jasjeet Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I previously had a perfect setup with P5Q Deluxe and SL x64. A recent upgrade has taken my system to this: X58A UD3R i7 920 @ 4Ghz Crucual 6Gb DDR3 1600Mhz Sapphire ATi 4850 512mb 250Gb SATA HDD IDE DVD Drive So i thought it would be easy getting this running, but seems like i was wrong. For the past 2 days ive just been trying to get the DVD to boot! I have latest Bios, and have got the required options set to AHCI in the bios. I tried to use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] as shown by tonymacx86's guide for the UD3R. I dont have an OSX machine, so i thought i would get a Virtual Machine running OSX. I was successfull and then tried to restore the SL image to my 16Gb USB drive. This worked too. Then i installed Tonymacx86's package to the USB. I used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to boot up the USB, but i couldnt see it! Next i tried to boot up the USB on its own, but got a load of errors, either it hanged on Verifying DMI pool data, or Boot0 error or Boot1 error... So after all that i didnt give up... Next found Kakewalk's guide. So i again restored the image to the USB drive in my Virtual Machine, and installed Kakewalks's package to the USB. Still no go, it wouldnt boot up. [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] wouldnt even load with the USB inserted. This isnt going to well. I ended up getting another copy of SL which was for Intel machines, it had a bootloader installed to it already. I burnt it to a DVD. It booted, but then i get a Reboot running with commands -x -v -f -cpus=1 I tried to use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to boot the DVD, but once i inserted the DVD, the names in [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] all dissappeared and a fuzzy bar appeared. I proceeded with launching the OSX DVD but still same problem and KP very soon: It seemed to have failed to load a bunch of Kexts. Now im on the verge of giving up. Previously i installed iDeneb 10.5.5 and restored the OSX image to the USB drive. Installed Chameleon bootloader to the USB and off i went. Please can someone point me in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
econ3000 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 Try burning the iso disc image of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.0 to a cd and boot from that cd. works every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasjeet Posted June 19, 2010 Author Share Posted June 19, 2010 I tried botting [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.0, but it cannot see my USB Drive which ive restored the OSX image too. I cant burn the OSX image as i dont have a DVD DL disk I then tried using a slightly modded disk which fits on a DVD. But it KP's when booted with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.0/ I get a load of errors saying kext couldnt be loaded. And then an error about ACPI for this Platform. No idea what to do now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil43 Posted June 19, 2010 Share Posted June 19, 2010 I would swap in a SATA DVD drive (remove the IDE drive) for the installation process. Also, I would remove the overclocking during the installation. The 4850 maybe problematic also and I would use a cheap Nvidia 8400 GS. I would partition the hard disk into several partitions and install to the first partition. Once you have a bootable OS X install you can clone it to the second and third partitions. Then use the cloned partitions to sort out changes. I would recommend Kakewalk for this install (in that TonyMacX86 has built in a 4GB limit). And I would not mess with the USB install process. My experience is with the older version of the MB, a EX58-UD3R, 6GB, all SATA drives and GEforce 9600. Also, the Kakewalk that I used if from last fall, not his current version. neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasjeet Posted June 19, 2010 Author Share Posted June 19, 2010 Ok ive made progress I booted up the SL Hazard DVD with -v busratio=21 commands. It booted and installed. I booted the HDD it installed to and tried various commands but cannot get it to boot into OSx. I get KP either to do with VoodooHDA or something realted to graphics, sometimes in the dependancy ATiX2000 kext is listed. Is there some crucial features i must install during the installtion process to get this too boot successfully? So far i tried installing with 10.6.2 combo update and CMOS reset fix. Also i thought booting with -x command would resolve any GPU issues but still cant boot. Last time i used the VESA mode until i installed the GPU kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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