OnFPS Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Well I've installed a bunch of different iso on my system trying to get something working, but no luck. Any suggestions? Specs Below. Mobo: Motherboard Name Asus M3N72-D ChipSet: nVIDIA nForce 750a SLI, AMD K10 CPU: QuadCore AMD Phenom Black Edition 9950 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PC Type: ACPI x86 Also, I have a external raid adapter to attach my hard drive. Mac OSX reads it perfectly. Installs, but when it goes to load, it just restarts. Note: Sorry if this is the wrong section. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnFPS Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 Any advice to help me get this installed would be greatly appreciated, thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/#findComment-1107406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 If you are able to install it correctly but unable to boot, it generally means you did not select the right chipset customisations and kernel (important select voodoo kernel) during install. Install again with the right options Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/#findComment-1107941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnelly1337 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 I have the same exact setup as you and I cannot get iDeneb 1.6 to load. It installs but when I try and boot it gets stuck at a black screen with the cursor. I can move the cursor around but nothing else works. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/#findComment-1414762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyV Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Could be a load of things when upon load it reboots. Did you choose the right kernel? Graphics? etc etc... Maybe your RAID setup is the cause? I believe I"ve read something about the HD setup and that during install of OSX it would be best to set this to simple IDE... forgive me if I express myself a bit "dumbish" but I'm not an expert simply trying to help Got OSX running stable enough on my PC with Q6600 cpu and on laptop t6600 and experienced the same probs.. Changing kernel and/or graphics solved mostly the rebooting issue... I performed at least 40 installations before finally having it stable without freezing or rebooting. And yet, I'm not done so be prepared to spend some time to get this up and running completely to your likings ;-) @donnely: try booting with option -f -x I can't explain exacly why ('cause I just don't know) but this seems to help often to boot. -x is safe mode while the -f forces certain kexts to be loaded if I'm not mistaking You can also add the -v flag for verbose logging so you can see eventual error messages which in turn might help to solve the problems you encounter during installation/configuration Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/#findComment-1414789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnelly1337 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Could be a load of things when upon load it reboots. Did you choose the right kernel? Graphics? etc etc... Maybe your RAID setup is the cause? I believe I"ve read something about the HD setup and that during install of OSX it would be best to set this to simple IDE... forgive me if I express myself a bit "dumbish" but I'm not an expert simply trying to help Got OSX running stable enough on my PC with Q6600 cpu and on laptop t6600 and experienced the same probs.. Changing kernel and/or graphics solved mostly the rebooting issue... I performed at least 40 installations before finally having it stable without freezing or rebooting. And yet, I'm not done so be prepared to spend some time to get this up and running completely to your likings ;-) @donnely: try booting with option -f -x I can't explain exacly why ('cause I just don't know) but this seems to help often to boot. -x is safe mode while the -f forces certain kexts to be loaded if I'm not mistaking You can also add the -v flag for verbose logging so you can see eventual error messages which in turn might help to solve the problems you encounter during installation/configuration tried every boot flag I could think of, rather strange as I have done many OSX installs on other PCs but I have never seen this. -V shows it loads apple login screen but when the GUI starts it just sits there with a black or grey screen with a cursor. I can move the mouse around but NOTHING will load beyond that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/#findComment-1414951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyV Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Just encountered the same error again (yeah, well I'm still in debugging mode ;-)) and changing the kernel worked for me. When you boot in verbose mode, doesn't it give any errors? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/157633-help-installing-osx-on-pc-vista-currently-installed/#findComment-1414972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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