Christian Pursell Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 This is my first hackintosh project, with a new Alienware Aurora pc. I have followed the installation instructions on digital_dreamer's guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=185097 I have been prepping the hard drive with my Macbook Pro and an external enclosure, and installed SL with DD's script, following his instructions to the letter (I used the "Extra" method and used the PC-EFI_v10.3 bootloader). I got to the point where I popped the hard drive into the PC, and tried to boot. After doing the "buildcache" thing, I used -v x32 at the prompt, where then lines of text appeared and I thought I was all set! However the text paused at "DSMOS has arrived", then the display went blank and the PC stopped responding. I can't get past this point; please help me! Specs: Intel i7 920 (X58 mobo) 6gb RAM nVidia GeForce GTX 295 (Windows 7 on separate hard drive) Thanks for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200912-trouble-installing-snow-leopard-w-digital_dreamer-x58-guide/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Pursell Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 anyone to help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200912-trouble-installing-snow-leopard-w-digital_dreamer-x58-guide/#findComment-1351172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Pursell Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 I guess I'm not interesting enough for a response . I'll just keep bumping, or give up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200912-trouble-installing-snow-leopard-w-digital_dreamer-x58-guide/#findComment-1351709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericschmerick Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 About 3 mos ago I built a machine with the x58 mobo/i7, 6GB ram, etc. However I used a geforce 9400GT vid card. I also followed digital dreamers guide. I also used another mac to make the bootable drive using his script, and using an image of the snow leopard retail dvd for the install. I had lots of little problems to get the machine fully working (never got my on-board ethernet working until 10.6.2, so I had to use an ethernet card, had some video card troubles, etc). However, I didn't have any trouble getting it to boot at first. Actually come to think of it, I had to use the EFI/extra config. I could never get the Chameleon/extra combo to boot. I think you'll need to post quite a bit more information if you want useful feedback. When you say "I can't get past that point", what do you mean? Does the machine kernel panic? Does it just hang? What does it say on the screen? Also, I don't know if this is important, but I would recommend you start with just one drive in the machine - just the boot drive you prepared. I had some weird things happen after I tried to add in a windows second boot drive. After my mac was stable, I added in 3 additional hard drives - time machine and a raid 0 stripe, and it was perfectly stable. Then I added in a 5th drive and was trying to install windows 7 and things got a little funky (wouldn't boot). I had to disconnect all my other drives, install windows just to the one drive (on the SATA 0 channel), and then reconnect everything with the windows drive on sata channel 5. Eventually got it working perfectly, and I can just choose to boot into windows from the bootloader, but my point is just that you should be working with just one drive at the moment to get your system stable first. You might try looking for my other post. I recall posting some info about what I had to do to get my maching running. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200912-trouble-installing-snow-leopard-w-digital_dreamer-x58-guide/#findComment-1351914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Pursell Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 About 3 mos ago I built a machine with the x58 mobo/i7, 6GB ram, etc. However I used a geforce 9400GT vid card. I also followed digital dreamers guide. I also used another mac to make the bootable drive using his script, and using an image of the snow leopard retail dvd for the install. I had lots of little problems to get the machine fully working (never got my on-board ethernet working until 10.6.2, so I had to use an ethernet card, had some video card troubles, etc). However, I didn't have any trouble getting it to boot at first. Actually come to think of it, I had to use the EFI/extra config. I could never get the Chameleon/extra combo to boot. I think you'll need to post quite a bit more information if you want useful feedback. When you say "I can't get past that point", what do you mean? Does the machine kernel panic? Does it just hang? What does it say on the screen? Also, I don't know if this is important, but I would recommend you start with just one drive in the machine - just the boot drive you prepared. I had some weird things happen after I tried to add in a windows second boot drive. After my mac was stable, I added in 3 additional hard drives - time machine and a raid 0 stripe, and it was perfectly stable. Then I added in a 5th drive and was trying to install windows 7 and things got a little funky (wouldn't boot). I had to disconnect all my other drives, install windows just to the one drive (on the SATA 0 channel), and then reconnect everything with the windows drive on sata channel 5. Eventually got it working perfectly, and I can just choose to boot into windows from the bootloader, but my point is just that you should be working with just one drive at the moment to get your system stable first. You might try looking for my other post. I recall posting some info about what I had to do to get my maching running. Well, I start up the computer and the bootloader comes up, and I type in -v x32 like the tutorial says. Then it starts to boot with a bunch of text, and then after it says "DSMOS has arrived", the screen goes blank and does nothing else. I'm going to try and re-do the whole process again this week... I'm not giving up yet. If anyone has some more input that'd be great! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200912-trouble-installing-snow-leopard-w-digital_dreamer-x58-guide/#findComment-1352459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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