eldix Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Hi, I'm new to this community, and this is my first post, but I have been reading this site for a few weeks and been able to create my own Hackintosh from its information provided. I do have a few things to ask, mainly due to my inability to find the information about it and I will divide my post into 3 sections. My installation process, the issues I need to still solve and questions. MY SETUP Initially tried to do a DVD install directly (I own a mac too and bought a family leopard pack), but my mobo doesn't have AHCI so that proved impossible. My PC ASUS P5N-T Deluxe Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 4GB Ram ASUS nVidia 9600GT 1Gb 3x500Gb SATA HDD IDE DVD Drive OnBoard Audio and LAN Software used Snow leopard Install DVD [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD EmpireEFI boot CD [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Kext Helper So I used a external 2.5 USB drive to install OS X from the Mac to the USB drive. I then used the EmpireEFI cd to boot the USB OS on my PC. A couple of goes and I got there. Installed [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and boot again directly from the USB drive. SATA HDD, DVD drive and LAN weren't working yet so I installed the following kext AppleNForceATA.kext AppleVIAATA.kext IOATAFamily.kext nForceLAN.kext Reboot and presto, my SATA HDD and LAN is working. So downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner to copy all the USB to a new partition in one newly formated HFS+ drive. Took a few reboots, as CCC kept crashing the machine, but using incremental backup finally managed to get there. Once finished, 1st reboot direct from SATA HDD didn't work, so had to use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD to start it up. Reinstalled [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] again. After this [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] reinstall all working fine if i reboot directly to this SATA Drive. yay! ____________________________________ ISSUES No IDE DVD Drive yet I have W7 installed in another hard drive, and Ubuntu in the 3rd one. Used EasyBCD to try and do a triple boot system from the W7 as my main HDD. When I choose Mac (EFI) a different chameleon loader comes up and crashes. When I choose Mac (MBR) started fine, but since then I decided to delete the Ubuntu drive and now the Mac option in EasyBCD throws a 'Boot Chain Error'. If I reboot from the OS X HDD still works though... OS X system seems fairly stable, but managed a couple of crashes... ____________________________________ QUESTIONS Can I get the DVD drive to work, or it easier to forget about it? (or use a external USB DVD Drive) If I try to only use Chameleon as startup drive and configure it what differences I may encounter? I still need W7 to work perfectly... Any software/tips to spot issues (like why the occasional crash) and solve them? Thanks in advance, wouldn't have got as far without communities like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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