slinzex Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Hello , I keep trying to install any macos on my PC. I've tried a lot of methods (maybe all existing). But still having problems. I decided to post all the info of my pc, and all what i've tried. What I have CPU Properties: CPU Type DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, 1866 MHz (7 x 267) CPU Alias Conroe-2M CPU Stepping B2 Instruction Set x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 Original Clock [ TRIAL VERSION ] Min / Max CPU Multiplier 6x / 7x Engineering Sample No L1 Code Cache 32 KB per core MSI PT890 Neo v2 (MS-7258) (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, LAN) VIA PT890 2 GB DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM 266 MHz BIOS Type Award (09/22/06) Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE (256 MB) Audio Adapter Realtek ALC655 @ VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571 Storage Controller VIA RAID Controller - 3149 Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N ATA Device (DVD+R9:10x, DVD-R9:10x, DVD+RW:18x/8x, DVD-RW:18x/6x, DVD-RAM:12x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM) SMART Hard Disks Status OK Disk Drive MAXTOR S TM3250820AS SCSI Disk Device (250 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) DMI BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD DMI BIOS Version V3.4 DMI System Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD DMI System Product MS-7258 DMI System Version 2.00 BIOS Properties: Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD Version V3.4 Release Date 09/22/2006 Size 512 KB Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP, LS-120 Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS Supported Standards DMI, APM, ACPI, PnP Expansion Capabilities ISA, PCI, AGP, USB Processor Properties: Manufacturer Intel Version Intel® External Clock 266 MHz Current Clock 1862 MHz Type Central Processor Status Enabled Upgrade ZIF Socket Designation Socket 775 What I tried -The first I've tried install SnowLeo.iso from all known torrent site. All went ok, I had MacOS Snow Leopard. Then I detected troubles with usb and ethernet low speed. I decided to install another distro. -Restore the macosx from r-drive to hdd. After that, I had "still waiting for root device" error. Tried installing kexts and following steps of guides to solve that. No result. Same with lion . -Also tonymcacs ib00t cd + Leopard/Lion cd won't install because of still waiting for device. -I tried MBR partition table, GUID partition table, and HFS+ partitions, all combinations. -Today and yestarday Im trying install SnowLeo.iso another time. I can't! Installing process stops here. And tells me to restart as only option. Another info </p></p></p> Everest complete log: Report.txt Hard drive current partitions HDD drives: Important one More screens of bios: http://s58.radikal.r...4a9f5ac3b7e.jpg http://s018.radikal....b96ddfdbb77.jpg http://s08.radikal.r...3821db203f1.jpg http://s018.radikal....79f4e7cb534.jpg http://s55.radikal.r...01b1eef85e9.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayp94 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (Let me start by saying i think you said you tried the following so if you have, sorry to repeat something you may know.) I hate to be 'one of those people', but i HIGHLY recommend just buying a genuine copy of Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I bought mine for £25 from the apple store so on ebay they are probably £20. For all your trouble and hassle ect. i bet you dont want to mess around much anymore so this is your best bet. As it is an operating system, you want it to be as close to 100% as possible, downloading the OS, you not only loose tiny bits of data downloading it, you also loose tiny bits of data writing it to a disc. Although these are very small, it could make the OS unstable and in your case unusable. Using iB00t method from T0nyM4c (insainelymac wont let me write the actual spelling but you get the idea) you have alot more support as this is the most common method to instal OSX. I tried a similar method to you, that is downloading the OS and trying to install 2 years ago and it did not work so go for the method i just explained. To round up, dont be a cheapo, buy the retail discs. Let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinzex Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Hi jayp94, thanks for your answer. I agree with you, and yes, that probably is causing my problems. Maybe I have some corrupted disks, .dmg's and .iso's. But , what you say about the fact that I've tried not one, nor 2, but a lot of images. I could believe that this happens if I would never had success. But after I've burned one SnowLeo iso to DVD, and tried installing with success , I can't understand how it's possible that this image become corrupted. But ok, I'll try one more time (or more) the tonymxs method. Today I'll ask my friend to borrow me his original Lion.dmg (he has apple macbook) . Any other possible solutions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayp94 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Thats fine, let me know how it goes. When i first tried the t0nymac method, when i put ib00t to a disk, it took me 4 dvd discs and 3 different burning programs to get it to work. This may have been my stupidity but a bit of googling and experimenting got the job done... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigsmack Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Which hard drive are you trying to install to the IDe or sata? That could be your problem. Also I see you have it set as RAID in Bios is it also set to AHCI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinzex Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 I tried to install to both IDE and SATA. BIOS has no mode AHCI. It only has IDE/RAID. No update is available for this motherboard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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