Jump to content
1615 posts in this topic

Recommended Posts

lol, where's the shut down button...lol.

This reminds me of one time when I first installed Mandrake/Mandriva. After the install and some configuration-fest, it was bed-time, wanted some sleep, and proceeded to shut-down the thing... Except the closest thing to a shutdown was to log-off, which brought me back to a prompt to log-in another user. I couldn't find any way to shutdown!

There was the solution in shuting down with a terminal command, but surely there must be a better/less stupid way?

Very sleepy and tired of searching the how's and why's, I angrily resigned and pushed the tower's power-off button... and there it was, the nice shut-down procedure that took its time closing off any file or resource. I then remembered that I let the apic/acpi enabled, so this was the natural way to shut-down. Or something like that.

 

So I sympathize with hamidjan, although osx at least has that apple menu from where to shutdown. When something's new and a critical installation has been done, sometimes simple things can elude us for a moment.

Fortunately one can find people who can help, or we can take the time to RTFM if there's one ;) .

Not really related to this thread but there seems to be some intelligent knowledgeable posters frequenting in here. I was just wondering if there is any way to restore my macs system preferences panel. Somehow I have managed to mess it up ;). It crashes whenever I touch the hardware panel :/ Was just wondering if there was some kind of repair feature or a shell script available.

Posting now from my MacIntel, "Hackintosh" I guess is the proper word. I have an ASUS P5P800 , 3.0 ghz Proc. 1.5 gig Ram. Gave the MAC about 35 gigs of HD space. I am afforded the Internet through "Flamazter's" perfect instructions on using the kext method. Logic Express works fine with my M-Audio solo. I need to ask , games like chess do not work on my system they terminate themselves. I have no idea which DVD I installed but I have OSX 10.4.6 which was an update. I will buy Intel-Mac software when it becomes available. Any Audio guru's experimenting here?? You can't return software anymore so I want to be careful.

 

Johnmix

 

:D

Successful install. Haven't yet tried dual booting as I am still in my initial Hackintosh session. Still,

this is a major step. Wanted to share my installation experience getting this far.

 

Hardware:

 

MSI K9N Neo (nForce 550 chipset)

AMD athlon X2 3800+

Corsair DDR2 2 Gigs RAM

Gigabyte Geforce 7300 GS video card

PS2 keyboard and mouse

PATA Maxtor 80 Gig HD

 

Settings:

 

Jas 10.4.6 install DVD

 

During install, under customize, selected:

AMD Base system

AMD SSE2

10.4.6 Semjaza decrypts (forget exact wording)

 

Hitting upon this combination of customization options took a few installation attempts. And I am left with only 10.4.4. When I tried the same list but added Combination updates for Intel and AMD, the system wouldn't complete booting.

 

Don't yet have much functionality - no sound, no networking - but haven't worked on that. Will post back as system evolves. I am just pleased to get through the installation and have this hardware combination actually boot.

 

Comments?

Successful install! Have my computer set-up to triple boot OSX, Windows and Linux...sweet.

 

Before using this guide my problems were (in order of attempts): OSX doesn't see my partition, OSX gives the HF+ partition error. All solved by starting over and following this guide. Only thing I doubt is if the changing from logical to primary is necessary afterwards. That took me 5 hours for 79 Gb! :( Afterwards I had the problem that the OS selector booted Windows instead of OSX, simply solved by right-clicking on the OSX icon, properties and setting the OSX partition to active.

 

Right, now for getting the rest to work. My set-up isn't great, am going to do a hardware-upgrade, but still OSX is running very smooth...amazing, a sign that it's programmed much more efficient compared to Windows. And the X-Window system of Linux as well btw.

 

Hardware:

 

- Don't know the motherboard brand anymore, sorry

- Pentium-IV 1.5 Ghz, 256 K L2 cache (recognized as a 300 Mhz Pentium-IV)

- Cheap 512 Mb. ram :)

- Club3D Radeon 9600, 128 Mb

- 128 Gb harddisk with Windows/OS X, 40 Gb harddisk with Linux

- Logitech cordless desktop

 

What's not working at the moment:

 

- Networking/Internet (SiS 900 chipset)

- Sound (AC97 I believe)

- Low resolution of 1024x768

 

Bluetooth works straight away which was really nice, I use a USB dongle for that. OSX recognised my mobile phones straight away, while Windows had many problems with 1. :) Would like to know if I also can browse the phones instead of just syncing.

 

Settings:

 

- Jas 10.4.6 install DVD

- During install, under customize, selected:

Intel patches and SSE2

 

This guide should replace the original one.

No guarantees, but...

 

Get this kext: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=129533

 

Follow these instructions: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=123004

 

But in step 18, I'm betting you need to use your vendor/device ids

hey guys, should i say this successful, but i got a problem with installing the mac os x! i followed the steps! but when i installed mac os x, and finished the final part and restarted, my computer doesnt accept the hard disk i think! it says replace the disk and try again, or something like that, i installed windows xp again!! any help pleaseee???

maybe ya but, its just happens when i try to install mac os, but when i put my recovery dvd and install windows xp it just works fine!!! i just buy my computer and the hdd in 250 GB! i still have warranty! so what do u think, do u think its still, something wrong with my hdd?

Based on your description, it sounds like your hard drive is good.

 

Looking closer at the picture, instead of BIOS, it says Intel Boot Agent, which sounds like some special kind of boot loader. Maybe this special Intel program can't recognize a Mac disk and is giving an error.

No guarantees, but...

 

Get this kext: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=129533

 

Follow these instructions: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=123004

 

But in step 18, I'm betting you need to use your vendor/device ids

 

doesn't seem to work for me. now i cant log back into the desktop. it frozes with a blue screen, no error message, or any text on it....

 

i give up!

Hey folks,

 

I dont know for the life of me what the hell is going on. I got the Mac.OS.X.Tiger.10.4.6.X86-HOTiSO anyway it has no less that 85 .rar archive and winrar archive files in the thing. I've must be tired because I cant figure out for the life of me what the hell to do next. I did go into winrar and disaccosciate it from .iso. the MsInfo file was useless... need a pointer.. thanks!

I did go into winrar and disaccosciate it from .iso. the MsInfo file was useless... need a pointer..

Open the nfo file in Notepad to read it (i suggest associating nfo extension with notepad or other text app).

You'll have to burn the iso to dvd (if you don't use vmware install); burn with low speed to avoid burning errors.

Then follow instructions given by dinalomo at beginning of thread.

Yup, opened the nfo file in note pad first... just info on the version and a plea for new members. There are 85 .rar and win rar files that when I look at them are ALL .iso files of between 4.68gb & 4.98gb. Im gonna download the JAS iso as it is one file and see if that works. I've never run across this before normaly there is just the .nfo file and a .rar...

I downloaded the myz iso file and burnt it on dvd. I partitioned my hard drive with acronis director suite and have also installed the OS selector. Yet, when I boot the cd, i CONSTANTLY hang on the grey apple twirl screen. I have done this about 6-10 times already on the computer I intend to install osx on it. at the moment, my computer is now still on the twirling screen for 10-15mins.

 

Using OS selector's "boot from cd" doesn't work either. All i see is a MS DOS screen with an underscore symbol ( _ ) that continues to blink. Yet, the cd does not even 'boot up'

 

It's an AMD 3200+ (venice).

 

I also tried to boot it on my other computer (the one i am using now), intel 2.8ghz (prescott - i think). And the exact same thing happens, it hangs on the grey twirl screen. I have a feeling it is the DVD, so I am going to burn it again using the computer I am typing on now (I've had some past problems with dvd reading with dvd's burnt on the main computer to be used on another computer, yet never had problems reading it's own dvds)

 

If anyone has any suggestions, please do! let's hope it's just a CD problem, i dont want to download another ISO =(

 

*edit: when it hangs on both computers, the dvd drive's lights do not light up at all, and there is not hard drive activity*

×
×
  • Create New...