mwilloam Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Just purchased parts for a Hack attempt and I'm stuck, not able to boot into the installer. Here are my parts: EP43-UD3L e3200 320g Sata drive LG optical 2gigs crucial ram 500w PS I used the Lifehacker guide with the Snow Leopard guide. 1. Created an Image of the 10.6 DVD 2 Restored it to a 8gig SanDisk flash drive 3. Ran the Kakewalk installer and selected the EP45-UD3L (figure it's compatible) 4. Set bios accordingly 5. Plugged in Flash USB drive and started up and "Verifying DMI Pool Data ..... Update Success" is as far as I can get. I've read every post possible online but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. This guide makes it seem pretty straight forward. Any assistance appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213796-im-stuck-verifying-dmi-pool-data-update-success/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwilloam Posted March 29, 2010 Author Share Posted March 29, 2010 This build worked thanks to a few clearly/simply written guides and a lack of sleep over a few days. $350 out the door including tax with $30 in rebates...pretty pumped. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213796-im-stuck-verifying-dmi-pool-data-update-success/#findComment-1436853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildturkey2oo0 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Congrats to your success - i have the same problem with the same install - what did you do to solve yours as i am stuck right now too at the same point.Thank you in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213796-im-stuck-verifying-dmi-pool-data-update-success/#findComment-1446658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwilloam Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share Posted April 22, 2010 Congrats to your success - i have the same problem with the same install - what did you do to solve yours as i am stuck right now too at the same point.Thank you in advance! try both of these. make sure to get osx86tools and/efistudio for patching video/sound. http://3rr0rists.com/macintosh/how-to-inst...il-in-a-pc.html http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197012 I tried lifehacker usb a few times and couldn't get it to work. Once i started booting with a CD bootloader and the guide above I had success. I just follow the guides and still have no idea what i'm doing but i've got it to work repeatedly. I did try Software Update from 10.6 -> 10.6.3 and it causes a kernal Panic on startup now. So careful with that. good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213796-im-stuck-verifying-dmi-pool-data-update-success/#findComment-1453719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildturkey2oo0 Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 try both of these. make sure to get osx86tools and/efistudio for patching video/sound. http://3rr0rists.com/macintosh/how-to-inst...il-in-a-pc.html http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197012 I tried lifehacker usb a few times and couldn't get it to work. Once i started booting with a CD bootloader and the guide above I had success. I just follow the guides and still have no idea what i'm doing but i've got it to work repeatedly. I did try Software Update from 10.6 -> 10.6.3 and it causes a kernal Panic on startup now. So careful with that. good luck. Thank you very much your reply.I have tried life hacker's method about ten times and it just never worked worked out for me. As of now i put the hackintosh on the back burner - got myself an old G5 and after getting used to OS X Leopard (win for soooo long) i will try again. One of the things i attribute my failure to is not reading enough about the process - i got blinded by the easy instructions - since my last post i have spent at least a day or two reading up on it. Next time around i succeed ! Thank you again! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/213796-im-stuck-verifying-dmi-pool-data-update-success/#findComment-1455792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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