Thread: Stuck at login screen after installing some network drivers

I used MultiBeast to install the Realtek kext to see if it would make my Internet work. Once MultiBeast finished installing I rebooted my PC in verbose mode to see if anything goes wrong. Nothing went wrong. It successfully booted into Lion but it gets stuck on the blueish white screen you get right before you reach the login screen and nothing happens after this point.

I figured it must be this networking kexts since before that, I booted into my Lion just fine. I went into the IONetworkingFamily kext and removed the one from Realtek but again the same problem occurred. I even tried removing the entire IONetworkingFamily kext but that doesn't work either.

Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong or how I can even find out what's going wrong here?

Originally Posted by loc

I used MultiBeast to install the Realtek kext to see if it would make my Internet work. Once MultiBeast finished installing I rebooted my PC in verbose mode to see if anything goes wrong. Nothing went wrong. It successfully booted into Lion but it gets stuck on the blueish white screen you get right before you reach the login screen and nothing happens after this point.

I figured it must be this networking kexts since before that, I booted into my Lion just fine. I went into the IONetworkingFamily kext and removed the one from Realtek but again the same problem occurred. I even tried removing the entire IONetworkingFamily kext but that doesn't work either.

Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong or how I can even find out what's going wrong here?

Me too did you ever find a fix?

I used the the kernel flag UseKernelCache=Yes to fix it.

Originally Posted by loc

I used the the kernel flag UseKernelCache=Yes to fix it.

Sorry so far I've learned quite a bit for hackintosh but I'm still a noob at this. Thanks for the info I got mine to work now too. But what did you do after that so you wouldn't have to type that in anymore? And did you ever get your wifi to work right? Because mine still doesn't work. It shows the wifi bar but says, "no hardware installed?" I've tried everything that I can find to get it working but I'm just having a terrible time. Thanks in advanced for any help. Sorry for not knowing my stuff.

Originally Posted by mnky

But what did you do after that so you wouldn't have to type that in anymore?

I'm going to assume you used Chameleon or Chimera as a bootloader. What you need to do is add this bootflag (UseKernelCache) to your boot file. You'll find this file at "/Extra/org.chameleon.Boot.plist" on the partition you installed OSX on. Open this file with TextEdit and add the following:

<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>Yes</string>

It should be placed under the other key-string pairs in the dict tag. Note that every boot flag can be placed in this file so if you ever need to permanently add another flag, do so here. Safe the file (It'll probably be locked but I'll assume you know enough of OSX to get around this.) and reboot.

Originally Posted by mnky

And did you ever get your wifi to work right? Because mine still doesn't work. It shows the wifi bar but says, "no hardware installed?" I've tried everything that I can find to get it working but I'm just having a terrible time. Thanks in advanced for any help.

First things first. Check if your wifi card is actually supported by OSX. Plenty of cards aren't.