Errors encountered while starting up the computer, pausing 5 seconds.

[thorazine74]

Hi all:

I'm getting that message when booting from a MBR partition.
Chameleon was installed manually but boot0 was not installed to the MBR, only boot1h to partition boot sector and boot file to partition root.
It boots fine but it stops those 5 seconds there.
I'm using mach_kernel, smbios.plist and com.apple.boot.plist in /Extra. smbios.plist is the one from chameleon package untouched, com.apple.boot.plist is this one:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1680x1050x32</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>"Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32"</string>
<key>TimeOut</key>
<string>60</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>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</string>
</dict>
</plist>
I removed all extensions from Extra/Extensions.mkext and /Extra/Extensions/*.kext thinking it could be cause by some bad extension there but I still get the same results.

I get these messages when loading:

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LoadDrivers: Loading from /Extra/Extensions
LoadDrivers: Loading from /com.apple.boot.P/System/Library/Extensions
LoadDrivers: Loading from /com.apple.boot.R/System/Library/Extensions
LoadDrivers: Loading from /com.apple.boot.S/System/Library/Extensions
LoadDrivers: Loading from /System/Library/Extensions
Loading HFS+ file /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
Loading HFS+ file /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
Errors encountered while starting up the computer
Pausing 5 seconds...

Could it be because its trying to those non-existen directories com.apple.boot.P, R & S extensions folder? Why does it try to read there, is there something wrong in my config or are they built-in searching paths or something?
Is it for some other reason (not having it installed in the MBR?)


Moderator Edit: Duplicate thread removed. This one contains more info than your other one.

[pharaon]

Joint to you. The same problem I was found! Don't know what is wrong

[drgnmsr]

This has to do wit dual booting some how. If I boot with only my mac hard drive, everything goes well, if I boot back and forth from mac to windows, then I get this message also.

[vienna01]

Re: "Error encountered...pausing 5 seconds"
Solution found in 2012 by makie100

type on terminal
sudo systemsetup -setkernelbootarchitecture i386
Hit ENTER
Fix permissions [use Disk Utility] REBOOT
THAT's ALL
Please add this reply where you see the error discussed

[p.H]

it doesn't work in my hack though