speeeding Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Hi there, I am a complete noob in building computers, but after my 24" imac died, i decided to build a hackintosh. After much research in insanely mac, I used Auzigog's instructions for downloading a retail Leopard with the following hardware: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) Western Digital Caviar GP WD5000AACS 500GB 5400 to 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Sony Optiarc Slim Combo Black SATA Model I managed to stuff all of this in an old Quicksilver Powermac body. It started up fine, and within a couple of seconds, it went to Gigabyte's logo screen, then tried to boot the grub-dfe.iso CD that i had made. However, it kept giving me "boot disk error, insert boot disk and press enter" message. Is there something I'm not doing correctly? At the logo screen, do i need to go the "post screen", "bios setup", or any of the other options listed there? From what I've read from Auzigog's site and other turorials, it's seems like a pretty straightforward setup. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak41 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I guess we all gotta start somewhere. When you first boot up your computer there's usually a key you can hit to enter your BIOS to configure various settings in there. Being a noob you don't want to mess with much, but you need to change the priorities of your drives in order to boot from the CD/DVD as opposed to your hard drive (which is should default to). I don't know if you have any manuals with pictures of what to expect, but since I don't have a Gigabyte motherboard I can't really tell you what you need to do once you're in. Generally speaking the delete key will get you there. You need to make your CD/DVD drive the primary boot device and your hard drive second in order to boot from the media and begin the OS X installation process. Good luck, this won't be easy for you. P.S. Some motherboards and BIOSes allow you to hit a key and select your boot media. If that's the case use that option instead. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1089732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 I did find the button that gives me the option to boot up from the CD/ROM drive, which in my case turned out to be F12. I'm still having the same problem though. Just to be sure, I put in a Windows Vista boot disk, and it started to boot up. Is there still something I have to do in BIOS to be able to read the grub file? Perhaps I didn't copy the file correctly? I took the grub-dfe.iso file from the "UD3P-package" and burned it onto a disk. I even tried another kext file but didn't work either. I'm so frustrated! but thanks for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I did find the button that gives me the option to boot up from the CD/ROM drive, which in my case turned out to be F12. I'm still having the same problem though. Just to be sure, I put in a Windows Vista boot disk, and it started to boot up. Is there still something I have to do in BIOS to be able to read the grub file? Perhaps I didn't copy the file correctly? I took the grub-dfe.iso file from the "UD3P-package" and burned it onto a disk. I even tried another kext file but didn't work either.I'm so frustrated! but thanks for your help. I am using a UD3P and installed using the very same grub-dfe.iso file from UD3P-package from Auzigog's website. No problems booting from it. Two things come to mind. 1. Bad burn of the iso file. Perhaps reburn it at a slower speed. Make sure you are actually burning the iso image back to a cd disc and not simply copying it over to it. Very big difference. Make sure the software you use to burn it back will burn it back correctly. 2. Make sure you switch SATA mode from IDE to AHCI. You need to make sure the Sata ports are setup as AHCI in the bios. I believe the default settings are IDE. Also, make sure you are using the yellow Intel SATA ports and not the purple Sata ports. They use a different controller (jmicron, I believe) and they are troublesome. Stick with the yellow SATA ports. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 I am using a UD3P and installed using the very same grub-dfe.iso file from UD3P-package from Auzigog's website. No problems booting from it. Two things come to mind. 1. Bad burn of the iso file. Perhaps reburn it at a slower speed. Make sure you are actually burning the iso image back to a cd disc and not simply copying it over to it. Very big difference. Make sure the software you use to burn it back will burn it back correctly. 2. Make sure you switch SATA mode from IDE to AHCI. You need to make sure the Sata ports are setup as AHCI in the bios. I believe the default settings are IDE. I used a macbook to burn the iso file. Is there a 3rd party burning program that I should be using instead? Thanks for you help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I used a macbook to burn the iso file. Is there a 3rd party burning program that I should be using instead?Thanks for you help! Toast can burn it. So can Burn. I also believe that Disk Utility will allow you to burn the iso image (just like DMG images) back correctly to a cd. After burning the disc, if you pop it back into the macbook and all you see on the cd disc is the .iso file itself, then its wrong. You should see a Boot folder and a Boot.CAT file. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Ok, I used Disco to burn the file and it works. yay! At the boot prompt, I inserted the retail leopard, and typed "fe". That didn't work so, I typed in "9f" which seemed to be the default suggestion. It then went to the grey apple screen, but after a few minutes, I got the prohibited icon(circle w/ slash through it). Now what do I do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Hmm.. I would think fe should work fine. Did on my UD3P machine. Do you only have 1 hard drive and 1 dvd rom in the machine? Cause that should work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 So, I set the hard disc to ahci and enabled sata 0-3, and it worked. But now, at the "select a destination" screen, there is no hard drive. Just for kicks, I swapped it out with my old imac hd. It could see this one, but not the new hd that I got. Maybe the hd isn't compatible? is that possible? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 So, I set the hard disc to ahci and enabled sata 0-3, and it worked.But now, at the "select a destination" screen, there is no hard drive. Just for kicks, I swapped it out with my old imac hd. It could see this one, but not the new hd that I got. Maybe the hd isn't compatible? is that possible? At this point you need to launch Disk utility and format the drive. Make sure to use the options button and set it to GUID partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Ah I'm such a noob. Thank you, I couldn't have done it without your help! I'm sure I'll have more questions along the way... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1090562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 So, I think I've gotten somewhere, I entered the wrong graphics card in the Uinstaller, so I started over. The problem I'm having now is that the display is too stretched, no matter what res I set the uinstaller to. Also, I can't scroll down in Safari. Any thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1091660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 So, I think I've gotten somewhere, I entered the wrong graphics card in the Uinstaller, so I started over. The problem I'm having now is that the display is too stretched, no matter what res I set the uinstaller to. Also, I can't scroll down in Safari. Any thoughts? What video card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1091670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 What video card? gigabyte Nvidia 8400 gs 256mb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1091689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 gigabyte Nvidia 8400 gs 256mb Might want to try this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=144267 My only experience with Nvidia cards is with the 9xxx series. But, you shouldn't have too much trouble with the 8400 GS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1091713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 omg! it works! Now I guess if I want airport to work, I should get a wireless card? Thanks for all your help, you're a lifesaver! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1091898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 Broken, what kind of wireless card do you use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1092543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Broken, what kind of wireless card do you use? Sorry, but I don't use one. Just the gigabit ethernet on my motherboard. But I know there is at least one wireless card that doesn't require any extra drivers. I would check here on the OSx6 wiki: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...10.5.6#Wireless I believe the Netgear WG311v2 is a popular model. But you might need to ask around on that one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1092764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeeding Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 k, I'll keep looking for a guide on the network card. I have 2 more questions: My speakers work through a usb mic/speaker adaptor, but the mic doesn't. Do I have to update something for it to work? Also, I have my old imac HD hooked up to the computer now. I'd like to transfer my itunes library to the new HD. According to Auzigog, you're not supposed to transfer library and aps folder. So how do I do this? Simply copying the music files to the new hd didn't work either.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154688-cant-even-boot-grub-file-help-please/#findComment-1093684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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