Pineapple inc Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Please help me. I tried to install two different distros of hackintosh, and neither of them would work. The two distros were iPC and iAtkos. On iPC I popped in the install disk and waited for it to boot. What I got was an apple with the spinning wheel and the dreaded circle with the cross. I tried several times. Then I tried to boot with the "-v" flag and I got kernel panic (see pic.) Then I tried iAtkos. When I put the CD inside it gave me the option "boot HDA 31,1" or something like that. But it WAS 31,1. Then it started to boot. I even got the apple booting screen, but for only 1/100th of a second. I didn't recognize it the first few times. When I booted with the "-v" flag I saw a couple things about "mkext" 's and something about successful. I think everything loaded ok. What am I doing wrong? My computer is a Toshiba satellite (that I recently replaced the screen on because it was broken). The model type (or number) is P35-S6112 Im not sure on the tech specs... please help? -Teckn3r Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197514-help-a-noob-tried-to-install-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordy27 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Try booting with -x -v (-x is boot in safe mode, it might help some?) and post your results. Failing that, you could try downloading iDeneb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197514-help-a-noob-tried-to-install-hackintosh/#findComment-1330277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pineapple inc Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Try booting with -x -v (-x is boot in safe mode, it might help some?) and post your results. Failing that, you could try downloading iDeneb Thanks. Ill try that right away --EDIT-- Wait, which distro? Both? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197514-help-a-noob-tried-to-install-hackintosh/#findComment-1330338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pineapple inc Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 So I tried using the "-v -x" flags (without the quotes) and the "-x -v" flags with both installation disks. It did exactly what it did the last time. I also think it said something about sleep. I dunno. Thanks though... Im gonna try iDeneb next, and then i'll tell you the result of that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197514-help-a-noob-tried-to-install-hackintosh/#findComment-1330901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pineapple inc Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 iDeneb responded the same way that the other two did. The message kept outputing: "Still searching for root device" None of them are getting past the initial boot stage... What am I doing wrong? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197514-help-a-noob-tried-to-install-hackintosh/#findComment-1332199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekreid Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Use the forum search. This is a common problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/197514-help-a-noob-tried-to-install-hackintosh/#findComment-1332204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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