AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE Deneb @4GHz X4 140W 4GB (2 x 2GB Dual Channel) DDR3 1600MHz 9-9-9-24 1.65V Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 320GB WD Caviar Blue + 1TB Hitachi SAPPHIRE RADEON HD 4830 I no longer have my CPU Overclocked. I trying to install Snow Leopard on my WD. I don't want it on my Hitachi because it is a removable drive and is slow compared to my WD. Now that that's out of the way... I've tried a lot of different bootloaders and I have the retail cd. The only bootloader I was able to get working let me boot retail disk but then it just stopped in the middle of all that text. I don't know what it means. I also tried iAtkos v7 and that got me pretty far until I got to the screen where you select your hard drive. Nothing is there. It doesn't notice my HDD. When I go into disk utility it notices my Hitachi but not my WD. I don't know what to do here... I'm new at this so I don't know much about kexts or kernel. A lot of the tutorials and videos I watch are either for Intel only or just don't give me enough information and I just get stuck. Thanks in advance for your help. I can take pictures and give you any information you need just tell me how I can help you help me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawelton Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Are you using an IDE harddrive? Because if you are, I am having the same exact problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1665586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Honestly I don't know. I think so. I know it's connected via a SATA connector. But I have in the BIOS set to AHCI mode. IDE mode doesn't work at all. Why won't it recognize our hard drives? I tried formatting NTFS, FAT32, and I even managed to format it EFI or whatever mac needs with GPT. Maybe we are missing a certain kext file that will allow it to see our HDD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1665826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawelton Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Honestly I don't know. I think so. I know it's connected via a SATA connector. But I have in the BIOS set to AHCI mode. IDE mode doesn't work at all. Why won't it recognize our hard drives? I tried formatting NTFS, FAT32, and I even managed to format it EFI or whatever mac needs with GPT. Maybe we are missing a certain kext file that will allow it to see our HDD. Try using leohazard's snow leopard 10.6.2 distro? That's what I am having trouble with right now, but maybe it will work for you? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1665995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytrox Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Try using leohazard's snow leopard 10.6.2 distro? That's what I am having trouble with right now, but maybe it will work for you? probably one of your two hds is connected by IDE. the issue is wich of them? because if your system hard drive is IDE you have driver for use IDE drives and your sata doesn't works, but you can have also the opposite situation. look at your connections. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1666004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 I think I did try leohazard. I don't think I got too far with that lol Idk I will definitely try that again and let you know. Also, I remove all hard drives I'm not using when I try to boot and install osx. The only thing connected is a sata dvd drive and sata HDD set to AHCI mode. So I don't think it's the connections. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1666006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Okay I got it to recognize my HDD. What I had to do is leave both hard drives in, then once I got to disk utilities and it recognized only the drive I want I disconnected the other Hard drive i didn't want to be messed up. The only thing I typed into the boot: prompt was busratio=20 or busratio=17 or almost any number probably works lol btw I'm using iATKOSv7. Update: The install went bad and now I have to try a few times to get it to recognize the drive. I think the key is to take things slow. Wait like 20 seconds each time you are about to hit continue or whatever. Anyways... Does anyone know what kexts I'm supposed to use? How do I find this out? There are so many options IDK what to choose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1666062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Okay I got it to recognize my HDD. What I had to do is leave both hard drives in, then once I got to disk utilities and it recognized only the drive I want I disconnected the other Hard drive i didn't want to be messed up. The only thing I typed into the boot: prompt was busratio=20 or busratio=17 or almost any number probably works lol btw I'm using iATKOSv7. Update: The install went bad and now I have to try a few times to get it to recognize the drive. I think the key is to take things slow. Wait like 20 seconds each time you are about to hit continue or whatever. Anyways... Does anyone know what kexts I'm supposed to use? How do I find this out? There are so many options IDK what to choose. It's not a kext issue, you cannot use the default kernel because you have an AMD chip and Apple uses Intel chips, like the Core 2 Duos, Quads, Xeons, etc. You should read this guide and see if it gets you further. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1666079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Can you repost the link. It must have gotten messed up. I don't know what to select when I get to the customize screen. There are so many options. Is there some kind of guide to this? I searched my hardware and can't find anything about what to select for this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1666225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 6, 2011 Author Share Posted April 6, 2011 BUMP^^^^^^^^^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1666819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 BUMP^^^^^^^^^ THIS THIS POST (as they are using the same motherboard as you.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1667116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMD965BEHACKINTOSH Posted April 9, 2011 Author Share Posted April 9, 2011 That didn't help. What version of EmpireEFI do I need to install on AMD Phenom II? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/253984-osx-sl-on-amd/#findComment-1668112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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