Alan S Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I posted in wrong forum before, not sure if this is right forum, but I know last forum was wrong one. Please excuse me, I'm new here. Someone posted over at lifehacker that you guys/gals might be able to help me. I am trying to setup the Hackintiosh Snow Leopard from Start to Finish that Adam did over there. I have the same exact hardware, except NewEgg only had 4gb so until about Tuesday I just have 4gb. I have installed all the parts, changed the bios, created the HackintoshInstall stuff on my Corsair 16gb Flash drive. When I start up the computer to get ready to install SL, it never goes to the screen that Adam shows in the video that shows the picture of the HackintoshInstall disk drive. It goes straight to the Choose Language screen. I had gone ahead and continued from there, and it says SL was installed, but upon reboot, it still goes to the Choose Language screen instead of showing me my HackintoshInstall and Hack Leopard drives. Any help would be appreciated. I originally was using the Chameleon r640 release but I have started over about 3 times, so right now I'm set up with the R653 version. I'm pretty much open to whatever can be made to work. I of course am using Retail version of SL, Family pack. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTG78 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I want to start by saying I have no real experience in this myself and am only in the process of putting together a Hackintosh system to perform the install upon. However, I've been doing a lot of reading in preparation. In any case, your problem seems to be with the bootloader. I recall reading here (Phase 2-part7): http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183751 that you need to interupt the bootloader by pressing a key otherwise it will automattically boot into the first GUID partition of the first boot device (if it's bootable that is). I hope I've managed to help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1265005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbourizk Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I posted in wrong forum before, not sure if this is right forum, but I know last forum was wrong one. Please excuse me, I'm new here. Someone posted over at lifehacker that you guys/gals might be able to help me. I am trying to setup the Hackintiosh Snow Leopard from Start to Finish that Adam did over there. I have the same exact hardware, except NewEgg only had 4gb so until about Tuesday I just have 4gb. I have installed all the parts, changed the bios, created the HackintoshInstall stuff on my Corsair 16gb Flash drive. When I start up the computer to get ready to install SL, it never goes to the screen that Adam shows in the video that shows the picture of the HackintoshInstall disk drive. It goes straight to the Choose Language screen. I had gone ahead and continued from there, and it says SL was installed, but upon reboot, it still goes to the Choose Language screen instead of showing me my HackintoshInstall and Hack Leopard drives. Any help would be appreciated. I originally was using the Chameleon r640 release but I have started over about 3 times, so right now I'm set up with the R653 version. I'm pretty much open to whatever can be made to work. I of course am using Retail version of SL, Family pack. Thanks hello as the other poster said when you get the bootloader screen you have to interrupt it by pressing a button from there use your arrow keys to highlight the snow install disk you installed snow to and you should be fine Adam's tutorial worked great for me and hopefully will work great for you too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1265221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 hello as the other poster said when you get the bootloader screen you have to interrupt it by pressing a button from there use your arrow keys to highlight the snow install disk you installed snow to and you should be fine Adam's tutorial worked great for me and hopefully will work great for you too. For some reason, I don't seem to ever get to the bootloader screen. Once I start it up, the first thing I see that isn't bios messages is the choose language screen. I think I must be doing something wrong when I create the bootloader, though I don't know what it could be. Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1265378 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Now I've sort of taken a big step backwards. If I have any USB Flash drive plugged in when I start the computer, it never gets past the first part of the bios test, right after it has the CPU speed, and before the amount of memory is displayed. I am going to try to work on it some more tonight, maybe a BIOS reset and re-setup might help? Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1265527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipG Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Now I've sort of taken a big step backwards.If I have any USB Flash drive plugged in when I start the computer, it never gets past the first part of the bios test, right after it has the CPU speed, and before the amount of memory is displayed. I am going to try to work on it some more tonight, maybe a BIOS reset and re-setup might help? Alan Alan, Your BIOS is fine. When the system is booting, before the screen where it detects your AHCI drives, hold down the F12 button. You can then tell the system to boot off the USD HDD. --Skip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1265575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoleyPhoto Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Can I ask a similar question, because I seem to be stuck in the same setup on a similar spot.. I have installed the OS, selected in the bios for it to start from the hard drive, and then it goes through the startup sequence, but before it gets to the point where it asks me to choose the drive to startup from with the arrow keys, it hangs on a text screen that says "PC Devices Listing" at the top, and the the bottom it is hanging after displaying "Verifying Pool Data... I am attaching a screenshot. Let me know if you have any ideas.. Thanks. : Alan, Your BIOS is fine. When the system is booting, before the screen where it detects your AHCI drives, hold down the F12 button. You can then tell the system to boot off the USD HDD. --Skip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1265752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipG Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Can I ask a similar question, because I seem to be stuck in the same setup on a similar spot.. I have installed the OS, selected in the bios for it to start from the hard drive, and then it goes through the startup sequence, but before it gets to the point where it asks me to choose the drive to startup from with the arrow keys, it hangs on a text screen that says "PC Devices Listing" at the top, and the the bottom it is hanging after displaying "Verifying Pool Data... I am attaching a screenshot. Let me know if you have any ideas.. Thanks. The device you selected for boot does not have any boot files on it. You need to install Chameleon 2.0 RC3 or something similar. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1266012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Alan, Your BIOS is fine. When the system is booting, before the screen where it detects your AHCI drives, hold down the F12 button. You can then tell the system to boot off the USD HDD. --Skip I don't ever get to that screen. I get only the very first part that shows the CPU, and it freezes. I don't get the amount of memory, or any of the detecting drives screens. Alan I don't ever get to that screen.I get only the very first part that shows the CPU, and it freezes. I don't get the amount of memory, or any of the detecting drives screens. Alan At this point it appears has though I'm toast, at least as far as trying to boot from USB or Flash. Not sure what I could have done, but it seems like I've done something. Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1266190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
#&$%house Mouse Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 You're not toast.. My BIOS has froze on me a couple of times as well. You need to do a CMOS reset. Usually just a jumper switch or similar. I would be extremely careful with flashing the BIOS.. I've lost more than one MB as a result of that. I believe that it's due to an incorrect DSDT file and it's relationship to cmos. See your motherboard documentation for exact cmos reset method. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1266260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 You're not toast.. My BIOS has froze on me a couple of times as well. You need to do a CMOS reset. Usually just a jumper switch or similar. I would be extremely careful with flashing the BIOS.. I've lost more than one MB as a result of that. I believe that it's due to an incorrect DSDT file and it's relationship to cmos. See your motherboard documentation for exact cmos reset method. Well I may have figured something out, but I'm not positive yet. I had reset my bios, etc, but I think it was actually related to my Corsair 16gb Flash Drive. I took it out and reformatted it under xp and now it appears as though the bios is working again. Of course, I'm kind of back where I started, but at least I'm not totally stuck. I am trying to figure out what I could be doing using Adam's instructions that I never get a bootloader to come up. I am going to start totally over and see if I can get farther. I really think I'm close, the problem is even at 99%, if it doesn't work when I get done, it doesn't help much. Is there a better way to do this rather than use Adam's stuff?? I am pretty computer literate, though pretty new to Mac. I do own an older Mac Mini. I'm open to suggestions Alan I am trying to figure out what I could be doing using Adam's instructions that I never get a bootloader to come up. I am going to start totally over and see if I can get farther. I really think I'm close, the problem is even at 99%, if it doesn't work when I get done, it doesn't help much. Okay, I am going to start it all over, and recreate everything. Where I got stuck before was that in following Adam's notes, when installing the SL which he shows in the video, I essentially have a problem at the 5 second point. I don't get that screen. I don't see anything flash by or anything that tells me to hit a key, or arrow key or anything. The Corsair just sits there flashing occasionnally, the screen is blank except for an occassional hyphen, backslash or slash, then the screen goes blue and then I get the choose language stuff. Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1266302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoleyPhoto Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I actually did run the whole bootloader thing. I'll try it again and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help. The device you selected for boot does not have any boot files on it. You need to install Chameleon 2.0 RC3 or something similar. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1266380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoleyPhoto Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Hi Skip (or anyone else who can help me on this), I tried the new file that Adam put up on Lifehacker that takes you through all of the steps automatically installing the bootloader, and I am still unable to startup the computer without the thumb drive installed. I've included a screenshot of the screen that I am seeing after it hangs on "Verifying Pool Data". One other odd thing to note is that when I DO have it running with the thumb drive installed, I cannot see either of my hard drives (I have 2, 1tb SATA drives installed) on my desktop. They are there in the left side of the window if I open a folder, but I cannot get them to appear on the desktop. Are these two items related? Do I maybe have something wrong in the BIOS that is is not recognizing these drives? I think I have all of the BIOS screens the same as Adam's setup, and all of the same hardware except that I have 16gb of ram installed. Please help, I am dying to see how fast this thing really is. Worst case scenario is that I could start over from the beginning, but I would hate to do that since I already have almost all of my software installed on it. Thanks. The device you selected for boot does not have any boot files on it. You need to install Chameleon 2.0 RC3 or something similar. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1268777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 Okay, I am going to start it all over, and recreate everything. Where I got stuck before was that in following Adam's notes, when installing the SL which he shows in the video, I essentially have a problem at the 5 second point. I don't get that screen. I don't see anything flash by or anything that tells me to hit a key, or arrow key or anything. The Corsair just sits there flashing occasionnally, the screen is blank except for an occassional hyphen, backslash or slash, then the screen goes blue and then I get the choose language stuff. Alan Okay, so I've started over totally using Adam's new and improved bootloader. I essentially get the same results. When I boot off of the Bootloader Flash drive, I never get the image of the disk drive, I only get the choose language screen. If I continue I do get the screen that says that SL has been successfully installed and it does a reboot, but then again I go back to the Choose Language screen and never see the images of the drives. I have been told I need to interupt the bootloader by pressing a key, but there is a 4-6 minute pause between when the boot screen goes blank until the Choose Language screen comes up, and I've tried pressing the space bar right away, or a little later, or a little later more. I can't find a combination that works. I feel that SL is probably installed on the drive, but just can't get that last little piece to work. Thanks, Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1269320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 17, 2009 Author Share Posted September 17, 2009 Okay, so I've started over totally using Adam's new and improved bootloader.I essentially get the same results. When I boot off of the Bootloader Flash drive, I never get the image of the disk drive, I only get the choose language screen. If I continue I do get the screen that says that SL has been successfully installed and it does a reboot, but then again I go back to the Choose Language screen and never see the images of the drives. I have been told I need to interupt the bootloader by pressing a key, but there is a 4-6 minute pause between when the boot screen goes blank until the Choose Language screen comes up, and I've tried pressing the space bar right away, or a little later, or a little later more. I can't find a combination that works. I feel that SL is probably installed on the drive, but just can't get that last little piece to work. Thanks, Alan I just can't figure out how to interrupt the bootloader so I don't stop at the Choose Language screen. I also tried it using a little USB drive I have, but I get the same results. Do I press and hold a key?? Just press it?? Does it matter what key?? I'm open to suggestions to. Since I believe SL is actually installed on the new drive, do I even need a custom bootloader since I used the custom one when I installed SL? I don't know much about Mac, so I am pretty new to that part. Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1269422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltoolio Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I'm by no means any sort of expert (even calling me a n00b would be kind), but is there any possibility that your USB drive or even the port that you are plugging it into is bad? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1269440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 17, 2009 Author Share Posted September 17, 2009 Well I thought that too, but I have used the front and also the back USB ports, and have used my Corsair 16gb flash and my 20gb usb drive. I know other people have gotten theirs to run, and I am new to Mac but doing computers for over 30 years, so I don't think I'm doing anything stupid, but I guess anything is possible. I am using a retail copy of Snow Leopard, the 5 user pack (family), and I used it to update my mac mini, so I don't think the dvd is bad. Just not sure. Getting frustrated, been working at it since Saturday. Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1269458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoleyPhoto Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Hi Skip (or anyone else who can help me on this), I tried the new file that Adam put up on Lifehacker that takes you through all of the steps automatically installing the bootloader, and I am still unable to startup the computer without the thumb drive installed. I've included a screenshot of the screen that I am seeing after it hangs on "Verifying Pool Data". One other odd thing to note is that when I DO have it running with the thumb drive installed, I cannot see either of my hard drives (I have 2, 1tb SATA drives installed) on my desktop. They are there in the left side of the window if I open a folder, but I cannot get them to appear on the desktop. Are these two items related? Do I maybe have something wrong in the BIOS that is is not recognizing these drives? I think I have all of the BIOS screens the same as Adam's setup, and all of the same hardware except that I have 16gb of ram installed. Please help, I am dying to see how fast this thing really is. Worst case scenario is that I could start over from the beginning, but I would hate to do that since I already have almost all of my software installed on it. Thanks. Okay, I think I FINALLY figured out the problems and they are totally unrelated.. The first problem with the computer not booting without the thumb drive was because I had the system software installed on SATA Drive 1 instead of Drive 0. Once I told the BIOS to startup from Drive 1, it booted without the stick. Second problem with the missing hard drives from the desktop was because there is an option in the Finder prefs to have the Hard Drives appear on the desktop or not and it was unchecked for some reason. Checked it and now all is well! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1269596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan S Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 Well, I have no other things I can try, so I guess at this point, I'm giving up. I know I'm close, but without being able to get the Hackintosh to boot up and not just always want to install, I really can't use it. Thanks for everyone's help, and if anyone knows of anyone that wants to buy $1000 worth of the exact parts that are needed, just let me know. I probably will end up selling them, and getting a mac of some kind. Alan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186368-problems-with-hackintosh-snow-leopard-from-start-to-finish-tutorial/#findComment-1275410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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