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Hi all! I have had trouble since yestarday installing Snow Leopard on my pc.

My motherboard is a Asus P5K-SE

Graphic card is nvidia 250 GTS

and my cpu is Intel Quad Q8300 2.5 GHz

 

I have been googling like a maniac. I have made my SL, and installed myHack, but when I boot up, and is about to install, I cant see my hard disk. But if i try with an iAtkos s3 disc I have, I can see my harddisk, but dont know wich settings to choose, and therefore gets kernel panic.

 

I really hope someone is able to help me, bcus this is drivin' me crazy.

 

Regards Mikkel

The problem is with your ATA controller.

iAtkos has a kext which MyHack does not. This is enabling you to see your hard drive through iAtkos.

 

My first suggestion would be to use Nawcom's ModCD and a 10.6.3 retail disk, but you might as well give iAtkos a go seeing as you have it.

 

Boot iAtkos, partition your drive etc, follow the installer through and click 'Customise' when available.

Deselect everything, you only want to install the OS, none of the kexts, no bootloader etc.

Finish the install.

Reboot using the iAtkos disk and at chameleon select your OS X installation.

Type -v and press enter.

 

You should get to your desktop, if not, take a photo of the panic and post it here.

 

Once you are at your desktop, install Chameleon 2.1, then you will need to find kexts for your hardware.

Need to learn how to search!

 

Start reading, they might help:

 

 

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=185838

http://www.insanelym...ic=182887&st=25

 

I did, I actually did read these before, but I found them quite confusing...

 

 

 

The problem is with your ATA controller.

iAtkos has a kext which MyHack does not. This is enabling you to see your hard drive through iAtkos.

 

My first suggestion would be to use Nawcom's ModCD and a 10.6.3 retail disk, but you might as well give iAtkos a go seeing as you have it.

 

Boot iAtkos, partition your drive etc, follow the installer through and click 'Customise' when available.

Deselect everything, you only want to install the OS, none of the kexts, no bootloader etc.

Finish the install.

Reboot using the iAtkos disk and at chameleon select your OS X installation.

Type -v and press enter.

 

You should get to your desktop, if not, take a photo of the panic and post it here.

 

Once you are at your desktop, install Chameleon 2.1, then you will need to find kexts for your hardware.

 

Before I go with iAtkos, could you then explain to me, how the ModCD works? Does it got the ATA kext, so I can use the retail disc? And should I then use universal osx86 installer, to get all right kexts and so on? I would rather use retail than iAtkos.

The ModCD modifys the mach_kernel of the Snow Leopard disk on the fly. It also contains kexts for pretty much everything to get you up and running.

 

You can either use iAtkos, or the ModCD and a retail disk. Don't try and mix the 2 methods wthout understanding what is happening.

 

NEVER EVER EVER use an installer you found somewhere in the hopes it will make things magically work.

 

Find each kext manually, a good place to start is OSx86.net.

Use kextload to test kexts.

Install and test 1 at a time.

 

After you add/remove/edit a kext you must repair persimmions and rebuild the system caches using a tool such as kext utility or kext wizard.

 

Reboot to see the effects.

As I said before, don't use these installers as even if they manage to make something work, you don't know exactly what it was that made it work.

 

FYI OSX86 tools is no-longer under development and is only 32bit compatable.

 

Find and install kexts manually with the help of a kext tool.

This is the only way you will understand how your install works.

 

This knowledge is irreplaceable, you will not get very far without it.

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