rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 To mods and all else: I posted this post in the Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger subforums in case it may be possible to run those OS's on this machine- My setup- Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 620 Motherboard: Gigabyte A770E3 Memory: Corsair 4GB DDR3 1333mhz GPU: BFG Tech (nVidia) GTS 250 PSU: Coolmax 600W My Goal- Just want to run a earlier (kind of) version of Mac. Want to use iLife, and the such. And just for the cool factor. Highly doubt my mobo/proc will support OSx86, but hey, someone may know it can! Any advice? BTW: I'll probably most likely be adding a SATA/IDE drive separately to use only for the Mac partition, so formatting SHOULDN'T be an issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 use iDeneb Lite Edition or iAtkos V7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 Assuming- With iATKOS V7, just burn the ISO, and go about the install? Anything special? Sorry, a bit.. new to hackintosh's. Also, read that a SATA DVD Drive may/may not work? Last question, would it be possible to dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit? (On the same hard drive, I could probably side off about 100GBs or so..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohitj Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 yea iatkos v7 is the best choice cuz its common and fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 Couldn't find if my setup is currently supported with drivers, will iATKOS cover those? Covered the OSx86 Wiki and Database as well as a few other sites, nothing shows up with my setup.. =/ Thanks! DLing the iATKOS V7 now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudioJunk Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 sometimes hackintosh stays trial and error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 So, I disconnected my drives, plugged the one I want to use in, boot up from the iATKOS V7, everything alright. Get to the "Press any key to start from CD" and such. Loads darwin, and gets to the white screen with the Apple logo on it. From there, the scrolling wheel goes on for about a minute or two, then a new thing pops up (You know the circle with the line through it? Like it's no good), right on the stem of the Apple... It stays here for about 5 minutes, then does nothing, it keeps spinning and such. So I stopped it, does this go on, or did I do something wrong? :X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 use -v press F8 after -v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 Am I entering this when after I press F8, then enter "-v"? Then just continue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 First off, I have to say thank you SO much, you've been a great help thus far. Gets past that now, but after checking USBF (I think it is) It gets stuck at waiting for the root device... Is this the hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 You'll see "Still waiting for root device" when OS X can't talk to your drive controller, either because you haven't installed the right driver for it, because your PATA drives are jumpered/cabled wrong, your drives are attached to an unsupported controller (then you're out of luck), or SATA is not set to AHCI mode in the BIOS. Most modern motherboards have a secondary SATA controller from JMicron, Silicon Image or Marvell. The SATA ports of the secondary controller are normally colored differently (white or orange) than those of the primary controller (usually red). Check your motherboard manual to see which ports belong to which controller. There are drivers for OS X for the most common secondary controllers, but the main controller (Intel ICHx or Nvidia nForce) is usually the more compatible since Apple use Intel ICHx and nForce as well. If you have problems with drives not being recognized, either plug them into a port on the main drive controller, or find and install drivers for the "off-chipset" drive controller. For PATA (IDE) drives, try a different jumper setting and/or cable position, and make sure you're using 80 conductor cables. If you have two IDE ports, put each device at the end of it's own cable and jumper it as master device. There's very limited support for PATA drives in OS X (IIRC no modern Macs have PATA devices?) so you'll probably need a community provided driver to get your PATA drives running. Again Intel and Nvidia are the easiest to get working. The Chameleon bootloader official download includes some injector or "legacy" kexts for many common PATA and SATA controllers. If your board has a Marvell 6xxx controller, you need AppleVIAATA or SuperVIAATA.kext. There are also nForceATA and ATIATA kexts out there. Older Intel boards with ICH5 might need a patched AppleIntelPIIATA.kext. Intel ICHx or nForce SATA controllers in AHCI mode (set in the BIOS) are the most compatible and easiest to get working. Gringo Vermelho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 Wow, that looked very confusing. I'll give it another try. Since I don't mind having a PATA drive only for Mac OS X, that's what I'm doing. A 120GB Seagate PATA Drive, jumpered in Master. I'll try different positions on the cable (One side goes into Mobo, of course, then two connections to plug into the harddrives and such. I'll try and plug it into the other connector. Besides that, what else can I try? I don't have any spare SATA drives, and not even sure if my SATA controller can support ICHx nor nForce.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 It looks like it just wasn't meant to be. Tried Primary and Secondary connectors on the PATA Cable. Tried Cable Select, Master, Slave jumpers. Everything still ends up with the good ol' "Still waiting for root device" Could it be that my DVD drive is a SATA and not IDE? I do see this though: "IOATA Controller blocking bus" I also see this: "ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mod; defaulting to full-secure" Any of this relate to my root device error? --- Do you know if the Biostar A770E3 motherboard has a Intel ICHx (doubtful) or nForce SATA Controller? Can't find it on google. Also, if all else fails, recommend a cheap, but decent motherboard that supports IDE/SATA (Preferbably SATA) and a AM3 Processor? Thanks man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 Well I wouldn't think of that. I decided why the hell not, let's try booting with my SATA's plugged in. Boots up perfectly to installer. I guess I've gotta go bid for a small SATA drive now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rawfuls Posted July 4, 2010 Author Share Posted July 4, 2010 I'll give iDeneb Lite and Snow Leopard by Hazard a try before I give up and try and use iATKOS on a SATA. Thanks so much for your help! I'll reply back once I try and use it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 Ok do not give up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 Well, new issues! Yipee! Well, kind of. iDeneb and iATKOS V7 both are not detecting the root device (IDE Drive). Snow Leopard by Hazard reboots @ the "Using ACPI blah blah blah". Looks like a SATA Drive is mandatory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 It didn't completely work, it went straight into installation, didn't go any further than that since my SATA drives are important for my W7 install. I'm going to try those commands in Hazard with an IDE.. maybe it'll work! If all else fails, I'm going to push away some space on my 500GB to try and dualboot. Where's that tutorial? To dualboot Win7 Ultimate 64bit and Mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 No dice, Kalyway and Hazard's distros reboot @ ACPI. iDeneb, iATKOS can't find root device for IDE. --- Might be pushing some space aside for it on my backup drive. We'll see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 So I pushed about 175GB off aside of my 1.5TB drive (SATA). I got into iATKOS V7, installed Mac OS X on the partition, but it won't boot from it, runs into an error -170#### Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 Here's the bug after the install, when it tries to reboot- All is taken by my camera phone, if you need something of better quality, I'll grab em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 Are you asking what I selected? I get a kernel panic now, during installation. --- I selected: Everything already selected and: Both voodoo kernel's DVI/DVI EFI String that's about it. What SHOULD I select if you have the time? My setup- Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 620 Motherboard: Gigabyte A770E3 Memory: Corsair 4GB DDR3 1333mhz GPU: BFG Tech (nVidia) GTS 250 PSU: Coolmax 600W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 Hey, your English is perfect. I can understand you perfectly. I'll try again right now. Just 9.7.0? How about the networking? nevermind, none of my networking cards match them. --- Just installed, all went well until it tried rebooting, restarted, and this came up preventing it from going on- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawfuls Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 I don't use PS2, so I don't need that, correct? So just 9.7.0 and the entire SATA/IDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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