klimthesmartcow Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Greetings, I am having some difficulty getting osx to run on an HP DL580 G3 server. I have tried several methods to boot including boot-132 and iAtkos v 7. Keep in mind that I am new to the osx86 community, and so I may have missed an important step. For instance, I havent really been able to get the kexts that I believe to be the correct ones on to a boot-132 disk, so mostly I have been using pre made iso's. Currently, I can either boot and get it to freeze at the grey apple screen, or if I boot in verbose mode, it loads all of the kexts and then restarts the server. My specs are Intel e8500 chipset - I cannot fins much info on this, but I believe it is AHCI. 4x 3.66 Ghz Xeons. I have checked on wikipedia, and these appear to support sse3 EVGA Nvidia 8400 gs w 512 mb ram (PCI) 1 GB Ram The kexts that I have been trying to put into a boot-132 CD are: AHCIportInjector - for the chipset ApplePS2Controller (im using a ps2 keyboard/mouse) NVinject ( for the video card) any help would be much appreciated. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klimthesmartcow Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 Alright, I have disabled hyper threading, and determined that it is an ICH5 chipset (apparently e8500 and ICH5 are very similar.) I have assembled a boot CD, with the kexts that I had decided on but I still get the same error. I tried adding the cpus=1 argument, same thing. I did not use the kext for sata on an ICH5 chipset, the drive is sata but it goes through a controller, not the motherboard. Would it boot even without seeing the drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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