A little help installing Snow Leopard on my PC

[000dom000]

Hi all, my first time posting, I'll try to be as detailed as possible!

 

System Specs:

 

Motherboard: Asus P5QL/EPU (P45/P43 Chipset)

CPU: Core 2 Quad Q8200 - SSE1, 2, 3,4.1 compatible

RAM: 4gb DDR2

Graphics Card: XFX 9800GT

 

I have 2 drives: One SATA with Windows on it and one IDE which is what I want to install on.

 

If it's any help I started trying to install with myHack as the main guide seemed to match my system specs the best.

 

I followed the guide here: http://osx86.sojugarden.com/installer/

 

I used the verbose to get the logs and below is what I have a few minutes into the install.

 

Hopefully the information here will help you to help me!

 

 

EDIT: SOLVED: I used the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] suggestion and persued this tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=219220

 

The only main problem I came across was booting my USB from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] which gave an EBIOS read error. I overcame this by typing:

 

EHCIacquire=No UHCIreset=No

 

in the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] prompt.

 

Hope I have been of some help to someone with this problem anyway.

 

Dominic

 

[JBraddock]

I don't have any kind of experience in installing OSX on a desktop but it seems to me that the problem is related to IDE/SATA. To my knowledge, you need to switch IDE to SATA or use a patch to install OSX on a IDE drive. Try to find people using the same chipset with you.

 

Good Luck.

[000dom000]

I did consider that but a made sure that the IOATAFAMILY kext was enabled, which according to the guide allows the use of IDE drives.

I'll continue with my research.

 

Thanks for your help.

[MaLd0n]

use HackBoot or [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

 

after

http://www.mediafire.com/?3znybglfomu

 

you will also need the driver sata/pata

 

then just fine tune

[000dom000]

By using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] I take it you mean I try by starting with a fresh Install DVD image? Then after i install Snow leopard I use the Chameleon loader?

 

use HackBoot or [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

 

after

http://www.mediafire.com/?3znybglfomu

 

you will also need the driver sata/pata

 

then just fine tune

 

Sorry I didn't quite get that. Should I start with a fresh OSX install usb and run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]? Then when it is installed should I install Chameleon?

[000dom000]

use HackBoot or [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

 

after

http://www.mediafire.com/?3znybglfomu

 

you will also need the driver sata/pata

 

then just fine tune

 

OK tried booting into [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] but I get:

 

EBIOS read error: Device timeout

Block 0x64044 Sectors 0

 

This happens as soon as I select the boot device from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url].

 

Any ideas?