sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I'm trying to install iDeneb 1.6 on my computer: Acer Aspire 7520: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 TK-57 NVidia GeForce 7000M 3GB DDR2 memory nForce 610M motherboard 160GB (found out it's ATA ) HDD Now the problem is that iDeneb doesn't recognize my hard disk (not in Select Destination neither in Disk Utility).. I've tried to format it to unallocated, unformatted, hfs+, ntfs.. Nothing works... I've heard about a AHCI option in the BIOS, but it's not there.. So that's not going to work.. What should I do now? Who will help me? Grtz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Alien Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I'm trying to install iDeneb 1.6 on my computer: Acer Aspire 7520: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 TK-57 NVidia GeForce 7000M 3GB DDR2 memory nForce 610M motherboard 160GB (I think it's IDE) HDD Now the problem is that iDeneb doesn't recognize my hard disk (not in Select Destination neither in Disk Utility).. I've tried to format it to unallocated, unformatted, hfs+, ntfs.. Nothing works... I've heard about a AHCI option in the BIOS, but it's not there.. So that's not going to work.. What should I do now? Who will help me? Grtz Okay you have to do some work on your own, in order for this forum to be able to help you better. I just googled your laptop and see it is a SATA hdd. You said IDE (you think)... this OSX86 project is time intensive and you have to know your components in order to load the correct drivers, etc. I would suggest downloading different builds and see which sees your HDD. After all this is prior to any install being done, so disk utilities should see the HDD. In a regular PC I would say take the HDD out and try it on a different PC or better yet, a working MAC via USB just to see what you get... Otherwise, download ideneb kalway ipc etc and try and see why your HDD is not being seen. A simpler option is to try to install to an USB HDD (for now) til you get that worked out. Did you google your laptop and osx86 etc to try to find any guides that may help you select the right settings? Good Luck! Keep everyone posted and when successful, try and write a guide. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1369946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Okay you have to do some work on your own, in order for this forum to be able to help you better. I just googled your laptop and see it is a SATA hdd. You said IDE (<= you're right) (you think)... this OSX86 project is time intensive and you have to know your components in order to load the correct drivers, etc. I would suggest downloading different builds and see which sees your HDD. After all this is prior to any install being done, so disk utilities should see the HDD. In a regular PC I would say take the HDD out and try it on a different PC or better yet, a working MAC via USB just to see what you get... Otherwise, download ideneb kalway ipc etc and try and see why your HDD is not being seen. A simpler option is to try to install to an USB HDD (for now) til you get that worked out. Did you google your laptop and osx86 etc to try to find any guides that may help you select the right settings? Good Luck! Keep everyone posted and when successful, try and write a guide. First, thanks for you reply, I've tried to install iPC (which doesn't start at all), Kalway (which I can only find an x86 version of), and I'm now trying to download LawlessPPCPhenom 10.5.4 due to an advice from: http://www.muzzle.nl/osx86-installatie/322...ire-7520-a.html (it says LawlessPPCPhenom 10.5.4 is the system which is especially for AMD.. So you'll hear.. Now since my USB-hard drive is used to store all my photographs and stuff, I can't use it for this now.. I can try whether iDeneb recognizes this drive but I won't install anything on it... And taking a harddrive from a laptop has no use, because I've got nothting to connect it to What I also tried ('ve done much in the meanwhile ) is changing the partition table build in Ubuntu.. You could choose GUID Partition table and Apple partition table (<= I chose this one), but unfortunately it didn't work out.. Now first let's try LawlessPPCPhenom 10.5.4 You'll hear if it works out well :pirate2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1369991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Now with Lawless, it get the famous Still waiting for root device error.. Yeuh Does anyone know if the rd=diskXsY will work for me? Any onther replies are also welcome ^^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1370292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Why not try, you wont break anything here are others to try platform=ACPI (ACPI support) platform=X86PC (non ACPI support) platform=ACPI|86PC (try to support ACPI if fails do not support it) Tried rd=disk0s1 and rd=disk0s2, but they didn't work.. No drives... Also tried the platform codes but they don't work either.. Thanks for help, but any other ideas ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1370306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 How many partitions on drive?It is defiantly pata? I want to use the full drive for this.. So 1 partition.. Using GParted I formatted the whole drive first to unalocated (doesnt work), unformatted and hfs+ (both don't work).. The drive is SATA for sure.. It says so on the label on the drive itself so.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1370337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Try fat32 & make sure its active, all I can suggest how to make it active?? Do I have to flag it, or does it go automaticly?? available flags: boot, hidden, lba, lvm, palo, prep, raid Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1370358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 let's see... I'm quite nervous ... I really want this to work ^^ Update from me soon UPDATE: And....... It doesn't work Now I thought of something else.... My external drive IS being recognized by iDeneb.. So can I install iDeneb on this drive, and just copy/paste it to my local drive?? Is that possible using GParted or whatever? Let's try?^^ Tomorrow:P Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1370365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 let's see... I'm quite nervous ... I really want this to work ^^Update from me soon UPDATE: And....... It doesn't work Now I thought of something else.... My external drive IS being recognized by iDeneb.. So can I install iDeneb on this drive, and just copy/paste it to my local drive?? Is that possible using GParted or whatever? Let's try?^^ Tomorrow:P Is this possible?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1370634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
remix0120 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I had same problem to installed iDeneb 10.5.7 but 10.5.6 can find the disk to install. so I recommend you to install with 10.5.6 then update to new version. but i'm waiting for iDeneb with snow leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1371247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 I had same problem to installed iDeneb 10.5.7 but 10.5.6 can find the disk to install. so I recommend you to install with 10.5.6 then update to new version. but i'm waiting for iDeneb with snow leopard. Can I know your specs? Are you on a laptop or desktop? IDE or SATA hard drive?? I think I've already tried 10.5.6, but I'm not sure.. Let's try whether it works If not I just try using my USB drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1372404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoewert300 Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 I tried doing it with my USB drive... Copied the partition from the USB to my local drive using GParted.. Now it gives me a GRUB error ( wtf ).. Does this in the first place means that GRUB is installed with iDeneb??? I don't believe that! Now trying again with iAtkos... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1373477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaSTeRXoX Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Software: iDeneb_v1.6_1058_Lite_Edition Hardwares: Intel i7 860 2.88ghz 4 GB ddr3 [3tb hard drives = {2 sata}+{1 ide}] AS Rock extreme P55 motherboard 1.90 Evga GTS 250 1gb video card Trying to install OSX by iDeneb_v1.6_1058_Lite_Edition one of my hard drive. Burn the iso image on a DVD by Nero. It boot up from DVD but as soon I press enter it loads up 2 lines and the apples screen for 2 sec than robots. Same thing happens when I type –v or –s or –x but -v -f busratio=20 cpus=1 WORKZ!! but don't see the IDE HDD on disk utility. tried a lot setting on the motherboard but no result. I really want to try Mac osx… need your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204109-ideneb-v16-1058-lite-doesnt-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1412854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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