unplug anything from usb.
I've tried to unplug other HDDs.

Windows8.1 and Ubuntu Linux boots fine, memtest+ shows that memory is fine.

Photo of failing screen is attached:
hack-wont-boot.jpg


Can anyone help me?
 
GA-Z77-DS3H: Not booting all of a sudden: not further than disk checking

Day passed. Not working still.

BUT it somehow did advance.

Now I can even log in to the machine remotely (via ssh).

Is there any place I can look for a problem on the hard drive?


dmesg output:
View attachment dmesg.txt
 
GA-Z77-DS3H: Not booting all of a sudden: not further than disk checking

Another week passed.

I've decided to finally reinstall Mavericks completely.

I've downloaded Mavericks binary from the AppStore on my iMac at work, prepared an USB stick using Guide Here.


First of all, I've tried to install "over" existing installation, removing /System/Library/Extensions directory first.
No luck, same thing with semi-booting as I mentioned before.

Then I've decided to reinstall again, completely from scratch, formatting the SSD drive and so on.

I've installed the system successfully and it did boot... for the first time.
I've installed "Software updates" from Apple, then launched MultiBeast and installed drivers for sound and Chimera.

Got the same result, meaning, no boot.

Will continue tomorrow, finding exactly the bastard ruining the system.
 
GA-Z77-DS3H: Not booting all of a sudden: not further than disk checking

All right, noone answers me here so it's like my blog about OSX86 pain.

Earlier today I've reinstalled Mavericks again. Ensured that it's booting, using Chimera on my USB stick installation.

After that I've just installed Chimera 2.2.1 onto hard drive (SSD actually) using Multibeast and it stopped booting.

Curiosier and curiosier.
I'll explore the rabbit hole now.
 
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