Bootloader not working

[Poketmouse]

Hey all,
got my Hackintosh up and running this morning, you have no idea how excited i am right now!
anyway, i used Multibeast to install Chimaira, and have also downloaded the stand alone installer but neither of them seem to work :-/
each time i startup the machine, it comes up with a series of

Boot 0:<insert random system related word here>

lines before coming up with

Boot 0:error

it does this whether i bootup normally and allow it to do its thing, or whether i go through the boot drive selection screen on the mobo (im using a GA-B75M-D3P). The only way i can get it to boot on my HD is to boot using the unibeast drive and use Chimaira that way...

anyone got any ideas why its not working?

 

[Darky57]

good call sir!
ive managed to get the bootloader to run now, but whenever i select my HD it just hangs on the startup screen (apple logo with the swirling clock like thing underneath it) :-/

Startup in verbose mode, it should tell you where your problem is.

 

[Poketmouse]

hmm, how odd, i used the attachments utility
lets try this:

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s388/Iamtheroflcopter/20121203_171719.jpg

 

[Poketmouse]

i tried all those options before, and they all ended in the same thing.

i did have a tp-link card in, which ive taken out. Ive now run it again in Verbose mode and its now frozen at this point:

 

[Poketmouse]

nope still freezing on

ATHR: unknown locale: 21

 

[Poketmouse]

well this is something different...

i completely wiped the disk and reinstalled ML, this time selecting the DSDT installation at the top of the Multibeast menu (as well as the audio drivers that i need). i made sure to do all this before doing anything else. That all installed and ran fine, but i still got the whole boot0: error nonsense come up. So i did the Terminal command line thing and the bootloader comes up fine. This time however it waits on the apple logo screen and then snaps to a plain white screen, as if it was about to load up the desktop but stopped. If i run it in Verbose mode, it goes through the whole process but then at the end, instead of sitting on the one line it again snaps to a white screen.

Its still not working but its something different...

 

[Poketmouse]

right...well...this is interesting.

i thought id leave it for the night, it was getting pretty late so id attempt to tackle it in the morning.
When i got up i turned the machine on, and it just worked! The bootloader came up and did its thing and it just worked! Ill just point out that i took out all the cards that were in the machine and am using the mobo's DVI port.

Im naturally suspicious when something does that so i restarted the machine and tried it again. This time the display went wrong, it only displayed in about a third of the screen, and had about 10 representations of the desktop screen in this small area, all in a long line...weird i know. It did this twice.
The third time i put in -v -x npci=0x2000 before booting and it again seemed to work fine. I have tried this twice now and it works. HOWEVER if i boot up without using -v -x npci=0x2000 it again goes back to the screwed up display:



im going to try it with the G.card in again and see what happens...


UPDATE I:
Right, tried it with the GPU back in, and in both instances it stops on a white screen. It runs through everything fine but then hangs when its about to load the desktop...compatibility issue with the graphics card?

UPDATE II:
actually, scrap that idea, even using the mobo's dvi port it still brings up the above screen, so it cant be the GPU...however, again when i use -v -x npci=0x2000 at startup it displays without any problems....

UPDATE III:
heres another interesting thing.
i was playing around with some more of the stuff in Multibeast after reading some posts about the GraphicsEnabler=No thing with regards to 6xx GPUs. I thought "what've i got to lose" so ran that one and now it seems to boot up fine with the GPU installed. I haven't tested it again to check but could that have something to do with it?

 

[Poketmouse]

i seem to have it working now!
i ran that GraphicsEnambler=No kext from Multibeast and ever since it seems to be working fine, ive had one instance where, after it boots up and loads the desktop, the cursor wont move, but i just restart and it works fine. Hmm...

either way thanks a million for all your help!