OS X 10.6 Installation on ASUS P6X58D-E

[asusdude]

Hello, I am a new user here and have spent about two days working on a Hackint0sh install for my computer. Before I get into it, here is a description of my computer:

 

Intel 930

ASUS P6X58D-E Motherboard

SATAx6 IHC10R

SATAx2 Marvell

Realtek Audio

NVidia GTX 460 (MSI Hawk 1GB)

NVidia GTX 460 (Palit Sonic 1GB)

24 GB DDR3 1333 Memory

DVD-R

500 GB SATA HDD

 

Here is what I've done.

 

1. I started on tonymacx86 because it seemed the easiest. Based on the advice there, I removed all but one stick of 4 GB memory, removed one video card, connected only one monitor to it, disconnected all other hard drives, and ensured the DVD and HDD were on one of the IHC10R ports. Disabled Marvell in BIOS.

 

2. I ended up trying a few boot disks. I tried the tonymac one, and it was freezing on an AHCI message which was likely not the actual problem, but I couldn't figure out the cause. BOOT132 was my next try which didn't work. Then I tried nawcom 0.3.1 which got me to the installation screen.

 

3. Once in, I had trouble formatting the drive. The system would freeze when I went to format the disk, on unmounting, or halfway through the format procedure. I ended up removing the drive, putting it in a SATA enclosure, formatting it with my laptop, and putting it back in. This allowed me to proceed to the installation. However, this also caused freezing issues, as I was not able to get past the 30 minutes remaining before progress bar halted.

 

4. I decided to try some safemode options and booted nawcom with -v -x (modern kernel option) -arch=i386 busratio=21 -cpus=1. With this, I could proceed, but now after the files are finished copying during the install, the progress bar never stops and the timer keeps counting into negative minutes. I tried rebooting at this point but the drive does not show up as a boot option upon system reset. I've tried this last step a few times, and sometimes I don't even get done copying before the system seems to stop.

 

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So, at this point I am pretty sure there is something wrong with the SATA controller in how its communicating to the drive. I am fresh out of ideas on how to proceed, and I am thinking that I might give up on this idea until I upgrade the system again, at which point I can try to get more compatible parts. (e.g., ATI and Gigabyte seems to be the way to go...) But if anyone has any ideas, I'd like to keep trying, especially since I've heard reports of people successfully installing this on a similar P6X58D-Premium board.

 

Thanks.

 

I should also note I am using a 10.6 Snow Leopard disk, which I got when SL first came out.

[sirbow2]

you never said about changing sata type in bios liek ahci or legacy etc, jsut said "disabled marvell"

[asusdude]

Good point. I definitely changed everything to AHCI. It was actually that way before; its something I normally do when I install.