sndwav Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Hello people! I'm pretty new to the Hackintosh world, but I wanted to try and install MacOSX on my PC. I've managed to run OSX on VMWare, but I want to run it "natively". Your help will be much appreciated! My PC specs are: Intel i7 920 Asus P6T 6gb of RAM GeForce 9800GT 500gb WD HDD Win7 & WinXP dual boot After reading most of the posts on the issue, I decided to give it a go... but I had a few issues along the way. I obtained iDeneb's 10.5.5 installation and changed my BIOS setting for the SATA drive. The installation didn't recognize the partition I allocated since it wasn't a primary partition, but Win7 didn't let me create a primary partition so I created it as primary from WinXP (later I found out that this action has messed up my bootmgr). I formatted it to Extended Journaled. On the "Customize" window I checked X11, Fonts & nVidia Drivers only, since it says that a default kernel will be selected (Vanilla). The installation went fine, and it asked me to restart. After rebooting, I ran the OS with "-v" to see what's going on... now, either it hanged and froze, or it rebooted my PC. I can't really remember since I was smoking along the process... ;P but I'm almost sure it was rebooting whenever I tried to boot to OSX. Now, when I changed the SATA BIOS setting back to IDE to boot to Win7, it kept saying that no operating system is found. Win7's installation CD couldn't repair it since it couldn't find ANY operating system installed. So I reinstalled Win7 over the WinXP partition, and after the installation the startup repair fixed it and I can boot to my old Win7 again. But the fact remains that I can't boot to my installed MacOSX Is the problem with the Customization choices? And if so, can anyone suggest a working customization for my setup? Thank you very much! -soundwave- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185889-ideneb-1055-wont-boot-after-intallation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sndwav Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 Just to update, I've re-installed iDeneb 10.5.5 with different customize setting... I selected the first kernel on the list, the cpu-1 fix, nVidia 512mb drivers & no firewire fix. When I've booted it ran a bunch of code, then entered the graphical text mode, and froze when it got to this line: "MAC Framework successfully initialized using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers" So, still no go... :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185889-ideneb-1055-wont-boot-after-intallation/#findComment-1262537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sndwav Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 No suggestions? I tried again with only the first kernel selected, still the same problem... stuck on: "MAC Framework successfully initialized using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers" EDIT: Just wanted to add that I also tried to boot into the iDeneb 10.5.7 installation, but it didn't even boot into the install... any suggestions about that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185889-ideneb-1055-wont-boot-after-intallation/#findComment-1264978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmnKitty Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I have the same problem "using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers" but I had no trouble installing from the 10.5.7 disk. Installation went perfect, installed nothing but the basic kernel and the keyboard fix (plus essentials) I heard that it might be a problem with the ACPI fix, which I didn't use, but i was wondering if there was a more plausible explanation? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185889-ideneb-1055-wont-boot-after-intallation/#findComment-1295023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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