ZimmerX Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Hi there, The Snow Leopard installation doesn't proceed from partitioning or erasing my 500GB Spinpoint. It hangs when I access Disk Utility and apply the options (to make the HDD hfs+ and partition it). It begins to partition and then the bar hangs at about 70% (give or take, you don't see %'s) and there is no more Hard Drive activity and the whole thing stalls. I've followed all the BIOS instructions for the Asus P6T - AHCI enable, ACPI etc. So I'm not sure why it doesn't proceed. It's as if when the partitioning begins, OSX cannot find my hard drive again. Any way to fix this? I know the P6T is infamous for being a terrible mobo for OSX to be installed onto... but there must be a way around this! I tried with my hard drive on SATA Port 1, but I get a "SerialATA" error when I load up OSX and it doesn't ever get to the installation screen. My DVD drive is on Port 1 and HDD is on Port 2 (maybe that's the issue? But I cannot seem to get my HDD to work on 1) My specs: i7 920 Asus P6T (normal one) - BIOS version 1004 8800GTS 2x500GB SATA hard drives (one is disconnected at the install) I use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to get 10.6.3 to load up and I always type "-v". I tried a "-v -x" but that still didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks a million. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/250309-hanging-at-partition-creation-or-erasing-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehrc Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Try using a third party partitioning tool such as GParted to clear the entire drive of it's partitions and then try again. I've had issues like this before, only I've used Windows' Disk Management utility to convert the disc back to a Basic disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/250309-hanging-at-partition-creation-or-erasing-hdd/#findComment-1649402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZimmerX Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 Sorry, I should have mentioned that I erased my hard drive with GPARTED in the first place. I tried several methods: Left unformatted Formatted to FAT32 Formatted to HFS+ All 3 ended up with the same problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/250309-hanging-at-partition-creation-or-erasing-hdd/#findComment-1649588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehrc Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Sorry, I should have mentioned that I erased my hard drive with GPARTED in the first place. I tried several methods: Left unformatted Formatted to FAT32 Formatted to HFS+ All 3 ended up with the same problem. I guess the next thing to try then would be a different distro. If you want to keep trying [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], at least check the MD5 checksum on the iso if you hadn't already, and then try burning a new disc. Have you tried any other OSx86 distros yet? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/250309-hanging-at-partition-creation-or-erasing-hdd/#findComment-1649601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZimmerX Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 Well, why would [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] be the problem? That merely allows for the OSX to be bootable and begin the installation. I tried iATKOS S3 v2 to no avail. I don't believe it even booted when I ran it from the DVD. Just a thing to note about the retail OSX DVD - I say "retail" but what I mean is a downloaded a .DMG of the retail version and then converted it to ISO and burnt it onto a DVD9. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/250309-hanging-at-partition-creation-or-erasing-hdd/#findComment-1649653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZimmerX Posted March 6, 2011 Author Share Posted March 6, 2011 Okay, I believe it is something to do with my DSDT.aml file and I will need to do some IRQ modifications... Unfortunately I'm not running OSX so how am I supposed to create a BootCD (like BootCDMaker) or edit the existing [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to add my DSDT.aml? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/250309-hanging-at-partition-creation-or-erasing-hdd/#findComment-1650139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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