iNeko Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Hi. Configuration of my laptop: I have oldy Asus F80s laptop, with 'not-so-low' specs. - ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 HD ( working on Snow Leopard ) - Intel Core2Duo 2.0 ghz - Atheros AR5007EG ( working ) - 3 GB RAM - 250 GB HD You will need: - Another computer with Macintosh OR any file explorer ( too see hfs+ files ). I had one big problem - OS X installer won't see my HDD drive..... but what i should to do when there's no AHCI mode in BIOS ? Let's solve it. Those kexts i was needed to make my OS X see Serial ATA harddrive (attached) - IOATAFamily.kext - AppleNForceATA.kext - AppleVIAATA.kext First method. 1. Write your OS X image to any flash drive. 2. Then drop kexts to '<flashdrive>/System/Library/Extensions' OR just use kext installer ( recommended ). If you don't see 'System' folder on your Mac then just open Terminal and type: 'defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE' and then 'killall Finder' to restart Finder... but if you use another file explorer then just drop those kexts. 3. Try to install now. You will see your SATA Drive in device list. If first method WON'T work or install fails then try next ( harder procedure ). 1. Disconnect your SATA Harddrive. 2. Get USBtoSATA controller. ( Uses in portative hdds ) 3. Write your OS X image to any flash drive. ( DO NOT DROP KEXTS THERE ) 4. Connect your HDD which is connected via USBtoSATA controller... Your installer will see your HD without any kexts. 5. Install it on yours HDD which connected via usbtosata controller... When install finishes, it can stuck at 'Still waiting for root device' or 'USBF' log. Shut down your computer. 6. Disconnect USB HDD, connect it to any computer. IF YOU USE MACINTOSH - then show all hidden files, and drop kexts which i attached to 'System/Library/Extensions'. IF YOU USE ANOTHER FILE EXPLORER or OS - then just drop those files to same directory. 7. Safe disconnect your USB HDD. 8. Disconnect your HDD from USB2Sata controller. 9. Connect your HDD back to 'original place'. Try to launch it.... Ta-Da! OS X should start without any errors. Tested on Mountain Lion ( 10.8.4 ) and Snow Leopard ( 10.6.6 - 10.6.8 )! Thanks. AppleNForceATA.kext.zip AppleVIAATA.kext.zip IOATAFamily.kext.zip 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HUSABER Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Nothing different But thanks for your post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNeko Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 I haven't found threads like this. (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameris_cyning Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 We need more people like OP. This is something that I didn't think was possible. Since I have been in the Hackintosh scene AHCI has always been mandatory Cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cod3 Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 how about desktops.? will this work. anyone tried yet? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo877 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Thank you so much, I've been at this for hours - It was so exciting to finally see the NTFS drives appear in disk utility My machine is an ASUS F83Se, SiS 671 chipset Radeon Mobility HD 4570 graphics, running 10.9 mavericks prepared by the myHack app. I had to tweak a few other things to get the usb installer to boot however, At first it would with 'still waiting for root device', this was fixed by passing USBBusFix=Yes alongside -v -f when starting upSecond, bluetooth kexts caused the boot to hang, I just deleted all 3 bluetooth kexts to solve. Lastly, it seemed to stick at DSMOS has arrived, passing GraphicsEnabler=No solved this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cexx Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 I try on desktop MB: M2N68-AM SE2 (don't have AHCI) , and nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giacostyle Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I'm trying on a Hp dv5 with: - AMD Turion x2 ultra dual core mobile am-82 - ati Radeon 3400 -atheros ar5007 -Realtek rtl8168c -4gb ram I tried with iNeko method because I was stuck on PCI root uuid xxxxx And it start to give me a lot of point till after some line I reach a series of little cross and kernel panic, than I tried Geo877 suggestions but with no results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themacmeister Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Will try this method tonight... on an ASRock ALiveNF6G-VSTA (nForce 430) ...would love it if this worked on Mavericks 10.9.5... that may be asking too much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppfrog Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 BEAUTY. I used this to get my drives to show in Mavericks 10.9.5 on an ASROCK Alivesata2-glan. Didn't need the nforce kext , but FINALLY! The drives showed up before I even rebooted. Much Love iNeko. I thought it had smegged my RTL net drivers, but it was my dumb router hanging on me. I have been looking for days on end to get my ide drives to show up. Nothing else worked. Love it. Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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