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Hey all,

 

hopefully someone can help. I am having a bit of a different problem. I can install the mac osx disc to my USB Drive fine. But when I install the magicinstaller.pkg it goes through the installation fine but after its completed there are no files on my USB stick. I am installing on a macmini. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening or solutions.

 

Can I copy and paste the files from somewhere else to my usb stick without going through the install package.

 

Thanks, any help is appreciated.

 

J

Hey all,

 

hopefully someone can help. I am having a bit of a different problem. I can install the mac osx disc to my USB Drive fine. But when I install the magicinstaller.pkg it goes through the installation fine but after its completed there are no files on my USB stick. I am installing on a macmini. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening or solutions.

 

Can I copy and paste the files from somewhere else to my usb stick without going through the install package.

 

Thanks, any help is appreciated.

 

J

 

There are files that are invisible and others are in a hidden partition. However, you should have an "Extra" folder at the root of the USB stick. Do you not see it? Also, make sure you selected the USB drive when running magicinstaller.pkg.

 

Is your macmini intel or powerpc?

 

-Ed

There are files that are invisible and others are in a hidden partition. However, you should have an "Extra" folder at the root of the USB stick. Do you not see it? Also, make sure you selected the USB drive when running magicinstaller.pkg.

 

Is your macmini intel or powerpc?

 

-Ed

 

 

Hey Ed,

 

Yeah, there is no "extra" folder, that`s the problem. I selected the right USB drive and did everything right. Even tried the same installation on a couple different USB Drives.

 

And it`s an intel mac mini.

 

Thanks,

J

Hey everyone, looking for a small bit of help. This is my first Hackintosh and I ran through the Lifehacker guide. Everything is working perfect, sound and network works and so does sleep.

 

My only problem is if I remove my USB Key and reboot, I get "boot0: error" after the Verifying DMA message on Post.

 

The guide said to redo a couple commands but using the SL OS Partition (disk0s2 on mine). I even put boot and the Extras folder onto my "Macintosh HD" folder.

 

The nice thing is I can try things and if it doesn't work, I can just put the USB key back in and hit an arrow and select my HD to boot back up. Just looking for some clarification as to what I might be doing wrong.

 

Just so it's written, I have downloaded the Chameleon and I am in the i386 folder when I run...

 

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Ed,

 

Yeah, there is no "extra" folder, that`s the problem. I selected the right USB drive and did everything right. Even tried the same installation on a couple different USB Drives.

 

And it`s an intel mac mini.

 

Thanks,

J

 

This is quite strange, but what version of OS X are you running on that mini? this could have something to do it, but I would also recommend trying another computer and see what happens.

 

Hey everyone, looking for a small bit of help. This is my first Hackintosh and I ran through the Lifehacker guide. Everything is working perfect, sound and network works and so does sleep.

 

My only problem is if I remove my USB Key and reboot, I get "boot0: error" after the Verifying DMA message on Post.

 

The guide said to redo a couple commands but using the SL OS Partition (disk0s2 on mine). I even put boot and the Extras folder onto my "Macintosh HD" folder.

 

The nice thing is I can try things and if it doesn't work, I can just put the USB key back in and hit an arrow and select my HD to boot back up. Just looking for some clarification as to what I might be doing wrong.

 

Just so it's written, I have downloaded the Chameleon and I am in the i386 folder when I run...

 

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

What is the size of the drive that you are installing onto?

The likely hood of 2 bad drives while possible is almost unheard of. I would definitely try another port on the motherboard and I might also suggest taking off and checking the thermal compound to the CPU. I have seen where the CPU can start to overheat and lock everything up. Do this after you test the ports on the board and see what happens. For your situation it could be a bad board, and hopefully nothing more.

 

If I remove the heat sink to check the thermal compound, does that mean I have to buy some thermal compound (like Artic Silver ot whatever) and apply it before I reseat it?

 

Is there a good site you'd recommend for showing me what I'm supposed to be seeing? I can't seem to find a good "this is what it's supposed to look like (or not)" reference

The likely hood of 2 bad drives while possible is almost unheard of. I would definitely try another port on the motherboard and I might also suggest taking off and checking the thermal compound to the CPU. I have seen where the CPU can start to overheat and lock everything up. Do this after you test the ports on the board and see what happens. For your situation it could be a bad board, and hopefully nothing more.

 

*update* it looks like it was a heat sink issue. Wasn't seated properly. Need to get a new one -- anyone have any recommendations?

Running two 1.5TB HDs, one is just partitioned for data, other is OS. No dual boots.

 

I have a Seagate 1.5TB drive as my primary and I was getting the same error. Supposedly in Chameleons 2.0 RC3, they were supposed to include large drive support, but I have not seen it. Here is what you need to do. Use Disk Utility to make 2 partitions with the drive. The primary cannot be greater than 1 TB otherwise you get that error.

 

I guess there`s no way to just copy and paste the needed boot files from the magic installer package to the USB Key right?

 

I would not recommend doing that, simply because using the installer puts the correct file permissions to it. Use another mac if you can.

 

*update* it looks like it was a heat sink issue. Wasn't seated properly. Need to get a new one -- anyone have any recommendations?

 

I would go through newegg.com, and if you are not doing any kind of overclocking choose a smaller cooler. I had a Zalman on this board, and it barely fit because of the mounting brackets. Just choose one that you see supports your chip.

 

For reference...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16835103046

And definitely get some silver 5 compound

I have a Seagate 1.5TB drive as my primary and I was getting the same error. Supposedly in Chameleons 2.0 RC3, they were supposed to include large drive support, but I have not seen it. Here is what you need to do. Use Disk Utility to make 2 partitions with the drive. The primary cannot be greater than 1 TB otherwise you get that error.

 

Interesting. I am at work but I noticed this right before I left, I had forgotten to set the Partition Type to Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled). Instead I left it on the default which I believe was just Mac OS Extended.

 

I'm guessing it's easier for me to just wipe it off and redo it with the proper type. I'll give it a shot with the full 1.5TB on the proper Partition Type and if it fails there I'll chop into 2 Partitions.

Anyone want to try the FakeSMC from netkas, http://netkas.org/?p=338 to see what happens with your temps before and after, and let us know if you see any KP's...

 

I gave it a shot to see if it corrected what I thought might be an incorrect TJ somewhere. It worked through one boot and I got an unattributable KP on the second boot so I pulled it (wasn't verbose and no log for it).

 

I'm getting odd temps from iStat - the phone says 61/57/57/56 (and the widget confirms it although the widget only sees two cores).

 

Real Temp and Core Temp agree on 39/39/37/37 (and the BIOS is somewhere around there).

 

Anyone know offhand why my reported temps are so out of whack? I'm assuming the V3 "ten degrees hotter" is actual and not reported - even if I misread that, it doesn't account for the other 12 degree difference.

 

And yeah, that's booting right back & forth between OSX and XP to check.

;)

Ed, would you be kind enough to share your bios settings, did you change the dram settings as well ?

 

Here are my BIOS Settings. They are working for me. I can't guarantee they will for any one else. I have the Q9550. My RAM details and Cooler information is in my signature.

 

-Ed

 

***************************************
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (Rev. 1.6) - FD

***************************************
*****************cpu*******************
***************************************
....MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.).... 

***************************************
Robust Graphics Booster ..............: [Auto]
CPU Clock Ratio ......................: [8x]
x Fine CPU Clock Ratio................: +0.5

CPU Frequency ........................: 3.46xGHz

********** Clock Chip Control *********
*****  Standard Clock Control
CPU Host Clock Control................: [Enabled]

x CPU Host Frequency(Mhz).............: [400]
PCI Express Frequency(Mhz)............: [100]
C.I.A.2...............................: [Disabled]


***** Advanced Clock Control..........: [Press Enter]

CPU Clock Drive.......................: [800mV]
PCI Express Clock Drive...............: [900mV]

CPU Clock Skew........................: [  0ps]
MCH Clock Skew........................: [  0ps]


****** DRAM Performance Control *******
Performance Enhance...................: [standard]
Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P.)........: [Disabled]
(G)MCH Frequency Latch................: [400MHz]

System Memory Multiplier......(SPD)...: [2.00D]
Memory Frequency(Mhz)...........800...: [800]
DRAM Timing Selectable........(SPD)...: [Manual]
***** Standard Timing Control

x CAS Latency Time................x...: [ 5]
x tRCD ...........................x...: [ 5]
x tRP.............................x...: [ 5]
x tRAS...........................xx...: [12]

***** Advanced Timing Control.........: [Press Enter] 


x tRRD............................x...: [3]
x tWTR............................x...: [3]
x tWR.............................x...: [6]
x tRFC...........................xx...: [52]
x tRTP............................x...: [3]

x Command Rate (CMD) .............x...: [Auto]

***** Channel A Timing Settings.......: [Press Enter] 

x Static tRead Value..............11...: [9]
x tRD Phase0 Adjustment...........0...: [Auto]
x tRD Phase1 Adjustment...........0...: [Auto]

x tRD Phase2 Adjustment ..........0...: [Auto]
x tRD Phase3 Adjustment...........0...: [Auto]
x Trd2rd(Different Rank)..........6...: [Auto]
x Twr2wr(Different Rank)..........6...: [Auto]
x Twr2rd(Different Rank)..........5...: [Auto]

x Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..........8...: [Auto]
x DIMM1 Clock Skew Control (ps).......: [Auto]
x DIMM2 Clock Skew Control (ps).......: [Auto]
x DDR Write Training..................: [Auto]


***** Channel A Driving Settings......: [Press Enter] 

x Driving Strength Profile............: [800MHz]
x Data Driving Pull-Up Level..........: [Auto]
x Cmd Driving Pull-Up level...........: [Auto]
x Ctrl Driving Pull-Up Level..........: [Auto]

x Clk Driving Pull-Up Level...........: [Auto]
x Data Driving Pull-Down Level........: [Auto]
x Cmd Driving Pull-Down level.........: [Auto]
x Ctrl Driving Pull-Down Level........: [Auto]
x Clk Driving Pull-Down Level.........: [Auto]


***** Channel B Timing Settings.......: [Press Enter] 

x Static tRead Value..............11...: [9]
x tRD Phase0 Adjustment...........0...: [Auto]
x tRD Phase1 Adjustment...........0...: [Auto]
x tRD Phase2 Adjustment ..........0...: [Auto]

x tRD Phase3 Adjustment...........0...: [Auto]
x Trd2rd(Different Rank)..........6...: [Auto]
x Twr2wr(Different Rank)..........6...: [Auto]
x Twr2rd(Different Rank)..........5...: [Auto]
x Trd2wr(Same/Diff Rank)..........8...: [Auto]

x DIMM1 Clock Skew Control.....(ps)...: [Auto]
x DIMM2 Clock Skew Control.....(ps)...: [Auto]
x DDR Write Training..................: [Auto]

***** Channel B Driving Settings......: [Press Enter] 


x Driving Strength Profile............: [800MHz]
x Data Driving Pull-Up Level..........: [Auto]
x Cmd Driving Pull-Up level...........: [Auto]
x Ctrl Driving Pull-Up Level..........: [Auto]
x Clk Driving Pull-Up Level...........: [Auto]

x Data Driving Pull-Down Level........: [Auto]
x Cmd Driving Pull-Down level.........: [Auto]
x Ctrl Driving Pull-Down Level........: [Auto]
x Clk Driving Pull-Down Level.........: [Auto]

***** Motherboard Voltage Control *****

Voltage Types..........Normal...........Current
-----------------------------------------------------
*** CPU *******************************
Load-Line Calibration.................: [Disabled]

CPU Vcore..............1.17500V.......: [1.27500V]
CPU Termination........1.200V.........: [Auto]

CPU PLL................1.500V.........: [Auto]
CPU Reference..........0.760V.........: [Auto]

*** MCH/ICH ***************************
MCH Core...............1.100V.........: [Auto]

MCH Reference..........0.760V.........: [Auto]
MCH/DRAM Reference.....0.900V.........: [Auto]

ICH I/O................1.500V.........: [Auto]
ICH Core...............1.100V.........: [Auto]

*** DRAM ******************************
DRAM Voltage...........1.800V.........: [Auto]
DRAM Termination.......0.900V.........: [Auto]

Channel A Reference....0.900V.........: [Auto]
Channel B Reference....0.900V.........: [Auto]

Interesting. I am at work but I noticed this right before I left, I had forgotten to set the Partition Type to Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled). Instead I left it on the default which I believe was just Mac OS Extended.

 

I'm guessing it's easier for me to just wipe it off and redo it with the proper type. I'll give it a shot with the full 1.5TB on the proper Partition Type and if it fails there I'll chop into 2 Partitions.

 

 

I spent a good amount of time trying to install Halloween (v2) onto my 1.5TB WD drive, using a single partition. As reported, I couldn't get it to work unless I partitioned the boot drive under 1TB.

 

I'd be interested to hear your success.

I tried and didn't get it working. Partitioned it and got it working. Then I did the updates as the LH guide said it was good. Now my bootloader screen has changed (Blue screen with the Chameleon Logo) and when I hit enter or let it countdown I get greeted with "You need to restart your computer".

 

Anyone mind giving me a simple answer of is there an easy way to reverse or am I wiping a third time and trying again?

I tried and didn't get it working. Partitioned it and got it working. Then I did the updates as the LH guide said it was good. Now my bootloader screen has changed (Blue screen with the Chameleon Logo) and when I hit enter or let it countdown I get greeted with "You need to restart your computer".

 

Anyone mind giving me a simple answer of is there an easy way to reverse or am I wiping a third time and trying again?

 

Are you using the terminal method? or just going with the V3 installer? as it sounds like the bootloader is messed up. Also, be sure that your primary partition is not greater than 1 TB, as in 1.01 TB, I know it sounds stupid, but I tried several combinations...

 

What I would recommend is if you do another re-install, partition appropriately, install onto the primary partition, then before any updates, install the V3 installer to the primary drive. Then use Apple's Combo Update and you should be set to 10.6.2. Nothing more than that hopefully.

Alright well I tried everything I knew from basics of Unix and Mac to try and make it work but gave up and wiped and am in the process of reloading again.. Had really nothing to lose. I just wont update at all.

 

What I've found & learned:

 

If I used my USB Key, I was able to boot into my OS and do anything, as well see that I was running 10.6.2. I suspect that something happened on the boot file that caused it to screw up and crash on me.

 

Every time it crashed while trying to boot, it would reset my BIOS to defaults (Including timestamp).

 

I was unable to boot anything over 1TB.

 

In order to boot my drive, I had to use the "boot" file located in the "i386" folder of the latest Chameleon build and copy it to my root drive. Using the one provided in the Lifehacker tutorial would not work, it would generate "boot0: error". Once I replaced this file, it booted perfectly.

 

I am getting really good at setting up the BIOS and reloading the OS and applying the Chameleon Boot file & Audio Kext.

 

 

 

Are you using the terminal method? or just going with the V3 installer? as it sounds like the bootloader is messed up. Also, be sure that your primary partition is not greater than 1 TB, as in 1.01 TB, I know it sounds stupid, but I tried several combinations...

 

What I would recommend is if you do another re-install, partition appropriately, install onto the primary partition, then before any updates, install the V3 installer to the primary drive. Then use Apple's Combo Update and you should be set to 10.6.2. Nothing more than that hopefully.

 

 

Alright I already reformatted and am active on a 200gb Partition.

 

I did what you suggested, downloaded the V3 Installer from Stell's Blog and ran it against my "/" drive.

 

Rebooted the Hack without the flash drive in, booted fine, custom bootloader image and all so obviously the patch worked. My audio works on reboot (Great!)

 

I am on Apples site now, downloading the Combo Update for 10.6.2. It has 5 minutes left and then I'll run it and cross my fingers. If that works... Woohoo :thanks_speechbubble:

Has anyone had any problems with the mobo and installing more than 4GB of ram? I built my computer a couple of weeks ago with all of the same computer listed on Lifehacker, with the expection of the ram. Last Friday I decide to get an additional 4GB of ram...installed it and nothing. The computer would not boot up. I have test each stick of Patriot ram one by one and got the computer to boot up. If I try installing 6GB or 8GB it just keeps rebooting over and over. I have set the voltage several different ways without any success. I ready to give up on the Patriot ram and go with something else. Not sure why the EP45-UD3P mobo and PDC24G6400ELK is having issues. I read on a few board about the problem with this combo..... ;)

Has anyone had any problems with the mobo and installing more than 4GB of ram? I built my computer a couple of weeks ago with all of the same computer listed on Lifehacker, with the expection of the ram. Last Friday I decide to get an additional 4GB of ram...installed it and nothing. The computer would not boot up. I have test each stick of Patriot ram one by one and got the computer to boot up. If I try installing 6GB or 8GB it just keeps rebooting over and over. I have set the voltage several different ways without any success. I ready to give up on the Patriot ram and go with something else. Not sure why the EP45-UD3P mobo and PDC24G6400ELK is having issues. I read on a few board about the problem with this combo..... :wacko:

 

I have 8GB of OCZ SLI ready memory installed from when I built it. Have you tried to restore your BIOS to defaults then reset them according to the guide?

I found tonight that McAfee also had a firewall. Check if your Virus protection also includes its own firewall.

 

I have a total of 5 other machines on the same wired network. One XP does have nothing on it and the XP firewall is turned off. The others have Vista and Win7 with various programs working (firewall, virus scanners).

I am surprised that the iAtkos 7 OSX 10.5.8 could see all windows machines. With the info I got from here now all machines can see the hackintosh but not the other way around.

 

Does anyone have this Lifehacker build running with an ATI 5850 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814131184) card?

 

I know the guide is specifically for dual DVI Nvidia cards but I do not want to spend money on some last-generation product.

 

Thanks

Interesting. I am at work but I noticed this right before I left, I had forgotten to set the Partition Type to Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled). Instead I left it on the default which I believe was just Mac OS Extended.

 

I'm guessing it's easier for me to just wipe it off and redo it with the proper type. I'll give it a shot with the full 1.5TB on the proper Partition Type and if it fails there I'll chop into 2 Partitions.

 

I also had no luck using 1 partition on a 1.5TB drive as an EFI boot drive - The 'Large Drive' functionality in the Chameleon rc3 r658 does not seem to work for 1.5TB drives ( there are others with this issue on the Chameleon Site )

 

The original LifeHacker guide was misleading ( and was later corrected ). The stock mac method of formatting a disk is 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' The 'case-sensitive' version will cause issued with Adobe programs (and others that don't expect it)

 

Have a great Thanksgiving Everyone!

I also had no luck using 1 partition on a 1.5TB drive as an EFI boot drive - The 'Large Drive' functionality in the Chameleon rc3 r658 does not seem to work for 1.5TB drives ( there are others with this issue on the Chameleon Site )

 

The original LifeHacker guide was misleading ( and was later corrected ). The stock mac method of formatting a disk is 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' The 'case-sensitive' version will cause issued with Adobe programs (and others that don't expect it)

 

Have a great Thanksgiving Everyone!

 

I just found out the Lifehacker guide was misleading and the one I am looking at still is. I just tried to load some Adobe applications and got the error saying Case Sensitive was wrong.

 

Bah! After I finally had everything running and all my data transferred haha. Is there any way to change the partition type easily without wiping it on a Hack?

 

For example: Time Machine the data onto Partition 2, format Partition 1 into "Mac OS Extended Journaled" and then restore the Time Machine via the USB Installer under Utilities -> Restore from Time Machine.

 

Or will a time machine backup format the partition back to Case-Sensitive?

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