FWP Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 I've tried almost everything.. bought a retail 10.6 disc, CANNOT get it to start installing. No matter what I do, I can't get past the grey screen with the Apple on it. With one boot up method I get a 'cancel' symbol on the Apple icon, or the Apple icon is left alone but I get a spinning wheel below it that eventually stops moving and the system freezes. Hardware: RAID 0 pair of drives P35-DS3R rev. 1, bios F13 ATi 4870 512mb About to just give up. I want to dual boot with windows too, it's installed already on the first partition, I've saved the second partition for SL. I looked into patching a dsdt file or whatever it's called but it's just way beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWP Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Anyone? Your info is not very specific so it is hard for anyone to help you. Obviously if you are trying to install directly to a RAID disk you are going to have problems unless you first install onto a non-raid and then copy the install-image onto raid-paired disks. But intel-raid is a no-no! Either apple software raid disks or mac-compatible raid card and format. If this is your first Hackintosh, try to keep it simple. i.e. first-single install... second-dual boot... third-raid. good luck, ninetto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobross Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Have you tried the "Bob Ross" method? See post #6 Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWP Posted January 7, 2010 Author Share Posted January 7, 2010 Your info is not very specific so it is hard for anyone to help you. Obviously if you are trying to install directly to a RAID disk you are going to have problems unless you first install onto a non-raid and then copy the install-image onto raid-paired disks. But intel-raid is a no-no! Either apple software raid disks or mac-compatible raid card and format. If this is your first Hackintosh, try to keep it simple. i.e. first-single install... second-dual boot... third-raid. good luck, ninetto I am on my Dell 10v right now with Mac 10.6. Runs fantastic. Install was easy. But, if it won't install on my computer running a RAID 0 setup, then I'm going to forget about it all together. A little update - after buying and installing a SATA DVD drive, I was able to boot up a 10.5.2 leopard disc and get to the disk utility window where it does not see my two drives as one, only as two seperate drives, so it's not gonna work, unfortunately. Have you tried the "Bob Ross" method? See post #6 Link Haven't tried it yet, I'll look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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