mrmomoman Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 I am still learning this stuff so I apologize if its elementary to some. I followed instructions on how to create a USB boot drive for Snow Leopard. I used Chameleon RC4 and a custom boot file(recommended by Adam at lifehcaker). Anyways. The USB stick books up fine but it cannot see my HDD. I have a 500Gib drive that is brand new just for testing the OSX installation process. I get to the place where I need to install and use Disk Utility but the only drive that shows up is the install USB drive. I cannot see the disks. If I use Empire 1.08 to boot up and use the SL DVD it will boot up. The 1.08 is an older version so I wanted a newer version and perhaps it would recognize my Quadro 3600 card and use Q/E. Version 1.08 did not have Q/E or memory, processor right. I just tried 1.085 from Prasys with Chameleon RC4 and it gives me memory issues as soon as I press F5 to boot the SL DVD. I tried the legacy 1.085 as well and that didn't work. Any ideas why the USB boot would load all the way up to the Install/Disk util but it cannot see the drive? As I mentioned earlier in the Empire 1.08 will recognize the drives. My BIOS is a Dell BIOS that isn't highly configurable. So I don't have many choices to turn off or on. It is set to ACHI/AHCI(sorry can't remember which at the moment). Thank you for any assistance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
horazzio Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 I am still learning this stuff so I apologize if its elementary to some. I followed instructions on how to create a USB boot drive for Snow Leopard. I used Chameleon RC4 and a custom boot file(recommended by Adam at lifehcaker). Anyways. The USB stick books up fine but it cannot see my HDD. I have a 500Gib drive that is brand new just for testing the OSX installation process. I get to the place where I need to install and use Disk Utility but the only drive that shows up is the install USB drive. I cannot see the disks. If I use Empire 1.08 to boot up and use the SL DVD it will boot up. The 1.08 is an older version so I wanted a newer version and perhaps it would recognize my Quadro 3600 card and use Q/E. Version 1.08 did not have Q/E or memory, processor right. I just tried 1.085 from Prasys with Chameleon RC4 and it gives me memory issues as soon as I press F5 to boot the SL DVD. I tried the legacy 1.085 as well and that didn't work. Any ideas why the USB boot would load all the way up to the Install/Disk util but it cannot see the drive? As I mentioned earlier in the Empire 1.08 will recognize the drives. My BIOS is a Dell BIOS that isn't highly configurable. So I don't have many choices to turn off or on. It is set to ACHI/AHCI(sorry can't remember which at the moment). Thank you for any assistance. hi, i have same problem, you can fix it ? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1381534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasjeet Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Try boot with these flags, -f -v -x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1381540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 What chipset is used by your Dell? More specifically, which hd controller? The drive is sata? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1381953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
horazzio Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 What chipset is used by your Dell? More specifically, which hd controller? The drive is sata? in my case, is an asus m2nsli, sata hardisk, nvidia nforce, 6 sata ports nvidia can be sata or raid, , 2 ports jmicron can be ahcsi, raid or ide mode. i think the correct way is to update the kext files in the usb.. but i dont know exactly what files use, because i have an sucessfull instaltion of 10.5.7 .. maybe i can copy from my instalation the kext in the usb whit the instaler of sl, 10.6. . but i dont know where put it.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1382022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Have you looked at this site: http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/09/install...-pc-hackintosh/ Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with SL on AMD platforms. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1382032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmomoman Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 What chipset is used by your Dell? More specifically, which hd controller? The drive is sata? Intel Q43 - with Intel SATA ICH9M - It is being detected correctly in the system profiler. I didn't install any additional driver kext for that. It was detected correctly. Video is a Nvidia Quadro FX3700M - 1GIG. Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1382106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
audit13 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Which profiler are you using to get info about your hd controller? SL should have drivers for ahci on ich9. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/206235-usb-boot-snow-leopard/#findComment-1382929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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