Gray box at installation screen

[iztel]

Hi guys I'm having trouble loading the installation program on osx retail. I've tried a few different distros and ideneb managed to install but for some reason would never boot. I've used both [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and hackboot to try to install but both end up with the leopard wallpaper and a big gray box in the center where the installation buttons should be.

 

My hardware is

 

MB: ASUS P7H55 M-LE

BIOS AMI v2.61

CPU: INTEL i3 Core 540

Graphics Card: EVGA Geforce GT 220 1gb

RAM: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 4gb

HD: WD 500gb

DVD: LG IDE DVDRW

 

I have the bios set to AHCI mode are there any other bios changes I need to make? Any help would be really appreciated.

[i'vegotdafunk]

try booting with -x flag, worked for me =)

[iztel]

Thanks mr funk. I just tried that but when I boot with -x it just hangs at the apple logo with the spinning circle. Any other suggestions of boot flags or bios settings?

 

This is the screen I get if I don't use -x since I actually went and bought a legit copy of snow leopard today.

 

[matrix142]

I have the same problem. There is the Apple Logo on the white background with the spinning circle and it always says i should restart my computer.

 

I have uses [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url].

With [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Legacy I get a Kernel panic.

 

My Hardware:

Mainboard: MSI MS-7502 with Chipset Intel P31/P35

Grafic: MSI ATi Radeon 4890 Cyclone

Ram: 3GB

 

I hope someone can help me. I postes already in German but nobody answers, so I hope that someone can help me, if I write English.

 

Yours sincerely,

matrix142

[tim2000]

If it's not IOPlatformExpert kernel panic, try Leo4All (leo 10.5.2) it's the onle retail who works for me...

 

I works to instal 10.5.8 or snow... but nothing for the moment..

 

If it's not IOPlatformExpert, I can't help you sorry

[matrix142]

Hi,

 

thank you for the answer. My English is not so good, so I can't unterstand everything that you have written exactly.

 

What is an IOPlatformExpert kernel panic? How do I know if it is a IOPlatformExpert kernel panic or not?

 

Is Leo4All a Bootloader?

[iztel]

YAY I GOT IT WORKING!! Ok so after about a week of fiddling around with settings and different boot discs I now have a seemingly fully functional hackintosh. Sound and LAN worked immediately after booting.

 

Here are some things I changed that seemed to have made a difference. Hopefully matrix and others can benefit from this. I did not have to use -x of -f to boot.

 

Bios:

 

Use AHCI mode

Change ACPI to S3 Only

 

Boot flags

 

Use the correct bus ratio for your cpu. For my i3 core 540 it was 23

 

boot flag: "busratio=23" (without quotes)

 

Here is a list of different cpus and their appropriate bus ratios.

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/01/int...processors.html

 

Thanks to everyone on this forum who provides such useful information and all the people involved in the osx86 project.

[matrix142]

Hi,

 

wow thank you!

 

I think I can't change ACPI to S3 only, because I have a halfway closed Bios.

I can't find the busratio for my CPU. There are only i3, i5 and i7 CPUs.

My CPU is a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600.

 

When I insert the Mac OS X DVD, must I write busratio=xx? Or when should I do this?

 

Yours sincerely,

matrix142

[iztel]

Hi Matrix,

 

I think your busratio is 9 but maybe someone else here can verify. Have a look here:

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=29765

 

You type busratio=9 after you change the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc with the osx disc

 

step 1. Boot computer with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc until the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] menu comes up

step 2. Take [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] out and put your osx disc in

step 3. press f5 on your keyboard twice and wait until the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] says "osx install dvd"

step 4. type busratio=9 and press enter

 

Good luck bro

[matrix142]

Hi,

 

best thanks for your answer.

 

I exactly did this, what yo have written but again the setup says I should turn off my computer.

I not tested to start with or -v busratio=9 or -x busratio=9. But this should be the same as only with busratio=9.

 

Today afternoon I began all from the top.

I deletet all partitions on my HDD and inlaid the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CD.

 

Normal boot or with -x:

If I start normally the setup shows me direclty the message, I love: Please turn off you computer.

It's the same if I start with -x, but there the setup loads a bit longer.

 

Boot with -x -v:

I tried to start with -x -v. The setup loads much files for about 20 minutes and than I see a kernel panic:

 

Boot with -s:

Also I started with -s and there is a similar error as bevore.

See it here:

[iztel]

I think you need to find a way to change your ACPI mode to S3. Try searching your bios under power or find an updated version of your bios. Also try to turn your IDE wait time to 0 in your bios.

[matrix142]

Hi,

 

your good, guy

 

Are you sure, that solves the problem? I can't find the settings in my bios. It is a OEM Board.

 

Just this minute I found that in the Power Management of my Bios:

PS/2 KB Wake Up From S3 - Enabled

and

PS/2 MS Wake Up From S3 - Enabled

 

I couldn't find ACPI Mode and IDE wake up time, but the both settings above looks like, that my ACPI Mode is already S3.